What will I experience?

Experience the Vitality of Wholeness of Self in Connection with the Client who may be Lost to Self: Connecting to Client Wholeness alongside their developmental deficits 

Model and Entrain, for the Client, our Natural Living Moving Sensory-Kinetic Bodily Self of the Adult Present Moment Situation, in Connection with the Environment and our We Space

Recognize and Make Explicit Client and Therapist’s Similar and Contrasting Inner Working Models Underlying Developmental Attachment Styles and Inter-personal History 

Connect to and Integrate the Primary Inner Directed Movements of the Baby, Child and Adolescent Bodies into an Expanded Adult Relational Wisdom Body 

Find Inner and Outer Safety inside of Living Moving and  Co-Emerging WholeBody Relational Spaces for Therapist and Client 

Hold my own Adult Living Moving Bodily Self Experience while being Touched by You and Your’s 

Contain and Modulate my Triggered or Dissociated Response Patterns in Challenging Relational Situations with and for the Client 

Learn to Trust and Follow the Whole Body’s Felt Sensing and Sensori-Energetic-Affective Signals and Movements as Doorways into Conscious Adult Relationship with the Client 

Practise Wholebody Listening, Resonance and Inter-affecting Communication to Foster WholePerson Mutually Satisfying Relational Connection with the Client 

Engage in Wholebody Heartfelt Conversations with Genuineness and Spontaneity: Building Relational Trust and Resilience in Intimacy with the Client 

Discover the Natural Dynamic Process of Wholebody and WholePerson Co-Emergence Through Differences and Conflict: Navigating Enactments of Transference and Counter-Transference 

Maintaining Self Stability and Flexibility while being Open to You in Challenging or Triggered Situations 

Flow in the back and forth of Wholebody Shared Presence with Ease, Mutuality and Co-Movement to Facilitate new Developmental Attachment Neuro-Physiology Circuitry

Co-Creating Relational Life Narratives which Support the Wholeness of the Client’s  Adult Relationships in Everyday Life Now (and with the Therapist) 

Meeting and Responding to the Client How and Where they Are from an Authentic  Grounded Presence Position of Wholebody Living Moving Openness of Self Emergence (as Therapist) 

Karen Whalen, Ph.D: karenwhalen3@gmail.com or wholebodyfocusing@gmail.com

Karen Whalen, Ph.D, is a clinical psychotherapist specializing in relational developmental trauma and complex trauma.  She works in a wholebody relational way with couples, individuals and groups to deepen the experience of embodied trust and safety in intimacy, families and work relationships.  She offers training programs worldwide, writes extensively about this field and recently co-authored with Roberto:  “Wholebody Relationships in Clinical Practise”TM

Roberto Larios, MD: sapolar7@yahoo.com

Roberto Larios is a Surgeon and Psychotherapist specializing in Relational Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapy and Person Centered Experiential Therapies.  He is a Certifying Coordinator of Focusing Institute of New York and most recently co-authored with Karen Whalen: “Using Wholebody Relationships in Clinical Practise”TM

Who Can Apply and Benefit from this Program?

All mental health professionals, social workers, body and movement oriented therapists, coaches and councilors, who have a sincere desire to explore Wholebody Relationships in Clinical Practise TM, as an important adjunct to their existing practices

Structure, Content and Timing of this 3 Year Relational Healing and Professional Development Training Program:

Tuition Cost Per Year (Modules 1 and 2) of $1500USD for:

12 monthly 3 hour Group internet meetings: 36 hours of Group Instruction and Demonstration AND 12 monthly 90 minute Group internet Supervision meetings: 18 hours: Total of 54 Instructional hours per annum; Total of 162 hours per 3 years

Course Book

Weekly Dyad Partnerships with Course Participants (48 per annum)

Additional Cost: 2 private supervision sessions per Module with Karen and Roberto 

(student rate of 85 USD)

Certification as a RWBFOT through the International Focusing Institute of New York (admin cost of 200USD if desired)

Three Stage Professional Development Certification Process:

Stage One: Following Modules 1-3 (1.5 years), certify as a Professional Relational Wholebody Focusing Practitioner (thru The International Focusing Institute of New York)

Stage Two: Following Modules 1-6 (3 years), certify as a Professional Relational Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapist (admin costs of $200USD, only if desired)

Stage Three:  Following Modules 1-6 (3 years) and upon completion of Clinical Practicums, certify in Using Wholebody Relationships in Clinical Practise TM