Peter Levine PhD

Founder of Somatic Experiencing; Author of Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory

Biography

Week 7 – Going Beyond Talk to Treat Trauma

Week 8 – How to Escape the Loops That Keep Clients Stuck

Week 14 – How to Reawaken Aliveness After Trauma

Week 19 – How to Work with Beliefs That Are Stuck in the Body

Week 26 – Crucial Skills Clients Need to Build Resilience

Week 34 – Exploring the Core Purpose of Shame

Week 36 – How to Work with Shame when it’s Connected to Trauma

Week 37 – How the Body Experiences Shame

Week 45 – Working with the Brain and Body to Help Clients Ease Anger and Hostility

Week 54 – How to Work Through Ultimate Uncertainties about Life and Death

Week 58 – Shifting Our Perspective on a Client’s Resistance

Week 73 – Regulating the Physical Experience of Anxiety

Week 83 – Mistakes in Treatment that Led to Professional Growth

Week 89 – The Advice We Gain Through Practice and Supervision

Week 93 – How a Client’s Criticism Can Strengthen the Therapeutic Relationship

Week 96 – What to Look for When Diagnosing Depression

Week 98 – How to Work with Low Motivation

Week 105 – Applying Mindfulness to Help Clients Recognize the Voice of the Inner Critic

WEEK 119 – How to Help Clients Identify and Cope with Their Fear Triggers

Week 131 – Working with Trauma-Based Emotional Triggers

Week 137 – Working with Abandonment Without Triggering Fear

Week 145 – Working with Common Issues That Can Often Fuel Avoidance

Week 148 – Working with the Body to Break Patterns of Avoidance

Week 151 – When a Client’s Self-Narrative Is Tied to Trauma

Week 152 – Breaking Patterns that Fuel Destructive Self-Narratives

Week 154 – Strategies for Helping Clients Foster New Self-Narratives

Week 161 – Helping Clients See How Impostor Syndrome Can Be a Fuel for Growth

Week 162 – How Impostor Syndrome Can Affect the Practitioner

Week 163 – Working with the Key Factors That Fuel a Fear of Rejection

Week 170 – Using Movement and Posture to Help Clients Work Through Emptiness

Week 175 – Self-Absorption as an Embodied Experience

Week 183 – Sensorimotor Approaches for Increasing Distress Tolerance

Week 186 – Investigating the Roots of Shame

Week 187 – Particular Challenges in Working with Shame

Week 189 – Body-Oriented Strategies for Working with Shame

Week 191 – Techniques to Help Clients Shift Their Shame Narrative

Week 226 – Trust-Building Exercises and Skills

Week 229 – Working with Despair Through a Physiological and Neurobiological Lens

Week 230 – Body-Based Approaches to Working with Despair

Week 247 – What Fosters Narcissism and Grandiosity, and How Do They Impact Our Clients?

Week 248 – Strategies for Addressing Countertransference When Working with Narcissistic and Grandiose Clients

Week 258—Working with the Link Between Unworthiness and Shame

Week 267 – Helping Clients Understand the Body’s Response to Never Fitting In