Raja Selvam

Raja Selvam, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist (California, PSY30233), is a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) professional trauma training program and the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP). ISP, based on emerging paradigms of embodied cognition and emotion in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, is a new paradigm in body psychotherapy that offers all therapeutic modalities a complementary approach for improving outcomes and shortening treatment times through greater understanding and embodiment of a larger range of emotions.

Dr. Selvam teaches in as many as twenty countries in North and South Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Far East. Dr. Selvam’s eclectic approach draws from bodywork/energywork systems of Postural Integration, Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, body psychotherapy systems of Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Bodynamic Analysis, Jungian and Archetypal psychologies, psychoanalytic schools of Object Relations and Inter-Subjectivity, Somatic Experiencing (SE), Affective Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta.

Education

• PhD Pacifica Graduate Institute
• PhD Northwestern University
• Master of Science (MS) University of Iowa
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) Xavier Institute of Management
• Bachelor's degree Loyola College

Companies

• CEO Integral Somatic Psychology, LLC (2010)
• Senior International Faculty Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (1997)
• Adjunct Faculty Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, affiliate of The Chicago School (2000 — 2010)
• President Raja Selvam Trainings (1996 — 2009)
• Faculty Coordinator Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (1999 — 2000)
• Faculty Institute for Psycho Structural Balancing (IPSB) (1998 — 2000)
• Assistant Professor University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business (1989 — 1993)
• Adjunct Faculty Northwestern University (1987 — 1989)
• Deputy Manager Southern Petrochemical Corporation (1982 — 1983)

Skills

• Post Traumatic Stress
• Higher Education
• Trauma Therapy

Other

Psychology