Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

with Ariel Giarretto

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training, and is especially designed to help those who most refuse to inhabit their bodies.

What you will learn:

• How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

• Identify and actively repair that which is destroyed as a result of childhood sexual abuse

• Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, and then take the most direct path to recovery

• Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame.

• Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

• Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

• Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing.

• Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

Who Will Benefit:
Therapists, psychologists, bodyworkers, sex educators, intimacy coaches and practitioners seeking deeper competence in somatic approaches to sexuality and trauma.

Time, Place and Price:
Friday and Saturday: 10.00-18.00 |

Sunday: 09.30-15.30 with a longer break for lunch
Ersta hotell och konferens, Erstagatan 1K, Stockholm 4300 SEK payed by invoice

Sign up for this workshop:
Please send an email to info@seforeningen.se including your invoice address and professional title.

Full Embodiment

Somatic Sexuality Certification Series - New ONLINE Option

featuring two wonderful guest teachers

Adriana Brablik and Elizabeth Simonion

• November 27-29, 2026: Essential Strategies to Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

• April 9-11, 2027: Getting to the Roots of Sexuality Trauma

• June 11-13, 2027: The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment, and Sexuality: Exploring the Subtleties of the Body in Relationship

• November 5-7, 2027: Further Strategies to Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

When you open this link it will probably take you the Turkish page—to access the English, click on Eğitimler, and it will take you to Full Embodiment- English

Full Program Fee*

• Special Early Bird (until 1 September ): €1,600

• Early Bird (until 1 November): €1,800

• Standard Fee: €2,080

*A limited number of places are available. To secure your place, a €300 deposit is required. The remaining balance must be paid by the applicable deadline listed above.

Single Module Fee

• Early Bird (until 1 November): €520

• Standard Fee: €590

Turkish students can pay through the SE Turkey website.

All others can pay here through Wise:

Account name:
Full Embodiment
BIC TRWIBEB1XXX
IBAN  BE19 9676 6499 7812
Address 
Avenue Louise 54, Room S52

Brussels 1050 Belgium

Please contact me directly if you need an invoice or receipt: Ariel@fullembodiment.org

Providing Professional Support for Sexual Trauma

For therapists and professionals from somatically oriented fields of work

with Ariel Giarretto

This seminar is designed for professionals who support people with complex trauma histories, particularly after sexual abuse or intrafamilial sexual assault. The focus is on somatic and trauma-sensitive approaches for professional practice – especially where conventional body-oriented methods reach their limits.

Seminar Description:

In working with people who have experienced sexual abuse, sexual assault, or incest, it often becomes apparent that traditional somatic approaches alone are insufficient. Many affected individuals avoid body awareness, experience strong resistance to embodiment, or quickly become stressed, withdrawn, or overwhelmed when dealing with issues closely related to the body.

This seminar addresses precisely these challenges. The central question is how to provide trauma-sensitive, body-oriented, and professionally sound support to people with complex biographical burdens, without overwhelming or retraumatizing them. In addition, the seminar will cover content and exercises that go beyond standard somatic training.

Content and Professional Focus:

• Supporting people who have difficulty accessing their bodies to develop more ease and a pleasant body experience.

• Identifying and specifically addressing what was damaged or disrupted as a result of sexual abuse in childhood.

• Developing clear goals with clients with complex histories, ensuring the process is professionally sound and that consent is consciously incorporated.

• Using the latest scientific findings from sex education to classify behavior, explain connections in an understandable way and reduce feelings of shame.

• Applying embodiment exercises that promote regulation in the present and contribute to greater stability and a greater experience of resources in everyday life.

• Employing techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people find their voice, and allow embodied consent to be expressed in a more nuanced way.

• Learning advanced strategies to process sexual trauma without promoting retraumatization

• Utilizing various methods of working with shame and supporting clients in freeing themselves from its blocking effect

• Gaining more confidence to speak professionally about the body and about topics related to sexuality.

• Perceiving and inhabiting one's own body with greater awareness, naturalness, and well-being

Methodology:

This seminar combines expert input, current scientific findings, practice-oriented reflection, and concrete, body-related exercises. The content is geared towards professional application in therapeutic and somatic contexts. The aim is to enhance participants' confidence in their actions within a sensitive and demanding field.

Insights and Practical Application:

• Specific somatic tools for working with sexual trauma and sexuality

• Greater clarity in supporting clients with complex trauma histories

• Practical exercises for regulation, stabilization and resource orientation

• Professionally sound approaches to working with shame, boundaries and consent

• Greater confidence in professionally discussing body and sexuality

• A broader understanding of how embodiment can be gently supported even with strong protection.

Requirements:

Therapists, psychologists, alternative practitioners of psychotherapy, body therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and all professionals who wish to align their practice and skills in this field in a more differentiated and well-founded manner.