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Polyvagal-Informed Restorative Movement Psychotherapy

Roots, Rhythm, and Reciprocity
By Amber Elizabeth Gray
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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... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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An invitation for any clinician wanting to adopt body–based therapies into their practice

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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

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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 Porges’s 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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