Integral Somatic Psychology Professional Training
Admission Requirements
Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™) is a master training for experienced clinicians who are engaged in psychological work with individuals or groups in therapeutic practice or teaching. If you are a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, marriage and family therapist, counselor, art, movement or breath therapist, coach, bodyworker, energy worker, psychology trainer or educator, clergy, meditation or spiritual teacher, you will find the training valuable provided your work also involves psychological processing.
And, because ISP is an advanced level training for experienced clinicians, you will find the training more valuable if you already include the physical body in your work to some extent. Your familiarity with the body can be through body awareness or movement practice, body-based mindfulness or meditation practice, yoga or bodywork, energy work, or training in body or somatic psychology or psychotherapy approaches such as Reichian therapy, Bioenergetics, Bodynamic Analysis, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® (SP), and Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).
Upon registering, please use the application form to describe your professional background.
If you are unsure whether your present work involves adequate psychological processing or body awareness to benefit most from ISP, please contact your local coordinator to discuss your application.
ISP has developed into a rich treasure. In helping clients with difficult emotions such as fear, grief and pain my work has gained much more containment and depth. And during a severe flu combined with heart symptoms I was able to regulate my anxiety through what I have learned at ISP. I highly recommend ISP to therapists.
Certification Requirements
The certificate of completion in Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) is awarded to those who have completed the twelve days of training in three four-day modules or in two six-day modules and four hours of personal sessions and six hours of case consultations from approved ISP providers. (Personal sessions and case consultations are at present not required for certification in all the countries. Please check with you local training organizer or coordinator to find out if you have to meet this requirement for certification).
If you missed the first live training module you can join the Integral Somatic Psychology Professional Training live from module two after completing module one by video. Please select this option on your registration form.
CE Requirements
The training is also a continuing education program awarding US mental health professionals and nurses 24 CE Credits for each 4-day training module. To earn CE Credits for a live training module, you must attend all course hours and complete an evaluation. To earn CE Credits for a training module completed by video, you must complete an evaluation and pass an online test on content in videos and reading materials. Please check to make sure that CE Credits you need are available for your live or video module.
Assisting Requirements
Participants have the option of taking one or more of the three training modules by video. Please see below. However, in order to qualify to mentor (assist) in a live ISP training, graduates should have taken at least two of the three modules live.
Taking the ISP Professional Training Entirely by Video
It is possible to obtain the ISP Certificate of completion and obtain CE Credits by taking the entire ISP Professional Training—all three training modules—by video. Full tuition applies.
Graduates who have taken the entire ISP Professional Training by video, however, do not qualify for a mentoring (assisting) role in the ISP trainings. It is important to be exposed to the teaching and mentoring methods in the live training and during the training exercises in order to prepare yourself for the mentoring (assisting) role.
If you have taken the entire ISP Professional Training by video and you want to learn more by mentoring (assisting) in the ISP trainings, you can retake any two of the three ISP modules at a live training by paying 25% of the tuition. A 75% discount off tuition applies.
Integral Somatic Psychology is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a mental health professional.
