Trauma: A Practical Guide To Working With Body and Soul

by Christiane Pelmas

In the Somatic Sex Educator’s Handbook series, Christiane Pelmas brings forward wisdom gleaned through her decades of practice as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor for psychotherapists and as a somatic sex educator, mentor and supervisor for other somatic sex educators.

Christiane believes somatic sex educators are pioneering practitioners of a thing she has termed, a ‘reclamation modality’; a modality that serves to emancipate individuals from the colonization and domestication that occurs at the hands of the dominant culture. Christiane sees the limits of scientifically/medically oriented psychology and psychotherapy – which talk about the body by talking to the mind, and which serve largely to assist people to function adaptively within a pathological culture. She envisions an evidence-based modality combining insight-oriented soul-focused guidance with whole-body touch. Within this vision, and in a short period of time, somatic sex education could become one of the most efficacious healing and wholing modalities of our time. That is if we, as practitioners, do our work to learn the skills necessary to creatively, professionally and ethically be with our clients as they make their journeys.

Genres: Sexuality

53 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2017

Reviews

[Itai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short, practical, straightforward, no bells and whistles, just theory and practice. Highly useful handbook.

[Hanan Khamsi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting as it explains the whole process of trauma and how the sessions in somatic sex therapy can be conducted during, it opened my eyes to things that might block us from connecting to our bodies and the kind of work to conduct to recreate a healthy connexion.

[Angel Suarez · Rating 4 out of 5]

An extended view on trauma and how it affects the body, as well as some few tips in somatic sessions. I wished there were more strategies on what to do during sessions.