Somatic Experiencing®

3-year Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Certification Program
Cairo, Egypt

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented therapeutic modality developed over the last 50 years by Dr. Peter Levine, to treat unresolved trauma.

Suitable Candidates:

Mental health workers, Social Workers, Bodyworkers, Coaches, Holistic health and wellbeing practitioners, Teachers, First responders, Mediators, Conflict resolution experts, indeed anyone with an interest in applied trauma resolution and/or a profession that involves dealing with people who are highly activated.

Requirements to apply:

  • You have attended SE® Introductory Workshop (join the next workshop).

  • 2 Recommendation letters from professionals of your field (or your supervisors/mentors)

  • Your updated CV

  • A scanned Passport-sized photo (4x6)

  • Legal Identification (National ID, or Passport photocopy)

About Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training (3-years)

Somatic Experiencing® is a body oriented therapeutic modality developed over the last 50 years by Dr. Peter Levine, to treat unresolved trauma.

  • SE® addresses subcortical regions of the brain not easily accessed through talk therapy

  • SE® supports safety and co-regulation in the nervous system

  • SE® focuses on how the body influences thoughts, behaviors, and emotions

  • SE® helps people develop awareness of physical sensations and procedural memories

  • SE® targets the underlying dysregulation that maintains symptoms

  • SE® gives tools for greater control over symptoms and unconscious dynamics

A Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) training provides:

  • A framework to access where a person is stuck in fight/flight/freeze responses.

  • Clinical tools to resolve fixed states, transform old patterns and strengthen resiliency.

Objectives:

The basic tool kit of SE comprises resourcing; orienting; accessing the felt sense; tracking; integrating.

By the end of the 3 years professional training, the practitioner will be able to use these skills to:

  • Help clients navigate their trauma safely and at their own pace in such a way that incomplete responses can be completed and discharged.

  • Educate clients in the physiology of their trauma responses to help them harness their own innate intelligence and resilience

  • Equip clients with their own practical skills for self-regulation

Scientific Research:

Random controlled outcome research in neuroscience and psychology support the scientific foundations on which SE is built, and confirm its effectiveness for both short-term symptom relief and long-term resolution and treatment (see list for further reading below).

Applications are not open yet for the 3 year Somatic Experiencing Program - please check frequently in the next months for updates.

In the meantime you can join one of the upcoming Introduction to Somatic Experiencing Workshops which is a pre-requisite for the 3 year program application.

Join the next Intro to SE

If you already attended an Introduction to Somatic Experiencing Workshop and wish to put yourself on a waiting list for the next 3 year training,

please fill out this form - you will be required to upload your SE Intro certificate

Somatic Experiencing® Modules

Somatic Experiencing® Modules

First Year (2026)

To be announced

Beginner I/II

Beginner II/III

To be announced

Second Year (2027)

Intermediate I/II

To be announced

Intermediate II/III

To be announced

Third Year (2028)

Advanced I/II

To be announced

Advanced II/III

To be announced

All module days are full day training from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
It is recommended that you rest (for integration and recharging) in the day off in the middle of each module.

About your instructor

Euphrasia Nyaki (Efu)

Psychotherapist, SEP, & SE® Legacy Faculty

Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki is a Legacy Faculty Member  of Somatic Experiencing®, and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy by Hellinger Institute. In the last 27 years Efu has been living in Brazil facilitating trainings and therapy for trauma healing using Somatic Experiencing® and Family Constellation System Therapy (Generational trauma healing). While living in Brazil,  Efu  has also been traveling in different countries such as India, Egypt, South Korea, China, Bolivia, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, Tanzania, Philippines,  and Hong Kong  facilitating trainings and workshops on different kinds of  trauma healing. Due to Pandemic situation, Efu has been giving international trainings, workshops and individual therapy sessions online. Efu is  a co-founder of AFYA: Holistic Healing Center located in the northeast of Brazil. Afya supports many people from the local community as well as national and international individuals that approaches the center in order to receive support in healing, using different types of natural and holistic healing methodologies.

Learn with Efu

Tuition

Somatic Experiencing® 3-year Certification Program

Hybrid (Cairo, Egypt + Online)

One Payment

$[amount TBD]

To be paid in current exchange USD rate
in EGP currency

For Egyptians: Installment Plans are available.

Non-Egyptians’ tuition rate is $[amount TBD] for the whole training including certificate processing (installment plan of 3 payments along the first year is available upon request).

Apply for the intro to be eligible for the 3 year program

*Tuition fees doesn’t include personal sessions, individual supervision sessions, or group supervision sessions you will need along the training to finish your certification requirements. - They are usually of a charge of ($30 to $50) paid separately and individually to your session/supervision provider (a list of approved providers will be sent to you during the training).

+ 75 USD per module (paid in USD)

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Arabic translation will be available during the training.

  • Yes of course. This is open for all Arabic-speaking people from the Arab world, since this training is translated into Arabic in real time.

  • No. This training is face-to-face in Cairo, Egypt and will not be streamed online.

  • No. This training is not and will not be recorded.

  • Yes. in case you want to pay for the workshop in installments, please contact: team@egyptscholofsomatics.com

  • The first Cohort training tuition didn’t cover instructor fees, senior assistants fees, their accommodation, or their flights.

    For the second cohort, teachers and senior assistants were very generous to offer the training free of charge. We are grateful for them, as their initiative and generosity are the reasons we now have an Arabic Egyptian community for the SE® in Egypt and the MENA region.

    In the coming cohort, tuition fees may increase due to inflation but they still cover a fraction of the expenses for instructors and senior assistants who are generously giving us much lower rates to support our SE rising Egyptian community.

  • We are planning to have limited conditional partial scholarships, we will email you once we have more information about scholarships. (if you have subscribed in our newsletter OR applied in our waiting list or registration form).

  • For you to get certified as Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, you have to:

    • Complete your attendance of the lectures and practice sessions during the training.

    • Make up for any hours you didn’t attend (in lecture or practice triads), to complete your attendance.

    • Finish 18 personal sessions with session providers.*

    • Finish 12 credit hours of supervisions (1 individual supervision hour = 1 supervision credit hour, 3 group supervision hours = 1 supervision credit hours).

    • Adhere and follow the SE® policy and regulations.

  • For more information about Somatic Experiencing in general, you can check SETI website: traumahealing.org

    And check the last section in this page for more information about research around SE®.

  • No.

    Attending the 2-day introductory workshop is one of the prerequisites of applying to the 3-year training.

    If you have missed the 2-day workshop, you can join our next intro here)

  • Corinne Saad, Mary Labib, Marianne El Wahsh and Louly Seif (Graduates of Egypt SE cohort). They carry the flame from Yasmine Madkour & Noha Farouk who are the organizers of the 2nd SE training in Egypt and whose work is an extension of the generous initiative of Katriona Shawki and Rebecca Porteous, who brought SE to Egypt and built the current SE community.

    All organizers (former and current) collaborate to offer the best experience for SE graduates and students. None of them are teaching, though they are assisting in many of the upcoming modules, and continuing education trainings and workshops.

  • Email us at team@egyptschoolofsomatics.com

Join the waiting list for the next Cohort

Learn more about Somatic Experiencing®

A Short selection of Books and Scientific Studies

In an Unspoken Voice, Peter Levine,2010

The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, 2014

The Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Porges, 2011

“Amygdala, Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampal Function in PTSD”, Annals of New York Academy of Science, 1071 (2006) Shin, Rauch, Pitman

“Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research in PTSD”, Annals of New York Academy of Science, 1071 (2006), van der Kolk

“Somatic Experiencing for PTSD, A Randomised Controlled Outcome Study”, Wiley Journal of Traumatic Stress, June 30, 2017, Brom, Stokar, Lawi, Ziv, Ross, Nuriel-Porat

“Somatic Experiencing: Using Interoception and proprioception as Core Elements of Trauma Therapy” Frontiers in Psychology 2015, 6:93 Payne, Levine, Crane

“Effect of  Somatic Experiencing Resiliency-Based Trauma Treatment Training on Quality of Life and

Psychological Health as Potential Markers of Resilience in Treating Professionals” Frontiers in

Neuroscience, 16 February 2018, Winblad, Changaris,Stein Links https://traumahealing.org/about-us/

Https://www.youtube.com/watch/v=3pxo9IEdISg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-jOsxuCVM

 

In case you have problems with the application or the registration form didn’t direct you to the payment page, please contact us on: team@egyptschoolofsomatics.com