Testimonials

Ricki’s ability to engage and connect with her audience, especially through zoom, is magical.  You feel as if Ricki is talking directly to you! She is a master of her craft and fully embodies the material she teaches.  Somatic Interventions will transform your understanding of the human experience and the portal through which healing can occur.  Ricki made the process of organizing a training for my agency so simple; she was accessible, responsive, and attuned to our specific needs and culture. From start to finish, I appreciated Ricki’s professionalism, humility, and heart.  Thank you!
Rivka Nissel, LCSW Director of Jewish Community Services, The Jewish Board

I was blown away by the simplicity, efficacy, & depth of SI. Ricki is a master teacher and practitioner who has an uncanny ability to fuse theory and practice into an experience that was personally and professionally life-altering. Her empathy and presence was palpable and I could hardly notice this was a Zoom training.

An incredible course! I have so many takeaways, both personal and professional, enough to keep myself busy for years.

How can I now NOT use this in my work with clients? I do not think there is any way for me to go back as a therapist. To do so would mean leaving out such an important, huge dimension, which seems so obvious now: the “voice” of the body and the sensory experience must be expressed, its story told and unlocked by way of movement and attuned-to sensation.

You have really changed my life with your tender caring, your powerful, penetrating, yet gentle and healing therapy, and your lucid, dynamic, profound and yet humble, accessible teaching, and your ability to take very complex material and give it over piece by piece with words, exercises, and demos so that by the end of the course there is an aha, now I know what attachment is, somatically, relationally and cognitively. I had that aha the next day when I had 4 quite amazing sessions with clients.

Ricki is a truly gifted teacher and clinician who embodies everything she teaches.

I know I’ve already expressed how transformative your training was for me. What I did not say, or recognize at that point, was how incredibly it will impact everything I say, do, feel and think in all aspects of my life.
Every interaction and session I’ve facilitated since then has been different… deeper… more meaningful…

Ricki is a truly gifted clinician and teacher. Her wisdom, warmth, and depth of experience made all the difference for me. *This counts as one of the best courses I have had the privilege to attend.

There are only a few teachers I have met along the way, who successfully closed the gap between theory and practice. I felt that the presence from which you taught was similar to the presence of your treatment. It was mindfulness at its best – not as an exercise but as a way of living and being with our clients.

Of all the demos I have done, this was one of the more profound- and I have never felt more safe and taken care of.

What is so compelling and transformative about Ricki and her trainings is the way she explains the material in such a digestible way. I have been taught many of the concepts before in highly respected academic environments, and never understood it thoroughly until taking this course.

Ricki’s process was nothing like any other therapy or trauma work  that I’ve ever experienced. Focusing on my body sensations, as opposed to rehashing my trauma narrative, allowed me to notice and release long held tension in my body that I didn’t realize was there. My body was talking to me in ways that I could not imagine possible. Weeks later, I am still experiencing a gentler connection to my body and to my trauma story.

Ricki Bernstein is a great body-oriented psychotherapist and an excellent trainer.
Raja Selvam, PhD

Not only does Ricki bring a compassionate presence, she also brings a wealth of learning, experience, and creativity. Therapists who are fortunate enough to learn from Ricki gain tools that enhance and expand the healing potential of their clients. I enthusiastically recommend Ricki’s trainings, as it’s been my personal experience that adding somatic interventions to one’s repertoire creates the capacity for us to offer our clients ways to free themselves from burdensome patterns of being and behavior that arise from the effects of trauma.

Nancy J. Napier, LMFT

Ricki is a brilliant, caring, creative and enfolding therapist and teacher!
Marianne Bentzen

Gently and knowledgeably, Ricki Bernstein takes her students on a journey that helps them discover the wisdom of the body and how to harness it in the service of healing and transformation for those who come to us for help. Therapists who have taken Ricki’s trainings or workshops speak of her always with warmth and gratitude for the experience.

I strongly recommend Ricki’s work!​

Dr. Janina Fisher