Polyvagal-Informed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy
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Polyvagal-Informed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy
An invitation for any clinician wanting to adopt bodyβbased therapies into their practice
This expansive, humanitarian book is the harvest of Amber Gray's three decades of experience as a somatic and dance/movement psychotherapist working with survivors of oppression, war, and other severe traumas. From this challenging work and her clients' stories of resilience, Dr. Gray has sourced innovative pathways to healing, utilising the emergent wisdom of Dr. Stephen Porges's polyvagal theory as a guidepost for somatic and movement-based psychotherapy with survivors of trauma.
Here readers will find a range of somatic and movement-based practices and processes that any clinician can incorporate into their therapeutic work. Illustrative case examples highlight how somatic interventions can be applied in the broader context of a restorative approach to survivor-centred psychotherapy. Polyvagal-Informed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy weaves many streams of wisdom at the crossroads of science, Spirit, and eco-somatics. What emerges is a path to profound healing that is accessible to any clinician and any client.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781324030294
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 August 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 29 illustrations
Contributors:
- Foreword by Stephen W. Porges
- Foreword by Deb Dana
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 486g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Amber Elizabeth Gray is a trailblazer in the practice of somatic and dance/movement therapy with survivors of interpersonal, collective, and historic trauma in vastly diverse clinical, communal, and cultural contexts. An itinerant global citizen, she resides in Santa Fe, NM. Stephen W. Porges, PhD, originator of Polyvagal Theory, is a Distinguished University Scientist and founding director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University, and a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, speaker, and the leading translator of Dr. Stephen Porgesβs Polyvagal Theory. She is the bestselling author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Polyvagal Practices, and many others. She lives in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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