ODL 367: The Body Can Change the Score: Exploring Somatic Interventions for Trauma, Addiction, and Loss

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5 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 5 Clinical CE Credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 5 Contact Hours
Psychologists
APA – 5 CE Credits
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 5 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact Hours
Addiction Professionals
NAADAC – 5 Contact Hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 5 Contact Hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 5 Contact Hours

Created On:  11/18/2025                  

Target Audience:

This course is targeted for social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses and case managers.

Counselor Skill Groups: 

3. Treatment Plan
4. Counseling Services

Overview:

As humans, we store memories, experience, and emotions on a cellular level. Somatic approaches focus on body awareness and how to cultivate it in and around the body. Providing clients with interventions to address how trauma is stored and experienced in the body is essential. This training will present an overview of how trauma is experienced in the body. Specific somatic interventions such as resourcing, grounding, dual awareness, and sequencing will be presented. The relationship between trauma, addiction, and loss will be explored. Learners will view application of somatic interventions by analyzing case studies and video demonstrations. Discover methods to help your clients release trauma and negative emotions from the body through a trauma-informed care lens as you also support them in exploring experiences of loss and addiction.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the session, the participant will be able to:

• Explain the somatic experience of trauma in the body.
• Identify at least five somatic interventions for trauma.
• Analyze applications of somatic interventions to client case studies.
• Explain clinical and relational dynamics of trauma and loss in addiction.
• Examine methods of assessing trauma and loss in addiction.
• Identify at least three therapeutic interventions to support clients in addiction recovery.

Presenter:

Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, owner of Diane Bigler Therapy Services, Inc. 

Diane Bigler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas. She has over 20 years of experience in the social services field. Diane has held positions as a therapist (in-home and outpatient), private practice owner, trainer/facilitator, clinical supervisor, and professor of social work. She also has experience in corporate wellness training and coaching. Diane is most passionate about providing quality educational training to professionals. She enjoys spoiling her four dachshunds and anything 80s-related.