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Assistants

(Lead Assistant) Nouha Ali Ahmed

(Lead Assistant) Nouha Ali Ahmed

French, English

Nouha is a Certified Yoga Teacher and Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner. Her body-oriented multidisciplinary approach integrates yoga asana, mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing™ and SE™ touch to support the self-regulation of the physiological and emotional responses and build greater Coherence.

Cindy Lafontaine

Cindy Lafontaine

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

When I reflect on my journey, I can clearly see a thread that has been guiding my life choices: the wish to accompany people towards living a more fulfilling life. I strongly believe that we are all walking each other home and one of the ways that I have decided to do that is through my work.

Erika Kawalek

Erika Kawalek

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

(French follows)

I’m a highly trained somatic sex coach and advanced student of Somatic Experiencing. I am also a death doula.

Hélène Authier

Hélène Authier

French, English, Italian

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning and Intermediate Levels

Accepting new clients: No

Praticienne de SE depuis 2012 et infirmière en soins palliatifs, j'ai aussi suivi plusieurs formations , telles Integral Somatic Psychotherapy (ISP) avec Raja Selvam, Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists, avec Kathy Kain et Somatic Resilience and Regulation in Early Trauma, avec Kathy Kain et Stephen J. Terrell, and plus récemment Eye of the Needle avec Peter Levine.

Kimberley Wideman

Kimberley Wideman

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning levels

Accepting new clients: Yes

Hi, I'm Kim. I will meet you as I am with joy, authenticity, kindness and curiosity.

Meg Leitold

Meg Leitold

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: No

Meg is a Registered Psychotherapist and SEP based in Tkaronto/Toronto with a practice in developmental trauma.

Nathalie K. Côté

Nathalie K. Côté

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning levels

Accepting new clients: Yes

Je suis sexologue et psychothérapeute,
Spécialisée en traumas intimes et relationnels

Rosaruby Glaberman

Rosaruby Glaberman

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Rosaruby Glaberman, M.A., RDT, is a licensed psychotherapist, registered drama therapist, group facilitator, and a professional theatre artist with over 15 years of therapeutic work experience with groups and individuals.

Syd Apel

Syd Apel

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

I am a licensed psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy for over 15 years. I am trained in methods that lead to meaningful and sustainable change, using techniques and ideas taken from client-centered therapy, existential therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, and cognitive-behavioural therapy, trauma focused therapy, and mindfulness.

Amy Hoare Nassar

Amy Hoare Nassar

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Amy is a somatic trauma recovery specialist, trained in the modalities of Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) and Somatic Experiencing (SE).

Claire Dagenais

Claire Dagenais

French, English, German

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning and Intermediate Levels

Accepting new clients: Yes

I combine many years of experience in Somatic Experiencing, Family Constellations, and Trans generational trauma.

Gabriela Gomez

Gabriela Gomez

French, English, Spanish

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Gabriela Gomez is a healing practitioner, researcher and facilitator who holds a Master’s in Educational Psychology and has completed three years of training in Somatic Experiencing.

Janis Dahl

Janis Dahl

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Intermediate Level

Accepting new clients: Yes

I am an SEP working in private practice with adults in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin land. I draw on 30 years of experience in community and group work, and am grateful for what I have learned with others and from my own healing.

Lindsay Reoch

Lindsay Reoch

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Lindsay Reoch, MA, SEP, has a private therapy practice in Montréal. She blends her background as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Creative Arts Therapist, and yoga instructor to work with clients’ unique needs and desires for therapy.

Mira Rozenberg

Mira Rozenberg

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Mira is a drama therapist and psychotherapist in Montreal specializing in treating symptoms related to trauma and PTSD for over 15 years. Mira also has training and certification as a yoga instructor and leads therapeutic yoga groups for Anxiety, Stress and Trauma.

Nika Khanjani

Nika Khanjani

English, Persian

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Nika taps into her broad, deep and rich history of diverse life experience into her sessions, both in SE and yoga, as well as creative consultation from decades as an award-winning filmmaker and writer. She has special interest in working with BIPOC, creatives, addiction and front-line care workers.

Samira Machold

Samira Machold

English, German

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

I am a somatic touch therapist, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and clinical herbalist in training.
I have completed the Somatic Experiencing® Training and specialize in interpersonal and generational trauma, nervous system regulation & trauma-informed spirituality.

Bonnie Harnden

Bonnie Harnden

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: No

Bonnie Harnden is a creative arts therapist, psychoanalyst, couple and family therapist, and associate professor in Concordia University’s Creative Arts Therapies Department, where she coordinates the drama therapy program and a new Graduate Certificate in Play Therapy.

Coral Short

Coral Short

Franglais, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Coral Short is a non binary white settler born in 1973. They completed their SEP in March 2023 with Dea Parsanishi. Their niches are LGBTI, recovery, and all forms of radical sexuality.

Gabrielle Nawratil

Gabrielle Nawratil

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning and Intermediate Levels

Offering individual case consultations towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning and Intermediate Levels

Accepting new clients: Yes

I’m a registered social worker and equine-facilitated mental health practitioner with a small, part-time somatic psychotherapy practice in Ottawa.

Joyce Prieur

Joyce Prieur

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning Level

Accepting new clients: Yes

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I am happy to join the SE Montreal 2023 cohort, to support your journey in learning and practicing Somatic Experiencing.

Marie-Daphné Roy

Marie-Daphné Roy

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning Level

Accepting new clients: No

Founder of Yoga Bhavana and co-founder of Bhavana la Clinique in Montreal, I work from a multidisciplinary approach integrating more than 25 years of experience in various body-mind methods including Yoga, Mindfulness, and Somatic Therapy.

Natasha Hargovan

Natasha Hargovan

English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Natasha Hargovan is a somatics practitioner who believes in the power of embodied healing and transformation. They have been working with individuals and groups for over 10 years, offering somatic coaching, workshops, retreats, and training.

Parneet Chohan

Parneet Chohan

English, Punjabi

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning Level

Accepting new clients: No

Parneet Chohan, MACP, CCC, SEP is a counsellor, somatic experiencing® practitioner and naturotherapist in private practice living in Montreal for the past 11 years. They utilize mindfulness & dharmic principles, along with authentic relating and social justice values to create a hybrid space for liberation, wholeness and embodiment to manifest.

Sopfie Ferron

Sopfie Ferron

French, English, Spanish

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Depuis plus de 20 ans, ma pratique en tant que travailleuse sociale est orientée vers l'accompagnement des personnes pour les amener à connecter avec leur force, leur propre vérité ainsi que leurs ressources intérieures. Je suis fascinée par l'être humain qui se dévoile et qui apprend à jongler avec qui il est et qui il devient.

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