Ezra Post, MSW, LCSW, SEP
Trauma & Attachment Specialist
Ezra is a state licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP©). He holds a Master’s level specialization in trauma and interpersonal violence, and a certification in Dynamic Attachment Repatterining Experience (DARe©); a relational technique designed to move us into a deeply anchored sense of emotional security. Ezra has had the privilege of practicing his unique blend of somatic healing psychotherapy, in a variety of clinical settings, for over a decade.
Aliveness, strength, collaboration, respect, laughter, kindness… these are all qualities central to the work Ezra does with those whom he serves. Somatic psychotherapy lends it self to these very qualities. It can be a powerfully liberating process for moving through deep wounding and into resiliency and joy. And it can anchor alternative stories about our lives in our body and mind in lasting ways.
Ezra has had the honor of working with a wide variety of populations, including young people, old people, BIPOC people, LGBTQI people, those with impaired function of body, pregnant people, and people struggling with addiction, to name a few. He has worked in both in-patient and out-patient settings, hospital settings, and day treatment and school settings. He has worked with people individually, in couples, in families, and in therapy groups. With all those whom Ezra serves, in addition to the identified goals he shares with each individual client or client system, he works to discover the person’s truest self, develop an understanding of the oppressive practices and paradigms that have been internalized, and shed them from the body and mind.
In addition to activating natural flow and resiliency through purely somatic techniques, Ezra focuses on the cultivation of an active and vibrant treatment relationship. Because the body has, over millennia of evolution, developed an attachment system,
humans are literally designed to heal, evolve, and thrive within relationships. In collaboration with his clients, Ezra embarks on a process of establishing the building blocks for a beautifully secure and healthy therapy relationship. This is done skillfully and tailored for the highest need of each individual client. Ultimately the healing therapy relationship that is formed becomes a significant factor for the healing process.
Outside of his clinical work, Ezra has endeavored to contribute in meaningful ways to the communities of which he has been a part. Ezra has had the privilege of co-developing a faith and spiritual based counseling program in Boston, Massachusetts; he has served on the board of directors of a rape crisis prevention center in Asheville, North Carolina; developed programming for people who identify as male and are struggling with the effects of sexual violence, built and implemented a field training program for masters students learning the practice of psychotherapy; created a professional support network for trauma psychotherapists building their practices; organized and participated in peer groups, including ones focused on working to heal racism within white-bodied healing practitioners, and he has provided continuing education opportunities for psychotherapists for licensure, as well as psycho educational groups for the general public. With each endeavor, Ezra has held social justice an organizing principle and motivating force for his efforts.
Prior to his formal professional education and training, Ezra provided therapeutic services on a paraprofessional level. For several years he worked with individual and family systems on coaching parenting techniques and social dynamics. He supported people with impairment in navigating communities and systems. And he worked at the Department of Children and Families supporting families and individuals navigating government systems to obtain much needed assistance.
Ezra has an active practice in Asheville, North Carolina, where he continues to provide somatic psychotherapy to his clients, clinical supervision to LCSWA-licensed professionals, and clinical consultation to colleagues seeking to further their skill and knowledge of somatic and relational techniques in practice. He lives in Asheville with his female partner and two young children.