Deepening and Expanding Somatic Techniques: The Embodiment of Trauma and Stress Part II | In-Person| Presented by Becky Carter, LCPC
2026-07-17 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | McHenry County Mental Health Board, 620 Dakota Street, Crystal Lake, IL, 60012, United States
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*There will be a 1 hour lunch break on your own.
FREE: 5 IDFPR CEU for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists, and IAODAPCA (Pending)

SUMMARY

This training is for practitioners seeking to deepen their connection with the somatic model and the impact of stress and trauma on the nervous system. It will assist those seeking to better understand the embodied stress experience across a variety of settings and treatment scenarios. This training offers a deeper immersion into somatic therapy principles and practices utilized by the presenter. Designed for clinicians and practitioners with some knowledge of somatic approaches, this course emphasizes the refined clinical skills of embodied presence and moment-to-moment attunement to nervous system dynamics. The presenter will demonstrate methods of titration into somatic witnessing for shame reduction.
Participants will expand their awareness of ways to support somatic inquiry and sensation awareness for those with body disconnection or dissociation, sensation fear, and body sensation overwhelm which can be features of the neurodivergence that trauma often creates. Through experiential activities, participants will gain a better understanding of the arc of a somatic session and methods of resourcing, sensing activation states and feeling awareness while supporting body capacity and wisdom. The presenter will discuss the importance of somatic self-resourcing on the part of the embodied witness, therapist, helper, teacher, and crisis supporter and explore methods for coping with vicarious somatic stress and fatigue.
OBJECTIVES

Demonstrate increased understanding of embodied presence as a core clinical skill in somatic practice.
Apply principles of titration and somatic witnessing to support shame reduction and greater client safety.
Explain the arc of a somatic session, including resourcing, sensing activation states, and supporting feeling awareness while honoring body capacity and wisdom.
Cultivate greater awareness of practitioner self-resourcing and responses to vicarious somatic stress and fatigue.

PRESENTER
Becky Carter, LCPC, is a biracial, cisgender, transracially adopted female with West African and Sicilian ancestors. She has two black adopted children.
Becky has been a trauma therapist for over 20 years helping heal the wounds of relational trauma that occur in-utero and beyond. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Transformative Touch Therapy for the treatment of Developmental Trauma, and in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation.
Becky works with adults, teens, couples, and groups with expertise in healing the wounds associated with Racial Trauma, Complex Trauma and Dissociation, Sexual Trauma and Issues of Trauma and Loss in Adoption. Becky facilitates groups for Male Survivors of Sexual Trauma. She also provides support and community education on Racial Trauma and Decolonizing Therapy Methods; with focus on the somatic impact of the chronic and sustained experience of oppression.
