Become SomaTalk™ Certified
Learn The Language of S-O-M-A
Sense.Open.Move.Awaken™
To Heal the Psyche, the Body Must Speak -- Words Are Not Enough.
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"SomaTalk™ is the most transformative tool in my practice."
- Susan Gallagher, LMFT
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Join our Eight Week Training in Somatic Psychotherapy
SomaTalk™ teaches four foundational somatic therapy practices. Combined, they create a powerful embodied processing method. Teach your clients to speak the language of S-O-M-A:
Sense: the language of sensation
Open: the language of connection, contraction and expansion
Move: the language of emotion
Awaken: The voice of the heart
After learning the four languages of S-O-M-A, additional workshops include using S-O-M-A in trauma therapy, parts work and breathwork.
SomaTalk™ Parts Work
Teach your clients to use S-O-M-A with parts work. Clients attune to the inner critic (story), protector (shape), and ashamed (shadow) parts of self using the four somatic languages of S-O-M-A.
SomaTalk™ Breathwork
Teach your clients to Cycle through four phases of rhythmic breathing using S-O-M-A, breath holds, music and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming).
SomaTalk™ Trauma Therapy
Learn to integrate S-O-M-A into bi-lateral stimulation, EMDR based Trauma Therapy.
SomaTalk™ Modalities
IFS & Mindfulness
Use guided meditation to access present moment awareness of protective and shadow parts.
Neuro-Linguistic-Programing
Include phrases to take clients deeper into processing.
Somatic Practices
Learn tapping, qi-gong, shaking, sounding and 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. Understand the role of attachment styles.
Sensory Tracking
Use Gendlin’s Felt Sense protocol to deepen interoceptive awareness and insight.
MEET
Carolyn Kutsko, PhD
Dr. Kutsko created the SomaTalk™ from hundreds of her own client sessions. She shares, "we can not verbally talk our way out of a non-verbal wound. The body must speak because implicit memory (where trauma and defensive strategies are stored) is experienced physiologically and conveyed through sensation and emotion, not words".
But how do we help our client's body "speak"? SomaTalk™ teaches 4 somatic processing methods, each expressing in different ways the voice within the body, which can be used alone or in combination in a variety of trauma and psychotherapuetic interventions.
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 method unwinding the contractions of the adaptive self through the voice of the body.
Dr. Kutsko’s SomaTalk™ 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 express what has been held inside. I feel I have lerned a whole new language.
Nick L.
I am so excited about the SomaTalk™ Foundations course provided for my clients to help prepare them for this powerful work. An incredible bonus to becoming a SomaTalk™ Practitioner.
Jess Thomas
