Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training

A 9-Month Online Training and Mentorship Program for Counselors and Healers

Essential Somatic and Soul-Based Roadmap for Trauma, Attachment, and Nervous System Regulation

50 NBCC Credit Hours Available
October 2025 - June 2026

This live online training is for you if you are a counselor or healer wanting a deeper understanding of the body-mind connection and the many ways of actively tapping into its wisdom during the therapeutic process.

Our comprehensive, nine-month Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training provides guidance on listening to and trusting the information you are receiving in your own body as you work with clients. You’ll also learn how to work with your client’s trauma and attachment issues from a holistic perspective.

Powerfully impact your practice and your clients through this embodied training that will provide you with personalized support in practicing effective somatic and soul-based therapy tools and interventions for trauma and attachment and nervous system regulation.

Who This Training is For

Somatic therapy training in trauma healing and embodied nature-based practices

This training is for counselors, healers, and helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding and practice of effective somatic and soul-based therapy tools and interventions for trauma, attachment and nervous system regulation. You will gain practical skills and knowledge that draw from and are inspired by several methods, including:

  • Body-Mind Psychotherapy

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • EMDR Therapy

  • The Hakomi Method

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) and other Parts Work approaches

  • Attachment Theory

  • Dance-Movement Therapy

  • Wilderness Therapy

  • Matrix Works Group Leadership

  • Psychodrama

  • Gestalt Therapy

You’ll leave the training with clarity, confidence, experience and direction in translating information you have learned into effective therapeutic interventions and practices.

What You’ll Get From This Training and Mentorship Program

  • 55 hours of training, plus 7 optional hour-long Q&A support sessions

  • Cutting-edge holistic information about attachment and trauma from somatic and energetic perspectives

  • Extensive practice listening to, trusting, understanding, and utilizing your own body awareness as an instrument for therapeutic interventions and healing

  • Practical skills for somatically and energetically working with trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation

  • Practice articulating and facilitating these skills

  • Feedback on how to apply these skills to your current clients and their particular situations

  • More options for interventions once you ask a client “where do you feel that in your body?”

  • Guidance from an expert somatic therapist who has been working with trauma as well as teaching about it for more than two decades

  • Support for practicing skills with classmates between training sessions (optional)

  • Suggested supplemental readings

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Anais Nin

Training Outline

Over 9 months and 20 live classes you will learn:

Intro to somatic skills

  • Using your own somatic awareness as a resource

  • Supporting clients to gain somatic awareness and proficiency

  • Understanding basic tracking and facilitation skills

Intro to the neurophysiology of trauma

  • Fight, flight, freeze

  • Neurobiology of trauma

  • Types of trauma

Short-term interventions and pendulation

  • Resourcing as a critical skill

  • Practice facilitating deepening somatic awareness

Vicarious trauma and energetic self-care

  • Increasing self-awareness around your own body-mind-energy connection

  • Developing an on-going self-care routine in working with trauma

  • Sequencing during sessions

Long-term interventions

  • Long-term interventions to support trauma processing, and nervous system regulation

Boundaries

  • Understanding the role of boundaries in trauma rupture and repair

  • Identifying and repairing ruptured boundary

Attachment: internal and external

  • Intro to attachment and attachment styles

  • External attachment skills: being the “Good enough parent”

  • Mindfulness in the role of attachment

  • Utilizing yourself as the attachment figure

  • Self-attachment through self-acknowledgment and compassion

Soul-based, lineage and energetic interventions

  • Identifying family beliefs and agreements

  • Shifting energetic contracts

  • Letting go of energy that is not yours

Psycho-education skills

  • Understanding the role of psychoeducation

  • Understanding the how and why of psychoeducation

Embodied supervision and consultation 

What People are Saying About Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training

  • "If you are a healing professional of ANY kind, and you have been looking for a trauma training, I CANNOT recommend Katie Asmus's work enough! Even as a trained Somatic Sex Educator, I did NOT feel equipped to do the work I do without this training. If you are a coach or healer of ANY kind, please please get trauma trained!"

    Hazel-Grace Yates, Somatic Sex Educator, CA

  • "I appreciated Katie's permission to ask questions that have already been answered, her normalizing of needing to hear information over and over before it is assimilated. It would have helped me to hear more often that one may finish the training and not have absorbed all the material. You are a wonderful teacher, Katie. I love your attunement, somatic languaging and compassion towards others. Also, just your energy overall."

    Anonymous

  • "Katie, you are amazing! You are authentic and have shown up the same way in my various connections with you. Under your teachings, I see myself more clearly, feel more aligned with my gifts, and have continued on my path of bringing my soul forward to heal. Your soul teachings, energy work, and insights on generational trauma have widened my freedom to be myself. I feel empowered, safe, and know how to return to that safety when life feels shaky. Your teachings and presence will whisper to me for a very long time. I appreciate you and feel so grateful to have the opportunity to learn from you!"

    Anonymous

Training Details

Trainings: Meet Wednesday mornings 9-11:45 AM MT on the following dates:

  • October 2025: 8th, 15th and 29th

  • November 2025: 12th and 19th

  • December 2025: 3rd and 17th

  • January 2026: 7th and 21st

  • February 2026: 4th and 18th

  • March 2026: 4th and 18th

  • April 2026: 1st, 15th, and 29th

  • May 2026: 13th and 27th

  • June 2026: 10th and 24th

Location:
Online

Price:

  • Regular rate - $3789

Continuing Education Details

Clinical learning objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Somatic skills - Participants will be able to:

  • Describe and explain health, illness and healing from a somatic therapy perspective

  • Assess and utilize your own somatic awareness as a resource

  • Support clients in gaining somatic awareness and proficiency

  • Demonstrate basic tracking and facilitation skills

Neurophysiology of trauma - Participants will be able to:

  • Describe the neurobiology of trauma

  • Explain the fight, flight, freeze response to clients

  • Identify the types of trauma

  • Utilize short term resourcing interventions and be able to describe what, why, how these are used

Short-term interventions and pendulation - Participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate somatic leadership

  • Describe resourcing interventions & theory

  • Utilize pendulation and titration with practice clients

  • Facilitate resourcing with somatic awareness with practice clients

Vicarious trauma and energetic self-care - Participants will be able to:

  • Assess own state of being and resource self

  • Develop a self-care routine 

  • Identify sequencing during practice sessions

Long-term interventions - Participants will be able to:

  • Recognize when to utilize a long term intervention with a client

  • Facilitate the following interventions:

    • Inserting warning

    • It is over and you survived

    • Bringing in safety, protection, support

    • Removing danger

    • Imaginal ending

    • Sequencing the incomplete defensive responses

Boundaries - Participants will be able to: 

  • Identify the role of boundaries in trauma rupture and trauma repair

  • Assess their own physical boundary and facilitate a client in identifying theirs

  • Articulate the boundary

  • Identify and repair a ruptured boundary

Attachment: internal and external - Participants will be able to:

  • Define attachment

  • Identify attachment styles

  • Describe mindfulness in the role of attachment

  • Illustrate external attachment skills: being the “good enough parent”

  • Explain self-attachment through self-acknowledgment and compassion

Soul-based, lineage and energetic interventions - Participants will be able to:

  • Identify family beliefs and agreements

  • Explain how to shift energetic contracts

  • Describe how to let go of energy that is not yours

  • Articulate how to return responsibility to where it belongs

Psycho-education skills - Participants will be able to:

  • State the role of psychoeducation

  • Describe the how and why of psychoeducation

  • Articulate somatic and energetic health and wounding

Registration process: To register for the program, please click the apply button and schedule a zoom call with our Program Director. The purpose of this call is to answer questions you may have about the program and to help determine if the program will meet your training goals.

Cancellation policy: A deposit is required in order to reserve your spot on the roster. If you enroll in a payment plan, your first monthly payment must be initiated prior to the course start date in order to gain access to the online training materials and complete your enrollment in the course. 

Deposits are non-refundable after August 8, 2025 and there is no tuition refund after September 18, 2025.  If you cancel your registration prior to August 8, 2025, we will refund all but $275.  Regarding all payment plans, our policy is that if circumstances arise that require you to exit the training during the course, while we sympathize with your situation, we require you to fulfill your financial commitment. 

If SNTI cancels the program for any reason, your deposit and any other fees will be returned.

Attendance requirements for receiving CE credit: You must attend at least 17 of the 20 live sessions in order to receive any CE credit for the program. Attendance will be recorded each session and you must be present for the entire session to receive credit. No partial credit will be awarded for sessions that were not attended in full. There is no make up work so please make sure you can make each live session if you would like to earn CE.

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Continuing education (CE) credit: Somatic Nature Therapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (™), ACEP No. 7785. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified on the program’s specific webpage. Somatic Nature Therapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

If you attend all live sessions for this program, you will receive 50 NBCC credit hours. You are responsible for confirming with your state licensing board if they accept NBCC credit hours for continuing education.

American Disabilities Act: If you require special accommodations to attend any of our programs, please contact us at Info@somaticnaturetherapy.com. 

About the Course Creator and Your Facilitator

katie asmus outdoors with hands on hips smiling at camera

With over 3 decades of experience in outdoor education, counseling, teaching, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.

Katie has worked in the fields of mental health and healing since 1995, and received her MA degree in Somatic Psychology from The Naropa University where she taught graduate students for 20 years. In addition to working directly with clients, she has taught and trained over 10,000 students nationally and internationally, both online and in-person in somatic and nature-based interventions. She has also presented her work on a wide variety of platforms, including journals, podcasts, conference presentations, and keynote addresses.

Influenced by a wide variety of somatic theories and modalities, all of Katie's work is facilitated through a holistic body-mind-spirit lens. She believes that as humans, we are innately wired to move toward health and wholeness, and when we understand how to tap into this organismic wisdom within our beings, this is the key toward healing trauma. She is known for exclaiming that “Inner work is world peace work.”

 

Apply for Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training

To get started, click the link below to book time with our program director. On the call we'll share more information about the program, answer any questions you have, and collaboratively determine if it is the right fit for you. From there, we will send you enrollment and payment details.

 

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