Mark Ludwig

Somatic Psychotherapy
A Whole-Person Model of Psychotherapy

Somatic Psychotherapy, as I practice it, is a holistic approach that meets the individual client in the complexity of their real life. All facets of embodied life have an impact on the psycho-emotional experience especially our earliest experiences which are often laid down at the somatic level and are irretrievable by verbal techniques alone.

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Mark Ludwig, LCSW

is a clinical social worker, graduate faculty member, and somatic psychotherapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his clinical education at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and through a post-graduate Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy at the Kennedy Child Study Center in Santa Monica California.

Mark has been a practicing Body Psychotherapist since 1979. He has been a senior faculty member in national and international Somatic Psychotherapy training programs (Radix Neo-Reichian Education; Biosynthesis International) in which he focused on relational and developmental approaches in Somatic Psychotherapy. He was a founding member of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy and the Euro-American Group for the Advancement of Body Psychotherapy.

From 2001-2007 he was Program Director of the Somatic Psychology Masters Program at JFK University (teaching Child Therapy, Human Development, Integrative Project, Principles of Somatic Psychotherapy, and Group Supervision) and was the Interim Chair of the Somatic Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco from 2009-2010. He was a core faculty member at CIIS from 2007-2016 teaching Human Development, advanced Theories and Techniques of Somatic Psychotherapy and a thesis course.

Mark is a graduate of the Napa-Harvard Children’s Hospital Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship.  He has studied extensively with Diana Fosha Ph.D., Allen Schore Ph.D. , Stephen Porges Ph.D. and Steve Seligman DMH with whom he studies the relevance of infant and infant-parent research to adult psychotherapy practice.

Mark has published articles and chapters in national and international clinical journals and anthologies. He is currently co-directing the formation of a unique model of infant-parent mental health intervention that employs infant-parent massage as a platform for supporting secure attachment and parental attunement. He is also doing research for an article on non-verbal, gestural, motor, and energetic patterns of attachment.

Mark is the father of two sons and lives happily, most of the time, in Northern California.

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The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology 
A One Day Celebration

 

"Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology Today “
Friday, February 26, 2016 Berkeley CA

The depth and scope of embodied clinical practice, Somatic Psychology, and Body Psychotherapy: A detailed, and critical exploration of the state of this expanding field and its contributions to contemporary psychotherapy. In celebration of the release of The Handbook of Body Psychotherapy & Somatic Psychology, edited by Gustl Marlock and Halko Weiss with Courtenay Young and Michael Soth, Foreword by Bessel van der Kolk

- Six international authors presenting
- In-depth treatment of core issues in embodied psychotherapy
- Ample discussion sessions in presenter breakouts

This program is developed by Somatic Psychology Associates, Oakland CA and is co-sponsored by the Somatic Psychology MA Programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco and at JFK University, Pleasant Hill, CA.

Mark's Articles and Book Chapters

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