Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach

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Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach
This comprehensive package, "Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach," offers a deep dive into addiction, moving beyond traditional views to explore its roots in trauma, unmet needs, and dysregulation. It integrates classic and contemporary theories with a strong emphasis on somatic practices, highlighting how the body holds key to understanding and healing addictive patterns. Participants will learn to approach clients with unconditional positive regard and empower them to build sustainable recovery through embodied awareness, harm reduction, and the transformation of underlying wounds. UltiMatély, this program equips clinicians with a diverse toolkit to guide clients towards radical self-forgiveness and lasting well-being by fostering a profound sense of internal safety and belonging.

About this course

Addiction is profoundly misunderstood. Too often it's seen as a failure of willpower, a moral flaw, or simply a behavior to be stopped. This transformative course, led by Dr. Scott Lyons, founder of the Embody Lab, offers a paradigm shift: what if addiction is actually a brilliant survival strategy—a way the nervous system has adapted to manage pain, overwhelm, or emotional disconnection?

A New Framework:
When we see addiction as a regulation attempt rather than just a problem to fix, everything changes. Healing becomes about so much more than abstinence—it's about restoring connection to the body, to emotions, to safety, and to meaning. This somatic, trauma-informed approach moves practitioners beyond symptom management into the heart of what drives addiction and what truly heals it.

What You'll Learn:
Through expert teaching and practical application, you'll discover how to:

Understanding the Roots:

• Recognize addiction as an adaptive nervous system response, not a character flaw
• Identify the nervous system states that underlie addictive patterns
• Understand the intersection of attachment wounds, dissociation, and substance use
• See how disconnection drives compulsive behaviors across all addiction types

Somatic Interventions:

• Provide body-based tools to support nervous system regulation
• Guide clients in developing craving awareness from an embodied perspective
• Facilitate embodied choice rather than reactive compulsion
• Help clients restore connection to their bodies as a foundation for recovery

Compassionate Practice:

• Integrate compassionate presence throughout the therapeutic process
• Move from judgment to curiosity about addictive patterns
• Work with the protective function of addictive behaviors
• Support clients in finding safer ways to meet underlying needs

Whether you're working with substance use, food, sex, technology, or relational addictions, this course provides a comprehensive framework for meeting your clients with greater clarity, capacity, and care. Essential training for therapists, counselors, and healing professionals seeking to transform their approach to addiction work through a lens of nervous system understanding and somatic awareness.

Join our brilliant experts for the following sessions:

 KAREE POWERS

Karee Powers, LICSW, EMDR-C is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR trainer and consultant. She has over 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings including inpatient facilities, and non-profit organizations offering care for children, adolescents and adult survivors of abuse, neglect, combat trauma, sexual trauma, phobias, generational trauma, and interpersonal traumas. Her private practice and training is centered in work with complex trauma and dissociation, using EMDR, CBT, psychodrama, somatic psychology, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with her Master’s in Social Work. 

Website: www.empowertherapygroup.com

DR. CHRISTINE CALDWELL

Dr. Christine Caldwell is the founder of and professor emeritus in the Somatic Counseling Program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She lectures and trains internationally, and has authored four books: Getting Our Bodies Back, Getting In Touch, The Body and Oppression, and Bodyfulness. She offers trainings in somatic psychotherapy, with specializations in addictions, play behavior, movement sequencing, therapist training, scientific inquiry, and bodily authority. 

Website: www.themovingcycle.com 

DR. PAT OGDEN

Pat Ogden, PhD, (she/her), is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (sensorimotor.org). Dr. Ogden is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015). Her third book, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context, advocates for an anti-racist perspective in psychotherapy practice. Her current interests include couple therapy, child and family therapy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie her work.

Website: www.sensorimotor.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/SensorimotorPsychotherapyInstitute

DENÉ LOGAN

Dené Logan is a Marriage and Family Therapist, a group facilitator, and an author based in Los Angeles. In addition to working with clients in private practice, she is a mindfulness coach, a yoga teacher, and specializes in supporting others in showing up more authentically in all of their relationships - including (and perhaps most importantly) in the relationship with themselves.
Dené utilizes her background in depth psychology to infuse archetypes, ritual, and metaphysics into the exploration of how each of us can reclaim the aspects of our authentic selves that we’ve been culturally conditioned to turn away from in an attempt to maintain attachments.
Her first book, Sovereign Love: A Guide to Healing Relationships by Reclaiming the Masculine and Feminine Within, is available now. You can connect with Dené further at denelogan.com or on IG: @dene.logan

DR. FRANK ANDERSON

Frank Anderson, MD, is a world-renowned trauma expert, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and global speaker. He is the co-author of the IFS Skills Training Manual (2017), acclaimed best-selling author of Transcending Trauma (2021) and newly released memoir, To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma and Transformation (2024). Dr Anderson has a long affiliation with Bessel van der Kolk at the Trauma Research Foundation and is a lead trainer at the IFS Institute under Richard Schwartz. He is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with cutting edge models of therapy.

Dr. Anderson believes that traumatic events can have a lasting effect on the health and well- being of individuals and that addressing these events will help lead people down a path of love, connection and unity. He is the director and cofounder of the Trauma Institute (traumainstitute.com) and Trauma-Informed Media (trauma-informedmedia.com), organizations that provide educational resources and promote trauma awareness. As a result of his early childhood experiences and personal journey transformation, he is dedicated to bringing more trauma healing to the world. He splits his time between Boston and Los Angeles where he lives with his husband and two sons. Follow him at FrankAndersonMD.com and on Instagram @frank_andersonmd.

JAN WINHALL

Jan Winhall Is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist. She is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Social Work, University of Toronto, where she teaches graduate students. She is a Coordinator at the International Focusing Institute and Co-Director of Borden Street Clinic. Jan offers international trainings based on her book, Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge 2021.

Website: www.janwinhall.com 

DR. SCOTT LYONS

Dr. Scott Lyons is a licensed holistic psychologist, educator and author of the book Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others, with Hachette publishing. Scott is also the host of The Gently Used Human Podcast, a delightfully depthful and often hilarious exploration of what it is to be human, to have lived life, and come out gently used.

As a renowned body-based trauma expert, Doctor of Osteopathy (Spain) and Mind-Body Medicine specialist, Scott helps people to break free from cycles of pain, limited beliefs, and trauma. Scott is an innovator in transformative wellness and trauma therapy, teaching over half a million people internationally over the past twenty years how to relieve stress and restore vitality. Scott has worked with many of the country’s top leaders and CEOs as an executive coach and wellness consultant.

Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab—the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies—and developer of Somatic Stress Release™, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries.

Scott is a Certified Body-Mind Centering™ Teacher and Practitioner, Cranio-Sacral Therapist, Visceral Manipulation Therapist, Neuro-Developmental Therapist, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Registered Movement Therapist and Educator, Trauma Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Thai Massage Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness-based Executive Coach, Experiential Anatomy/ Developmental Movement and Yoga Practitioner, and a 500-hour registered yoga teacher. Additionally Scott holds a BFA in Theater/Psychology, MFA in Dance/Choreography, MS in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Mind-Body Medicine.

Scott has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Forbes Women, Fast Company, The Telegraph, The Guardian, INC., CNBC Make It, Fortune, Bustle, Reader’s Digest and Goop. He has also appeared on The Mel Robbins Podcast, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The We Can Do Hard Things Podcast, The Mental Illness Happy Hour, The Human Upgrade, The Genius Life, and The Chopra Well.

Websites: www.TheEmbodyLab.com, www.drscottlyons.com 

Instagram: @DrscottLyons

Book: https://www.drscottlyons.com/addicted-to-drama-book

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