This workshop will provide the participant with the opportunity to learn the basic rationale for somatic psychotherapy. Participants will also build some tools for accessing their clients' own somatic resources for building tolerance through distress and adversity, increasing resilience, and fostering capacity for social engagement and participation in their own lives. Tools for learning will include lectures, video presentations, and experiential learning.
Note: This webinar is NOT being recorded and is only offered live.
Participants will learn:
Registrants who fully attend this training will be eligible to receive 4 continuing education (CE) hours certified by NBCC. CE certificates will be disseminated by our partners at WAFCA.
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Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC, is an Integrative Psychotherapist specializing in Complex and Developmental PTSD, Intergenerational and Cultural Trauma, Relational Wounds, Ancestral Wounds, and Interpersonal Violence. She works with clients who struggle with developing internal safety and safety in relationships and in the world. She works with those who have been marginalized and want to restore or acquire their capacity to be empowered, feel safely connected, have a sense of personal value and expand their capacity to heal any grief that burdens them.
Anita works primarily with older adolescents and adults as Individuals or couples, as well as in groups. She has developed, along with Francine Kelley LCPC, a decolonized group healing model for Complex and Developmental PTSD.
Anita holds a BA in Psychology from Spelman College and an MS in Counseling from National Louis University. She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. In addition, she has extensive training in trauma, Somatic Experiencing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Touch Skills for Trauma Healing. She is a certified practitioner of Transforming the Experience Based train as taught by Stechen Terrel, PhD.
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In her over 40 years in the field of mental health, Anita has worked in Substance Abuse, Community Mental Health, Partial Hospitalization Programs, and most recently at The Center for Contextual Change for over 20 years.
The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
