Ruella Frank, Ph.D., has been exploring early infant movements and their relationship to the adult since the mid-1970s.
She is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, Fellow of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, adjunct faculty at Gestalt Institute of Toronto, and teaches throughout the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and Canada.
Ruella has authored chapters in various publications as well as the book Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, (GestaltPress, 2001, available in four languages), and co-authored the book The First Year and The Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change, (Routledge Press, 2010, available in three languages), and The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy, (Routledge Press, 2022, available in eight languages).
Her training video Introduction to Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, is available here
