Become SomaTalk™ Certified
...because if your client's body isn't speaking, you are not hearing the whole story.
We can not verbally talk our way out of a somatic wound. The body must speak. Implicit memory (where trauma is stored) is experienced and conveyed through sensation, sound, emotion and movement, not words.
But how do we help our client's body "speak"? Doing so involves learning to attune to the natural cycle of the somatic nervous system. SomaTalk™ teaches a 4 part cycle of processing based on the bodies natural self-regulation system.
Learn The SomaTalk ™ Cycle
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
Learn the SomaTalk™ Cycle (abbreviated: Soma Cycle) and integrate "bottom-up" somatic processing into any therapy session.
This 4-part processing Cycle provides a powerful "roadmap" into the body where nervous system regulation and emotional healing occur.
Click Here to learn more about our processing method: SomaTalk™ Breathwork."SomaTalk™ is the most transformative tool in my practice."
- Susan Gallagher, LMFT
How We Help the Body Speak?
The S.O.M.A Cycle
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
SomaTalk™ integrates parts and inner-child work into a 4-part breathing and processing Cycle deeply honoring the needs of the nervous system. The cycle supports the expression of the alive, responsive and intelligent voice of the body.
Parts Work
Clients attune to the inner critic (story), protector (shape), and ashamed (shadow) parts of self. A felt Sense of all parts present in ones suffering is uncovered.
Breathwork
Rhythmic breathing combined with an inner-child dialogue support the opening to (welcoming) and moving of whatever emerges.
Somatics
Clients engage in Qi gong, shaking, tapping, sounding, postural opening, and emotional expression to assist in emotional expression, integration, and the awakening of authenticity.
SomaTalk™ Modalities
IFS & Mindfulness
Use guided meditation to access present moment awareness of protective and shadow parts.
Neuro-Linguistic-Programing
Include activating phrases to take clients deeper into processing.
Somatic Practices
Teach tapping, qi-gong, shaking, sounding and emotional release practices.
Breathwork
Use rhythmic breathing and breath-holds to calm, elevate, and integrate emotions.
Trauma & Polyvagel Theory
Discover the connection between protective somatic shapes, trauma, and the nervous system.
Sensory Tracking
Use Gendlin’s Felt Sense protocol to deepen somatic self awareness and insight.
MEET
Carolyn Kutsko, PhD
Dr. Kutsko created the SomaTalk™ from hundreds of her own client sessions. She found at the root of each presenting struggle is shadowed, exiled (often younger) emotional parts of self. Once sensed, greeted compassionately and offered full expression, protective patterns and beliefs transform.
She holds her PhD in Somatic Psychology with certificates in: EMDR, Relational Somatic Psychotherapy, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, BodyWay Emotional Eating Recovery, The Daring Way, Thai Massage, and Somatic Breathwork.
She wrote her dissertation on “Full Emotional Expression,” an exploration in relational support within catharsis, where she challenges theories cautioning expressive emoting and demonstrates through a phenomenological study the efficacy of relationally supported catharsis and the often miss-used and miss-understood use of window of tolerance.
She describes SomaTalk™ as a powerful processing pathway facilitating a returning home to ones spacious, wise and authentic self.
Dr. Kutsko’s training was both extremely informative and also engaging. She provided a mixture of interesting didactic education and experiential exercises demonstrating how to get clients unstuck and able to feel and heal.
Nick L.
I am so excited about the SomaTalk™ Foundations course provided for my clients to help prepare them for the SomaTalk™ sessions. An incredible bonus to the training!
Jess Thomas
