Raja Selvam

RAJA SELVAM, PhD, is the developer of Integral Somatic
Psychology, an approach based on the paradigm of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior in cognitive and affective neuroscience. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a senior trainer in Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing program. Dr. Selvam has taught for 25 years in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His work is informed by several methodologies including body psychotherapy systems, postural integration and
craniosacral therapy, quantum physics, yoga, and polarity therapy. Selvam’s work includes the 2013 “Jung and Consciousness,” published in Spring; t h e 2008 study “Somatic Therapy Treatment Effects with Tsunami Survivors,” published in Traumatology, about working with survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; and a practice alongside other mental health professionals in Sri Lanka between 2011 and 2013 with survivors of war, violence.