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.

Throughout my clinical career, I have developed multiple programs, webinars, and training programs. 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!

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