Somatic Essentials for Practitioners

A 6-week synchronous journey into the nervous system

For therapists who want to deepen their work with clients through the nervous system.

This short, resource-rich somatic education series emphasizes attunement and pacing so you can more effortlessly help your clients track their body, regulate and access resources.

Meets Fridays on Zoom, 12-2pm PST

March 20, March 27, April 3, April 17, April 24, May 1

What a Somatic Study Group Looks Like:

This 6-week, live, synchronous group is designed for mental health counselors who are already doing great work and want to understand the nervous system in real time, engage with it from a somatic orientation, and help clients learn to track their own states. I’ll be introducing material drawn from somatic approaches, including:

  • ways of understanding nervous system states and transitions

  • distinctions around regulation, containment, activation, and collapse

  • how to practice attunement through tracking and resonance

  • how to stay oriented to process rather than symptom management

When: Fridays, 12-2pm PST (Commitment to the full series is necessary, as material will build on itself; sessions will be recorded in case you have to miss!)

  • March 20, March 27, April 3, (skip Bellingham Schools spring break week), April 17, April 24, May 1

Where: Live, synchronous Zoom

Payment: Both options include full participation in all live sessions and materials.

  • Pay in full ($450) at enrollment

  • Weekly payment plant ($80/week for 6 weeks), billed at the time of enrollment.

This course is a good fit if you are:

  • A licensed or pre-licensed mental health provider

  • Curious about somatic approaches and nervous system literacy

  • Wanting to slow down technique and deepen embodied clinical presence.

Enroll - 6 Weekly Payments ($80/wk)
Enroll - Pay in Full ($450)

After enrolling, you’ll receive a welcome email within 24 hours. Zoom details and calendar invites will be sent prior to the first session

This is a professional education group, not therapy or clinical supervision. While personal experience may inform learning, the focus is on embodied understanding and clinical application rather than processing individual material. CEUs are not currently offered.

Somatic Essentials for Providers Curriculum:

Each time we meet, we’ll spend time coming together as a group, orienting and settling, check in on how integrating practices and concepts with clients has gone in the past week, learn something new, and practice in small groups.

    • What we mean by “nervous system” in lived, relational terms

    • Regulation vs. suppression; grounding vs. collapse

    • Why orienting precedes intervention

    • Tracking as receiving information rather than managing experience

    • Bottom-up vs. top-down attention

    • Recognizing effort, performance, and over-focus in tracking

    • Working with fight, flight, and freeze as protective responses

    • Incomplete responses and stuck physiology

    • Why settling too quickly can increase dissociation

    • Boundaries as felt, physiological information

    • Containment vs. constriction

    • How proximity, distance, and pacing affect regulation

    • Supporting natural oscillation between activation and resource

    • Micro-dosing change and stopping early

    • Recognizing signs of “too much, too fast”

    • Reworking an event timeline and titrating sensation

    • Meaning making after an event

    • Integration as ongoing process

ABOUT ME

I’m Kendall Cline, a licensed mental health counselor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner based in Bellingham, WA. I work primarily with adults with complex trauma and nervous system dysregulation and also supervise and consult with other therapists.

My background includes training in Somatic Experiencing, EMDR (therapist and consultant), Brainspotting, and ongoing study in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST). I also supervise and consult with other therapists, which continually sharpens my respect for how much wisdom clinicians already carry into the room.

I am always amazed at what happens when we track and sit with nervous systems in real time, allowing space for what needs to emerge to do so. Peter Levine often says, “Let’s see what happens next.”

This study group grew out of a need that therapists I consult with and supervise have expressed—to develop a way to understand a client’s nervous system in the moment and what it needs… what it’s seeking… why it’s doing what it’s doing. I want to cultivate a learning space that feels thoughtful, relational, and honest. In that vein, I’ll be bringing frameworks, distinctions, and practices that comprise the backbone of somatic therapy, while staying responsive to what emerges in the group.

This study group reflects my interest in slowing down how we learn about nervous systems—prioritizing lived experience, relational process, and conceptual clarity. I don’t see myself as an expert delivering answers. My role here is to convene, guide, and tend the container so we can study nervous systems together.

I look forward to gathering with you soon!