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Somatic Eating® Coach Certification Training
The body is telling a food story that Somatic Eating® teaches you how to hear.
Where are You Getting Stuck as a Practitioner?
You’ve got the training. You’ve got the tools. So why do some clients still feel stuck around food and body image?
Take this free 2-minute quiz to find out where the gap actually is and what to try next.
BODY-BASED RECOVERY
What is Somatic Eating®?
Somatic Eating® is the only certification that combines 6 fields of study into a comprehensive, scientific, and evidence-based framework to lead your clients toward body-based food and body image recovery.
Body-based and sensory awareness
Understanding the roots of dysregulated eating
Nourishment that honors and resonates with the body
Identifying and supporting nervous system states
Connecting developmental movement and food behaviors
Connecting food as a replacement for secure attachment
A NEW METHOD
How is
Somatic Eating® different?
Most food and body image recovery trainings focus on cognitive approaches.
What they miss is that food and body image behaviors tell a somatic, trauma, and nervous system story.
You’ll learn to speak the language of the body and teach your clients how to do the same so they can attune to their physical and emotional hungers and restore trust with their body to feel safe, secure, and satiated.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Somatic Approach
Somatic Eating® will provide you with the resources to support your clients in understanding food and body image impulses as their body’s way of communicating unmet needs, unresolved trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and how to support the body in food and non-food ways.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Resources & Support
Somatic Eating® teaches you to see the wisdom in food behaviors.
WHAT's MISSING?
The body is missing
in most recovery modalities.
Yet few trainings and programs teach you how understand what your client’s body is trying to tell them (and you!).
Somatic Eating begins with the body as the foundation.
If you've tried to habituate your clients to foods they've labeled as "bad," only to find them binge eating even more...
If you've encouraged clients to stop dieting, only to watch them feel more out of control around food...
If you've taught intuitive eating principles, only to discover that your clients struggle to access hunger, fullness, and satiation cues...
If you've challenged food rules, only to watch your clients create new rules to feel in control...
If you've helped clients understand the root causes of their food and eating behaviors, only to find that insight alone didn't create lasting change...
If you've taught mindfulness with food, only to discover that slowing down with food felt overwhelming rather than supportive...
If you've worked to improve body image, only to find body criticism returns loudly when stress, overwhelm, or dysregulation increases...
If you've encouraged clients to trust their bodies, only to realize their bodies don't yet feel safe enough to trust...
You may be missing the body.
You'll Learn
How to listen and interpret your client’s body signals
You'll ALSO learn
How to teach your clients to track and receive the feedback from their bodies
BODY-BASED RECOVERY
Why a somatic approach to food recovery matters
Most approaches to food and body image recovery work with the thoughts that emerge from a lack of safety in the body — without ever addressing the underlying trauma response that generates those thoughts.
Healing past trauma and fostering greater nervous system capacity can increase a person’s ability to emotionally regulate — creating the capacity to fully inhabit their body so that food can be released from the role of safety producer.
Somatic means “relating to the body.” Here’s what that looks like in terms of food.
SOMATIC REMINDER #1
Food behaviors are happening in the body.
Not in the mind — in the felt, physical body.
SOMATIC REMINDER #2
Body image struggles are a response to the felt sense of the body.
They are somatic experiences, not just cognitive ones.
SOMATIC REMINDER #3
A person’s nervous system sets the table for every meal.
Regulation precedes nourishment.
THE SOMATIC KEY
Therapeutic interventions must prioritize
restoring bodily safety
over eliminating the food struggle.
Food is serving as a placeholder.
Without first cultivating non-food sources of safety, clients may feel anxious, creating space for those food coping mechanisms to return.
READY TO LEARN?
The Somatic Eating® Coursework
Somatic Eating® is a sensation focused, therapeutic approach to food and body image recovery.
It spans somatic psychology, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, trauma recovery, and nutritional science, teaching you to lead your clients toward creating their Satiated Lives.
Principles & history of somatic psychology
Foundational framework underlying all body-based clinical work
Nervous system tracking & interoception
Food & body image as trauma responses
How behaviors are rooted in lack of safety, not lack of willpower
Identifying which part chooses food & why
Parts-work lens for understanding the why behind food choices
Food as a substitute for secure attachment
Recognizing and working with attachment dynamics in food behaviors
Working with neurodiversity
Adapting the somatic framework across a range of neurological presentations
Somatic practices for urges & impulses
Updating somatic memories around food
How to help the body revise old patterns stored at a cellular level
Coregulation & attunement with clients
Food & social justice
The cultural and systemic forces that shape our relationship with food
Food as a stabilizing coregulator
THE SYSTEM
Learn the Safety-Satiety Cycle
Every client is unique.
Knowing where someone is in their recovery — and tracking their nervous system in real time — gives you the confidence to know exactly what is needed, and when.
THE MAP
Learn the Regulatory Root Pathways
Food and body image recovery are not linear.
There are many different pathways a person can take to foster, safety, security, and satiation.
YOU'LL LEARN:
How to align with where your client is and which pathway needs further exploration — meeting them exactly where they are in their healing.
THE PROGRAM
Everything you receive inside
The Somatic Eating®
Certification Course
Weekly Live Classes
All classes are taught live and recorded for replay — learn at a pace that works with your practice schedule.
Handouts & Worksheets
Guest Speakers
Learn from leading educators in somatics, trauma, and nutrition — expanding your framework beyond the curriculum.
Real-Time Feedback
Paired with other students, engage in practice sessions & record sessions, plus practice in class as you integrate Somatic Eating® into your work.
Supportive Community
A private community for ongoing questions, support, and connection with fellow practitioners between classes.
Time for Integration
Learning a new, embodied way to show up takes practice. Every module will have time for integration to digest and practice.
The Somatic Eating®
Coach Certification Training is right for you if:
- You’re already a coach, counselor, or therapist.
- You’re currently working with clients in food and body image recovery.
- You’ve been in the field for a while and you feel like something is missing. Your approaches don’t seem to make a difference and you are tired of seeing your clients stuck and struggling.
- You want to be able to discuss food and body image concerns with your clients.
FOR EVERY BODY
Every client you work with has a relationship with food.
Even if you don’t focus on food or body image with your clients, being adept at speaking about food and food interactions can be a resource, no matter what your clients are working on.
BODY-BASED RECOVERY
Become an Attuned Somatic Practitioner
You’ve completed an immense amount of trainings, certifications, and educational experiences. You’re knowledgeable. You have a ton of therapeutic tools you draw from in every session.
Teaching a wide range of resources is wonderful — it gives your clients a sense of choice about how to support themselves in non-food ways. And yet.
What is often missing in long-term recovery isn’t another tool. It’s body-to-body attunement and coregulation — and almost no training teaches it.
What most trainings miss
No matter how many tools you offer, if your body isn’t present in the session — any resource you share can feel like a bandaid.
What this changes
The most powerful resource you have is yourself. Your body is the missing piece — and this training teaches you how to use it.
THE BOTTOM LINE
The most powerful resource you have is yourself.
The greater the compassion and curiosity you bring to your own body and history, the more deeply you’ll meet your clients in theirs.
If you’ve noticed:
Your clients
That no matter how much they understand intellectually, the body keeps responding the same way.
Your Toolkit
That you’ve tried every evidence-based approach — and there’s still a layer you can’t quite reach.
Your Instinct
That beneath the food concern is a story the body is holding — and you want to know how to listen for it.
The time is now.
Learn a new embodied way to work with yourself and your clients.
Coach Certification Training
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AFTER CERTIFICATION
Join the
Somatic Eating® Table
After you receive your certification, you will be able to join the Somatic Eating® Table, our virtual community.
Somatic, attuned, embodied work takes ongoing practice and support.
Gather around the virtual table for additional education, support when you feel stuck with those you work with, conversation with other practitioners, and ongoing personal development.
Joining the Somatic Eating® Table, you will get:
- Monthly guest speakers
- Monthly community connect calls
- Access to all recordings of past calls
- Connect with other practitioners in the field
- Discounts on future Somatic Eating® Workshops
- Most updated information and research as the field of Somatic Nutrition evolves
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this training right for me?
Do I need to attend the classes live?
What is the time commitment?
Every class is two hours long and will rotate between educational material, practice sessions, supervision, and guest speakers. You will also be engaging in practice sessions in between classes, which can add an additional hour to two hours.
Will I receive mentorship?
Do you offer scholarships?
Do you offer refunds?
Will I receive a certificate upon completion?
Are there other accreditations I can apply for after completing this training?
You may be able to apply for an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. You will receive the 60 hours of coaching education through the Somatic Eating® Certification.
Other requirements will include:
- 100 hours of coaching experience (including at least 75 paid hours).
- 10 hours of mentor coaching over three months.
- Successful completion of a performance evaluation.
- Passing score on the ICF ACC Exam.
You can learn more at the ICF website.
Is there a post-training support?
