Deep Bodywork 2-year Certification Phase as:
Deep Bodywork Bodypsychotherapist, and as:
Psychotherapeutic Postural Integrator

Upon successful completion of the Psychotherapy stream of the 2-year Deep Bodywork Advanced Training – Specialisation in Postural Integration, for those interested in becoming practitioners of Deep Bodywork it is possible to continue with a 2-year certification phase towards working in independent practice as a bodypsychotherapist.

This 2-year phase combines intensive supervision of the participant’s work with training clients and 36 days of professional support and supervision in long weekend workshops over the two years. The purpose of this phase is to help the participants in making the transition from training context to professional practice.

Curriculum for the 2-Year Certification Phase:

1. Work with training clients under supervision (at least 260 hours of practice)
2. Refining body-psychotherapeutic skills
3. Exploring psychotherapeutic issues in the light of practice experience (eg transference & counter-transference in ongoing bodypsychotherapeutic relationships)
4. Working in independent practice as a body-psychotherapist
5. Professional cooperation
6. Special topics, eg. working with trauma in the body, the psychosomatic patterning, body-psychotherapy & families, bodypsychotherapy & group processes
7. Supervision & professional support
8. Psychopathology (this is a separate element of the course, taken outside the Institute and paid for separately)

 All students / practitioners are expected to adhere to professional ethics and standards.

Certification

After successful completion of the Deep Bodywork training courses including the 2-year Certification Phase, a Diploma as Deep Bodywork Bodypsychotherapist, issued by Entelia Institute, may be obtained by graduates.

Graduates may also independently apply for and obtain a Diploma as Psychotherapeutic Postural Integrator issued by the International Council of PsychoCorporal Integration Trainer (ICPIT).