Integrating Somatic Modalities with Relational Psychoanalysis (In-Person)

This course focuses on incorporating the body into psychoanalytic work; how the body can be an access route to the unconscious and how somatic modalities can effectuate change. The course will include theory, and the scientific underpinnings of somatic approaches. The practical application of somatic modalities will be emphasized. Working with the body via telehealth will also be addressed.

Each session will include a didactic presentation of somatic theory and techniques, skills training, and discussion of case material drawn from the practices of the instructor and students. Active learning will be facilitated by demonstrations of techniques and opportunities for in-class practice. Readings will include writings by Schore, Bromberg, Ogden, and others.

This course can be taken as a stand-alone course, or as a required part of NIP’s Certificate Program in Psychotherapy Integration. The course will be taught at NIP in eight seminar-style classes, each lasting one hour and fifty minutes. Class meetings are held on Mondays, October 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov 4, 11, 18, 25, from 1:00 to 2:50pm.

Learning Objectives

I. Identify which physical tendencies of the client to track, and how to bring to the client's attention those that are relevant.

II. How to get psychological or emotional meaning from bodily sensations and physical tendencies and how mindfulness is used as an access route to the emotions, thoughts, images, and memories that are associated with the narrative.

III. How to use somatic modalities to effectuate change and to alter unconscious beliefs, motivations, expectations/assumptions, and relational patterns that are not optimal or beneficial.

Continuing Education

This class will be held in-person at NIP and is approved for 14.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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-0018.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies 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 psychologists #PSY-0131.

Personalized CE certificates will be available for download after completing an online evaluation. Attendance on all days are mandatory for CE credits.

Refunds, & Cancellation Policy

Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the first day of the event or for no-shows on any of the days event take place.

Cheryl Feigenson, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst (graduate of NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) and a licensed clinical psychologist. She has extensive training in the application of somatic modalities for the treatment of trauma; certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) and training in Somatic Experiencing.

Dr. Feigenson was an adjunct assistant professor at Hunter College, CUNY, in the Department of Educational Foundations and Counseling Programs. She was formerly the Assistant Director at SUNY Purchase Counseling Center.

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