Visionary Somatics™ Practitioner Training
An advanced two-year professional certification uniting clinical neuroscience, somatic bodywork, archetypal depth, and expressive vitality.
Apply for the March 2027 Cohort
Trauma treatment has become traumatizing. Healing demands vitality.
In our rush to specialize in trauma, much of somatic therapy has become rigid, humorless, and hyper-pathologized—frequently looping clients through endless excavation of wounds without ever reactivating their nervous system's innate capacity for joy, spontaneity, and play.
Visionary Somatics restores what standard modalities leave behind. By uniting the empirical rigor of autonomic and limbic neurobiology with the expressive depth of psychodrama, archetypal psychology, and therapeutic touch, we train practitioners not merely to manage survival physiology, but to facilitate true biological aliveness.
Why Visionary Somatics?
Three things this training does that single-track somatic models do not.
The four pillars of study (216 total hours)
Detailed module schedules, reading lists, and clinical supervision structures are provided upon application review.
Designed for experienced healers and clinicians
March 2027 cohort logistics
Led by Dr. Brian Tierney, PhD
Somatic psychologist, professor of Clinical Neuroscience for Somatic Practitioners at CIIS, host of the Boundless Body podcast, and author of Visionary Somatics. Dr. Tierney brings over two decades of clinical practice, expressive psychodrama, and academic leadership to this cohort.
More about Dr. Tierney →How to join the March 2027 cohort
Reach out about the training
Applications or the teacher track — start here. Dr. Tierney reads every message himself and will follow up with whatever he needs to know next.