Clinician recommends certification for Mind Body Bridging, cites clinical uses in addiction and mental health

Chase Wickersham, an LCSW in private practice and founder of the Kaizen Center for Mental Health, said he has used Mind Body Bridging personally for about four years and professionally for roughly two and a half to three years and recommended that clinicians pursue formal certification.

Wickersham said Mind Body Bridging helped him and his clients by allowing the practitioner and client to “rest the identity system” through sensory awareness and mapping exercises. "When I did my first map I wrote it down and just free writing for a couple minutes in a map was just a very different experience of mental health for me," he said.

Wickersham described broad clinical use of the technique across levels of care. He said he has applied Mind Body Bridging in inpatient treatment settings for addiction, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs for addiction and in individual therapy for conditions including addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma and anger.

"Getting regular training is is crucial," Wickersham said, recommending more than a single course or workbook. He urged clinicians to seek certification with experienced trainers, to practice and role-play the method and to receive feedback from a trainer. "That really helped me assimilate it, compared to just taking a class in grad school," he said.

Wickersham framed these remarks as observations from his own clinical work and personal experience; he did not present comparative studies or population-level outcome data during his remarks. Details about broader efficacy, licensing implications or formal adoption by treatment programs were not specified.

No formal action or vote was recorded in the remarks.