Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training

A 9-Month Online Certificate and Mentorship Program for Counselors and Healers

Essential Somatic and Soul-Based Theory for Trauma, Attachment, and Nervous System Regulation

This live online training is for you if you are a counselor or healer wanting a deeper understanding of the body-mind connection and the many ways of actively tapping into its wisdom during the therapeutic process.

Our comprehensive, nine-month Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training provides guidance on listening to and trusting the information you are receiving in your own body as you work with clients. You’ll also learn how to work with your client’s trauma and attachment issues from a holistic perspective.

Powerfully impact your practice and your clients through this embodied training that will provide you with personalized support in practicing effective somatic and soul-based therapy tools and interventions for trauma and attachment and nervous system regulation.

Who This Training is For

This training is for counselors, healers, and helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding and practice of effective somatic and soul-based therapy tools and interventions for trauma, attachment and nervous system regulation. You will gain practical skills and knowledge that draw from and are inspired by several methods, including:

  • Body-Mind Psychotherapy

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • EMDR Therapy

  • The Hakomi Method

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) and other Parts Work approaches

  • Attachment Theory

  • Dance-Movement Therapy

  • Wilderness Therapy

  • Matrix Works Group Leadership

  • Psychodrama

  • Gestalt Therapy

You’ll leave the training with clarity, confidence, experience and direction in translating information you have learned into effective therapeutic interventions and practices.

What You’ll Get From This Training and Mentorship Program

  • 55 hours of training, plus 7 optional hour-long Q&A support sessions

  • Cutting-edge holistic information about attachment and trauma from somatic and energetic perspectives

  • Extensive practice listening to, trusting, understanding, and utilizing your own body awareness as an instrument for therapeutic interventions and healing

  • Practical skills for somatically and energetically working with trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation

  • Practice articulating and facilitating these skills

  • Feedback on how to apply these skills to your current clients and their particular situations

  • More options for interventions once you ask a client “where do you feel that in your body?”

  • Guidance from an expert somatic therapist who has been working with trauma as well as teaching about it for more than two decades

  • Support for practicing skills with classmates between training sessions (optional)

  • Suggested supplemental readings

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Anais Nin

Training Outline

Over 9 months and 20 live classes you will learn:

Intro to somatic skills

  • Using your own somatic awareness as a resource

  • Supporting clients to gain somatic awareness and proficiency

  • Understanding basic tracking and facilitation skills

Intro to the neurophysiology of trauma

  • Fight, flight, freeze

  • Neurobiology of trauma

  • Types of trauma

Short-term interventions and pendulation

  • Resourcing as a critical skill

  • Practice facilitating deepening somatic awareness

Vicarious trauma and energetic self-care

  • Increasing self-awareness around your own body-mind-energy connection

  • Developing an on-going self-care routine in working with trauma

  • Sequencing during sessions

Long-term interventions

  • Long-term interventions to support trauma processing, and nervous system regulation

Boundaries

  • Understanding the role of boundaries in trauma rupture and repair

  • Identifying and repairing ruptured boundary

Attachment: internal and external

  • Intro to attachment and attachment styles

  • External attachment skills: being the “Good enough parent”

  • Mindfulness in the role of attachment

  • Utilizing yourself as the attachment figure

  • Self-attachment through self-acknowledgment and compassion

Soul-based, lineage and energetic interventions

  • Identifying family beliefs and agreements

  • Shifting energetic contracts

  • Letting go of energy that is not yours

Psycho-education skills

  • Understanding the role of psychoeducation

  • Understanding the how and why of psychoeducation

Embodied supervision and consultation 

What People are Saying About Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training

  • "If you are a healing professional of ANY kind, and you have been looking for a trauma training, I CANNOT recommend Katie Asmus's work enough! Even as a trained Somatic Sex Educator, I did NOT feel equipped to do the work I do without this training. If you are a coach or healer of ANY kind, please please get trauma trained!"

    Hazel-Grace Yates, Somatic Sex Educator, CA

Training Details

Next Training:
October 8, 2025

Location:
Online

Price:

  • Regular rate - $3789

  • Early bird rate - $3450 (if you enroll by 07/25/25)

  • Holiday special - $3105 (if you enroll by 01/31/25)*

*If you pay in full prior to 01/31/25, you'll get an additional $150 off the above holiday special rate

About the Course Creator and Your Facilitator

katie asmus outdoors with hands on hips smiling at camera

With over 3 decades of experience in outdoor education, counseling, teaching, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.

Katie has worked in the fields of mental health and healing since 1995, and received her MA degree in Somatic Psychology from The Naropa University where she taught graduate students for 20 years. In addition to working directly with clients, she has taught and trained over 10,000 students nationally and internationally, both online and in-person in somatic and nature-based interventions. She has also presented her work on a wide variety of platforms, including journals, podcasts, conference presentations, and keynote addresses.

Influenced by a wide variety of somatic theories and modalities, all of Katie's work is facilitated through a holistic body-mind-spirit lens. She believes that as humans, we are innately wired to move toward health and wholeness, and when we understand how to tap into this organismic wisdom within our beings, this is the key toward healing trauma. She is known for exclaiming that “Inner work is world peace work.”

 

Apply for Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training

To apply, click the link below to fill out an application and share your goals for attending the training. We’ll review your application and schedule a time to talk with you, share more about the program, answer any questions you have, and collaboratively determine if it is the right fit for you. From there, we will send you enrollment and payment details.

 

For questions or if you’d like more information, reach out to us.

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