Anne Janzen
Anne Janzen is a licensed body therapist and Rolfer in private practice since 1997. Since finishing the Somatic Experiencing Professional Training in 2004, she has assisted SE® trainings with several SE® faculty members and deepened her understanding of SE® in several Post-Advanced SE® courses with Peter A. Levine, Heike Gattnar, Kathy Kain and other SE® faculty members. She joined the European SE® faculty body in 2014. Anne provides private client sessions and supervision for students of Somatic Experiencing.
Ariel Giarretto
Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP, CMT, CSB is a body-oriented therapist, SE® trainer, and Somatic Sex Educator. After completing her post-graduate education in psychology, and licensed as a marriage and family therapist, she studied a wide variety of somatic therapies, and is primarily informed by Somatic Experiencing (SE®), She was introduced to SE® in 1999 has been active in assisting Peter and other early teachers for many years. She became full-time teaching faculty in 2005 and trains and mentors practitioners all over the globe. Throughout the 90’s she was on staff at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA as an active member of the community, a workshop and group leader, a private therapist and part of the bodywork and massage crew. In 2015, to integrate sexuality and the pelvis into the SE® material, she certified as a Somatic Sex Educator, and now specializes in sexual and gender-based violence, as well as all sexual challenges. She is the co-developer of “The Full Embodiment Model” which offers gentle, transformative workshops for people wanting to heal from the effects of sexuality/gender trauma, sexual abuse and disembodiment. She has extensive training in prenatal and birth therapy with Ray Castellino, as well as attachment and early developmental trauma, and has been a home birth “doula”, a dancer, a drummer, an athlete, a professional cook and baker, a world traveler and adventurer, a juggler and street performer, and is particularly fond of her doodle Freya, her Green Cheek Conures, Tulip and Oscar, and of course her partner Jeffrey. Originally from the US, she is currently based in Denmark.
For more info: www.fullembodiment.org
Dominique Degranges
Dominique Degrange is a body-oriented psychotherapist, counselor and educator. A French native, Dominique Degranges has an educational background in painting and Anthroposophy. He began his psychiatric practice in art and counseling therapy 1981 and from 1984-1992 he studied process-oriented psychotherapy with Arnold Mindell, focusing with Eugene Gendlin, and polarity therapy. He then trained in craniosacral therapy with Franklin Sills. Since 1994 Dominique has been an instructor at l’Institut für Ganzheitliche Energiearbeit at Zürich teaching polarity therapy and process work, birth dynamics with Franklin Sills, and birth process and prenatal psychology with William Emerson. Since 1996 he has additionally assisted the craniosacral teacher training in with Franklin Sills, becoming a teacher of biodynamic craniosacral therapy in 1999. He has additionally studied prenatal and birth training with Ray Castellino and has led birth process workshops in Europe and the USA.In 2000, Dominique began training in Somatic Experiencing® with Peter Levine in Switzerland, and he assisted and then co-facilitated SE® trainings for 6 years before joining the SE® Trauma Institute faculty in 2012.
Dominique has maintained a private practice in Zurich since 1994. Since 2006 he has run an institute, Da-Sein Institut in Winterthur, where he gives biodynamic craniosacral training and prenatal and birth training.
Doris Rothbauer
Doris Rothbauer is a licensed psychotherapist working as a teacher and trainer in different countries as well as in private practice in Munich for more than 20 years. She started training with Peter Levine in 1998, deepened her understanding in many years of assistance and clinical practice, and is now part of SETI faculty teaching SE® trainings in Germany and other European countries. Originally trained in communication and cognitive psychology, also holding a trainer certificate in NeuroLinguistic Programming (Dr. Christina Hall), she used to teach professional workshops for social institutions in leadership, teambuilding, communication, conflict resolution and self-management skills. For her clinical education she studied Ericksonian Hypnosis (Ernest Rossi, Jeffrey Zeig), body-oriented psychotherapy, attachment theory and developmental psychology. She also completed the educational training in NARM (Dr. Lawrence Heller) as well as in Neuroaffective Developmental Psychology (Dr. Susan Hart and Marianne Bentzen). In both these fields she is supervising and conducting introductory workshops Her personal and professional stance to life is grounded in meditation and awareness practice. As SE® teacher her focus is on creating an environment that inspires people to venture into new learning territory with alertness, curiosity and joy and thus supporting social engagement and connection.
Elfriede Dinkel-Pfrommer
Trained in family therapy, cognitive psychotherapy, Gestalt-oriented body psychotherapy, and other bodywork and energetic methods. She uses SE® as an integrating force to blend these different approaches and tools to support people in their healing process. Her interest in body, movement and dance and the quality of body awareness and SE-touch combine with verbal approaches to create a profound way to help people. She creates an atmosphere for learning that is supporting the embodiment of the principles of SE® and helps to develop the capacity for social engagement and wholeness Elfriede has a diplom in psychology and is a licensed psychotherapist in behavioral therapy, she works in a private practice together with her husband in Rottenburg, a little town in the South of Germany. She was member of the board of EASE. Since she has come in contact with SE®, as one of the first little group of SE-students in Germany, she has assisted Peter Levine and other SE® teachers for many years in Switzerland and Germany to help spread SE® in Europe. She teaches the SE® professional training in Germany.
Heike Gattnar
Born in 1943, is an alternative practitioner. She is married and has 2 children. Education and training in breath and voice work, art therapy, depth psychology based body work, the Feldenkrais Method® and Somatic Experiencing (SE)®. She has been working in her own practice since 1982 and has been an assistant trainer and supervisor in the Feldenkrais Method® since 1995. Since 1999 supervisor and since 2002 trainer authorized by Dr. Peter Levine for Somatic Experiencing (SE)® Current work focuses on training and further education, seminars and supervision in Somatic Experiencing (SE)®, further education in 2nd and 3rd generation trauma and her private practice for body psychotherapy and trauma management in Munich.
Itta Wiedenmann
Itta Wiedenmann earned her master degree in cultural and social sciences at the university in Hamburg, Germany. For over 25 years, she has worked in private practice as a licensed bodytherapist. Itta Wiedenmann is trained in PhysioTherapy/PT, Osteopathy, Craniosacraltherapy, Feldenkrais Method, Hakomi, Family Constellation Work, and Somatic Experiencing. She is also experienced in teaching groups in different fields, offering trainings and workshops in techniques of awareness and stress management. Itta is a founding member of both, the the German SE Association (SE® Deutschland e.V.) and was chairwoman till 2005. Being faculty member of the SE Trauma Institute she teaches SE Professional Trainings since 2005 internationally (Austria, Germany, Czech Republik Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Israel) . She is co-founder and director of training of the Institut for NeuroTracking® in Munich.
Kavi Gemin
Kavi Alessandro Gemin, CO, MT, RCST, BCST, SEP, Osteopath and Craniosacral instructor. Kavi is teacher and co-director of the International Institute for Craniosacral Balancing® and faculty member for Somatic Experiencing®. He received his Master of Art in 1984 from Istituto d’Arte in Florence, Italy and worked for several years as a designer and art teacher. Trained as an art therapist he worked with adults, children and physically and mentally challenged people. He continued his training as a therapist in various somatic methods, such as traditional massage, deep tissue work, ayurvedic massage and craniosacral biodynamics. He completed his education in osteopathy and received his CO from the Canadian College of Osteopathy.
His further studies include NLP, inner child work, co-dependency and developmental psychology. He is graduated in pre- and perinatal therapy with Ray Castellino, CA, USA and is leading birth process workshops. He also trained in System Centered Therapy®, a method to work with systems and group dynamics developed by Yvonne Agazarian, PA, USA. He holds a certificate in andragogy, adult education, from the SVEB association, Switzerland and is teaching fulltime internationally, loving to meet different cultures and language groups.
Kavi’s fascination with Somatic Experiencing® brought him to study with Peter Levine and to receive his SEP certificate in 2001. Since then, he has been assisting and supervising students in Somatic Experiencing®, mostly in Italy, deepening and integrating his understanding of the method. The principles of SE are fully integrated in his teachings as well as in his treatments as a somatic therapist. As a teacher of the Beginning year of the SE training, Kavi brings his experience and love for anatomy, physiology and neurobiology in his classes with clarity, passion and creativity.
Lael Katharine Keen
Lael Katharine Keen is senior faculty for SEI and a founding member of the Brazilian Trauma Association (ABT). She has been teaching Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil, the USA and all around the world, since 1998.
In addition to teaching for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, Lael has been a teacher of Rolfing® Structural Integration since 1995. She teaches Rolfing® at the basic and Advanced levels and is also an instructor of the Rolf Movement® Program. She has studied since 2001 with Hubert Godard, French Movement Educator and Researcher and Founder of the Department of Dance Movement Analysis at the University of Paris. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Rolfing® Association (ABR)
Lael holds a 5th degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and has studied many different disciplines that focus on the body-mind connection.
She is a Bates Method Vision Educator and integrates the work with vision into her work with Movement and Somatic Experiencing®
She is also an Anthroposophic Art Therapist and is completing a 3 year training as an Anthroposophic Biographical Counselor.
She lives in the south of Brazil where she and her husband, Russell Jones, (also a Somatic Experiencing® teacher) own and operate a training center in the Atlantic Rain Forest on the Island of Santa Catarina.
She continues to study and learn about what it is to be a human being and how we can heal at all levels, body, mind, soul and spirit.
Webpage: laelkeen.com
Liane Pinto
Liane was born in Brazil. Her ancestors hail from Madeira Island, Portugal. She did a supervised internship in Switzerland in 1998 and received her Bachelor of Psychology degree in 1989 from the Universidade Federal da Bahia. She specialized as a Clinical Psychologist in 1990. Now she has been dedicating herself to clinical psychotherapy for more than 32 years.
Liane received a postgraduate degree in Psycho pedagogy and has a Master´s Degree in Public Health. She worked more than 15 years as a postgraduate professor at the Jungian Institute of Bahia.
She has taken many training courses such as Anthroposophical Medicine, Biosynthesis, EFT, NLP, coaching, ISP, Trauma relief program, Ayurveda therapy, etc. always searching for tools for brief and focal therapy and an integral vision of the human being.
She has been dedicated intensively to collective assistance to victims of robberies and kidnappings since the year 2000. And she gave many courses for collective trauma, including how to use SE® in groups.
She has been an SE® faculty member since 2010, and has been teaching SE® in different countries in South America and Europe (Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Rumania, Portugal).
Liane has assisted in SE® training programs with several SE® faculty members (Sonia Gomes, Raja Selva, Maggie Klein, etc.) and has deepened her understanding of SE® in several Post-Advanced SE® courses with Peter A. Levine.
Since 2019 she has been working as an SE® advanced level teacher
Webpage: www.transformacaodh.com.br
Marinka Gattnar
Marinka Gattnar was born in 1970, is married and has two grown up daughters.
She is a Healing Practitioner for Psychotherapy, Dipl. Arttherapist / -teacher, Feldenkrais Practitioner and Somatic-Experiencing Practitioner, since 20 years teaching Feldenkrais groups, Art- and Selfawareness workshops for children, teaching trainings for teachers and therapists in Kinesiology, Artherapy and Traumawork with children and since 2017 teaching the beginner level of SE trainings in northern Germany. Since 15 years she does private practice with the consultationcenters traumatherapy for adults and children, coupleconsultation and supervision (case consultation) on all levels of the SE teaching.
More information: www.kunstundtherapie.com
Michel Schittecatte
Michel Schittecatte is a Belgian PhD Psychiatrist consulting at the Erasmus University Hospital of Brussels and in private practice in Paris. He also teaches a course on victimology at the University of Brussels. He previously worked as head of a psychiatric hospital in Belgium. He specialized in sleep disorders and published many physiological and pharmacological studies in world-renowned journals He started training in Somatic Experiencing in 2004 in Holland. Then he assisted several SE® trainers in Belgium, France and Switzerland. He was mentored as a SE®-trainer by Dominique Desgranges and Larry Heller. Michel has translated three books of Peter Levine and one of Larry Heller in French and made them be edited. In 2009, he co-founded the Association of French speaking SEP (APFSE). Michel co-founded in 2013 a training institute (CEFoRT) in Paris, aiming to promote SE® in France. He started teaching the first year of SE® training in France and Belgium in 2016. His wish is to bring SE® to French speaking therapists in their mother language.
Paki E. Heisserer
Paki E. Heisserer was born in Germany and is living in Zürich since 1982. She is self employed in her own practice as a Bodypsychotherapist since 1985. She works as a Traumatherapist with Somatic Experiencing (and is also teaching SE since 2019). Her backgroung is the Process-Oriented Psychology of Arni Mindel (POP),Polarity Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy, Chinese Medicine, and Prenatal and Birthtraumawork of Ray Castellino.
She is the founder of Traumasensitives Qi Gong and is teaching it since 35 years.Her wish is to go along the human process on all levels which will be shown. According to the term “Healing Arts“ she sees the process-oriented body-mind-and emotional work as a form of a Healing Art She works with adults, adolescents, babys, pregnant women and couples. She is living with her husband Urs Honauer in Zürich. They have two adult daughters.
Rachporn Sangkasaad
Rachporn Sangkasaad is a licensed psychologist (Master degree University Zurich) and body-oriented psychotherapist. For 20 years she has been specialised in trauma therapy and runs a private practice in the Netherlands. She also offers crisis intervention in companies, as well as teaching and presenting at international congresses.
As Rachporn was born in Thailand and grew up in Switzerland, she brings elements of East and West together. Connecting and bridging between different countries and cultures has always been and is part of her work. She is passionate about SE® and teaches in a joyful and relaxed way, supporting students’ curiosity and their interactions.
Since her own training in SE®, she has been assisting Peter A. Levine and many SE teachers in Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong and South Africa, and continues to assist Peter Levine’s post-advanced workshops in Switzerland. Her professional experience includes work in psychiatric hospitals and prior to that work in the private sector. She also accumulated her teaching and trauma expertise as a trainer of different methods in the field of trauma therapy. Rachporn has been the founder and chair of the Foundation of Somatic Experiencing Netherlands (SEN) and has been vice-chair of the European Association for Somatic Experiencing (EASE). She became faculty member in 2019 and speaks fluent Dutch, German, English and Thai.
Urs Honauer
Urs Honauer (CH) is the director of the Polarity Center and the Center for Inner Ecology in Zürich, Switzerland. He is also the founder of the Learning Festival in Weggis and the originator of the communication model “Authentic Communication” (AK) which he also teaches himself. He has long been involved in adult education and has taught among others in trainings like Somatic Experiencing (SE)®, Polarity, and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). In his private practice he works with people of all ages (from infants to senior citizens). He holds a Master’s degree in psychology, education and journalism and a doctorate in the field of social education at the University of Zurich; Masters in Psychosocial Trauma at the Psychiatric Polyclinic of the University of Zurich. Studies in Polarity Therapy and Craniosacral Balancing with Dr. John Beaulieu in New York, Prenatal- and Birth Therapy with Dr. Ray Castellino, Process-Oriented psychology with Dr. Arnold Mindell, and Somatic Experiencing with Dr. Peter A. Levine.
Urs Rentsch
Urs Rentsch, born 1956 in Zug (CH), specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy FMH, has a psychiatric-psychotherapeutic-homeopathic practice in Olten. Studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich. Afterwards work in development cooperation. Afterwards studies in medicine with specialization in psychiatry and psychotherapy.
Since 1983 trainings in classical homeopathy, Polarity and Focusing. Further training in cognitive behavioral therapy, schema therapy and ACT. Training in Somatic Experiencing with Dr. Peter Levine since 1999. Belongs to the most experienced SE® practitioners in Switzerland. Member of the international SE® teacher’s college since 2013.
Ursula Fürstenwald
Ursula Fürstenwald is a psychologist accredited by the Danish Psychologists Association as a specialist in psychotherapy and psychotraumatology. In addition, she is trained in system-oriented family therapy, and in Energy and Consciousness which is a mixture of Bioenergetics and Core Energetics. Before entering private practice in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2003, Ursula worked for10 years with children and families as a school psychologist and then for another 10 years with severely traumatized refugees at a treatment and counselling centre for traumatized refugees. After she became a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) in 2003, she has participated in and assisted at the post-advanced workshops offered by different SE® faculty members in DK as well as assisting Peter Levine’s post advanced workshops in Switzerland for many years. As a senior assistant for SE professional trauma trainings, she has assisted in Denmark, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Brazil, South Africa and Greece. She co-organizes Somatic Experiencing (SE)® trainings and workshops in Denmark and Greece and was on the board of the SE® professional association in Denmark for 6 years. In Denmark, Ursula has been presenting 3-day introductions to SE® since 2006. She has participated in outreach programs with Raja Selvam in India and training programs for psychotherapists and counsellors in India and Sri Lanka. In working with symptoms of shock as well as developmental traumas in clients from different cultures, Ursula sees her current clinical approach as primarily SE® based, but enriched by all of her prior trainings. She became faculty member in 2013.
Ursula Funke-Kaiser
She studied law and worked as a judge for several years before she underwent extensive training in body and breath therapy, art therapy and followed her interest in Jungian psychotherapy. She is certified as a healing practitioner for psychotherapy. After she met Dr. Peter Levine her professional life focused on trauma therapy with Somatic Experiencing. Having worked with Dr. Levine in trainings in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Israel she is faculty member and teaches SE® in Germany. She was member of the Board of the German Association of Somatic Experiencing and her special interest lies in bringing SE® forward in the health system. In Stuttgart she runs a private practice as she finds it especially useful to work with own clients when teaching SE®. She is first chairwoman of an association, which runs a family counseling center and a unit for professional trainings in psychotherapy. She finished the Nondual Teacher and Therapist Training of Peter Fenner and is member of the European Association of Body-Psychotherapists. Last but not least she is mother of three grown-up children.