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!
Nervous Systems & Somatics with Smruti Desai
We will explore the nervous system and its role in regulation, trauma recovery, attachment, rest, and joy. This clinic will explore advanced techniques for working with the nervous system, how to hold a somatically attuned relational space, and how to support your clients in achieving awareness of their somatic processes to help them find more ease and capacity for themselves and their relationships with other humans and the world.
What to Expect:
Expert-led clinics with a focus on real-time observation and practical application
In-depth exploration of specialized topics
Opportunities for discussion, case studies, and peer learning
A supportive environment for professional growth and skill enhancement
Continuing Education
2 CEUs are available.
Exchange
Members — included in monthly membership fee
General Public — $55 with CEUs / $25 without CEUs
Flow
10:00-10:05 — Introductions & Framing
Allow folks to settle in, facilitator intro, setting the frame for our time together10:05-10:40 — Teaching
Instruction from facilitator’s frame + introduce ideas to watch for in the demo session10:40-10:45 — Break
10:45-11:25 — Demonstration
“Demoing” a session with someone in the group (we can ask for a volunteer in advance
or on the spot)11:25-11:30 — Break
11:30-12:00 — Discussion & Consultation
This is not a time to comment on the “client’s process,” but to ask questions about the
modality or the clinical interventions that facilitator did. Facilitator may ask the “client” to
help answer questions if they want to.
Feedback Questionnaire
We’re required to send out a questionnaire following each clinic to meet the requirements of NASW, the body that accredits our CEUs. Here is a link to our feedback form template, I’d love to keep this form consistent so we can see feedback across the learning arch of the year. Happy to make edits to make this a useful tool for all of us!
Authorization
Continuing education units have been 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.
Smruti Desai
Therapist, Supervisor & Educator
(she/her)
I'm Smruti (Sm-ruthie) Desai (the-sigh), Therapist & Facilitator. I am drawn to this conversation because I think the systems we live in and the systems our ancestors lived in deeply impact how we experience(or don't experience) trust in ourselves, our bodies, and one another. In my private practice, I work primarily with 1st & 2nd generation B,I,POC immigrants and the intersections of identity, social/historical trauma, the nervous system, and attachment. I am informed by a whole host of teachers/elders who have journeyed with me & taught me in my own professional and personal healing journey over the last 20 years. I am deeply supported by my South Asian ancestors and culture, the city of Atlanta(where I call home), my friends/colleagues, and the natural rhythms of the earth.