She giggled with her kids this Mother’s Day—and that’s when she realized she was healing.

Mothers Day | Healing the Mother Wound with Somatic Therapy

It was a quiet Friday afternoon.

The therapist watched her client gather her things—journal, water bottle, scarf. The air felt different. No dread. Just… something lighter.

The client turned at the door and smiled. “You know what’s weird?” she said. “I’m not spiraling about Mother’s Day this year. I feel… steady. A little sad, yeah. But also, I’m looking forward to just being with my kids.”

The therapist nodded, heart full. She didn’t say much—just held the moment.

What the client didn’t yet know was this:

By Sunday evening, she’d be on a picnic blanket, sharing a deep belly laugh with her kids as they licked strawberry popsicles and told her she was “the fun one.”

And for the first time in years, she believed them.

But this kind of healing didn’t begin here.

Let me take you back to who she was when she first came to therapy:

She didn't name a mother wound.
She said, “I just feel empty. Numb. Like I’m floating through motherhood, not really in it.”

The therapist—already skilled, deeply intuitive—was doing meaningful work. But she knew something was missing. She could feel the client’s grief but couldn’t access it with her. The protective parts were too strong. The narrative was too clean. The body was walled off.

Trauma Focused Therapy Training : Getting to the Core of the Mother Wound.

That’s why this therapist joined the Integrative Trauma Training Certificate.

“I needed a deeper map for the preverbal, implicit wounds. The ones that don’t come through story—but through silence, dissociation, and patterned absence.”

She dove right in.
Within the first few weeks, she was watching videos and using worksheets from:

🌀 Module 6: Attachment Wounding & Somatic Presence — where we cover how early relational trauma shapes a client's nervous system and their ability to experience joy and co-regulation.

🌀 Module 9: Dissociation & Emotional Numbing — where we reframe “checked-out” clients not as resistant, but as deeply adaptive. And we walk through how to gently bring them back into safe contact with the self.

She had lifetime access to these videos and downloads, so she could revisit the somatic cues and case examples over and over.

And when she brought this case to our live consultation call, we unpacked it together:

The client wasn't avoiding grief—she just hadn’t had a safe enough container to feel it.

Using the somatic tracking tools from Module 6 and the parts-mapping process from Module 5, the therapist was able to help the client notice the protective layer… then gently track the younger part underneath—the little girl who sat outside her mother’s locked bedroom door, wondering if she had done something wrong.

That part didn’t need analysis.

She needed to be seen. Felt. Heard.

And the therapist—now grounded in the somatic and attachment-informed training—could finally hold her there.

That’s what cracked something open.

There were tears.
But also: soft laughter. Breath.
And that Sunday… strawberry popsicles and presence.

This is what trauma healing can look like when the therapist has the tools to reach beneath the story.

If you're a seasoned therapist who’s trained in theory but longing for something deeper—

If your clients say “I feel empty” and you sense it’s trauma abandonment, but don’t quite know how to get there gently—

If you work with people who feel lonely in marriage, disconnected from parenting, or shut down from joy—

…this training is for you.

Here’s what you get in the Integrative Trauma Training Certificate:

✔ Lifetime access to 10+ modules covering trauma abandonment, dissociation, somatic therapy, memory reconsolidation, emotional regulation, and parts work
✔ 6 months of live consultation calls — bring your complex cases and get real-time feedback and mentorship
✔ Scripts, downloads, tools — these are immediately applicable in session with your clients
✔ Community support — because therapy for therapists matters, too

This is where trauma therapists come to grow their wisdom, deepen their presence, and change their clients’ lives in the most meaningful ways.

👉 Click here to apply to our Trauma Focused Training Program

P.S. This training isn’t for everyone.

It’s for the trauma therapist who’s already doing powerful work—but knows there’s more depth to reach.
It’s for the clinician who wants to track implicit trauma, hold nervous systems with precision, and support their clients through grief and joy.

And it's for the therapist who wants to feel more alive in their own body, too.

If that’s you, I’d be honored to walk with you.