Over the last decade, I have produced material to help therapists and clients learn about nervous system regulation, somatic skills, and attachment. I was deeply motivated and continue to be motivated, by the sense that it is ethically critical for therapists to understand and apply the concepts of regulation and resourcing when working with clients. The following materials are available:
The World Walks With You Into Therapy: Social Justice, Somatics and Healing
This most recent book was edited by me and published in December, 2025.
Description: The state of the world can no longer stay outside the therapy room. This book is a collection of articles by somatic therapists demonstrating the integration of social justice and community consciousness into clinical work. These articles are deeply personal as well as professional, offering the reader, regardless of their relationship to therapy, the opportunity to see how somatic therapy can weave a client’s complete experience into their healing process.
The book rests on the premise that what happens outside the room enters the room, and that clients, as they grow and change, bring their healing to the outer world, creating ripple effects on the larger society. Accessible for all readers, “The World Walks With You Into Therapy: Social Justice, Somatics, and Healing,” will add to the small but growing collection of works intended to integrate our complete selves — body, mind, spirit, culture and citizens of a very troubled world – into the healing realm known as psychotherapy.
Review Quotes:
“This book offers a brave and timely perspective on the role of psychotherapy in today’s world, where we can no longer ignore the presence of the outside within the clinical setting. Somatic psychotherapy, as an inward process, and social justice work, as an outward movement, are woven together here in a necessary and visionary way. Working through the body to explore social and relational patterns brings hope, power, and transformation at a time when our world is aching for collective healing.”
Shirley Dvir, PhD, LMFT, founder of Relational Somatic Healing.
“It has often been observed that Individualism – separation from each other and from the environment — is a core feature of western civilization. We learn we should blame ourselves for our problems and try harder/work harder. Most forms of therapy, while trying to help people, have altered this mantra to “Don’t blame yourself, but you can do it. Try harder/work harder.” Such beliefs fail to address how intergenerational trauma, social injustice and inequalities, and personal histories of trauma live in our bodies and minds. When unaddressed, our ability to heal, relate to others, and connect to the earth is limited. This book, a diverse collection of therapeutic voices, offers insight and practical approaches to understanding our interconnectedness and to orienting ourselves to our bodies and our personal and collective histories in order to heal and reconnect. I think you will benefit from the antidote to individualism this book provides on your journey to wholeness.”
Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
“This timely collection offers a powerful lens into how somatic therapy integrates social justice and community, honoring the full journey of both therapist and client. As a former massage therapist and now psychiatrist, I found these pages inspiring for anyone dedicated to holistic, justice-oriented healing.”
Arwen Podesta MD, DFAPA, DFASAM
Purchase your copy below. $21.99 plus tax and shipping.
Body, Brain, Love: A Therapist’s Workbook for Affect Regulation and Somatic Attachment
This workbook is for therapists and any interested clients. Published in January, 2015, it is intended to provide immediately applicable information and skills related to affect regulation and somatic attachment.
To get a sense of the book, please click here to see the Table of Contents, Introduction, and Invitation to Somatic Attachment Therapy. If you would like to purchase the workbook, please click the “Buy Now” button below. The cost is $25.95 plus tax, shipping, and handling.
Videos: Somatic Attachment Therapy Training
In addition to the workbook, I created separate videos in to assist students in learning basic Somatic Attachment Therapy skills. These videos, now available on YouTube, include a full 37-minute session and other short demonstrations of various skills. These are the skills I teach in my annual 30-hour “Somatic Attachment Therapy Training, Level 1” class in the San Francisco Bay Area and in my workbook, Body, Brain, Love: Affect Regulation and Somatic Attachment.
Article: “Becoming a Somatic Therapist: Myths, Joys, and Challenges”
“Becoming a Somatic Therapist: Myths, Joys, and Challenges,” was published in the May-June, 2017 issue of CAMFT’s magazine, The Therapist. The idea for this article stemmed from training therapists in Somatic Attachment Therapy.
The article is meant to stimulate interest in doing this kind of work while at the same time calm anxieties about having to do it perfectly, with every client in every session, or having to give up other ways of working. Somatic work, particularly with a focus on attachment, allows for flexibility in its application, using bits and pieces that feel appropriate and right for the person sitting in front of you. It encourages a deep understanding of the role of the body and nervous system regulation and attachment, concepts vital for working with every client regardless of how they are used clinically.
Click here to download a PDF of the article.
Article: “Becoming an Ally Step One: Managing Our White Fragility Dysregulation”
Written in June 2021, this is an invitation to other white therapists to join in a fuller, more engaged discussion about how to become an ally for BIPOC therapists and clients, and to help us reclaim our humanity in the face of racism. Click here to read the full article.
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