Somatic therapist Becca Odom has begun a four-week live online training for mental health professionals who want to incorporate body-based approaches into their clinical work. The Resilient Clinician started on October 23, 2026, with additional Friday sessions scheduled for October 30, November 6 and November 13. The course is part of Odom’s fall continuing-education training series.
The program is designed for therapists and other mental health professionals who encounter trauma-related challenges in their work and want to pay closer attention to bodily responses during sessions. Rather than focusing exclusively on discussion or cognitive interpretation, the curriculum introduces ways to observe nervous-system cues and use somatic practices within an existing therapeutic approach.
Participants meet live online for two hours each Friday. The four sessions together offer eight continuing-education credits, subject to the training’s completion requirements. The cohort includes opportunities for practical exercises and live questions, allowing participants to examine how particular tools might fit the situations they encounter with clients.
One part of the course focuses on noticing changes in a client’s state during a session. Another addresses ways to introduce simple body-centered tools while remaining attentive to the person’s comfort and response. Odom’s teaching emphasizes application in real interactions rather than collecting techniques without considering when or how to use them.
The training also makes practitioner wellbeing a central subject. Therapists can spend substantial time attending to other people’s distress while overlooking their own stress responses. The course therefore includes self-awareness and self-regulation practices intended to help clinicians recognize what is happening in their own bodies as they work.
The Resilient Clinician sits alongside other offerings in Odom’s 2026 series. These include a separate session on nervous-system cues, self-paced instruction on the ethics of trauma-informed care and a course addressing polyvagal theory in therapy. Together, the offerings give practitioners several ways to study somatic ideas suited to their professional interests and preferred learning format.
Odom’s work combines somatic awareness, trauma-informed principles and approaches informed by polyvagal theory. The training presents these as professional learning tools; participation alone does not establish that any particular technique will produce a clinical outcome. Appropriate use remains dependent on the practitioner’s qualifications, the client’s needs and the standards governing clinical care.
The October cohort combines live exercises, attention to therapist burnout and opportunities to connect body-based methods with day-to-day therapeutic practice. Its four-session structure gives clinicians a defined period to study these ideas with an instructor and fellow participants, while the self-paced courses in the wider training series provide a different route for those unable to attend scheduled sessions.
Source: Becca Odom Wellness
Web: https://www.beccaodomwellness.com/2026-training-series
