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Somatic Touch Certification Program with Dr. Kirstie Segarra
Course Title: Somatic Touch Certification Program
Course Date: Release August 1, 2024 Online
Course Instructor: Dr. Kirstie Segarra
Kirstie has been practicing for 28 years and teaching for 18 years in bodywork with the University of New Mexico-Taos. She has been developing the work in trauma informed care in our field throughout her practice.
Course Start and end times: August 1, 2024
Course Type: online asynchronous
Course Description:
This certificate program is to support and mentor the practitioner growing their skills in empathic listening, layer palpation, holistic integration of systems and includes 3 individual 30 minute mentoring sessions for the learner to support integration of the work with 8 Modules/Video Lectures.
Start Date TBA Fall 2024 Somatic Touch is based on research conducted by Dr. Kirstie to support the hypothesis that somatic touch is an effective form of treatment for individuals with PTSD/CPSTD.
The work integrates different modalities of touch therapy such as craniosacral, structural integration, massage, manual osteopathy, visceral, neural, energy work and more. This is a holistic approach to supporting clients to build more resilience and adaptability in their lives.
Themes that will be addressed in the modules and video content: Module 1: What is Somatic Touch?
Module 2: What does it mean to be Trauma Informed and Trauma Trained now?
Module 3: Defining and Learning About Terms
• Defining PTSD/CPTSD.
• Defining Neurodivergent and Neurocomplexity and overlap with PTSD/CPTSD.
• Defining Autism Spectrum Disorder and overlap with PTSD/CPTSD.
Module 4: How to treat the holistic systems.
Module 5: What is Fascia and how to treat with current science, not outdated models of understanding.
Module 6: How does the nervous system function and debunking Polyvagal theory and more to get the science accurate in these times.
Module 7: Hands-On Methods.
Module 8: Listening--what is it and how to do it!
Bonus: Mentoring sessions--3 individual mentoring session 30 minutes each. Short Description Somatic Touch is a holistic way of supporting clients in a hands-on practice such as massage, craniosacral, structural integration, chiropractic, physical therapy, manual osteopathy and more. Somatic Touch supports the practitioner in listening, trauma informed and trauma trained base modalities to support the nervous system function of clients.
Contact info:
Kirstie Segarra
drkirstietaos@gmail.com
(575) 770-1274