NEFESH: The International Network of Orthodox Mental Health Professionals

The Missing Piece:
The Body in Therapy (Part 1)

Monday, January 17, 2022, 10:00 AM EST
$40.00 Ricki Bernstein

Learn to incorporate somatic tools into your therapy practice, and add new depth and control to your work by learning how to sense, track and understand what the body is saying. Applying the latest neuroscience research, you will be able to create strength and safety, tame overwhelming emotion and work with stress and trauma.

There will be an emphasis on building resilience, tracking process rather than content, as well as experiential exercises to practice new interventions.

This course will cover the fundamentals of somatic psychotherapy.

About the Presenter

Ricki Bernstein is a clinical social worker, consultant and trainer who specializes in trauma treatment. Trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, SE, Focusing, AEDP and classical homeopathy, Ricki brings a wide angle lens to her work. Teaching throughout North America and Israel, over the last 6 years she has trained over 700 clinicians in Somatic Intervention. Her latest project is a somatic toolkit to calm and regulate the body-mind called Sense your Self (sense-yourself.com).

These workshops offer 0 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

The Missing Piece:
The Body in Therapy (Part 1)

Monday, January 17, 2022, 10:00 AM EST

Presenter: Ricki Bernstein

Please enter your name and email address below to view this course:


Tell us how you heard about us:


Learning Objectives:

  1. Teach neurobiology of trauma simply and concisely
  2. Describe how to track the body in session, without language
  3. Explain how to regulate physiological activation in client
  4. Explain how to regulate activation in therapists body
  5. Discuss how to interrupt habitual patterns
  6. Discuss how to create new neural pathways
  7. Identify the missing piece in each trauma
  8. Recognize how to treat the missing piece
  9. Recognize shifts in physiology
  10. Identify fluctuations in safety, moment by moment
  11. Relate to clients without words
  12. Prioritize the here and now
  13. Change the pace of the narrative
  14. Recognize embodied presence
  15. Develop personalized metaphors

These workshops offer 0 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Times New Roman

Learn to incorporate somatic tools into your therapy practice, and add new depth and control to your work by learning how to sense, track and understand what the body is saying. Applying the latest neuroscience research, you will be able to create strength and safety, tame overwhelming emotion and work with stress and trauma.

There will be an emphasis on building resilience, tracking process rather than content, as well as experiential exercises to practice new interventions.

This course will cover the fundamentals of somatic psychotherapy.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Teach neurobiology of trauma simply and concisely
  2. Describe how to track the body in session, without language
  3. Explain how to regulate physiological activation in client
  4. Explain how to regulate activation in therapists body
  5. Discuss how to interrupt habitual patterns
  6. Discuss how to create new neural pathways
  7. Identify the missing piece in each trauma
  8. Recognize how to treat the missing piece
  9. Recognize shifts in physiology
  10. Identify fluctuations in safety, moment by moment
  11. Relate to clients without words
  12. Prioritize the here and now
  13. Change the pace of the narrative
  14. Recognize embodied presence
  15. Develop personalized metaphors

Agenda:

Day 1

10am-12  Neurobiology of Trauma; felt sense

12-1pm  lunch

1-3pm  Non verbal tracking, practice in dyads; Q&A

Day 2

10-12  Safety vs Danger

12-1 lunch

1-2  Embodying resources, live demo

2-3  Practice in dyads; Q&A

Day 3

10-12  Fight response; video demo

12-1 lunch

1-3 Pacing and Dosing in trauma work; practice in dyads

Day 4

10-12 Flight response; live demo

12-1 lunch

1-3 practice in dyads; Q&A

Day 5

10-12 Freeze response; work with affect capacity

12-1 lunch

1-3 practice in dyads; Q&A

Day 6

10-12 Work with narrative; metaphor

12-1 lunch

1-3  practice and closing remarks



This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
  • NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0048.
  • NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
  • NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
  • NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.

Refund Policy: Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.