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Raja Selvam

Dr. Raja Selvam, PhD, who has taught in over 25countries on six continents, is a licensed clinical psychologist from California, a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) professional trauma training programs, and the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP), a science-backed, body-based, and emotion-focused complementary approach designed to reduce treatment times and improve diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities including existing body psychotherapy approaches. He is the author of the best-selling 2022 book The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Guide for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes that has been picked up for publication in fourteen languages.

His work is informed by older body psychotherapy systems of Reichian Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis, newer body psychotherapy systems of Bodynamic Analysis and Somatic Experiencing, and bodywork systems of Postural Integration and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. His work is also inspired by Jungian and archetypal psychologies, Kleinian and intersubjective schools of psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, quantum physics, yoga, Polarity Therapy, and Advaita Vedanta (a spiritual psychology from India). His website is www.integralsomaticpsychology.com.

Upcoming Programs by Raja Selvam

Emotional Resilience: Dharma of Living in Harmony with Self and Others (PB2D25)

Also Pawan Bareja, PhD

December 14, 2025

Registration closes at 9:00am (Pacific Time) on December 14, 2025. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early. A recording* will be available following the program. Continuing Education Credits? (see details below). Description: Thich Nhat Hahn said that a strong emotion is like a storm that comes, stays a while, and passes. But […]