Barbro Andersen is a licensed psychologist with a specialty in clinical psychology and a body-oriented psychotherapist. For 25 years she has been specialised in trauma therapy. She runs a private practice in Norway and she also works part-time in a pain clinic. She is the co-founder and leader of the Somatic Experiencing Institute in Norway, where she also has been assisting for more than 16 years. She has taught SE-Introductions for the last 13 years.

Her early professional experience includes work in psychiatric hospitals, also working as a clinical neuropsychologist at The National Centre for Epilepsy, pain clinics and later she has been 24 years in a private practice. She is the initiator and major contributor of bringing the trainings as SE, Brainspotting, TRE-exercises and SEST to Norway. Now she is mainly focused on teaching SE.  She also shows how the method can be integrated into other modalities in order to make these methods more precise, titrated and refined.

Barbro is oriented towards bringing SE into somatic and psychiatric health. She wants to build the bridge between the medical health care system and newer sensory based treatment approaches, as SE. She is also supporting the emerging field of the healing of systemic and transgenerational traumas toward native people in Norway. She sees SE could represent a deep healing opportunity of traumas induced on the Samic population by the government.

Since finishing her own training in SE in 2007, she has attended many post-advanced trainings with Peter A. Levine in Europe. She has been assisting in all trainings in Norway, as well as assisted and did her mentorship on Beginning Level in Denmark. She has been the major initiator and contributed of building the SE-field in Norway. She has been the founder, and now she is the co-leader of The Somatic Experiencing Institute Norway.

As a teacher, Barbro supports the learning environment with presence and authenticity combined with the sharing her broad knowledge. She also sees the benefit of supporting deep democracy in an efficient way for the SE-crew.

She is also trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Bioenergetic Analysis, clinical neuropsychology, The Treatment of  Structural Dissociation of the Personality (Nijenhuis), Clinical Hypnosis, EMDR, Brainspotting, EST, DBR, as well as being a Global Certification Trainer in TRE-Exercises (Stress and Tension Releasing Exercises).

Barbro speaks fluent Norwegian and English. She offers Individual and Group Case Consults to assistants and SE Students

Instructor Level: SE Professional Training Faculty

Levels Taught: Introduction and Beginning of the SE Professional Training

Teaching In: Europe and online intros elsewhere.