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Soma Mind
Professional development for
Somatic Psychotherapists in Australia

Soma Mind curates and showcases continuing professional development opportunities for clinicians seeking to deepen and extend somatic, body-oriented practice following foundational training.

Designed for psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, bodyworkers, and allied health professionals, Soma Mind partners with leading Australian practitioners and international faculty to host training, workshops and events that provide practical, experiential learning environments where clinicians can build confidence, refine therapeutic presence, and integrate somatic interventions with ethical clarity and somatic literacy.

Our aim is to strengthen the national landscape of trauma-informed care by equipping clinicians with sophisticated, embodied skills that enhance therapeutic outcomes and deepen the relational field of healing. Our workshops and events are designed to explore experiential, relational, and body based methods that support effective trauma treatment and therapeutic presence.

Designed for mental health professionals committed to ongoing excellence, Soma Mind’s workshops and events emphasise practical skill development, clinical application, and a supportive community of learning.

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Up Coming Events for 2026

Holding the Unspoken
The Art of Touch in Psychosomatic Work

With Laia Jorba, LPC, PhD

Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th 2026
In person Red hill, Brisbane 9am-5.30pm


HOLDING THE UNSPOKEN

The Art of Touch in Psychosomatic Work

Join us for this special two day embodied learning workshop
with Laia Jorba, LPC, BC-DMT

Focus of the Workshop

Touch lies at the heart of human connection. It regulates, soothes, and reminds us that we belong. This two day introductory workshop explores research and rationale for touch on healing work. Through reflection and experiential practices, we’ll reconnect with the intelligence of the body and the subtle ways contact supports transformation.

Learning Outcomes

This workshop is designed to support participants in articulating the rational for using touch and practicing foundational intentional touch skills. Participants will learn to:

  • Articulate the rationale for using touch as a therapeutic intervention within somatic healing frameworks, including its neurophysiological and relational foundations.

  • Identify the core foundations of touch in clinical contexts, including awareness of therapist intention, client perception, and the emotional dimensions that inform safe and attuned contact.

  • Understand the broader curriculum of the full training, gaining clarity on how this introductory session fits within a larger framework of ethical, regulatory, and clinical skill development around touch in somatic work.

Laia’s Experience with Touch

I have been immersed in the study and practice of touch and its applications in somatic work for the past eleven years. My approach to touch is deeply informed by my training and mentorship with Christine Caldwell, founder of The Moving Cycle, where touch is used from a somatic and Gestalt perspective to awaken movement capacity and embodied awareness. I have also been mentored by Kathy Kain, whose work in Touch Skills in Somatic Practice integrates principles of regulation and somatic experiencing. Over the years, I have taught touch interventions at Naropa University and developed my own trainings that weave together these influences to build somatic literacy and therapeutic skill in the use of touch for regulation, trauma resolution, and attachment repair. Grounded in a somatic and trauma-informed approaches, my teaching invites practitioners to rediscover touch as a relational, regulating, and restorative force in healing.

Who is this for?

This training is for therapists, bodyworkers, medicine facilitators and healing practitioners seeking to integrate safe, attuned touch into their psychosomatic and trauma-informed practice

Professional Development Hours

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements vary across Professional Associations. Please contact your Association for specific requirements.

A Certificate of Attendance is provided covering 14 hours of professional development.

To receive a CPD Certificate of Attendance participants are required to pay the tuition fee in full and attend the live event, plus complete an online evaluation form by a set submission date.

Date, Venue & Time

Saturday 19th & 20th September 2026
Time: 9am -5.30pm Each day
Venue: Bronco’s Leauges Club, 98 Fulcher Rd Red Hill
Brisbane QLD

Workshop Fee

Super Early bird, Enrol by: May February 2026 $330 Inc GST ( USE CODE SOMA for discount)

Standard, Enrol by: September 1st 2026 $399 inc GST

Payment Method & Enrolment
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Registration Information

Trainer Bio

Laia Jorba, LPC, PhD (she, her, hers), (LPC.0013182) is a Catalan teacher, counselor, supervisor and mentor, originally from Barcelona and currently residing in Colorado the ancestral land of Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Ute tribes.

She holds a master’s degree from Naropa University with specialties in Body Psychotherapy and Dance Movement Therapy. She works with community-based programs and has a private practice. Her clinical interests include working with immigrant clients and marginalized communities, chronic pain, complex trauma and dissociation as well as exploring the embodied experience of migration. She also as a doctorate from the University Autonomous of Barcelona on Political Science, where she studied integration of migrant populations.

She has taught at different universities including UAB and Naropa, and lectures nationally and internationally.

She offers in-person and web-based individual and small group consultation, focusing on SP and the integration with other modalities, such as EMDR.