Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW
Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW-R, Rev., is an Afro-Latino Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience in working with community-based programs. He received his Social Work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work. He is a family therapist with clinical interests in the areas of immigration, diversity, LGBTQ empowerment, spirituality, and working with marginalized communities. In the last decade he has become a trauma specialist assisting clients with complex psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He has extensive training and practice in family systems therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Raymond has served as a counselor faculty at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York; is faculty and a member of the Executive Committee of the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; and is faculty at the Integrative Trauma Studies Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He has served as faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and as an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and Smith College School of Social Work. He formerly served on the Boards of the National Association of Puertorrican and Hispanic Social Workers and the No More Fear Foundation. He lives in Westchester, NY (on unceded Lakota lands) with his partner, son, and dogs.
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Thanks so much Raymond. You whole approach and tone was affirming, easy to follow and gave full permission to try things out and build confidence, for those of us new to somatic approaches.
Thank you very much for this warm session!
Thank you for this regulating and nourishing session. Your authenticity and attunement are so evident.
I really appreciate the specific ideas/examples on integrating the body into therapy.
Thank you, Raymond. Lovely gentle ways in which to work – new tools for me, thank you!
So helpful and very organizing for me. Instinctively I have cobbled a lot of these ideas from different sources with mixed participation from clients. I feel more empowered and equipped to inspire my clients’ curiosity toward the usefulness of these somatic exercises to enhance feelings of safety and change their lived experience.
I also want to add that I have been doing more tele-health to reach into rural areas where services are lacking or limited. This teaching/learning approach will translate well to this format. Please consider discussing this element in future presentations. Thank you.
Another excellent presentation- so organized clear and specific, making it easy to implement. Thank you!
Lovely and practical presentation. I appreciated the repetition of verbiage to help the “new” to Soma therapy acclimate to the process. Thank you for your systematic approach to this topic. It made many of the other presenters’ information more tangible! Thank you!
Great session for building confidence as a practitioner
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the way you embodied these interventions via your tone and pacing while describing them to us.
Gracias amigo! Beautiful work… powerful in a different way coming from a male voice! Excellent teaching in great details!
Wonderful practical, well organized and presented presentation, Raymond. For starters, I’ll be practicing all you shared w myself.
Very helpful.I will use some of these exercises. Many thanks
Your calm, gentle presentation was packed with great ideas. Just following your guidance through these exercises made me feel calmer. I joint to learn more about strategies to use with my fosterkids, but instead I’ve noticed my own body’s call for attention. I will now ask my counsel or to change our current topic and to delve into my body’s messages. I’m excited to find out what we will discover.
I loved this presentation, great for a beginner like me.
Wow this summit has been a very mindful experience for me, understanding the bottom-up approach, understanding the soma, understanding embodiment and how to integrate somatic approaches into my psychotherapy practice. Thank you so much it’s been amazing
Thank you for all the ideas and great explanations
Thank you Raymond. A lovely way to conclude the summit with your clear, calm, confidence building presentation.
Thank you Raymond for this whistle stop tour of developing somatic awareness for our therapeutic support process and in parallel working with clients, I have found the encouragement to develop practices I have in sessions and deepening appreciation for the essential body heart mind process that facilitates client s own empowerment to know themselves. Accessible and practical thank you 🙏🏽