Professional Consultation, Development & Training

Professional Consultation

Are you a clinician looking to integrate somatic skills, and work in a more trauma-informed somatic and self-compassionate way with your clients?

I offer Professional 1:1 Consultation, Small Group Consultation, and Program Development for experienced clinicians. 

As a seasoned professional with over 34 years of clinical experience, I help clinicians learn and integrate the skills of somatic self-compassion, which dramatically changes how you work and what your clients receive. 

Those who contact me for supportive consultation sessions seek to understand somatic work and what it entails. I will help you reframe each case through the lens of somatic self-compassion, offering you and your clients a fresh, new, trauma-informed perspective and healing through embodiment.

Program Development / Publishing

Are you a clinician or coach looking to publish your work or develop your unique program?

I love to help clinicians and coaches who are aspiring writers, program developers, and researchers find their way in development and help navigate the muddy waters of publication.

I have developed multiple programs, webinars, and training programs throughout my clinical career. I have also authored two publications (with a major publisher), a book chapter (with another major publisher), and two Qualitative Grounded Theory research studies. I am currently writing my third manuscript!

I have also been a part of dissertation committees and assisted those navigating qualitative research as an outside mentor.

In-Service Training & Webinars

Do you run a clinical group practice? Are you looking for in-service training for your staff? 

I offer 3-hour trainings in my areas of expertise. Hop on a discovery call with me to tailor a training for what your staff needs support with the most. 

Some of the past in-service trainings, presentations and webinars I have led:

  • Somatic Skills Training for Trauma and Eating Disorders

  • Integration of Polyvagal Theory in Eating Disorder Recovery

  • Eating Disorder Recovery Through Self-Compassion: Understanding the stage-based development of self-compassion and its proper delivery (requires two 3-hour sessions)

  • Interoceptive Awareness: What it is, the stages of development, and where/ how we begin with clients

  • Embodying Self-Compassion: The integration of self-compassion and embodiment

  • Demystifying Emotional Eating: What is it really about?

  • Self-Compassion for the Healthcare Worker; Self-Care for Caregivers

  • Body Forgiveness, Embodiment and Body Image Healing: Understanding the role of body forgiveness in healing body image disturbance

  • Brain-Based Somatic Skills in Eating Disorder Recovery: Neurobiology and eating disorder interventions

  • The Body in Psychotherapy: Somatic practices

  • Befriending Your Body Women’s Retreats at the Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA

JOIN ME FOR A WEBINAR

Live Webinars & Webinars for Purchase

Upcoming Live

Emotional and Disordered Eating: Trauma-Informed Clinical Tools to Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body

Monday, September 30th 2024
10-6 pm CDT
Live Webinar with PESI
$249.99

Past for Purchase

Disordered Eating: Somatic, Self-Compassion and Mindfulness Interventions for Lasting Recovery

Body Forgiveness: The Intersection of Forgiveness and Self-Compassion in Positive Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery

  • Ann is very knowledgeable and has a presence and compassion which makes me feel safe about opening up around my challenges as a therapist. Her body-oriented focus has helped me make important progress both personally and as a therapist. I warmly recommend Ann as a therapist or supervisor.

    — C.L.

  • Ann has a soothing and calm presence. Her work and teachings translate seamlessly, and she is a gifted practitioner and teacher. Our supervision feeds my mind and heart.

    — J.A.

  • OMG you feel it in your body! You will just know the felt sense that working with Ann is the way to help heal. 

    — Laura C

  • I’m truly grateful for the wealth of experience and somatic focus Ann brings to our consultation group. Each time I leave the group inspired, and with new insights into how to support clients in becoming more embodied.

    — Shannon Bradley, ATR-BC, LCAT

  • In the past two years of consultation with Dr. Ann Saffi-Biasetti, I have integrated theoretical underpinnings of somatic and self-compassion informed psychotherapy into embodied practice with clients. This has led to expanding skills in three domains—clinical conceptualization, somatic and compassion-informed intervention, and personal practice. The result has been sharing in delight as clients discover their own internal resources for embodiment and self-compassion. Many find within themselves a wise guide that helps them with the internal and external challenges in their lives. I commonly hear clients say to me things like, ‘Practicing this way has made the world of difference in my life,’ or, ‘Now I can feel inside what I knew in my head to be true.’

    — Heather J

  • Ann is a wonderful supervisor, consultant, and group facilitator. She creates a warm, safe environment that fosters deep exploration as well as personal and professional growth. I greatly value her unique perspective and expertise as a somatic psychotherapist, and thoroughly enjoy having her as a guide and a mentor.

    — Laurel M