FOR PROFESSIONALS
As a part of supporting therapeutic professionals in our community, as well as furthering the movement toward involving somatics in therapeutic modalities, Studio A is pleased to make available the following gatherings and offerings for professionals. If you would like to start a discussion about other possibilities, contact us here.
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Personal Session Provider - Somatic Experiencing
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I am currently approved to provide credit for Personal Sessions for students of Somatic Experiencing at the Beginner level. I will update this when I am approved at the Intermediate and Advanced levels (coming soon!). I offer these in person at my studio in Brownsburg, IN (west side of Indy) and also online via Zoom. My rate is $110 and includes a full 60 minutes, and you will be given a signed SE Practitioner Session Log after the session.
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For students of SE working towards obtaining their SEP Certificate, receiving personal sessions is required. (Please see the SEI website for full details of the requirements.)
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Especially for SE students who work in the bodywork field, obtaining Personal Sessions with a bodyworker SEP is vital in order to learn how to integrate the SE model with your already-existing massage/bodywork practice. In-person sessions are great for this, as you will experience a session in which touch work is fully integrated into the Somatic Experiencing work, if you wish to include touch work (you always have choice). Zoom sessions also afford chances to experience an integration of touch work with the Somatic Experiencing modality, in the form of intentional discussion on how touch work would be incorporated if we were holding the session in my studio, as well as deliberate and timely invitations for self-touch to enhance the session.
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For in-person sessions, you have the option when booking to add on a deeply relaxing Swedish or Thai massage after the Personal Session hour is finished, for an additional fee.
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Click the buttons to see my calendar and choose a date/time for your SE Personal Session, either in-person or via Zoom. I look forward to working with you!
Indiana Somatically-Oriented Practitioners' Association (I-SOPA)
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This is a free group that meets quarterly for professionals in Indiana trained in and actively employing somatic interventions with their clients, or current students of somatic modalities. Professionals may include mental health therapists, addiction counselors, bodyworkers, life/health coaches, movement therapists, music therapists, and others.
The goal of this association and the meetups is to foster connection between somatically-oriented practitioners, support each other's implementation of somatic work, and help expand the reach of somatic work here in Indiana. If you are a somatically-oriented professional, a student currently in a program for somatic modalities, or a professional interested in somatics who wants to join a meetup as a guest, please join us!
We alternate between in-person and Zoom meetups, to give everyone in Indiana, even in the far corners of the state, a chance to join.
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January and July meetups are via Zoom and typically take place on the last Thursday of the month, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
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April and October meetups are in-person at Studio A, usually on the last Sunday of the month, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.
Registration is required for all meetups, so click the button below to see upcoming meetups and to register. We'd love to see you there!
Bodyworkers Becoming Trauma-Informed
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If you work with bodies, then you work with trauma, whether or not you realize it. So it is crucial that massage therapists and other bodyworkers develop skills to spot fight/flight and freeze responses when they happen in our clients, and know how to safely and effectively navigate a session when this occurs. This program will teach you that and more.
This program is coming in fall 2024. Stay tuned for more info by signing up for our newsletters (below).
Healthy Helpers: Developing Therapeutic Longevity
(6-week online learning group)
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Designed for therapists and other helping professionals that are at risk for experiencing secondary/vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout from chronic and repeated exposure to others' trauma stories, this group program seeks to:
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Learn how to recognize and tend to your own nervous system's responses to traumatic material in real-time.
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Gain practice tracking self-awareness in a safe environment with other professionals.
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Discover healthy emotional boundaries and what caring for others AND caring for oneself looks like.
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Develop greater capacity in your role as a helping professional.
This program is led by Allie Whitney, Licensed Massage Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and founder/owner of Studio A Body Therapy, who has years of experience in the realm of experiencing vicarious trauma and developing her own self-care strategies for managing empathy, tracking nervous system activation in real-time, recognizing patterned responses, and processing the grief, anger, and other emotions that can accompany working first-hand with a traumatized population. Read her full bio here.
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"Healthy Helpers: Developing Therapeutic Longevity" is best suited for mental health clinicians, addictions counselors, bodyworkers, coaches, social workers, youth workers, clergy, first responders, educators, or other roles that involve working directly with or helping to bring healing to those who have been through trauma. Also may be suitable for parents who have adopted or are raising children who have experienced trauma, and are seeking to learn how to care for themselves in the midst of it.
If you find yourself feeling stressed or overwhelmed by the material that your clients bring up, and want to develop more capacity for doing your role without the after-effects in your own mind/body/system, I encourage you to join us. Invite your colleagues and learn effective ways of being with your clients and their trauma stories without carrying it in your own system and suffering for it, and find renewed vitality and enthusiasm for your work as a result.
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This course is been moved to our sister site, ondemand.studioAbody.com, where we provide online offerings to reach a broader audience not limited to just those in the Indianapolis area. Please head to our On Demand website to read more and to sign up for this and other offerings. Thank you!