Somatic Experiencing Applied to Sexuality Online
All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies. This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools based on Somatic Experiencing (SE) principles to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones who come to address sexual issues with disconnected and disembodied selves.
Participants will learn about the basic principles and theory of the SE model. The SE approach offers a framework to assess where your client is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states that underlie so many trauma symptoms. SE focuses on nervous system regulation.
In order for participants to help their clients regulate their nervous systems, they first need to know how to work with their own container – meaning accessing their own internal resources and identifying their own ways of being dysregulated and re-regulating. This workshop is both theoretical and highly experiential, offering effective skills for restoring nervous system regulation and resolving sexual trauma and dysfunctions that can be immediately integrated into your professional practice. The training provides tools to recognize how participants’ nervous systems are wired, how they can look for internal and external resources to regulate them, and also how to learn to expand their own window of tolerance through the process of pendulation (adding a trigger and resourcing). All the exercises are done in dyads or triads and provide hands-on tools that participants can use with clients in sessions.
Presented by Ewelina Beardmore, LCPC, CST, SEP
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This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 5.0 CEs for Psychologists, 5.0 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, 5.0 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs, or 5.0 AASECT CEs for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.
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PROGRAM PRICING:
- General Admission: $80
- Student Admission: $40*
- The Chicago School Faculty, Staff, and Alumni: $64*
Please Note: This program is limited to 40 participants. Once attendance maximum is met, we will begin a waiting list.
(*Please email officeofce@thechicagoschool.edu for coupon code. Code must be entered at time of checkout to receive discount.)
Refund Policy: 100% of tuition is refundable up to one week before the program. Within one week of the program, tuition is nonrefundable.
- Date:
- Friday, May 1, 2026
- Time:
- 9:00am - 2:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://tcsppofficeofce.com/may_1_2026/
- Audience:
- All Graduate Students All Students Alumni Doctoral Students Faculty Masters Students Public The Chicago School Community Undergraduate Students