Soma Mind Pty Ltd
Psychotherapy Workshops & Events
Evidence based professional development workshops and events for Somatic Psychotherapists, body workers, medicine facilitators and healing practitioners seeking to deepen their somatic competence in trauma therapy.
Soma Mind Pty Ltd
Professional development for
Somatic Psychotherapists in Australia
Soma Mind Pty Ltd provides specialised professional development for somatic psychotherapists, offering workshops grounded in contemporary trauma theory, attachment research, and embodied clinical practice.
Designed for psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, bodyworkers, and allied health professionals, Soma Mind workshops provide practical, experiential learning environments where clinicians can build confidence, refine therapeutic presence, and integrate somatic interventions with ethical clarity.
Soma Mind creates learning environments where practitioners can deepen clinical skill, refine ethical competence, and expand their somatic literacy.
Soma Mind workshops and events brings international faculty and leading practitioners to Australia to teach nuanced, clinically grounded approaches that complement your existing therapy modalities. 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.
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
Purchase your ticket and enrol by clicking the button below. You will be taken to the event-brite page to finalise your ticket purchase.
Apply early to avoid disappointment. Places are strictly limited for this workshop.
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Registration Information
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Refunds & Cancellations
Please note that there are no automatic refunds for this event. To request a cancellation, please email: hello@sensorimotorpsychotherapyaustralia.com
It is your responsibility to ensure that the notice of cancellation has been received by the Organiser. If a confirmation of cancellation reply is not received via return email within 48 hours please re-send the cancellation request.Students may cancel within five (5) business days after their initial registration and receive a full refund of any tuition paid less an administration fee of $50.
Cancellations received after five (5) business days and prior to the Early Bird registration deadline will receive a full refund of any tuition paid less an administration fee of $100.
Students who cancel their registration after the Early Bird Registration deadline, and before the Final Payment Payment deadline, will forfeit their deposit.
Students who cancel their registration after the Final Payment Payment deadline will NOT receive a refund of any amount.
Payment Due Dates
Tickets for the event will be available up to 7 days before the start of the workshop or until spaces have sold out.
Participants who wish to register after the final registration deadline should email hello@sensorimotorpsychotherapyaustralia.com for assistance.Super Early Bird Registration ends on 19 February 2026 and Early Bird Registration ends on 1 September The Final Payment deadline is 1 September, 2026.
Excepting for those on a payment plan, full tuition payment is due by the relevant Early Bird Registration deadline in order to qualify for the discount. If payment is not made by the relevant deadline, Standard Registration rates will take effect after Early Bird Registration ends, even if the participant has previously paid a deposit to hold their space.
Payments must be complete by 1st September, 2026
The tuition fee must be paid in full to receive access to any hand-outs and a CPD Attendance Certificate.
EXCEPTION (for classes with a waiting list): The Final Payment and Cancellation deadline may be changed to be earlier, with notice to all enrolled participants via email and on our website. After this adjusted date, registrations not paid in full may be cancelled, and no refunds will be given for cancellations. These special measures will ensure cancellations are received in time to offer openings to participants from the waiting list.
Reminders & Notifications
Participants on a wait list will receive periodic updates via email, and be encouraged to withdraw from the wait list if they know they will not register for a class if invited.
Invitations to join a class from the wait list will be sent automatically via email when space becomes available. Invited participants will have two business days to register or make arrangements to hold the available space. After two business days, the space will be offered to the next student on the list.
Participants who are registered for a class will receive reminders at the approach of the relevant payment deadline.
Participants are responsible for checking their email, including spam folders, for these reminders and notifications
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Soma Mind Pty Ltd is the organiser for the event. The organiser’s sole role is to process registrations for the event. Soma Mind Pty Ltd accepts no responsibility for the views expressed, the content, advice or contributions made by any trainer or persons present; which are all the views of the individuals concerned. The content is not medical advice or counselling; it is an educational forum for appropriately qualified and experienced professionals in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and Mental Health. No responsibility is taken for the attendance or participation of any person not qualified or for the use, misuse or misunderstanding of any information or view given.
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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.
