Ronen Stilman Psychotherapy

22/12/2025

Have you thought about how much clinical information lives in the body — even before a word is spoken?

In many talking therapy trainings, we are taught to listen closely to narrative, meaning-making, and therapeutic relationship. Less attention is often given to the body as a primary source of communication.

Yet in moments of confusion, overwhelm, stuckness, the body is often leading the process:
• breath changes before insight arrives
• posture shifts before a boundary is stated
• tension or collapse appears before words can be found

Somatic psychotherapy invites us to work directly with these bodily processes, not as metaphors, but as living, present-moment experience.
Attending to the body can support regulation, deepen contact with unconscious material, and allow change to emerge without forcing narrative or cognition.

This isn’t about abandoning talking therapy — it’s about including the body as an active participant in the work.

Interested? Check out the Certificate in Somatic TA - an in person course over 3 weekends in Edinburgh. lhttps://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

17/12/2025

Have you thought about how much clinical information lives in the body — even before a word is spoken?

In many talking therapy trainings, we are taught to listen closely to narrative, meaning-making, and therapeutic relationship. Less attention is often given to the body as a primary source of communication.

Yet in moments of confusion, overwhelm, stuckness, the body is often leading the process:

• breath changes before insight arrives
• posture shifts before a boundary is stated
• tension or collapse appears before words can be found

Somatic psychotherapy invites us to work directly with these bodily processes, not as metaphors, but as living, present-moment experience.

Attending to the body can support regulation, deepen contact with unconscious material, and allow change to emerge without forcing narrative or cognition.

This isn’t about abandoning talking therapy — it’s about including the body as an active participant in the work.

Interested? Check out the Certificate in Somatic TA - an in person course over 3 weekends in Edinburgh. lhttps://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

10/12/2025

Somatic transactional analysis is really helpful when working with clients who feel stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, or unable to articulate what’s happening for them.

This training is designed for practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of the body in psychotherapy and integrate somatic awareness into their clinical work. It’s suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, and mental health professionals who are ready to broaden their therapeutic toolkit.

👉Find out more https://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

04/12/2025

A really good weekend with the new cohort of the Certificate in Somatic TA. It’s been stimulating, contacful and playful. Lots to process and very much looking forward to the next weekend in January. 😊

If this is something you are curious about, limited places are now available on the 2026 course. Apply at https://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

01/12/2025

Oxford word of the year is “Rage Bait”. Cambridge dictionary selected para-social, and Collins dictionary was vibe coding. All three words describe an aspect of our relationship with technology. A telling indication of how our relationship with sensory based, intelligent, readily available technology, is becoming increasingly intimate, increasingly emotional and increasingly social; a powerful relationship shaping our personal, social and political reality.

The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.

26/11/2025

Attending to somatic process in psychotherapy offers a way into the unconscious that is beyond words.
It supports deep therapeutic change by helping us attend to and work with the body’s responses.

It’s particularly valuable when working with clients who feel stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, or unable to articulate what’s happening for them. When the verbal process reaches its limits, the body often provides ample communication.

The Certificate in Somatic TA is designed for practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of the body in psychotherapy and integrate somatic awareness into their clinical practice. It’s suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches, and mental health professionals who are ready to broaden their therapeutic lens.

Now taking applications for our 2026 💡Find out more https://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

06/11/2025

A sense of “stuckness” is familiar territory to many therapists. It can show up in client sessions as flatness, frustration, resignation—sometimes on both sides of the relationship. Integrating somatic process into the therapeutic process, can facilitate movement and change in a meaningful and quietly powerful way.

Sometimes, it’s not about doing more, but trying something different—with care, timing, and curiosity.

Find out more here https://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

31/10/2025

Explore the body's role in shaping psychological patterns and discover techniques to incorporate somatic awareness into your client work.
The Certificate in Somatic TA course takes place over three weekends and is tailored for practitioners ready to deepen their practice by integrating an embodied approach.

Find out more https://ronenstilman.com/somaticta/

27/10/2025

When expressions of our body such as skin color, sexuality, neurology, and physical ability determine the levels of access and belonging we are permitted to have, we get exclusion. Birth control, abortion, circumcision, gender identities, to name a few—these personal questions surrounding our bodies and what we do with them often become political battlegrounds that define communities and split them up.

- The interplay between our secret garden and our tribe - Identity process in context, Transactional Analysis Journal, 2025, 55(1) p.86.

19/09/2025

One space left in the upcoming PDLC - details below 👇

Are you looking for a place to deepen your clinical practice, explore your philosophy, and develop your clinical skills in the heart of a committed learning community?

We have just one place left in our Practice Development Learning Circle commencing October 2025!

Click through for details:

https://www.fullcirclelearning.uk/onlinecircles

02/08/2025

It's encouraging to see so many mental health professionals interested in integrating the body into their practice, developing an understanding of how experiences are stored, not only mentally and emotionally, but somatically too.

We've got a number of people interested in the 2026/7 Certificate course already and I'll be announcing the dates in the next few weeks.
Message me if you'd like to be added to the list and I'll confirm once they are published.