Clinical Somatics

First of all, there are no such programs available: there are no practitioners licensed or authorized in any way to train individual students in Clinical Somatic Education.

More importantly, the reason that no such programs exist is because one-on-one training is not the best training format. Every practitioner and trainer has her/his own strengths, advantages, and areas of interest. Therefore, to produce well-rounded and fully competent practitioners, our training offers a well rounded experience of the spectrum of Clinical Somatic Education competency. Medical doctors work with a wide variety of accomplished members of their field, giving them a larger pool of approaches to problems from which to draw in their own practice. In the same way, we strive to show as many successful approaches to working with clients so that our students are prepared to work with a wider variety of clients upon graduation.

This being said, please remember that even in the larger training classes offered at Somatic Systems Institute, the student/teacher ratios are carefully configured to provide the most effective balance of the one-on-one attention found in a small class or apprenticeship and the diversity and opportunity to practice afforded by a large class.