Mindfulness Based Somatic Emotional Processing (12 CEUs)

“Mindfulness-Based Somatic Emotional Processing (MBSEP) was developed by Dr. Robert Weisz. It is a mindful, body-centered approach to activating intrinsic emotional processing in the brain. The processing is activated and maintained by the client’s and the therapist’s mindful, Felt Sense Attention placed upon the client’s somatic experience. The client’s emotional processing is enabled, focused, and supported through the attuned relational connection between the therapist and the client. A focus on tender, compassionate awareness creates a special quality of attention which helps to activate the healing process. MBSEP is a practical, useful method for initiating and promoting essential emotional processing. It can easily be incorporated into any therapeutic modality.”

Described by therapists who have been trained to use it: MBSEP is not only one of the therapeutic tools they use most with their clients, it is a way of being as a therapist, and a way to be with ourselves as therapists.

MBSEP is a simple, deep, compassionate, and mindful process of acknowledging, processing, accepting, and honoring our direct, body-based emotional experience.