Janis Briedis
Experienced consultant psychologist and expert in Schema Therapy, trauma, and complex cases
Limited workshops
Body Focused Schema Therapy with Janis Briedis
About the workshop
Trauma and childhood attachment challenges often lead to emotional, cognitive, and somatic patterns that shape a person’s worldview.
As schema therapists, we have effective tools for addressing these cognitive and emotional patterns—but we may sometimes feel less confident in working with the somatic aspects of trauma, especially when parts are non-verbal or manifest as physical symptoms.
This workshop focuses on somatic mode work, exploring how to track and understand the body's somatic patterns, recognise animal defenses that evolve into extreme modes, and help clients experience the body as a resource for safety and healing.
What you'll learn:
Track body sensations, movements, and impulses across different modes
Listen to the story your client’s body tells
Develop a structured approach for working with somatic experiences
Create safety within the body using somatic resourcing
Co-regulate with somatic attunement in the therapeutic relationship
Manage dissociation and support overwhelmed Child Modes
Use somatic interventions to address anger, coping, and critic modes
Enhance parenting skills for Child Modes through compassionate somatic work
Workshop pre-requisite: Participants should have completed introductory schema therapy training, or have a good working knowledge of the schema therapy model in order to attend.
Compulsory introductory seminar: Participants enrolling in Janis’s workshops will need to enrol in one of three introductory seminars, held via Zoom, in order to be able attend the face-to-face workshop.
