The Clinic
Deepen your practice at The Clinic, a series of specialized workshops designed to hone your skills and capacity as a practitioner. Inspired by the focused training methods used in sports clinics, these sessions are facilitated by seasoned practitioners who offer teaching on their modality of focus, bring these concepts to life with a live session with a client volunteer, and hold space for integration through honest discussion and group consultation.
Each clinic will focus on an approach to the work, providing you with advanced techniques, practical tools, and new perspectives to integrate into your work. Whether you’re looking to refine your approach, deepen your capacity to drop into the human experience of this work, or renew your imagination for what’s possible in the in between, these clinics offer a unique opportunity for growth and connection.
These learning spaces are human, messy, playful, and inspiring. We launched this series in our 2024-25 learning canopy and we’re so excited to return with season two!
Inviting the Body into the Session: Active Somatic Tools for Everyday Clinical Practice
Rooted in the belief that the body is always present in the room — and that it carries wisdom shaped by lived experience, culture, history, and survival — this experiential workshop invites us to move beyond observation/tracking and into active, consent-based collaboration for expressing through the body.
For many of the people we support, the body has been a site of harm, control, or disconnection — whether through trauma, systemic oppression, or simply a world that has not always made space for certain bodies to exist freely. Body-inclusive care, done thoughtfully and ethically, can be a powerful way of helping folks reconnect with their agency, dignity, and inner knowing.
This workshop will offer a practical and accessible toolkit for working more explicitly with the body in sessions — through movement, imagery, sensation, and expression. We'll explore how to track nervous system states, and play with ways to support more flexible shifts between states rather than staying stuck. We will also explore somatic practices to help folks create a greater sense of spaciousness around difficult emotions and support the body to complete experiences it has had to set aside.
Throughout, we'll hold the understanding that healing is not one-size-fits-all — that the "right" somatic tool is always the one that feels true and accessible for this person, in this body, shaped by this particular life. Our role as practitioners is to be a co-pilot to our client’s nervous system and to help widen the possibilities available to them and trust their organic intelligence.Expect to play with movement, get curious in mind and body, and leave with tools you can begin integrating immediately — whatever your modality, setting, or level of somatic experience.
Cultural competence is woven into the consent-based model presented, which emphasizes practitioner humility, client self-direction, and the understanding that healing is not one-size-fits-all. Participants will be invited to reflect on how their own embodied identities and assumptions may shape the somatic invitations they offer.
Through this workshop, participants will be able to:
Track somatic cues that reflect a client's nervous system state
Apply at least three body-based tools — drawn from movement, imagery, and sensory experience — to support clients in attuning to their own nervous systems, creating space around difficult feelings, and/or finding completion for unexpressed experiences
Use a consent-based approach to introduce somatic invitations — offering real choice, titrating intensity, and grounding the session before closing
Reflect on the role of the practitioner's own embodiment as a foundation for this work, and identify at least one way to deepen their personal somatic practice in support of their clients
Container
This is a hybrid offering. You have the option to join us in person at our space in Pioneer Square or virtually via Zoom. Please let us know how you intend to gather with us when you register. Folks who RSVP will receive a note with building and/or Zoom access the evening prior to the workshop.
Exchange
General Registration — $40
with 2 CEUs — $60
Collective Members — Registration and 2 CEUs are included in our monthly membership fee. Please RSVP using the link below.
Authorization
Participation includes 2 continuing education units, if desired. These CEUs are authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
Kyra Haglund
LICSW, SEP, EMDR, E-RYT
(she/her)
Kyra Haglund is a licensed psychotherapist and somatic practitioner specializing in trauma recovery, attachment healing, and living in more connection with steadiness and joy. She is a Certified EMDR Therapist, Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and long-time trauma-informed yoga teacher with nearly 20 years of experience integrating mind–body approaches.
Kyra’s work is grounded in nervous system regulation and informed by a justice-oriented lens. Her approach is grounded, relational, and hopeful, attending to both nervous system healing and the broader relational and systemic contexts that shape trauma and recovery.
Kyra offers psychotherapy, EMDR, and clinical supervision to clients in Washington and California, and provides trauma-informed yoga & somatic education to individuals worldwide.