Assistants
(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
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.
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
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.
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.
Sylvia Eugenia Ruiz
English, Spanish
Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning Level
Accepting new clients: Yes
As a certified Mindfulness Teacher and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I am passionate about disseminating strategies for fostering well-being in the face of stress, anxiety, immigration, and traumatic experiences.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Kṣānti/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.
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.
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.