COURSE 12 OF 12 · summer SEASON
Elemental Embodiment:
Sensuality, Safety, and
the Healing Wisdom of
Nature
Elemental Embodiment:
Sensuality, Safety, and
the Healing Wisdom of
Nature
Elemental Embodiment:
Sensuality, Safety, and
the Healing Wisdom of
Nature
Using nature-inspired, experiential approaches to reclaim body wisdom, intuition, and attachment security.
For clients who learned to monitor everyone else, their own body's signals can feel faint, unfamiliar, or unsafe. This course uses Nature and seasonal rhythms as gentle symbolic resources to help clients tell activation from aliveness and explore pleasure, rest, and receiving at their own pace.
3.0 CE Contact Hours
(NYS) LCAT + LMHC
Self-Study
About this course
This self-study course explores how trauma, attachment experiences, shame, and repeated self-abandonment can affect clients’ awareness of bodily sensations, needs, preferences, and boundaries. Participants will examine how self-monitoring can pull clients away from sensual presence, and how perceived safety, choice, and responsiveness can support a more trusting relationship with the body.
Using Nature and seasonal rhythms as symbolic resources, clinicians will learn experiential approaches for helping clients notice embodied energy, distinguish activation from aliveness, and explore pleasure, rest, desire, and receiving at their own pace. Practices include elemental imagery, expressive arts, guided visualization, body-based gratitude, and EFT tapping.
How this course follows the SEED Framework
Across three lectures and an experiential art activities, this course moves through every step of the SEED Framework, so you experience the process yourself before you guide clients through it.
S – Soulful Inquiry
Begins with an Elemental Embodiment Assessment and a guided practice through stone, earth, water, wood, fire, and air: Which element felt easiest for my body to receive, and which felt most difficult? What gifts does this element have for me today?
E – Exploration
Explores how trauma and attachment can disconnect clients from bodily signals, and how nervous-system activation can be mistaken for aliveness or attraction. Clients choose the element asking for attention: Where have I restricted, overused, or neglected this quality of energy?
E – Expression
In Working With Your Core Element, clients depict their chosen element’s current presence in their lives and let the image shift toward the quality of energy they want to cultivate.
D – Deep Receiving
The Seasons of the Heart visualization moves through winter rest, spring awakening, summer pleasure, and fall release, followed by a body gratitude practice and EFT tapping that shift attention from self-monitoring to presence. Shame asks, “How am I being perceived?” Embodiment asks, “What am I experiencing?”
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
OBJECTIVE 1
Describe at least two ways trauma or attachment-related protective responses can affect
clients’ awareness of bodily sensations, preferences, or boundaries.
OBJECTIVE 2
Differentiate nervous-system activation from embodied aliveness and explain how safety and choice can support sensual presence.
OBJECTIVE 3
Select at least two experiential interventions from the course and identify one way to adapt
them to support client choice, pacing, and self-trust.
This is for you...
This is for practitioners who…
✓ Work with clients who feel disconnected from their bodies, needs, or preferences.
✓ Support clients navigating intimacy, body image, relational anxiety, or difficulty receiving care.
✓ Want to integrate attachment-informed and expressive arts approaches into clinical practice.
✓ Seek gentle ways to explore sensation and boundaries
without pressuring clients to disclose or intensify their
experience.
✓Are interested in integrating attachment theory with somatic awareness, expressive arts, guided imagery, and EFT.
This will help your clients…
✓ Notice bodily signals and preferences with greater curiosity.
✓ Explore how safety, choice, and boundaries relate to intimacy and sensuality.
✓ Identify whether an experience feels activating, nourishing, or enlivening.
✓ Use Nature-based symbolism to reflect on rest, growth,
pleasure, and release.
✓ Practice responding to their bodies with respect rather than judgment or pressure.
Tools to use in practice
A self-assessment, based on the lesson topics
Guided visualization and expressive arts exercise
A story-based scripted EFT Tapping Practice
Downloadable guidebook and lesson summaries
TESTIMONIALS
What practitioners are saying...
"Invigorates my practice."
"As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over a decade of experience, finding continuing education that not only meets my licensure requirements but also invigorates my practice is rare. The courses offered by Briana’s continuing education school have been so helpful. Her psycho-spiritual approach deeply resonates with my work, and I've been able to integrate the concepts into therapy with profound results."
- Lena M. LMHC
"A rich tapestry of insight."
"As an art therapist, I'm always seeking ways to deepen my skill set and offer more to my clients. The workshops and seminars at Briana's school are exceptional; each course is a rich tapestry of insight, practical skill-building, and transformative knowledge."
-Michelle C. LCAT
"Fills a gap in the field."
"Holding licenses in both clinical social work and art therapy, I find Briana's continuing education offerings to be unparalleled in their depth and relevance. Her unique blend of traditional psychotherapy with spiritual and creative modalities fills a gap in our field."
- Patricia M. LCSW, LCAT
ENROLLMENT
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Elemental Embodiment:
Sensuality, Safety, and
the Healing Wisdom of
Nature
3 Contact Hours for LCATs and LMHCs in New York State
Self-Study
NO REFUNDS
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9 Contact Hours for LCATs and LMHCs in New York State
Self-Study
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About your instructor
My name is Briana MacWilliam, and I’m a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), educator, and the founder of Soul-Centered Security®.
I didn’t come to this work because my own relationships were easy. Divorce, grief, and heartbreak brought me face to face with the same attachment patterns I was helping my clients understand. What helped was building a deeper relationship with my body, emotions, creativity, and spirituality.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve served more than 6,000 clients and students across inpatient psychiatry, community mental health, higher education, and private practice. My work weaves together attachment theory, creative arts therapy, embodied practice, and spiritual growth.
I also have additional training in trauma-informed somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), hypnotherapy, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. And I am the author of Secure in the Spark: A Spiritual Path to Heal Attachment Wounds, available on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.
My courses for practitioners share the tools and creative processes that supported my own growth, and the healing of the people I’ve had the privilege of serving.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to take the 12-part courses in order? No. Each course stands alone and is designed to be entered at any point. That said, we recommend starting with Course 1 if you're new.
How will I receive my certificate? After completing your course work, there will be a learning evaluation, instructor evaluation, and webform to complete. After submitting your webform, your certificate will automatically be emailed to you.
How long will I have access to the course? Your purchase includes lifetime access, including to any updates we might make in the future. If a course is retired in the future, we will email you the digital files to download to your own device.
Which boards approve these courses? Briana MacWilliam, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists (#CAT-0014) and licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0224). The ATCB has also accepted our courses in the past, because of our state approval, however, we recommend contacting the ATCB directly if you have a concern.
What if I have further questions? You can contact us at [email protected].
Start where your clients are stuck.
PROVIDER INFORMATION
Briana MacWilliam, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists; #CAT-0014, and is also an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors; #MHC-0224.
PLEASE NOTE:
While some subject areas overlap in education, a course that includes art therapy directives does not qualify a counselor to practice art therapy, and similarly an art therapist is not qualified to practice as a counselor, without proper licensing.
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