Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress by Manuela Mischke Paperback [2022, PDF/EPUB, ENG]

by Manuela Mischke

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Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress by Manuela Mischke Paperback
From over 25 years of clinical experience, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, has created the go-to resource for mental health therapists who want to incorporate somatic techniques into their daily practice. Highly-effective for clients dealing with trauma and stress disorders, somatic psychotherapy is the future of healing the entire person-body and mind.Section-by-section, this toolbox guide the clinician through: - Targeted somatic interventions for trauma, stress and PTSD - Steps to incorporate the body into your current therapeutic approach - Mindfulness techniques and breath work - Starting guidelines, safety concerns and keys to success- Getting to know their own body to better use body work with clients
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Book details


  • Retail price : from $21.99
  • Author : Manuela Mischke
  • Publisher : Independently published
  • Published : 07-04-2022
  • Language : English
  • Pages : 260
  • ISBN-13 : 979-8839484009
  • Reader Reviews : 802 (4.6)

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About the Author


Manuela Mischke


Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT, is an international teacher and writer of mindfulness-based somatic psychology. She co-directs the Hakomi Institute of California and teaches in the US, Europe, Israel, New Zealand and Australia. A meditation practitioner & teacher for over 25 years, Manuela lectures, consults and trains professionals in mindfulness, attachment, trauma, and movement therapy. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Menlo Park, CA.

Manuela frequently lectures at conferences and Universities and has been faculty for the past 15 years at JFK University, Sofia University, and The California Institute of Integral Studies in California.

She holds an M.A. in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, a B.A. in Dance Therapy from the Naropa University, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Hamburg. In addition she has trained in various methods of working with trauma, counseled survivors of political oppression and torture and victims of trauma. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Dr. Peter Levine) and a graduate Fellow at the Napa Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program (Dr. Ed Tronick). She is a graduate of the Child Trauma Institute of San Francisco (Dr. Alicia Lieberman). Manuela is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher and has extensive training in the field of Expressive and Movement Therapies.

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Reader Reviews

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Simple exercises, Nice worksheets
Reviewed in the United States on 03-19-2022
This book is full of exercises that can be used by anyone working in a therapeutic capacity, including the likes of yoga teachers and personal trainers. Whether being used as icebreakers, individual tools to help a client deepen bodily awareness, or as part of a broader curriculum on somatic work, this is a nice supplemental book.

The writing is clear and the worksheets are simple and aesthetically appealing such that they nicely balance representation of the topic/model covered with a level of open-endedness that doesn't get in the way of the creative faculties of the facilitator or client.
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alex
What a FANTASTIC resource (WITH PDF FILES!!!)
Reviewed in the United States on 12-19-2019
I normally do not write reviews on Amazon, but thought I would do so in this case. I bought the book a few months ago and have really begun to digest the amazing quality of work that has been put into this. Prior to purchase I almost did not buy since someone else noted in their review that there are no PDFs. I reached out to the author, and she was very responsive and warm to my concern and advised there is a link within the book to download the PDFs. Sure enough, the book arrived and I was able to download the digital files! I have used to book and its tools to create two therapy groups that are heavily influenced by the content. After running both groups three times, I nothing but good things to say about this resource. My clients, who initially were resistant to somatic work, have all come around to love this group. In fact, they are two of the more popular groups at my program! Individuals who have been so traumatized that their usual report of 'I feel nothing' has shifted. One client has been able to turn her whole narrative of her body being the enemy (for betraying her per trauma) to 'my body empowers me. Even when I don't like what it is telling me, it is protecting me and moving me through life.' I am so grateful for this book and the different perspective that it provided me in my practice..
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Amy Nicholson
I wish there was a link to a PDF when you purchase the book.
Reviewed in the United States on 06-14-2019
As a therapist, a toolbox is only as useful when I can utilize the 'tools' with my clients.
Unfortunately, I have become accustomed to electronic copies of content in the form of a PDF that can easily be emailed to clients and or copied for them. I have not found a PDF version of this book---I have the hard copy which means I have to physically make copies by laying the book flat on a copier. It's not really how I want to spend my time...
I hope the publisher can also provide a PDF copy of the book--to those who purchase it, so we can actually put these wonderful exercises into practice, with more ease. Thanks!! If you can make this happen, I will change my review to 5 stars. And, if there is a PDF that I am not aware of, please let me know. I have not been able to find it yet.
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