Somatic therapy has proven to be one of the most effective holistic approaches to treat stress, trauma, anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, addiction, relationship issues, and more.
And now — especially with the complex challenges your clients face today — you can enhance your skills with an integrative approach to mind, emotions and the body.
Register today — or at any point during the course — and gain full, immediate access to video modules, handouts and collaborative feedback with Narelle McKenzie, Registered Psychologist, Certified Radix Practitioner and Trainer, whose expertise spans across three decades of clinical research, practice and training.
You’ll walk away with…- A thorough understanding of pulsation to get your clients on a healing path to regulate emotions, build healthy boundaries, and more
- Simple, subtle and effective strategies to work with the body in any therapeutic setting
- Evidence-based grounding and centering exercises to help your clients anchor themselves so you can treat flashbacks, anxiety and dissociation symptoms
- Relevant strategies to immediately improve assessment and treatment
- And… so much more!
Get the updated skills and training you need to help your clients achieve transformational healing and reclaim their lives.
That’s not all — this training gets you one step closer to Certification in Radix Body Centred Psychotherapy* so you can be the go-to expert your clients and colleagues can rely upon!
The Body in Psychotherapy
Integrating the mind, emotions and the bodyLed by Narelle McKenzie, this step-by-step training will make it easy for you to achieve transformational clinical results right away! Whether you watch the videos on-demand or choose to meet and learn with like-minded colleagues from 15 March through 17 May...
Each session is only 3-hours long! Gain new knowledge in the morning… and immediately apply what you learn in your practice!
Worried about missing a session? Want to access some of the modules in an on-demand format instead? No worries — we've got you covered. You can decide whether to attend live or watch on-demand.
A quick glance of the course schedule…- Session 1: Introduction to Radix Body Psychotherapy: The body in psychotherapy
Tuesday, 15 March 2022 (09:00am - 12:00pm AEDT) or On-Demand - Session 2: Exploring ‘Pulsation’ and its significance in somatic work; The body in psychotherapy
Tuesday, 22 March 2022 (09:00am - 12:00pm AEDT) or On-Demand - Session 3: Working with arousal and windows of tolerance; The body in psychotherapy
Tuesday, 29 March 2022 (09:00am - 12:00pm AEDT) or On-Demand - Session 4: Working ‘functionally’ and ‘structurally’; The body in psychotherapy
Tuesday, 3 May 2022 (09:00am - 12:00pm AEDT) or On-Demand - Session 5: Exploring ‘grounding’ and ‘centering’ as therapeutic interventions; The body in psychotherapy
Tuesday, 10 May 2022 (09:00am - 12:00pm AEDT) or On-Demand - Module 6: Working effectively with boundaries and emotional containment; The body in psychotherapy
Tuesday, 17 May 2022 (09:00am - 12:00pm AEDT) or On-Demand
Have questions? Our friendly local team is happy to help! Call us at 1300 887 622 if you'd prefer to finalise your coach booking and payment over the phone.
- Up to 18 hours of live, interactive training (verified by an attendance certificate that can be retrieved upon completion of the evaluation and quiz via your account).
- Handouts, exercises and more resources that you get to keep forever in your professional library!
- Course recordings within 7-10 days from each session that will be yours to keep indefinitely.
- What if I miss a day? If for any reason you are unable to join the live webcast on the day, you can still watch the recording, complete your evaluation and quiz and retrieve your certificate at a later date.
- You'll get bi-weekly, weekly and one-hour reminders for all sessions!
The Body in Psychotherapy
Integrating the mind, emotions and the body- Gain knowledge of the long-standing history of somatic work in the therapeutic setting.
- Given the historical context, understand how Radix work relates to other somatic theories and applications.
- Be able to define the basic principles underpinning mind-body therapeutic work.
- Gain some understanding of their own relationship to their bodies based on this theory.
- Understand the complexity of embodiment and its relationship to presence.
- Recognise the physical signs of dissociation or lack of embodiment.
- Develop preliminary skills in how to observe the body.
- Learn how to identify signs of disembodiment at both the energetic and body structure levels.
- Understand the significance of pulsation or oscillation of energy when working somatically.
- Develop an understanding of how pulsation relates to the functioning of the ANS.
- Learn how to identify the presence or absence of pulsations in the body.
- Discover the relationship between respiration and pulsation.
- Identify their own patterns of pulsation and those of their clients.
- Understand how levels of arousal and the capacity to contain, build and tolerate them, impact clients’ capacity for awareness and contact with self and other.
- Develop skills in working to build these levels in clients, as appropriate.
- Recognise physical signs of low levels of arousal, hyper- and hypo- arousal in the body.
- Increase understanding of the relationship between levels of arousal and capacity for emotional experience and expression.
- Explore and understand their own Windows of Tolerance / Capacity for arousal.
- Learn the difference between working with the body functionally and structurally and the interdependence of these two approaches.
- Understand the Reichian segmental approach.
- Identify signs of blocks in the oscillation of these segments.
- Understand how these blocks or interruptions affect clients’ therapeutic healing.
- Identify and understand the significance of working with the ocular segment, especially with clients with a history of developmental trauma.
- Understand the Radix definition of grounding and centering and how this applies to the body.
- Learn some interventions that assist clients to ground and centre.
- Understand the difference between centering and awareness and the implications this has for their practices.
- Practice the application of grounding and centering activities on themselves and on others.
- Discover their own capacity to stay grounded and centred. Identify factors that contribute to their ungrounding or scattering.
- Understand how boundaries are connected to arousal levels on the periphery.
- Identify the absence of physical and energetic boundaries in self and others.
- Discover the relationship between capacity for physical boundaries and emotional containment.
- Unpack the relationship between boundaries and surrender.
- Identify their own capacity to keep out and invite in and the factors affecting this.
- Understand the difference between containment and rigidity.
Integrating the mind, emotions and the body
Narelle McKenzie is the Director and a Senior trainer of the Australian Radix Body Centered Training Centre and the Radix Institute, North America, which offers a three-year training program in Radix Body Centered Psychotherapy. She is a registered psychologist with over forty years of experience working in private practice with adults, adolescents, families, couples and groups. Narelle has a Masters in developmental psychology and extensive experience and training in psychotherapy and psychology. As part of her private consultancy, Narelle has led experiential and training workshops on Embodied Psychotherapy throughout Australia, the USA and the UK. She is a Clinical Member of the Australian Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (PACFA) Register, a PACFA accredited psychotherapy supervisor, an accredited supervisor for Psychology, a member of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapists, as well as a member of the Peer Review Committee for the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy.
We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
Integrating the mind, emotions and the body