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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.

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.

Joyce Prieur

Joyce Prieur

French, English

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: Yes, at Beginning Level

Accepting new clients: Yes

(Français plus bas)


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

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.

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.

Sylvia Eugenia Ruiz

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sophie Ferron

Sophie Ferron

French, English, Spanish

Offering sessions towards SEP requirements: No

Accepting new clients: Yes

Travailleuse sociale depuis plus de 25 ans, j’aide les gens à prendre le recul nécessaire afin de trouver leurs propres solutions à leurs enjeux.

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.

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.

Kṣānti/Parneet Chohan

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.

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.

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.

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.

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