For Clinicians & Trauma-informed Practitioners
You already know that talk is not always enough. You have sat across from clients who can articulate their patterns, name their wounds, trace their history, and who still cannot fully inhabit their own lives. You have reached the edge of what your current framework can do. You have the skills, but disruption can live somewhere your tools weren't designed to reach.
what this adds to your practice
A Framework for What Other Frameworks Miss
This training is designed for anyone working in a trauma-informed capacity, licensed therapists and counselors, coaches, educators, social workers, allied health professionals, chaplains, and organizational consultants. If your work touches the relational and behavioral dimensions of human experience, this framework belongs in your toolkit.
The SOFTEN Method™ gives you a structured, somatic pathway for working with clients whose intimacy capacity has been disrupted by relational trauma, adverse attachment experiences, and intergenerational patterns. It is grounded in neurobiological theory, attachment science, and the emerging evidence base around intergenerational trauma transmission.
two paths
Choose Your Level of Commitment
CERTIFICATION
SOFTEN Method™Certification
A comprehensive training program through the full SOFTEN framework, its theoretical foundations, somatic protocols, and clinical application across individual and group settings. For the practitioner ready to make this framework a core part of how they work.
INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS
The Reset Experience
Single and multi-day workshops that go deep on specific dimensions of the SOFTEN Method™, nervous system architecture, somatic intervention, intergenerational transmission, and intimacy capacity assessment. For the practitioner ready to expand their skill set now.
This research-based framework is a distinct methodological contribution to the field of intimacy trauma, one built for the work that happens after the talking stops.
The SOFTEN Method™ — Yolanda Lewis, EdD Candidate
Let Me In
A clinical resource
Let Me In is a pioneering, dual-layer text designed for clinicians, scholars, and trauma professionals. Grounded in the foundational concepts of Embodied Intimacy Theory and the SOFTEN Method™, this book provides a rigorous exploration of how intimacy trauma disrupts human capacity. It offers practitioners a vital theoretical framework to understand the neurobiological and systemic mechanisms of relational disconnection, and precisely what sustainable restoration requires.
Expand your Capacity
The frameworks you have been working within were not built for this. But you were. Your instinct that something deeper was possible for your clients was right on time.
You are here. The framework now exists.
And you are exactly the practitioner your clients have been waiting for.