Live Event

More Than a Technique: Somatic Therapy As the Essential Framework for Embodied Ethical and Clinical Decision-Making

Thu, Feb 19th, 2026

10:00am – 11:30am US Eastern Time

Part of: Conference for Clinical Foundations: Ethics, Risk, & Duty of Care in 2026

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Conference Details

Conference for Clinical Foundations: Ethics, Risk, & Duty of Care in 2026

February 18 – 20, 2026 See agenda for times

Up to 17 CE hours available

11 Sessions

About the Event

In an era in which clinicians face unprecedented ethical complexity, the ability to remain grounded, attuned, and regulated is no longer optional—it is foundational to ethical and clinical decision-making. This presentation introduces somatic therapy as a practical, evidence-informed framework that strengthens clinical judgment, reduces professional risk, and enhances client safety across diverse treatment settings and populations.

Somatic therapies offer more than experiential techniques; they provide clinicians with a neurobiological and interoceptive framework for understanding activation, dissociation, relative safety, transference dynamics, and boundary erosion—all of which directly influence clinical and ethical decision-making. By learning to read the body as data and track the “somatic signatures” of escalation or collapse, clinicians can improve the accuracy of risk assessment, identify early indicators of destabilization, and intervene with clarity rather than reactivity.

Participants will learn how nervous system regulation and embodied attunement support sound, defensible clinical decisions. They will examine how awareness of somatic countertransference can help prevent boundary violations, and how integrating somatic assessment into clinical practice enhances safety and protection for both clients and clinicians in high-risk situations.

Through clinical examples and immediately applicable strategies, this session reframes somatic therapy as an essential tool for practicing with confidence in today’s complex regulatory landscape—supporting clinicians in protecting their clients, their licenses, and themselves, while improving treatment outcomes.

Live Event This is a live online event. It will be conducted via Zoom Webinar.

Live Event Instructor

Livia Budrys

Livia is a psychotherapist, social worker, yoga therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and spiritual activist. She is the founder of the Yoga-Informed Model and is an advocate of the shift in this paradigm towards greater understanding and integration of yoga and psychology. She implemented one of the first yoga therapy programs for mental health treatment in a nationally renowned residential treatment center. There she developed a trainee program to develop the next generation of psychotherapists to weave yoga into their treatment of complex mental health conditions and trauma. Today she works to educate healthcare organizations and presents and lectures nationally on the benefits of yoga for mental health and has implemented therapeutic programs, trainings and protocols that utilizes the Yoga-Informed model. She has enjoyed several clinical leadership roles in inpatient settings, most recently as Director of Trauma-Informed Care at a national treatment center - always with her hope to serve clients while supporting the system’s greater capacity for sustainable wellbeing.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

1 Identify key somatic indicators of activation, dissociation, and relative safety and describe how these patterns inform judgment, risk assessment, and clinical decision-making.
2 Apply principles of nervous system regulation and embodied attunement to enhance therapeutic presence, reduce reactivity, and support defensible interventions in complex clinical situations.
3 Evaluate the role of somatic countertransference and somatic assessment in strengthening boundary management, reducing burnout and promoting safety for both clients and clinicians in high-stakes contexts.

Disclosure to Learners

CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME's Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity – including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests).

The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity's planners, faculty, and the reviewer:

Planners and Reviewers

The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Faculty

There are no known relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Course Creator

Livia Adia Budrys, AM, LCSW, C-IAYT, SEP – She receives recording royalties for this presentation.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 7:00am US Pacific Time.

10:00-10:15am: Introduction, orientation and opening experiential 10:15-10:45am: Foundations of somatic therapy, nervous system mapping and polyvagal theory 10:45-10:50am: Experiential activity 10:50-11:20am: Somatic tools and applications 11:20-11:30am: Q & A

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