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Help Your Clients: 

  • Take each phase of S.O.M.A deeper during sessions.
  • Identify the story, shape and shadow parts within their adaptive patterns
  • Transition protective & wounded parts of self into their authentic roles. Parts remember their truest expression
  • Process and untangle from emotional shame using S.O.M.A  
  • Experience the healing and regulating effects of Breathwork

Training Includes:

  • Create a felt sense of safety and support in the body.
  • Guidance on the felt sense inquiry (Gendlin). Build clients’ interoceptive awareness.
  • Inner child dialogue. Learn a specific dialogue to engage younger orphaned/exiled/ashamed parts.
  • Breathwork and many other “physicalizing” interventions to activate somatic connection and emotional expression (Bi-lateral stimulation, tapping, qi-gong, sounding & movement practices).
  • How to use attention (stretching towards something) in healing work 
  • Breathwork and NLP (neuro-linguistic programing) prompts to facilitate the imprinting of new beliefs.
  • Mindfulness, centering and visualization to help client access their adult consciousness and deepen capacity to access their always available internal resting place.
  • An understanding of trauma, neuroscience,  polyvalel theory, the nervous system and protective somatic shapes.

  • Master facilitating the four phases of S.O.M.A Re-Patterning™.

Training Schedule:

Starting September, 2026

Training model:

Core SOMA Curriculum: the same core curriculum is repeated each month.  New cohort members join the first week of each month: weekly topics are as follows: Sensing (week 1), Opening(week 2), Moving(week 3), and Awakening(week 4). For example. every first week of the month Dr. Kutsko will teach on sensing skills. There is a half our of practice time with partner from from 3-3:30. 

Meeting time:  Sunday's at 2:00 cst. Replay's are available (no replay for partner practice). 

Monthly Intensive (zoom): Intensive  2 hour workshops are offered once monthly on Using S.O.M.A in breathwork, trauma therapy and parts-work. Fourth Friday of each month from 10-noon cst.

Must complete 12 total sessions and 2 intensives to earn certification.

Self-Study: S.O.M.A Course: complete course prior to training for foundations of S.O.M.A Method. the soma tree. adaptive patterns.

Completion of 3 additional books on reading list.

 Week 1 

Topics will include:

Neuroscience - Polyvagel theory

Adaptive personality shapes

Sensory tracking 

Gendlin’s focusing work 

Week 2

 Opening:

Learn a mindfulness practice to expand clients sense of inner belonging.

Porges theories on social engagement and the role of sound, touch and contact.

Weeks 3

Move:

Somatic Expressing tools 

Breathwork

Inner-child dialogue, 

Week 4

Awaken:

Integrating New Patterns

Somatic attuning & healing messages

Supervision 

  • Complete video of you leading a SOMA Practice (w breathwork and music)
  • Send in video of a practice session and participate in two supervision groups.
  • Receive 1/2 hour meeting w Dr. Kutsko or other SOMA Trainer to discuss your sessions.

Upon Completion:

State in bio: Certified S.O.M.A Practitioner

Training Cost:

$1,300

  • 12 Live Interactive Sessions: These sessions are didactic and experiential including break out sessions for practice.  
  • Online lectures: In addition to live classes, study at your own pace with our practical online learning material. 
  • Ongoing Training: After graduation you can continue to particpate in classes and practice sessions.  

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Post-Training Opportunities

Private Consultation Sessions

$250

  • Private supervision or consultation Sessions with Dr. Kutsko can be purchased separately.  Sign up with others to share cost.  Click here to register for private consultation.
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Nick L.

Dr. Kutsko’s S.O.M.A Method™ training was both extremely informative and also engaging. She provided a mixture of interesting didactic education and experiential exercises demonstrating how to get clients unstuck and able to express what has been held inside. I feel I have lerned a whole new language.

Peter McDonald 

"The dyad partner practices cycling protector and exiled parts (she calls them protective shapes and shadow parts) was so helpful. I can’t wait to experiment with my clients. The language of opening is so transformative."

Jess Thomas

I am so excited about the Soma Method Foundations course provided for my clients to help prepare them for this powerful work. An incredible bonus to becoming a S.O.M.A  Practitioner.

Susan Gallagher, LMFT 

"This therapeutic method has been unbelievably effective at interrruping stuck patterns and emotonal suffering."

Susan Gallagher, LMFT 

"This therapeutic method has been unbelievably effective at interrruping stuck patterns and emotonal suffering."