A 2.5 Hour Masterclass · Replay
The hidden movements
that change therapy
Why expanding your movement vocabulary changes the way you understand trauma, your clients, and yourself.
For Experienced Trauma Therapists
You are good at this.
And you keep meeting the same ceiling.
You are trained in EMDR, IFS, somatic work, maybe all three. And still there is that client, the one who has done everything right, has all the insight, and cannot move. You leave certain sessions sensing something important happened, and you cannot quite name it.
Here is what I have come to believe, after fifteen years in that chair. This is not a skill gap. There is a whole layer of what your clients are doing that most of us were never taught to see, and once you can see it, the stuck cases start to move.
That layer is movement. The name for it is Movement Vocabulary.
It is what this masterclass teaches. Let me show you what I mean.
What You Already Know And Cannot Name
Behavior is not the problem.
It is the expression of a movement that never completed.
Performance, people pleasing, hyper independence: these are not the organization underneath. They are what it looks like from the outside. Once I understood that, five developmental movements began appearing in every room I sat in. You already know them, even if you have never named them.
The client who has spent her whole life holding herself together, because no one ever held her.
The client who apologizes simply for existing, whose body never learned it was allowed to say no.
The client who moves toward love, and never quite believes she is allowed to have it.
The client who understands everything and holds nothing.
The client who has the breakthrough on Tuesday and returns unchanged, because it never got to stay.
You are not missing a technique.
You are missing a vocabulary.
This was not just information. It gave me an entirely new way to organize what I was seeing in the therapy room.
Dena Michnowich, LCSW, EMDR
The Five Patterns
Five movements, in the order
the body learned them.
These developmental movements were mapped by pioneers including Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Linda Hartley, Susan Aposhyan, and Ruella Frank. Each rests on the one before it, which is why the sequence is the whole tool, and why treatment stalls when you work them out of order.
Yield
Push
Reach
Grasp
Pull
The question that changes the session
Stop asking what is wrong with this client.
Ask which movement never fully developed.
I came looking for more depth in my somatic and parts work. What I found was much deeper than another technique. As my own embodiment expanded, my clients began responding differently, because I was responding differently.
Gul Khan, Therapist
What You Leave With
Not a concept. A working instrument.
The five patterns, mapped to what you actually see
Each with its clinical signature, in posture, in breath, in the pace of a session. So you can finally name what you have watched for years.
The diagnostic sequence
When a client is stuck, you will know which pattern to examine first, and why. So you treat the movement that never completed, not the symptom downstream.
Your own pattern, located
A guided sequence through all five. Most clinicians find theirs in the first twenty minutes. So the way you do life stops shaping the way you do this work.
The Movement Vocabulary reference card
One page. Five patterns and the question to ask when each is missing. So it sits beside you in session.
The full two-and-a-half-hour recording
Yours to keep, no expiry, available the moment you enrol. The second watch is usually where it lands.
Someone is on your schedule right now who cannot yield. This is the lens that lets you see it.
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I'm usually the therapist everyone else comes to. So it's refreshing to be the one deepening my own skills, learning new concepts, and connected to other high-level clinicians. It's genuinely making me better, in my work and as a mentor.
Shay Moore-King, LMFT, CCTP · Marriage & Family Therapist
I've done a lot of trainings, but I'd never found a home where everything connected. What resonated with me was becoming a seer, trusting my clinical intuition while having a framework that brings it all together. I finally felt like I'd found a place where all the pieces made sense.
Geraldine Rabl · Trauma Psychotherapist, EMDR · Austria
The Room
This is not an introduction
to somatic work.
For you if
- You have been practicing five, ten, twenty years.
- You are trained in EMDR, somatic modalities, IFS, or all three.
- You have felt the ceiling of what your current language can reach.
- You want nuance, not another protocol.
Not for you if
- You are looking for the basics of nervous system regulation.
- You want a technique to apply on Monday without moving it through your own body first.
- You would rather collect a framework than be changed by one.
Why Esther
I am a trauma specialist, EMDR consultant, and the author of EMDR for Anxiety. I built a training platform for therapists who have outgrown the trainings available to them.
I did not come to Movement Vocabulary through a certificate. I came to it sitting across from a client I could not reach, out of protocol, watching what her body was doing while she spoke. The pattern had been there the whole time. I simply had no word for it.
I have taught this to clinicians with two decades of experience. They come up afterward and say the same sentence, nearly word for word. I have been watching this my entire career and I did not know it had a name.
The Therapist You Become
What changes is not only what you know.
It is you.
As you explore your own movements, your capacity expands. And a capacity, once built, does not stay inside the therapy room.
You stop walking into hard sessions hoping you will find the answer. You start recognizing it.
Complex cases stop feeling like puzzles to solve. They become nervous systems you know how to read.
You stop offering more interventions, and start asking better questions.
You stop shrinking in the rooms you were meant to lead.
The nervous system you bring into the therapy room is the same one you bring into your leadership, your parenting, and every opportunity that asks something of you. Grow the range in one, and it widens in all of them.
More Clinicians On This Class
This training leveled up how I do assessments and treatment planning. Big time.
Rachel Berzack, MSW
One client who stops stalling pays for this many times over. Two and a half hours, and a lens you keep for the rest of your practice.
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This really helped me understand case conceptualization in a much clearer way. Learning from you is making me more confident guiding my clients into deeper somatic and trauma work.
Radhalisa Zarzuela, LMHC · EMDR Therapist
