Applied Somatic Depth Work

Advanced Clinical Training Series in Somatic Depth Integration™

Approved provider by LPCA of Georgia for LPC, MFT, and LCSW continuing education

UPCOMING TRAININGS

Approved CE Provider by LPCA of Georgia

Somatic Shadow Work in Therapy

An Introduction to Applied Somatic Jungian Practice

Learn how unconscious material surfaces through the body and how to guide clients in gentle, contained exploration using symbolic, imaginal, and somatic awareness.
Blending Jungian concepts with trauma-informed somatic methods, this introductory workshop offers short lectures, live demonstrations, and experiential practices that reveal how the body becomes a bridge between the conscious and unconscious.

You’ll leave with simple, immediately applicable tools to recognize embodied shadow cues, facilitate safe symbolic expression, and support integration through grounding, titration, and reflective dialogue.

In this training, we’ll explore:
✅ How the shadow communicates through posture, sensation, gesture, and symbolic imagery
✅ How to introduce Somatic Symbolism & Body Mapping to help clients notice where sensation meets metaphor
✅ How to use Creative Externalization to safely bring implicit material into visible form through gesture, line, or simple drawing
✅ How to apply trauma-informed principles of pacing, titration, and containment when incorporating somatic or imaginal work
✅ How to support clients in integrating shadow material through grounding, orienting, and reflective clinical dialogue

This 3-hour CE training is designed to give clinicians both conceptual clarity and an experiential feel for the work—so you can begin inviting embodied, symbolic awareness into practice with confidence and safety.

Time: 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST
CE Hours: 3 CE Hours
Cost: $135

LPCA Provider number: 1025 - 1762372937

This Training is Offered:

January 21, 2026, March 21, 2026, and July 11, 2026

Register Now: January 21, 2026
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COMING SOON

From Protection to Presence

Somatic and Symbolic Tools for Shifting Protected Parts and Relational Patterns

Learn how to help clients move beyond protective patterns — including perfectionism, fawning, shame-driven shutdown, and relational stuckness — through embodied clinical process.

In this training, you’ll learn four depth-oriented frameworks for guiding clients through somatic and symbolic exploration of protected parts — helping them access new states of relational presence, agency, and embodied self-expression.

Drawing from somatic depth psychology, Gestalt process, and polyvagal-informed clinical work, you’ll explore how to guide clients in using body-based process to shift patterns that cannot be reached through talk alone.

We’ll explore:
✅ How to facilitate meaning-making through embodied perspective shifts — helping clients re-pattern internal narratives through somatic insight
✅ How to guide shame release and relational repair through integrated somatic and imaginal practice
✅ How to help clients embody new relational possibilities by shifting postural and breath-based patterns of shame, collapse, and relational shutdown
✅ How to support embodied exploration of disowned parts and qualities — fostering deeper insight, relational healing, and self-integration
✅ How to use creative spatial and movement-based exploration to shift clients’ embodied relationship to self and others

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
CE Hours: 3 CE Hours
Cost: $135

Embodied Imaginal Process: Dreams & Active Imagination

Bringing Dreams and Imaginal Process into Somatic Depth Work

Learn how to move beyond dream interpretation — and into embodied clinical work that helps clients experience, transform, and integrate unconscious material through active imagination and somatic process.

In this training, you’ll learn three depth-oriented frameworks for helping clients engage with dreams and imaginal material through movement, breath, voice, and body-based process — supporting embodied transformation and relational integration.

Drawing from Jungian active imagination, psychosynthesis, and somatic depth practice, you’ll explore how to guide clients in working with dreams during the day, embodying imaginal figures and states, and using somatic process to support deep integration of unconscious content.

We’ll explore:
✅ How to guide clients in safely entering embodied imaginal process — using active imagination and day-dreaming as portals for somatic exploration
✅ How to support clients in embodying and transforming dream figures, images, and relational states through movement, breath, and voice
✅ How to help clients track and integrate where imaginal and dream material lives in the body — fostering embodied healing and relational change
✅ How to guide clients in exploring archetypal and symbolic material through structured embodied process

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
CE Hours: 3 CE Hours
Cost: $135

Art of Embodied Self

Integrating Expressive and Symbolic Process with Somatic Depth Work

Learn how to move beyond talk therapy — and into depth-oriented clinical work that engages the body, felt sense, and symbolic process.

In this training, you’ll learn four embodied creative frameworks for helping clients access and integrate deeper layers of experience — using expressive process, symbolic exploration, and somatic integration to support relational healing and transformative insight.

Drawing from Gestalt, Jungian, and psychosynthesis approaches — and grounded in somatic depth practice — you’ll explore how to help clients externalize and shift relational patterns and internal dynamics that cannot be fully accessed through verbal processing alone.

We’ll explore:
✅ How to use creative mapping and expressive process to help clients externalize and explore internal parts and relational patterns
✅ How to guide clients in integrating expressive art and movement-based exploration to foster embodied insight and healing
✅ How to deepen clients’ exploration of archetypal and symbolic material through structured art-based and somatic interventions
✅ How to support narrative repair and relational integration through combined symbolic and body-based process

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
CE Hours: 3 CE Hours
Cost: $135

Meet Your Instructor

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Sara E. Anderson, MA, LPC, NCC, is a licensed psychotherapist, executive coach, leadership strategist, and founder of SEA Suite Consulting. She is the developer of The SOMA Code™, The SOMA ARC™, and the Belonging · Becoming · Being™ Method, frameworks that integrate psyche, soma, and spirit for embodied, transformational change.

With over 25 years of experience across clinical practice, behavioral health administration, and organizational consulting, Sara is known for her clarity, integrative lens, and ability to translate depth psychology into actionable, embodied practice. She founded and led multiple behavioral health agencies—including a CARF-accredited program with 80+ staff—served as an expert witness for state courts and the Georgia licensing board, and pioneered depth-oriented online therapy years before the telehealth boom.

Sara’s method—Applied Somatic Depth Work—synthesizes humanistic, transpersonal, Jungian-informed, somatic, psychosensory, expressive, and neuroscience-backed approaches. She has trained clinical teams, state agencies, DFCS, school systems, shelters, and community organizations, and has taught psychology at the college level. Her work helps clinicians deepen their practice through embodied, symbolic, and creative approaches that foster authentic, lasting transformation.

Credentials at a Glance

  • Licensed Professional Counselor (GA #004510) with 25+ years of clinical experience

  • National Board Certified Counselor (NCC #272586)

  • Certified in advanced modalities: Havening Techniques®, Flow Research Collective Peak Performance Coaching, HeartMath® Clinical Self-Regulation, Applied Somatic Jungian Psychology, EMDR, Brainspotting, expressive arts, and Jungian Sandtray therapy, trauma-focused client centered play therapy, Theraplay™, and Filial Therapy™.

  • Previously held board certifications in Addiction Counseling (MAC, CAC II), Play Therapy (RPT-S), Clinical Supervision (CPCS, CCS), and International Trauma (CCTP)

  • Expert witness: Testified in 400+ court cases on trauma, addiction, family violence, attachment and bonding, and child development; also served as an expert reviewer for the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage & Family Therapists

  • Founder & Clinical Director of two behavioral health agencies (including a CARF-accredited outpatient behavioral health program that was additionally licensed as a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program and a Family Violence Intervention approved by the Georgia Commission on Family Violence)

  • Educator & trainer: Adjunct psychology professor; developer of 100+ workshops for clinicians, DFCS, courts, schools, and healthcare systems

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes — all trainings are approved through LPCA of Georgia for LPC, LCSW, and LMFT licensees under the Georgia Composite Board.

  • Yes — these approaches are somatic, depth-oriented, and trauma-informed. They are designed to complement trauma-focused therapy and support safe exploration of implicit and symbolic material.

  • Yes — you will learn how to pace and adapt each process for a wide range of clients, including those new to somatic work.

  • Yes — each training includes process handouts you can reference in your clinical work.

  • I no longer provide formal clinical supervision — I retired that portion of my practice in 2018.

    However, I do offer individual clinical consultation sessions for licensed clinicians who want advanced support in integrating somatic depth work, symbolic process, and embodied interventions into their practice.

    If you’re interested in scheduling a clinical consultation, please contact me directly.

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Practical frameworks you can immediately bring into depth-oriented clinical sessions

  • Somatic tools for working with shadow, relational patterns, and imaginal material

  • Creative interventions that integrate body, breath, movement, and symbolic process

  • Expanded capacity to guide embodied exploration of unconscious material

  • Increased confidence in bringing depth work into talk therapy settings

Ready to bring Applied Somatic Depth Work into your clinical practice?

Enroll Today.

Somatic Shadow Work in Therapy

Additional Questions?

Please reach out: sara@seasuiteconsulting.com | Tel: (770) 328-0746