The USABP is the leader in delivering integrative somatic learning resources for mental health professionals, somatic practitioners, bodyworkers, and coaches.

The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) is pleased to support the extended education needs of Psychologists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Somatic Practitioners, BodyWorkers, and others working in the healing professions. We have been advancing the practice of Body Psychotherapy since 1976.

Designed with your professional success in mind, our self-paced online extended education programs offer techniques, demos, theory, case studies, research, experiential exercises, and more. Expand your imagination in the art of healing. Enjoy the flexibility of participating in USABP-provided courses live or as a home study here on this site. You can fit extended education time into your active schedule.

The USABP is where helping professionals help others.
Enroll above today and start to enjoy affordable, convenient extended education from master trainers.


Become a USABP Member today and enjoy these courses for free... plus other practice building benefits! Learn more.


Dr. Aline LaPierre, President, USABP

Message from the President...


We are proud to offer you the rich educational resources of our Association. 

Our Alliance of Somatic Educators comprises master trainers from the field of Somatic Psychotherapy and includes a broad range of approaches focusing on body-mind integration. 

Our somatic educators are on the leading edge of embodiment practices—as the creators, researchers, authors, and developers of the new approaches, they can best teach you the science and theory behind their methods. 

We offer the latest developments to working somatically with your clients. For an affordable price, our courses are a unique opportunity to broaden your somatic education and remain up-to-date on evolving somatic discoveries and body-mind approaches.

Dr. Aline LaPierre, President, USABP

Bundle Up in These Growth Training Courses

These course bundles are designed to accelerate your learning on a topic, keep you abreast of advances in our field or keep important findings and approaches to client/patient care top of mind for you.

USABP On The Move Series

Somatic movement and mindful body-awareness programs

Courses: 4

FREE

What is Shame, It's Origins, and How to Cope with it

Addressing Addiction, the Shame-Trauma Freeze and Dissociation

Courses: 3

$50

Addiction Care, Somatic Research and Treatment Center Management

These six webinars include bottom-up/top-down approaches to care, recovery tools and address dissociation and the shame-trauma freeze

Courses: 6

$65

USABP 2023 Conference Bundle

Click for All Access Pass

Courses: 32

$675

Enrich yourself with these On the Move and Speaker Series Events


Our Speaker Series presents what’s new, what’s next, and what needs to happen. Our On The Move Series features somatic movement and mindful body-awareness programs featuring renowned movement facilitators. These free classes are restorative for you and help you learn from or get ideas for leading your movement work.


USABP On The Move Featuring Judith Blackstone

Stillness Moving: the Movement Aspect of the Realization Process With Judith Blackstone, PhD

Judith Blackstone, PhD

Judith Blackstone, PhD

$25

USABP On The Move with Jill Miller

Our Topic for the Experiential

Jill Miller, C-IAYT, E-RYT

Jill Miller, C-IAYT, E-RYT

$25

USABP Speaker Series - Empowering Adolescents Through Teaching Somatic Movement Education

Susan Bauer, MFA, MSME/T, RSDE

Susan Bauer, MFA, MSME/T, RSDE

Susan Bauer, MFA, MSME/T, RSDE

$25

USABP Speaker Series - Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Brett Lyon, PhD,

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Brett Lyon, PhD,

$25

USABP On The Move Featuring Jamie McHugh

Tending and Befriending our Inner Ecosystem: Somatic Expression® - the Five Somatic Technologies

Jamie McHugh, MSMT

Jamie McHugh, MSMT

$25

USABP On The Move Featuring Michael Lee

The Art of Movement at the Intersection of Yoga, Buddhism, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Michael Lee

Michael Lee

$25

USABP On The Move featuring Paula Josa Jones

Wisdom of the Moving Body

Paula Josa Jones

Paula Josa Jones

$25

USABP On The Move facilitated by Rick Lepore

Rick Lepore

Rick Lepore, MFT, RSMT

Rick Lepore, MFT, RSMT

$25

Check Out Our Featured Spotlight Series Programs

Learn theory, get intervention and session demonstrations, and have experiential you can use for yourself and with your clients.


USABP Spotlight - Jeanne Denney

Illness as Koan: Working with the Mystery and Opportunity of Health Challenges.

Jeanne Denney, MA

Jeanne Denney, MA

$25

A USABP - IBPJ Forum

The Future of Working with Emotions in Mental Health

Selvam & Greenberg

Selvam & Greenberg

$25

USABP On The Move Featuring Michael Lee

The Art of Movement at the Intersection of Yoga, Buddhism, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Michael Lee

Michael Lee

$25

USABP On The Move Featuring Jamie McHugh

Tending and Befriending our Inner Ecosystem: Somatic Expression® - the Five Somatic Technologies

Jamie McHugh, MSMT

Jamie McHugh, MSMT

$25

USABP Spotlight - The Growing Scientific Evidence for Somatic Psychology

Raja Selvam, PhD

​Raja Selvam, PhD

​Raja Selvam, PhD

$25

USABP Speaker Series - Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Brett Lyon, PhD,

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT; Brett Lyon, PhD,

$25

USABP Spotlight - "Taking Over": Using the body to process limiting patterns

Jaci Hull, LMFT

Jaci Hull, LMFT

Jaci Hull, LMFT

$25

USABP On The Move featuring Paula Josa Jones

Wisdom of the Moving Body

Paula Josa Jones

Paula Josa Jones

$25

USABP Spotlight - Integrating Rubenfeld Synergy Method with Psychodrama

Judy Swallow, MA, CRES, TEP, LCAT

Judy Swallow, MA, CRES, TEP, LCAT

Judy Swallow, MA, CRES, TEP, LCAT

$25

USABP Spotlight - Relational Somatics: Building Robust Therapeutic Alliances

Boaz B. Feldman MSc, SEP, FSP, PgD

Boaz B. Feldman MSc, SEP

Boaz B. Feldman MSc, SEP

$25

USABP Speaker Series - Empowering Adolescents Through Teaching Somatic Movement Education

Susan Bauer, MFA, MSME/T, RSDE

Susan Bauer, MFA, MSME/T, RSDE

Susan Bauer, MFA, MSME/T, RSDE

$25

USABP On The Move facilitated by Rick Lepore

Rick Lepore

Rick Lepore, MFT, RSMT

Rick Lepore, MFT, RSMT

$25

Demo Therapy Session: Working with Developmental Trauma Using the PBSP Method

Presented by Jim Amundsen, PhD

Jim Amundsen

Jim Amundsen

$25

The Alchemy of Safety & Danger in Relationship Therapy

Brian Gleason, CSW

Brian Gleason, CSW

$25

Highlighting Differences in Working with the Autonomic Nervous System Versus the Voluntary Nervous System

Anne Isaacs MSW, LCSW

Anne Isaacs MSW, LCSW

$25

Beyond Catharsis

Integrating energy for transformation

Garet Bedrosian

Garet Bedrosian

$25

How Clinics Can Successfully Integrate New Somatic Therapy Services

Findings from a Study of Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT)

Cynthia Price, PhD MA LMT

Cynthia Price, PhD MA LMT

$25

Focusing and Dreamwork

Doorways to Embodied Non-verbal Attachment and Trauma Memory. USABP Members contact [email protected] for your $45 dollar discount code.

Dr. Leslie Ellis

Dr. Leslie Ellis

$45

To Embody or to Talk

Engaging the “edge” to create deeper embodied presence, connection, and awareness

Michael Lee

Michael Lee

$25

Chaos in Therapy

Steve Hoskinson, M.A., M.A.T.

Steve Hoskinson, M.A., M.A.T.

$30

FORUM: Integrating Addiction and Trauma Treatment

A paradigm shift using bottom-up, top-down, and systemic models

USABP Forum Panelist

USABP Forum Panelist

FREE

Creativity in Psychotherapy: An Adaptive Function of the Right Brain Unconscious.

Learn about Relational Therapies' origins and how to apply the wealth of its knowledge in your practice.

Dr. Allan Schore

Dr. Allan Schore

$65

Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation

An Embodied Approach to Treatment

Dr, Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., MFT

Dr, Alexandra Katehakis, Ph.D., MFT

$20

Inviting Self-Touch with Clients

Explore the how-to’s for deepening sessions using the body as a powerful and present tool. Be guided in using your own body as a “touch point” in sessions.

Mary Petschen

Mary Petschen

$45

Reset Stress and Anxiety

with Self Care Tools for You and Your Clients

Rebekkah LaDyne, MS, SEP

Rebekkah LaDyne, MS, SEP

$45

Dealing with Polarization and Trauma in Groups

Working Cross-Culturally and Cross-Nationally.

Ann Bradney

Ann Bradney

$45

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy

An Experiential Workshop

Shirley Bar-Dvir, M.A., M.F.T

Shirley Bar-Dvir, M.A., M.F.T

$20

Virtual Touch Demo

Intro and Demonstration

Joseph Weldon, Ph.D.

Joseph Weldon, Ph.D.

FREE

The Pulsation of Life, the Human Connection and Moving Beyond the Trauma

Siegmar Gerken PhD, ECP, HP

Siegmar Gerken PhD, ECP, HP

$45

Soul’s Body®

Embracing the Body, Nourishing the Soul

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, LPCC

Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, LPCC

$45

Trauma and Intimacy Through the Lens of the Polyvagal Theory

Understanding the Transformative Power of Feeling Safe

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D.

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D.

$35

Working Somatically with Relational Ruptures

From First 18 months Using Muscles and Developmental Movements

Anne Isaacs MSW, LCSW

Anne Isaacs MSW, LCSW

$25

Processing Grief

Somatic Grief Release© Through the Rubenfeld Synergy Method®

Georgena Eggleston, MA, CRS, RScP

Georgena Eggleston, MA, CRS, RScP

$25

Releasing Trauma-Based Somatic Constrictions

Using the The Realization Process

Judith Blackstone, PhD

Judith Blackstone, PhD

$25

Mapping Body, Energy and Consciousness through Aging, Dying and Grief

Jeanne Denney, MA

Jeanne Denney, MA

$25

The Practice of Embodying Emotions

A Method for Improving Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes in All Therapies

​Raja Selvam, PhD

​Raja Selvam, PhD

$25

The Roots of Shame and Guilt

Dr. Laurence Heller, Ph.D.

Dr. Laurence Heller, Ph.D.

$25

Decolonizing our Bodies and Returning to our Origins

Claudia Cuentas, MFA

Claudia Cuentas, MFA

Claudia Cuentas, MFA

$25