UNITED STATES
Alaska
Jody Hassel, M.F.A., E-RYT, YACEP, TCTSY-F
Fairbanks, Alaska
Licensed 20-Hour TCTSY Trainer
Supervisor, Certification Program
Jody is the TCTSY Trainer for Alaska and Hawaii and a Supervisor for the 300-Hour TCTSY Certification program. She facilitates Trauma Sensitive Yoga in small-group and private sessions at Blossom House Healing Arts and to community members in various programs in Fairbanks, Alaska. She is the founder and Executive Director of Blossom House, a nonprofit service organization providing accessible, trauma-informed interventions to incarcerated and in-custody communities. As a headquarters for healing, trauma stewardship, and community gatherings, Blossom House facilitates a collective of artists, teachers, and therapists who work to create access to wellness in order to cultivate a caring and just community. Blossom House’s Yoga Service Project Alaska andBreadcrumbs Theatre Company currently offer weekly sessions for men and women at the Fairbanks Correctional Center, and for youth at the Fairbanks Youth Facility, and Family Centered Services Residential Treatment Center. Jody also offers Trauma Sensitive Yoga for clients of Turning Point Counseling. Iyengar-based hatha, restorative, and vinyasa yoga styles add to Jody’s trauma-informed practice in other community classes at University of Alaska Fairbanks and Tanana Chiefs Conference facilities. Jody continues to develop her understanding of personal and community trauma through yoga and the arts. Creating access to an embodied practice of being present and feeling empowered is her highest priority in facilitating yoga. Jody can be reached at jodyhassel@gmail.com.
Arizona
Kirsten Voris, TCTSY-F, RYT-200
Tuscon, Arizona
Kirsten came to study TCTSY after discovering that it was possible to get her body to do yoga without feeling her body. And injured herself badly. Twice. Her movement practice on hold, she focused on meditation, then Yin Yoga. She began learning to work with her body as the object of meditation. Then, one day after months of trying, Kirsten flexed the top of her left thigh…and felt it flex. She hasn’t taught a vinyasa class since.
Kirsten completed her initial yoga certification in Ankara, Turkey, where her first clients were members of the international aid community. The experience of facilitating self-care for aid workers inspired Kirsten to bring TCTSY to a training on secondary and vicarious trauma for aid workers in Cusercoli, Italy. Kirsten continues to advocate for radical self-care with coworkers at a local tribal government where she is TCTSY facilitator for tribal youth in residential treatment and the kids at Head Start. Kirsten is active in her meditation community and offers TCTSY for groups and individuals in and around Tucson, AZ. She is available to facilitate in Turkish. Contact: kvoris@hotmail.com
California
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Caro Fenno is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) and E-RYT 200 in Palo Alto, CA. She facilitates outpatient trauma-sensitive yoga classes at the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital as well as through the Foundations of Recovery Residential Addiction Treatment program at the VA. Caro volunteers with the non-profit Lifemoves to bring TCTSY to the clients of their homeless shelter program ( www.lifemoves.org). She also enjoys facilitating trauma-informed yoga classes at Avalon Yoga International in Palo Alto. If you’d like to connect or collaborate, you can reach her though her website www.yogawithcaro.com. |
Kelsey Gustafson, TCTSY-F
Berkeley, California
Kelsey offers private and group Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes in Oakland, California. Her group healing series, Reclaim Your Body, provides an accepting classroom environment where you can explore Trauma Sensitive Yoga within the safety of a small, closed group. Kelsey also works privately with students to develop their own personalized healing movement practice and leads professional trainings for clinicians and yoga teachers who want to incorporate trauma sensitivity in their work. In addition to her training through the Center for Trauma & Embodiment, Kelsey is training to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and holds over 1,000 hrs of training in Forrest Yoga, Hatha Yoga, The Yoga & Psyche Method, Prenatal Yoga, and Expressive Arts Therapy. Kelsey infuses her TCTSY training into her classes, workshops and retreats. Her teaching focuses on growing body intelligence, tapping into creativity and cultivating inner freedom. Visit KelseyGustafson.com to learn more.
Chelsey Silveria, LCSW, RYT, TCTSY-F
Los Angeles, California
Chelsey is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), an RYT-200, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Venice Beach, California. She works specifically with individuals who have experienced complex trauma and relational/attachment trauma. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work (MSW) from Smith College School for Social Work. She enjoys integrating yoga into her clinical work as a means of developing relationships and exploring and connecting with one’s own body. Chelsey has completed additional training in the relational treatment of trauma, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mentalization-Based Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and family therapy. She currently works with young adults and their families at Clearview Treatment Programs. Chelsey will also be offering private and group Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Classes. For more information please contact Chelsey Silveria at chelsey.silveria.lcsw@gmail.com.
Viviana Vallin, MA, LPCC-RA, TCTSY-F
Los Angeles, CA
Viviana is excited to be a TCTSY-F in Los Angeles, CA. Viviana received her Masters in Counseling and Masters in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University. She completed her 200
hour Yoga Teacher Training with People’s Yoga of East Los Angeles. As a Mental Health Therapist, Viviana is passionate about using a relational, holistic, culturally centered, and empowering approach to working with individuals, couples and families. She has extensive training in how to support children and adults who have survived traumatic experiences. In addition to TCTSY, Viviana is currently training with Generative Somatics to integrate social justice, power and privilege into healing trauma for people of color. Viviana incorporates TCTSY in her therapeutic sessions, and offers private and small group TCTSY classes in Spanish and English. She also provides half-day trainings to those who want to learn more about the TCTSY method. Viviana can be contacted directly at vivi@vivivallintherapy.com. For more information, visit website vivivallintherapy.com.
Dion Wiedenhoefer – TCTSY-F, ERYT, YACEP
Davis, California
Dion is a certified yoga instructor (ERYT-200) and a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Brookline, MA. She offers group classes and private sessions in various locations throughout Davis and Sacramento, CA. In addition to her personal yoga practice, she has over 30 years of experience in training and teaching dance, Pilates and functional movement conditioning. Dion believes that it is possible to have a trauma sensitive relationship with all methods of movement; allowing for a present moment felt experience and an awareness of personal choice making. She enjoys working with clinicians and physicians in developing treatment plans for mutual clients and feels deeply grateful to be able to share the healing, contemplative practice of trauma sensitive movement and breath. You are welcome to visit Dion’s website at http://bit.ly/2EG9KuD or email her at dionww@sbcglobal.net.
Colorado
Julie Anderson- TCTSY-F
Denver, Colorado
Julie Anderson has worked in the field of social work since 2008 focusing on government child welfare; she holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with an emphasis in human services. Julie’s career began with conducting child abuse/neglect assessments and has transitioned to neutral facilitation of family meetings. Throughout the past nine years Julie has worked with children who have been maltreated, their families who are grieving the situations that their children endured, and the offenders themselves. These experiences have allowed her to gain a significant understanding of how adverse childhood experiences can have long term impacts on a person well into adulthood. Julie’s personal journey with yoga began in 2012 when she sought solace from her own professional and personal struggles. Unknowingly, Julie stumbled upon all the remarkable benefits of yoga and subsequently completed yoga teacher training; she has become a Registered Yoga Teacher-200 (RYT-200). Because of her professional experiences Julie began researching how she could offer alternative means to healing for children and families; Julie graduated from the 300 hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) program in the spring of 2017 which provides her the honor and ability to offer TCTSY classes as an adjunct treatment for trauma. Julie plans to offer individual and group TCTSY sessions in the near future. She can be contacted at 608-738-1148 or janderann@hotmail.com
Jen Baumgardner, MSW, LCSW, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Jen is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), an RYT-200, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Colorado Springs, CO. She has been working with people who have a history of trauma and/or mental health issues since 2000. She obtained her Masters in Social Work in 2005 and became a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in February 2008. She has worked in a variety of settings including mental health centers, a military installation, schools, a halfway house, and now is in private practice. Over her 16 years of practice, Jen’s focus has gradually shifted towards working with trauma both due to her passion for the work as well as client need. Jen began teaching yoga in September 2009 and completed her yoga teacher training at the Yoga Center of Minneapolis in May 2010. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (200 RYT) and continues to work towards her E-RYT which she expects to obtain in July 2016. In 2016, she completed the
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certification program becoming a TCTSY-F. Jen shares TCTSY in individual sessions with her private practice clients and is in the process of developing a small, closed group setting to offer this protocol (expected start date mid-2016). Her current focus is on serving women with complex trauma including childhood abuse, domestic violence, and sexual assault. More information about Jen and her current practice can be found at http://bit.ly/2XcQ60h.
Jessica Gershwin, MSW, LCSW, MEd, ERYT-200, RCYT, TCTSY-F
Denver, Colorado
Jessica is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), a ERYT-200, a RCYT, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Denver, Colorado. Jessica received a Masters in Education in 2010 and a Masters in Social Work in 2012. She also completed professional training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a somatically-based treatment approach designed to encouraged the release of trauma from the body. For the past decade, Jessica has taught yoga and mindfulness to children and youth in diverse settings, including public, private, and alternative schools, shelters, community centers, and outpatient mental health clinics. Since 2014, Jessica has worked as a Bilingual Child and Family Therapist at the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center, where she provides individual trauma therapy to children and teens and offers ongoing trauma-sensitive yoga groups. In 2016, Jessica joined the Street Yoga team as a regional trainer, offering Trauma-Informed Yoga for Youth trainings across the country. In 2018, she completed the Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certification program, becoming a TCTSY-F. For more information, please visit www.jessicagershwin.com.
Gretchen Goerlitz, M.S., TCTSY-F, BSP
Denver, ColoradoGretchen Goerlitz is a Body Based Therapist who works with children, adolescents, couples and adults in the Denver-metro area. She holds a B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience and an M.S. in Kinesiology thereby blending the brain and the body. Gretchen seamlessly integrates her formal education, an extensive 27 year gymnastics career, and the additional modalities: Brainspotting, hypnosis, biofeedback, Integrated Energy Therapy, Pranic Healing, and Emotional Freedom Techniques. While abroad she earned her 200 hour Hatha yoga certification in Rishikesh, India. As a TCTSY-F, she utilizes her training in trauma to be trauma informed in all her treatments. Gretchen passionately helps people create new physiological, emotional, and cognitive responses by rewiring the brain/body unit. When working with individuals she often addresses topics such as anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, childhood trauma, parenting, and sports performance. In addition to individual and group sessions, Gretchen holds workshops and works within corporations and companies; holding trainings and seminars. Gretchen brings her passion, enthusiasm, a sense of safety, and genuine connection to all the work she does. To reach her please email gretchen@myupsidelife.com or visit her website www.upside-life.com.
Connecticut
Ellen McNally, MA, TCTSY-F, RYT 500, certified Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist
Hamden, Connecticut
Ellen has been teaching yoga since 2012. A workshop in “Mindful Yoga Therapy for Veterans Coping with Trauma” through the Veterans Yoga Project propelled her in a completely unexpected direction—teaching trauma-sensitive yoga. Inspired by the 5-day Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) workshop at Kripalu in 2014, she decided to undertake the TCTSY 300-hour training program and became certified as a TCTSY Facilitator in 2016.
Ellen currently teaches Yoga for 50+, Restorative Yoga and Yoga for Depression & Anxiety at Your Community Yoga Center in Hamden, CT. Using TCTSY methodology, she also teaches Yoga for Veterans at the West Haven, Connecticut VA and at the Stonington Institute Military Program for Substance Abuse and PTSD in North Stonington, CT. Recently, Ellen joined the Integrative Medicine department at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT, where she provides trauma sensitive yoga, meditation and Reiki to cancer patients. Her classes are designed to support students of all ages, abilities and physical capacity to experience and explore the many gifts of yoga and meditation. She continues to be deeply grateful to her students for continuing to teach her how to be a better teacher. Ellen can be reached at emcnallyyoga@gmail.com or visit her website at http://bit.ly/2ERZW0L.
Delaware
Jocelyn Spencer Sagrati, MSW, LCSW, CYT, TCTSY-F
Wilmington, Delaware
Jocelyn earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and completed a master of social work degree from the West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She began her counseling career at SOAR, Inc. in Wilmington, DE, where she offered therapeutic support to individuals recovering from sexual abuse and assault. Her most recent experience was working as a therapist and trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator in mental health intensive outpatient and psychiatric partial hospitalization programs for Main Line Health in Pennsylvania. Jocelyn’s clinical focus centers on integrative wellness and mind-body healing. She is a certified yoga teacher with over 500 hours of training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Trauma Center at JRI in Massachusetts. Jocelyn is a certified facilitator of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Currently working in a private practice in Delaware, Jocelyn specializes in assisting adults of all ages who are coping with a variety of concerns, including trauma and loss, anxiety, physical and emotional stress, women’s issues, life-stage transitions, and self-esteem, relationship, parenting, and family concerns. Jocelyn incorporates elements of TCTSY and other experiential techniques such as MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction), guided imagery and somatic resourcing into therapy sessions in order to help clients foster self-awareness and build the resiliency they need to navigate life changes. Jocelyn also regularly offers lectures, conference presentations and trainings on the use of mindfulness and yoga in healthcare, business and academic settings. Contact: yoginijocelyn@icloud.com.
District of Columbia
Yonnie Fung
Washington, D.C.
Yonnie Fung graduated from the Australian National University in law and political science, specialising in human rights and gender studies. For seven years she was a policy advisor in international relations to the Australian and UK governments and a lawyer for a magic circle global law firm. She is a mind body movement educator, that draws from yoga, natural movement, yoga therapy and nature. She is also a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator.
Yonnie deeply values offering a yoga that is accessible and inclusive, especially to those who have traditionally not felt at home in yoga studios. She founded Yoga with Yonnie in 2011, an award winning yoga space in Beijing that ties together her interests in yoga, movement, embodiment and nature. It was founded on a dedication to small classes, genuine human connections, and yoga and movement practices that are tailored to suit each unique individual. Yonnie has taught yoga to people of all shapes, cultures, ages, sizes and abilities in private and small group settings. She has also led yoga, nature and walking meditation retreats.
Yonnie believes that the best healthcare system is one where healthcare professionals from different traditions collaborate to give a coordinated approach to their clients. She has advocated for introducing yoga therapy into medical contexts and has a close working relationship with Beijing’s Raffles Medical Hospital, integrating yoga practices into rehabilitation plans for patients recovering from injuries and chronic pain. Yonnie also pioneered the introduction of trauma sensitive yoga classes in Beijing where she held group and private classes for survivors of complex trauma. Yonnie has nine years of post certification teaching experience. She has a Graduate Diploma in Yoga Therapy under the tutelage of Dr Natesan Chandrasekaran, studied Anatomy and physiology with Simon Borg Olivier, is a L1 MovNat certified instructor, and is currently studying yoga philosophy with Brenda Feuerstein. Yonnie has recently relocated to Washington DC where she will continue her work for survivors of trauma. She currently offers her one on one classes online, group classes will be rolled out in Washington DC in the Summer of 2019. Email: yogawithyonnie@gmail.com
Florida
Bethany Crawley, JD, BA, CMF, CSMS, TCTSY-F, RYT
Jacksonville, Florida
After an injury, Bethany discovered yoga. Through yoga, she found a way not only to rehabilitate her injury but also a path, over time and through somatic mindfulness and movement practices, to begin to address and heal from traumatic past expereinces. Bethany is a certified mindfulness teacher and teaches mindfulness in many different settings (http://bit.ly/2Xby92c). In addition to training helping professionals in mindful self-care and mindfulness practices, she works, one on one, with those suffering from both childhood trauma and later onset trauma for healing and restoration. In continuing to develop her practice and service to those suffering from complex trauma, she sought training and was certified in 2018 as a TCTSY-F. Bethany is a registered yoga teacher and continuing education provider. Her yoga practice over the last eighteen years has fully embraced vinyasa flow, Ashtanga yoga and, in recent years, a much more gentle style of practice! Since 2008, she has co-owned Lotus Yoga in Jacksonville, FL (www.lotusyogajax.com). In addition to her 200 hour certification, she is certified as a Silver Age Yoga teacher, specializing in teaching seniors and those with physical limitations, and as a stress management specialist for cardiac patients participating in the Ornish Heart Disease Reversal Program.
Bonnie Currie, TCTSY-F
Jacksonville, Florida
Bonnie is practicing attorney and yoga/mindfulness teacher. She found yoga in the early 2000s. Even though she had for years been an avid runner and triathlete, the eating disorder she struggled with and its roots left her dis-embodied and worn out. Yoga helped her re-discover her body, learn again how to safely live in it, and heal the wounds that had led her to abuse it. In 2006, Bonnie received her 200-hour yoga teaching certification. Two years later, she and a partner opened Lotus Yoga, a community based yoga studio in Jacksonville, Florida. Since that time, Bonnie has had extensive training in ashtanga and vinyasa yoga, adaptive yoga, healthy back yoga, meditation and mindfulness. Her studio recently partnered with the Love Your Brain Foundation, a non-profit working to support survivors of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs) through gentle yoga, meditation and community. Through this partnership, she and her studio will be offering adaptive yoga and meditation classes for TBI survivors, along with their family members and caregivers. Bonnie is a certified facilitator of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F) through the renowned Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her work (as well her own practice) – whether with individuals who have sustained physical and emotional traumas, those with eating disorders or physical limitations, or those simply seeking to cultivate insight and deepen their own practice, has taught her first-hand about the extraordinary healing potential that lives inside the practices of yoga and mindfulness. You can reach Bonnie directly at
bonnie@lotusyogajax.com
or by visiting
www.lotusyogajax.com
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Georgia
Kate Jacobson, LCSW, E-RYT, TCTSY-F
Savannah, Georgia
After receiving a master’s degree in clinical social work Kate worked as a mental health therapist and later as an administrator in a community mental center for 15 years in Flint, Michigan. It was during this time that she started to work with Vietnam veterans and began to learn about PTSD. Kate left CMH to work in private practice and specialize in trauma. Upon moving to South Carolina in 1998 she began laying the groundwork for what was to become Litchfield Counseling & Yoga. This group practice blended expertise from the fields of humanistic psychology, clinical social work and yoga to offer services from a holistic perspective. In 2008 Kate completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training. In the course of that training she did a research paper on ‘yoga for trauma’ and discovered David Emerson’s work. In April 2015 she completed the Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga certification. She is currently working with individuals privately and plans to create groups in the near future. She can be contacted at katejacobson1@gmail.com
Stacey Beth Schulman, TCTSY-F, E-RYT
Atlanta, GeorgiaStacey received her 200 and 500 hour yoga teacher training from Yoganand Michael Carroll of Pranakriya Yoga. She is a Certified Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator through the Trauma Center at JRI with David Emerson and holds certifications in other yoga-based modalities, including Pink Ribbon Recuperative Yoga and Street Yoga. Stacey has been teaching yoga full-time since 2009. Her mission is to bring gentle movement and attention to breath to people of all shapes and sizes. For more information, please visit www.TSYAtlanta.com
Hawaii
Erik Acuña, LCSW, TCTSY-F
Honolulu, HawaiiErik is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is currently working towards his RYT-200, which he expects to obtain in May 2019. He obtained his Master of Social Work degree from The University of Hawaii in 2013. Since then, he has worked with people with trauma histories as a mental health case manager, facilitated support groups as a grief counselor in a hospice program, and is now doing psychotherapy in private practice. Erik is trained in psychodynamic approaches including the Early Memories Procedure and the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method. He has additional training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. He values the importance of attachment theory in identity development and uses TCTSY in a complementary way to the above approaches. Erik offers TCTSY individually in private practice and plans to offer TCTSY in a small group setting in the coming months (around May 2019). For more information, please contact Erik at acuna.au@gmail.com.
Illinois
Beth Albrecht, MA, ERYT-200, TCTSY-F
Chicago, Illinois
Beth is an E-RYT through Yoga Alliance and has been teaching yoga since 2013. She began practicing yoga in 2006 as a way to cope with the stress of graduate school at the University of Chicago, where she graduated with a MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Yoga and meditation has helped to heal and guide her and continues to be a force that gives her life and peace. Sharing her love of yoga and meditation has since become a passion and life mission. Beth received her 200-hr Yoga Alliance certification from CorePower Yoga in 2013 and has since taught over 2000 hours of yoga, earning her E-RYT in 2017. She holds certificates in Children & Family Yoga from Rainbow Kids Yoga (2015), Trauma Sensitive Yoga from The Trauma Center at JRI (2017), and Fertility, Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga from Amala Prenatal Yoga School (2018). Since 2005, Beth has worked in a variety of areas of the mental health field, ranging from drug & alcohol education in middle schools to residential treatment with teens and young families. Beth believes in the healing power of yoga and currently facilitates Trauma Sensitive Yoga to the youth at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls in Chicago as well as a range of private students. Following her passion of sharing yoga, she is opening a yoga studio in her neighborhood, Woodlawn, near the University of Chicago Fall 2018. You can contact her for more information or to set up a yoga session beth@bluelotuschicago.com or visit her website http://bit.ly/2EEvUx2
Margaret Berger, LCSW, RYT, TCTSY-F
Chicago, Illinois
I live in Chicago, Il and work as a psychotherapist in Park Ridge, Il for The Juniper Center a large group private practice. Training with the Trauma Center has been an invaluable experience that has exposed me to the very nuanced practice of TCTSY and it’s very profound healing effects for those who live with a history of complex trauma. Having taught the more conventional models of yoga over the last nine years I am grateful that I have learned a way to reach more people who may not be aware of how the movement of the body can positively effect the mind. The new frontier of movement centered psychotherapy in conjunction with traditional talk therapy is an exciting and expansive way to support people in their efforts to recover from deep psychic wounds. I look forward to staying aware of the evolving science in this new field. Contact:
margaretberger@thejunipercenter.com
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Kaitlin Thompson, LCSW, CADC, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Chicago, Illinois
Kaitlin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. She has worked in a variety of treatment settings in the mental health field since 2007 and specializes in working with individuals with anxiety, depression, experiences of trauma, and problematic alcohol or drug use. Kaitlin received her B.S. in Psychology from Northeastern University in 2009 (Boston, MA) and her M.A. in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 2014. Kaitlin is also a yoga teacher and earned her RYT-200 from CorePower Yoga in 2015. She quickly saw how helpful yoga and mindfulness could be with mental health struggles and began exploring how she could integrate yoga into her therapeutic practice. Kaitlin completed a 30-hour Yoga-Informed Psychotherapy training, a 30-hour Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course, and a 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) certification program. Kaitlin uses a whole-person approach to healing and believes the mind-body connection is vital to developing insight, fostering positive change, and moving forward. Kaitlin is currently a therapist at Rush University Medical Center’s Road Home Program, working with veterans struggling with experiences of both combat and military sexual trauma. Outside of her work with veterans, Kaitlin also has a private practice at Freestone Psychotherapy where she sees individuals with a variety of different stressors, experiences, and symptoms. Here she offers both individual and group sessions. You can contact her at KaitlinThompsonLCSW@gmail.com or learn more at http://bit.ly/2XkPar3 .
Indiana
Alyssa Driver, MSW, TCTSY-F
Middlebury, Indiana
Alyssa is a licensed clinical social worker and a 500 hour registered yoga instructor. She received her BSW and then MSW from Michigan State University in 1999 and 2000. She completed training with the Trauma Center of Boston in Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga in 2016. She has worked with adolescents since 2006 and has an understanding of the difficulties teens face today such as depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, and sexual identity issues. She has knowledge of the dynamics of domestic abuse and addiction as well as the grief process, the impact of traumatic stress on individuals and those who love them. Alyssa seeks to provide a safe space for individuals to explore and gain insight into patterns and perceptions that contribute to personal and interpersonal difficulties. She believes in a holistic approach to health, using talk therapy, breath work, mindfulness and trauma sensitive yoga to assist others on their journey of personal growth. She believes in the strength of the human spirit to transcend adverse conditions and gain the strength and wisdom within these experiences. She uses her personal qualities of open-mindedness, compassion, intuition and, at times, humor. She seeks to provide a safe space and a healthy therapeutic relationship to assist clients in finding moments of peace and happiness in a chaotic world. Alyssa works mainly with adults and adolescents, and has a special interest in women’s issues, trauma, and sexual and gender identity. She provides sessions that can include talk therapy, yoga, trauma sensitive yoga or a combination. Alyssa@thefrontporchcounselors.com
Iowa
Christine Cork
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Christine is a Licensed Psychologist and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) working at Cedar Centre Psychiatric Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Christine specializes in working with adolescent and adult trauma survivors, anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. She has a special interest in working with individuals around issues of gender identity. Christine received her Masters degree in Community Counseling from Georgia State University in 1993 and earned her Psychology Doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado in 2000. She has worked in community mental health, university counseling centers, non-profit social service agencies and currently sees adult and adolescent individuals. Christine offers a weekly group for adult trauma survivors incorporating TCTSY. More information about Christine and her current practice can be found at cedarcentrepsych.com/psychology. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Eric Daishin McCabe, TCTSY-F, 200 RYT
Ames, Iowa
Eric is a Soto Zen priest. He first encountered trauma during Zen training while teaching mindfulness and Yoga in prisons and in a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center in central Pennsylvania, and later while working as a hospital chaplain in Behavioral Health. Implementing TCTSY with his clients greatly enhanced his ability to understand and reach those with complex trauma, and he finds it to be an invaluable tool in his work to address the suffering of the world.Eric studied at Bucknell University where he received a BA in Religion and Biology in 1995. He lived and trained at Mount Equity Zendo, a Buddhist temple in central Pennsylvania, for 15 years, between 1998 and 2013. He completed 5 units of Clinical Pastoral Education in 2014, and was granted equivalency in a Master of Divinity in 2015 by the Board of Chaplaincy Certification Incorporated. He presently teaches TCTSY to Behavioral Health patients, both in groups and privately. Eric resides with his wife, Sara Jisho Siebert, and son, Malcolm, in Ames, Iowa. To learn more, visit him at www.zenfields.org, or contact him at daishin@zenfields.org.
Kansas
Deanne Dinkel, LBSW, RYT, R-YFT, TCTSY-F
Topeka, Kansas
Deanne is a licensed social worker and has worked in the field of social work since 1995. Her
professional and life experiences have provided a greater understanding of the impact of
trauma. Deanne’s personal journey with yoga began in 2015 and has evolved through her
study of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) through the Trauma Center at Justice
Resource Institute, Brookline, MA. Her personal practice has transformed over time from a
competitive style workout, to time spent learning to connect her mind, body and spirit to feel,
not accomplish. She completed her Registered Yoga Training (RYT-200) in 2016. Deanne
became inspired from attending the 5 day Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga workshop at
Kripalu in 2016, which led to her accomplishment of becoming a Certified Trauma Center
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator in 2018. Deanne holds certifications in other yoga-based
modalities, including Yoga Faith and Street Yoga. Her interests include offering TCTSY as an
adjunct treatment for those inflicted with trauma, as well as working with special populations
who are unserved or underserved. She facilitates groups using TCTSY principles and is committed to continuing her learning and deepening her understanding of trauma as shestrives to provide a supportive and safe environment for others through their journey. Deanne may be reached at deanne.dinkel@icloud.com
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Sydney Spears, Ph.D., LSCSW, RYT, TCTSY-F Overland Park, KansasSydney is a licensed clinical social worker. She has worked in schools, mental health agencies, and private practice providing support and psychotherapy to adults, couples, and families. Her areas of interest and research have included brain-based mindfulness, trauma interventions, diversity, equity and inclusion, grief and loss issues, holistic wellness, and professional self-care. Sydney is committed to advancing social justice through providing more opportunities for diverse and underrepresented populations to gain more access to the healing power of yoga, sensorimotor practices and mindfulness. Sydney has completed intensive training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn, and a certification in Mindful Self-Compassion training from the University of California. Sydney has also completed a mindfulness leadership training developed at Google to foster peak performance for employees called “Engage” from the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute in San Francisco. Currently, Sydney is a professor at The University of Kansas-Edwards Campus. Through her business, The Insight Studio, she offers trainings, workshops and programs in workplace mindfulness, brain-based mindfulness for stress relief, social justice yoga/movement and trauma-sensitive yoga with at-risk children in the schools. She provides trauma-sensitive yoga classes at the Kansas City VA for veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, trauma-sensitive yoga/movement private and group sessions, and yoga for stress-relief group and individual sessions. Contact Sydney at DeepInsight4RealTransformation@gmail.com. |
Maine
Beth Jones, E-RYT, TCTSY-F
Hallowell, Maine
Beth leads private TC-TSY classes in various programs around central Maine and teaches introductory workshops
for a variety of
agencies, yoga teacher trainings, and
for
the University of New England School of Social Work through their trauma program. She’s a long-time member of the Family
Violence Project
treatment team
for
domestic violence and addiction and is a
contributor to Yoga Service Council’s book Best Practices in Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Trauma
. Her private practice in TC-TSY is offered in Hallowell, Maine. She’s been facilitating TSY since 2010.
Feel free to c
ontact her through her website at www
.bethjonesyoga.com.
Kelcy McNamara RYT, TCTSY-F
Alfred, Maine
Kelcy McNamara is the owner of ROOTS trauma sensitive yoga LLC, a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) in southern Maine, and has been teaching since 2010. In 2016 she received her 300 hour certification to facilitate Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F) as developed by the Trauma Center in Brookline Mass. Kelcy is committed to continuing her learning and deepening her understanding of trauma and healing, and is a member of the Yoga Service Council and a member/instructor with Seacoast Area Teachers of Yoga in Action (SATYA). Her experience includes teaching public and private classes in a variety of settings including, but not limited to: at-risk youth, teens, recovery programs, and prison. http://bit.ly/2EG2ezD You are also welcome to email kelcy@rootstraumasenitiveyoga.com or call 207-651-9952
David Prescott, TCTSY-F
Falmouth, Maine
Mr. Prescott has studied yoga and meditation for many years. He is the author and editor of 19 books, mostly centering on trauma and abuse. He has lectured on these topics around the world and has received lifetime achievement awards from two international professional organizations. He is a senior associate for the International Center for Clinical Excellence and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He is currently working to implement trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation in residential programs around New England. Email: vtprescott@earthlink.net
Maryland
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Meira received her Master’s degree in clinical social work from Columbia University. Meira believes in the power of the therapeutic relationship. Her approach to therapy begins with forming mutual trust. She believes this foundation of support empowers clients to explore their past and analyze their environment. Meira is an ally for clients as they seek to identify and understand the nature of their behavioral and relational patterns, and she works hand-in-hand with clients to develop and work toward goals. Before going into private practice Meira was the supervising social worker at the only in-patient psychiatric hospital in the Washington D.C. area to focus on trauma and dissociative disorders. In that role, Meira provided clinical therapy to adult survivors of trauma, including childhood and relationship-based abuse. She has worked with clients exhibiting a range of behaviors, including depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, and various forms of self-harm. Meira also has experience helping people cope with grief and loss. Meira has a deep interest in the societal impacts of abuse, and has published and spoken on issues related to abuse in the Jewish community. Meira graduated from the 300 hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) program in the spring of 2019 which allows Meira the ability to offer TCTSY in individual or group settings as an adjunct trauma treatment. More information about where Meira practices, including contact information can be found atwww.healthyfoundationsgroup.com
Elizabeth is a licensed social worker and a Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator Elizabeth has also worked extensively with survivors of gender-based violence and has facilitated support groups for immigrant women that have experienced intimate partner violence, as well as other forms of gender-based violence. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma Global Mental Health Certificate program. Elizabeth is passionate about utilizing mind body approaches in work with her clients, particularly mindfulness, trauma-sensitive yoga, and integrating nature into her work. elizabethringler@gmail.com. |
Massachusetts
Courtney Bailey, LICSW, TCTSY-F
Medford, Massachusetts
Courtney Bailey is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, who graduated from Simmons College.
She has worked in a variety of settings such as schools, outpatient settings, and home based services. She is the clinical coordinator at the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, where she provides Child-Parent Psychotherapy to young children and their caregiver. Her experiences at Child Witness to Violence Project has allowed her to gain a greater understanding of how trauma can impact the child/parent relationship. Courtney has a particular interest in how body-based practices can reduce the symptoms of complex trauma.
Angelica Emery-Fertitta, TCTSY-F
Greater Boston, Massachusetts
Angelica is dedicated to bringing accessible and safe movement experiences to individuals of all ages and backgrounds who have experienced trauma. She strongly believes in the importance of inclusion of the body in the process of healing and growth. Angelica is currently attending Bridgewater State in pursuit of a Masters degree in Social Work. She is a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, supervisor in the certificate program, as well as a registered yoga teacher. Angelica trained with Yoga Garden San Francisco for both her 200-hr training and her Kids Yoga training. She has also completed a Yoga for Teens Training with Christine Miele. Angelica currently facilitates The Trauma Center’s Saturday women’s class and non-binary class. She has experience teaching both youth and adults, in groups and individual sessions. Angelica has taught at residential treatment facilities for youth; a teen parenting program; universities; and other local non-profits. When Angelica is not facilitating TCTSY, she works with youth and families at The Home for Little Wanderers. Please be in touch via email for more information: aemeryfertitta@gmail.com. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Anna Kharaz, LMHC, TCTSY-F
Boston, Massachusetts Licensed 20-Hour TCTSY TrainerAnna is a psychotherapist, neurotherapist and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga facilitator in the greater Boston area. She holds weekly TCTSY classes and is also a trainer and supervisor for the TCTSY training program. Anna has experience working with a culturally and clinically diverse population of children, adolescents, adults and families in domestic and international settings and has worked for research institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Boston Medical Center, The Trauma Center, National Institutes of Health, and the Veterans Administrations Hospital. She holds a Bachelors degree in Neuroscience from Brandeis University and Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine. Anna utilizes yoga, biofeedback and neurofeedback in her clinical work and specializes in incorporating compassion and mindfulness into empirically validated treatments. Email: Anna@wholehumancounseling.com
Emily Lapolice, LICSW, RYT, TCTSY-F
Arlington, Massachusetts
Licensed 20-Hour TCTSY Trainer
Emily is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), certified yoga instructor, and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) working in private practice in Arlington, MA. Emily is a trauma therapist who specializes in work with adult trauma survivors, as well as anxiety, depression, general stress management, and has a special interest in perinatal mental health. Along with working in private practice, Emily is a Supervisor in the TCTSY certification program at the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA, where she is also a yoga teacher for the women’s TCTSY classes. Emily received her Bachelors degree in Psychology at Providence College in 2003 and Masters degree in Social Work at New York University in 2006, working in day-treatment, inpatient, outpatient, and school-based mental health settings in both New York City and Boston for the past 12 years. Through personal experiences and challenges in her own life, Emily grew to see the connections between our thoughts and feelings, and the physical reactions and responses in our bodies. Emily believes in this work, not only because of the theory and research behind it, but most importantly because of its personal relevance in her life. As a new mother, she feels and understands these connections more than ever before, and particularly enjoys offering support to women during the perinatal time. Emily is currently working on projects to bring more awareness and research to the field of perinatal mental health, including but not limited to, postpartum depression and anxiety, and perinatal trauma. More information about Emily and her current practice can be found at
www.iwtherapies.com
. Pronouns: she/her/hers
Jessica Loftus, LICSW, CYT, TCTSY-F
Boston, MA
Jessica is a licensed clinical social worker and the Passageway Community Program Manager at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has her BA in Psychology from Vassar College, her MSW from Boston College School of Social Work, and completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training through 4 Corners Yoga and Wellness in Boston (Dorchester). For almost 15 years, Jessica has centered her clinical practice on working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence; she also has a deep interest in practices of trauma stewardship and supporting survivors who are also professional helpers. Her practice employs a liberation health framework, recognizing that intersections of oppression, racism, and capitalism are integral aspects of understanding and responding to experiences of trauma and violence. Jessica has incorporated embodied healing into her individual and group work with clients for many years, offering yogic movement, mindfulness, and reiki; she is excited to bring TCTSY into her practice and into communities she lives and works within.
Susan Lovett, MSW, LICSW, MEd, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Boston, MassachusettsSusan Lovett is a licensed clinical social worker, certified K-8 classroom teacher and registered 200-hour yoga teacher, as well as a trained Facilitator of TCTSY. Susan has over 20 years’ experience working with low-income youth and families with trauma in Boston. Susan is the founder and director of Hands to Heart Center – Yoga for the People, a nonprofit organization that shares the healing practice of yoga with people affected by addiction, poverty and trauma and she is a co-founder of Boston’s Socially Engaged Yoga Network. Susan wholly embraces the concept of “beginner’s mind” and is honored and excited to meet other beginners on their mats. Email: sllovett@gmail.com.
Anne Parsons Marchant, RYT, TCTSY-F
Central MA & southern ME
Everyone has the right to be safe and whole and healthy. Anne welcomes you to WholeYoga, where you are invited to just be in yoga – no need to think or to do.
Prior to forming WholeYoga, Anne practiced as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, the last twelve of her thirty five years in nursing working exclusively with traumatized children, teens, and adults affected by things that should never have happened to them. Today Anne, a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200), is the founder of WholeYoga, and is certified by JRI as a 300 hour TCTSY-facilitator. She is a member of Yoga Alliance, the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) where she serves on the Moral Resiliency Advisory Group. Anne is passionate about the healing potential of all people, and the neurobiology that supports healing. Anne is honored to partner with selected mental health agencies to bring TCTSY yoga to people of all ages who are engaged in mental health treatment. Anne also offers trainings to any that are interested. www.WholeYoga.org
Anne Mittnacht, CEDRD, RYT, TCTSY-F
Greater Boston Area
Anne is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), and a Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) in Greater Boston. Anne specializes in nutrition counseling for individuals recovering from eating disorders and disordered eating, and provides services at Metrowest Nutrition in Newton, MA. She provides TCTSY to private clients who see her for nutrition counseling and to clients who are also working with therapeutic professionals. Anne enjoys integrating trauma sensitive yoga into her work with clients as a way to empower her clients to make choices with and within their bodies. Anne received her Bachelors at Middlebury College where she majored in Religion (with a focus in Buddhism) and her Masters of Public Health and Nutrition at The University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. She is certified to teach traditional Hatha Yoga (with the Sivananda Yoga tradition), and she completed her TCTSY-F certification in 2016. Anne has also received specialized training in Curvy Yoga, and in Motivational Interviewing. You can find out more about Anne’s work with Metrowest Nutrition here. She can be reached at amittnacht@metrowestnutrition.com.
David Schouela, TCTSY-F
Brookline, MassachusettsBorn in Montreal, Canada, David worked in the banking industry for 20 years prior to pursuing his life-long interest in yoga and meditation. He holds a 500-hour yoga certification from the Kripalu Institute of Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts and completed the Trauma-Sensitive Yoga certification at the Trauma Center in 2014. Since 2012, David has taught the weekly men’s class at the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA where he also supervises students in the trauma-sensitive yoga certification program for yoga teachers. David has taught an 8-week stress reduction program as part of a research study conducted by the Dept. of Psychiatry at MGH and Mclean Hospital in Boston involving young adults with childhood maltreatment. David is also a co-founder and board member of True North Insight Meditation Center in Quebec, Canada. You can find out more about David at Right Mind Yoga.
Sue Stevens, TCTSY-F, E-RYT
Worcester, Massachusetts
Sue has personally experienced the transformational and healing powers of yoga and became a healing yoga teacher to share the amazing benefits with others. As a
Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Certified Facilitato
r and an E-RYT 500 hour yoga teacher, she teaches at several locations in Massachusetts. Working for JRI since 2014, Sue facilitates private TCTSY sessions at two residential facilities for children and adolescents. Additionally, she is experienced teaching yoga to adults in group and private classes, children and teens in public and private schools, active duty military and veterans, adults and at-risk youth in therapeutic settings, domestic violence programs, and in bereavement support group settings. Sue is a teacher trainer for
Yoga Warriors International
and has taken numerous trainings including the
Certification Program in Traumatic Stress Studies at JRI
, Chair Yoga, Children’s Yoga, “Healer Within” Qigong, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, Y12SR Yoga for Recovery, Integrative Yoga for Seniors, Mindful Self-Compassion, and is a graduate of the UMass
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program
. As a co-founder and facilitator for the Pieta Support Group for Bereaved Parents, she organizes and facilitates meetings and retreats. Sue is available to provide public and private TCTSY classes and workshops for adults, teens and children of all ages. More information can be found at
MonarchYoga
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Michigan
Sonja Mattson-Barnes, TCTSY-F
Okemos, Michigan
Sonja is E-RYT and Certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator. She provides TCTSY classes to Veterans at the Battle Creek Medical Center (both in-patient mental health and to Veterans in the social and psychological rehabilitation unit and the PTSD clinic). She also provides TCTSY services to children at St. Vincent’s Children’s Home and is part of the treatment team in that facility. Sonja was the 2015 recipient of the Governor’s Champion of Health for her Trauma Work. Sonja has a yoga space located within a psychological diagnostic and treatment center in Okemos Michigan and provides TCTSY to clients that are referred by their clinician. Sonja is dedicated to supporting the integration of trauma informed care into organizations and providing a possibility for trauma survivors to re-establish their relationship with their body. Sonja@sonaepona.com
Pamela Yagiela, TCTSY-F, RYT
Novi, Michigan
Pamela came to TCTSY in a very unconventional manner; by working on her own trauma recovery. After being a hair stylist and salon owner for over thirty years, Pamela began to work on her own personal matters and doing so, she found her way to yoga. Through her yoga and meditation practice, she began developing a new found way to regulate her emotions, and a way to get to know her body. Working through yoga and EMDR, has laid the ground work for her passion with working with troubled youth. In 2008, Pamela completed her 200hr teacher training under the mentorship of Jonny Kest with the passion to utilize yoga for adolescents in residential treatment for substance abuse and trauma. In 2015, under the supervision of David Emerson, she completed her certification from the Trauma Center. Her life experiences and passion guides her to help make a difference for our troubled youth. You can reach her at yagspam05@gmail.com; 248-345-3646.
Minnesota
Helena Kriel, ERYT, MA, EDD candidate, YACEP, TCTSY-F
Minnesota
Helena Kriel is a certified yoga teacher in Vinyasa, Kundalini, and prenatal yoga and also holds Yoga Alliance certification as a Continuing Education Provider and teacher training program director. She currently works as a case manager in Minnesota and previously owned and directed a yoga center. Helena is working on a dissertation studying utilization of therapy by patients practicing TCTSY. You are welcome to contact Helena with questions about TCTSY in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area as well as TCTSY networking in the Midwest: hkriel01@hamline.edu
Angela Zaun Ollswang, TCTSY-F, RYT
Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St. Paul), Minnesota
Angela is a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator and is also a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga + Meditation Teacher. She focuses on creating solid ground and holding space in class for her students to connect to their own innate strength & inner wisdom, at their own unique pace. Often using a gentle approach to guide students, she does her best to meet them where they are in each moment on the mat. Angela currently facilitates movement groups at North Memorial Hospital in their Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs and also leads public yoga groups in partnership with various therapy practices in the greater Twin Cities area. If you like, you can connect with Angela via email at: angela@terrafirmampls.com
Sarah Super, TCTSY-F
Twin Cities (Minneapolis & St.Paul), Minnesota
Sarah works as a learning & development consultant leading trainings on trauma-informed leadership and cultivating a trauma-informed lens for diversity & inclusion initiatives within organizations. Additionally, she teaches trauma-sensitive yoga at a crisis home in St. Paul, MN. In 2013, Sarah was awarded a Human Rights Fellowship which she used to study the relationship of trauma-sensitive yoga in human rights work. Sarah received her M.Ed in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota.
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Jessa Walters, MA, E-RYT, TCTSY-F
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jessa Walters began teaching TCTSY in 2013 as part of a feasibility study that partnered the University of Minnesota with the Domestic Abuse Project. This study added to the growing research that TCTSY is a viable clinical treatment for trauma. Jessa currently teaches TCTSY to women in recovery from addiction and offers group and individual trauma-sensitive yoga sessions, as well as introductory trainings for yoga teachers and mental health professionals. Jessa holds a BA in Psychology from Concordia University and an MA in Feminist Philosophy and Women’s Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies. You can find more about Jessa’s work at www.jessawalters.com
Mississippi
Mary Ann Avallone-O’Gorman, M.A., M.F.A.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Meg is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certified Facilitator. She is the owner of Studio 2.46 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi where she has been teaching yoga since 2009. Originally trained in the Kripalu Yoga lineage, Mary Ann offers private and group classes in both hatha yoga and Trauma Sensitive Yoga. As an active participant in providing healing to her community, she has taught a Wounded Warriors yoga class and has volunteered for many years at both the Gulf Coast Center for Non-Violence and the Veteran’s Administration. For more information, contact Mary Ann at mogorman@bellsouth.net or through Facebook messenger.
Missouri
Terry Wilson, M.Ed., RN, CHES, RYT, TCTSY-F
New Bloomfield, Missouri
Terry is founder of True Nature Center for Wellness LLC in New Bloomfield, Missouri where she offers a variety of contemplative practices for individuals to connect with others and experience the power of mindful living through mindful meditation and yoga. Terry became a certified Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator in April 2015. Her initial work in facilitating TCTSY was with college students where she offered individual and group sessions within an integrated health system until retiring from the University of Missouri. Terry started her own business in order to share contemplative practices with others in the community. She is working with local licensed mental health professionals to bring TCTSY into the treatment plan for complex trauma. Terry can be reached at terrynobel@gmail.com.
New Hampshire
Lisa Boldin, MBA, TCTSY-F, RYT
North Hampton, New Hampshire
Lisa is a Facilitator of TCTSY and a Supervisor of students in the TCTSY Certification program. She currently coordinates educational opportunities for the certified facilitators. In 2017 Lisa completed the Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies through the Trauma Center. Prior to training in yoga, Lisa received over 1,000 hours of education in the science of Ayurveda. Lisa offers TCTSY in small group settings and individual sessions. She works alongside clinicians in medical facilities, hospitals and group practices throughout NH and MA and offers services in a private location in North Hampton, NH. Lisa’s client base includes those whose lives have been affected by sexual assault, domestic violence, childhood trauma and traumatic loss. Additional information may be found at samatalcenter.com
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Katie Comeau, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Greater Plymouth Area, New Hampshire
Katie is a certified RYT-200 yoga instructor though Vida Vinyasa in Plymouth, NH and a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator though the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Brookline, MA. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Plymouth State University. She has been teaching yoga throughout the White Mountains of NH, since 2012. Katie currently facilitates TCTSY classes and offers mindfulness opportunities at a residential facility for adolescent males. She also offers group classes and private instruction at Yoga Studio 8 in Plymouth, NH. Yoga is a deeply personal practice for Katie, keeping her centered and strong. She believes a steady yoga practice is essential for overall health and a safe way to heal trauma. Her style of teaching is gentle, choice based, and adjusts to the students in front of her. Email: info@yogawithkatie.com.
New Jersey
Karin Rossi M.S.Ed, CCTP, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Ocean City, New Jersey
Karin holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology from Fordham University and a Master’s of Science from Hofstra University. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She began her yoga practice in 1991 as a path to emotional healing. Karin is currently working towards her E-RYT 200 through Yoga Alliance. Her background in addictions led her to working as a yoga instructor at an inpatient rehabilitation facility where she leads group instruction as well as individualized. She is certified to work with incarcerated populations. In the summer of 2017 Karin was privileged to work with Youth Build Philadelphia leading yoga and meditation classes. She has earned her certification in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through the University of Massachusetts. Karin has created a yoga program at The Branches, an activity outreach center providing a safe, positive environment for the elderly, disabled, homeless, veterans and individuals or families living in poverty. She is a member of Yoga Alliance and the Yoga Service Council. You can reach her at yogaforhealing@comcast.net
New York
Lisa Maynard, LMSW, ACSW, RYT, TCTSY-F
Rochester, New York
Lisa is a Licensed Social Worker with expertise in trauma, attachment, and adoption. Lisa found her personal yoga practice to be transformative in her own life and sought training to integrate the philosophy and techniques in her psychotherapy practice for the benefit of her clients. She specializes in supporting women adjusting to life transitions including change in relationships, spirituality, new parenting or empty nesting, change in career, separation or divorce, and other life issues. She integrates yoga philosophy, meditation and mindfulness in her work with clients, guiding them to explore life challenges in a safe, supportive environment. She encourages clients to find ways to let go of self-criticism and self-judgment, and empowers them to live to their full potential. Lisa provides consultation, support and training on a wide variety of topics including adoption-related issues, stress reduction, self-inquiry, health and wellness. Lisa offers TC-TSY in the mental health, residential child welfare and medical settings, and in her own studio. Lisa serves children, adolescents, adults, couples and families in need of support. Visit Lisa’s website at www.sativirya.com.
Karen Schwartz, LMSW, TCTSY-F, C-IAYT
Brooklyn & New York, NY
Karen has more than 20 years of experience facilitating mind-body integration with individuals and groups. With a gentle, warm, empathic approach infused with humor, Karen’s main objective is to help empower people to forge their own path and reach their highest potential. She has utilized her unique, holistic approach with people recovering from addiction, eating disorders, trauma, domestic violence, depression and anxiety, as well as those seeking personal growth and a deeper expression of their spirituality. Karen holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and a postgraduate certificate in Contemplative Clinical Practice from Smith College School of Social Work. She is a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, a certified Yoga teacher with advanced training from White Lotus Yoga Foundation, a certified Yoga therapist and a certified meditation teacher trained by senior Shambhala teacher David Nichtern. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a variety of online and print publications. Web site: http://bit.ly/2EEF4tw Email: karen@mindfullivingnyc.com
Lidia J Snyder, LMSW, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Western New York State
Lidia J. Snyder has worked in the field of social work for over 20 years focusing on child welfare and juvenile justice. She holds a Master degree in Social Work from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Her experience in direct service, research and administration coupled with teaching and supervising graduate students has afforded her multiple perspectives on trauma and its impact. She has published articles and co-authored a book examining the experiences of homeless families. As a devoted yoga practitioner and student, Lidia knew first hand the life changing capacity of yoga. She eventually pursued her 200-hour certification through the Himalayan Institute’s residential program. She was drawn to the Prison Yoga Project and Liberation Prison Yoga after seeing many young people drift from child welfare, to juvenile justice to adult corrections. Lidia has brought yoga to youth residential facilities as well post-release community housing. Witnessing both the devastation of trauma and the bravery of survival, Lidia chose to pursue the TCTSY-F certification through the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts. She teaches community based classes as well as private sessions across Western New York. She also offers in-house sessions for organizations and schools who are committed to trauma-informed practice. She is the proprietor of Sthira Sukham Yoga. Lidia can be reached at lidia@roadrunner.com
North Carolina
Beth Morris TCTSY-F, MSW, E-RYT 200, YACEP
Asheville, North CarolinaBeth has her (BSW) Bachelors in Social Work from TCU and her (MSW) Masters in Social Work from Our Lady of the Lake University. She has worked professionally with children and adolescents in group homes, treatment foster care, shelters, and residential settings. Beth began teaching yoga in 2013 after completing her RYT 200 in Fort Worth, Texas. She has taught yoga with all ages of children (preschool to adolescents) as well as adults, including all levels restorative, yin, and vinyasa. She recently completed her RYT 500, and is awaiting her certification to complete the official process with Yoga Alliance. Through her teaching experience in the studio and community, she began teaching community classes for breast cancer survivors and students who are visually impaired and blind and up to 8 trauma informed classes a week in the mental health community including adolescent and adult crisis residential units, an adolescent addiction recovery unit, mental health outpatient clinics and community centers, and with social work professionals and also occasionally sub teaching in a male addiction recovery residential center. While teaching, her research and reading about yoga and trauma led Beth to Kripalu in 2015 to study with David Emerson and Jenn Turner completing the Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training as well as taking a weekend workshop with Bessel Van Der Kolk on “The Body Keeps Score.” Those training experiences led Beth to the Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator 300 hour Certification which she completed in the spring of 2017. Beth appreciates the the Trauma Center’s approach to research, feedback, and curiosity of how yoga might be a possible tool of interoception, agency, empowerment and choice for anyone who has experienced trauma. Currently, Beth is teaching private classes and weekend yoga retreats in the Asheville area and is exploring further opportunities to teach TCTSY in Western North Carolina. Contact Beth at bethmorris4616@gmail.com.
Kim Mulholland, RYT, Prison Yoga Ambassador, TCTSY-F
Western, North Carolina
Kim has a Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology. She worked in hospitals, primarily with traumatic brain injuries and stroke patients, for almost ten years before starting a career in healthcare management. She spent 15 years in this capacity prior to becoming a registered yoga teacher. Quickly realizing the importance of being trauma informed when facilitating yoga she spent 3 years studying trauma and the body. She completed her Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga training through the certification program supervised by David Emerson. She also completed an additional nine month Traumatic Stress certification program through the Trauma Center. She is part of the clinical team at Haywood Regional Medical Center, a Duke LifePoint Hospital, facilitating TCTSY full-time on the Behavioral Health Unit with patients that have complex trauma, treatment resistant PTSD, or a trauma history. In addition, after receiving training at Duke Integrative Medicine she developed a trauma informed gentle Yoga for Cancer program as part of the hospitals integrative cancer care services. She has also provided TCTSY to women and children whose lives have been affected by sexual assault and domestic violence at local shelters and with female inmates at the Haywood County Detention Center. She is passionately committed to shepherding survivors perhaps to a place of hope and healing. Kim may be reached at 828-400-8696 or by email kimmulholland01@gmail.com.
Caroline Pegram, LCSW, LCAS, TCTSY-F
Asheville, North CarolinaCaroline Pegram is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Associate) and a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist. Caroline completed her graduate studies at UNC Chapel Hill and has had the great fortune of applying both her educational studies and personal recovery experiences in her therapeutic practice. Caroline mentored with David Emerson to receive her Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator certification.
Caroline practices primarily from a mindfulness based perspective, while embracing the power of human connection. Though Caroline also pulls from a variety of different evidence based therapies, one consistent piece you will find in working with her is a holistic, humanistic and strength based approach to recovery. Caroline recognizes human relationships as the most important piece of healing and is intentional in teaming up with individuals to embrace the innate strengths that they possess when they walk in the door. Caroline is a North Carolina native and loves living in the Appalachian Mountains. In Caroline’s down time, she enjoys hiking in the back country and developing a personal yoga practice. Caroline is an advocate for incorporating nature into a healthy lifestyle and often finds ways to intertwine her love of nature with her everyday life.
Ohio
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Kate is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200) with a 300-hour certification as a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F). With over 1,000 hours of experience facilitating classes for people in recovery from complex trauma and addiction, Kate has designed and offers a yoga program to compliment the clinical work of substance use treatment. She partners with agencies to provide this program as well as TCTSY services. In addition, she offers individual and small group classes open to people moving through complex trauma different than substance use. Trainings and self-care workshops geared toward yoga teachers and caregiving professionals are also available. Grounded in over 20 years of personal practice and passionate about supporting others in their journeys, Kate is committed to continuing education and personal development. In addition to being a certified TCTSY Facilitator, Kate holds a 200-hour certification in Kripalu Yoga and a certification to facilitate Yoga of 12-Step Recovery meetings. You’re welcome to contact kate@thrivingtreeyoga.com. Current classes, trainings, workshops, and further information are available at http://bit.ly/2XcEUkl. |
Rowan Silverberg, MS, LMT, E-RYT, TCTSY-F
Cleveland, Ohio
A yoga teacher in the Greater Cleveland area for over 25 years, Rowan Silverberg currently co-facilitates TC-TSY support groups with clinicians at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. Rowan is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook University’s College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences; her dissertation research focuses on the contribution of TC-TSY to trauma treatment for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Rowan is committed to developing programs that promote health and resilience for people who have experienced trauma, particularly in underserved local communities. Since 1992, Rowan has provided prevention-based treatment, integrating yoga and massage therapy, at Progressive Corporation’s on-site primary care clinic for employees and their families in Mayfield Village, OH.
Rowan also designs and facilitates stress management and resilience trainings for people who work at Progressive. The principles and practices of TC-TSY are now incorporated into all Rowan’s work with individuals and groups. rowansattva@aol.com
Oregon
Greta Hau, TCTSY-F
Portland, Oregon
Greta Hau is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and a TCTSY Facilitator in Portland, OR. She holds a Bachelors degree in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and has worked with children and youth in various capacities since 2011. Greta was first introduced to trauma sensitive yoga whilst interning with a yoga service nonprofit in Portland. Greta began volunteer teaching at various treatment centers in Portland and found a passion for sharing yoga with youth. She believes yoga spaces should be accessible to all and is passionate about the intersection of social justice and yoga. Greta currently teaches a weekly class at a treatment center for youth. She is available for TCTSY group classes and individuals sessions in the greater Portland area. She can be contacted at greta.hau.09@gmail.com
Keri Sawyer TCTSY-F, RYT 500, BBA
Bend, Oregon
Keri holds a Bachelors degree in business administration and is a registered 500 hour Yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. Her focus has been on facilitating TCTSY as an adjunctive treatment to pre-teens, adolescents, and young adults in clinical settings. She has been working with select treatment facilities on how to implement TCTSY into their therapeutic model along with training and consultation for therapists. Her passion is to facilitate an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predicable felt sense of their body. TCTSY provides trauma survivors an opportunity to learn to build a relationship with themselves and others through practicing interoception (felt sense of body), present moment awareness, choice making, and taking effective action. Keri offers TCTSY sessions to individual adolescents and group or individual sessions to adults in the Bend Oregon area where she currently resides. Kerisawyer76@yahoo.com 414 940 4412
Cynthia Veum, LPC, CADCI, ATR-BC, TCTSY-F
Portland, Oregon
Cynthia is a Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), drug counselor, and art therapist working in Portland Oregon. She took her first yoga class in 1990 and immediately found that it resonated deeply with mind, body, and spirit. This eventually led to teaching yoga and completing 2 years of Iyengar yoga teacher training (around 700 hours) in 1999 and 2000. Yoga helped her effectively manage her pain and scoliosis and greatly informed her approach throughout her training and experience as a therapist. For over 10 years she has been adapting yoga-based movement exercises to be accessible for patients in crisis stabilization. Upon discovering TCTSY, she found a framework in line with her years of clinical experience and also a great desire to help the yoga and mental health communities become more trauma-informed. Please contact Cynthia at cynveum@gmail.com
Jen Worth, SEP, LMT, TCTSY-F
Bend, Oregon
Jen Worth founded Somatic Roots LLC in Bend, Oregon with a special interest in helping people whose lives have been impacted by difficult situations, post-traumatic stress or complex trauma. Jen is a Somatic Practitioner and nervous system specialist offering body-based therapies including Somatic Experiencing® and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). Somatic practices can support healing and resilience in the body, providing ease and regulation in the nervous system, a sense of calm and safety, and feeling connected to one’s own body. Jen has been practicing yoga for more than twenty years. She has taught public and individual yoga classes to a varied student population over the past decade. Jen has over 700 hours of yoga training, and is a certified Facilitator of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI. Jen offers TCTSY in private, group and clinical settings, consults with therapists, and offers workshops to clinicians. Jen approaches her work with compassion, curiosity, and respect for the innate healer in each of us. Jen is happy to collaborate with your other health providers, including medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and holistic practitioners so that we may offer you the most effective support and treatment. Jen is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist (#23738) and a RYT-200 through the Yoga Alliance. To contact Jen for more information, you’re welcome to visit jenworth.com.
Pennsylvania
Amy Brown, E-RYT 200, CCDP, CADC, TCTSY-F
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Amy is co-founder of Bucks County Counseling, a state licensed outpatient substance abuse and counseling facility in southeastern Pennsylvania. Amy is a state certified addiction and co-occurring mental health Counselor who has been working in the addiction field for over twenty years. As part of her own personal journey and in an effort to better serve her clients, Amy began exploring adjunct therapies to provide a more holistic approach to recovery. As part of this pursuit, Amy completed the 200 hour teacher training program at Kripalu Institute, one of the largest and most prestigious yoga training centers in North America. Cognizant of the prevalence of complex trauma in those struggling with addictive disorders, Amy went on to complete the 300 hour TCTSY facilitator certification program at the Trauma Center in Boston. Amy is dedicated to developing an individually tailored approach to each client, integrating talk therapy and increased bodily awareness to empower clients to lead the way in their own unique journey of recovery. Amy works with clients on an individual basis as well as in small groups. You can contact Amy at buckscounseling@verizon.net, check out her facility website at buckscounseling.org or contact by phone at 267-864-8447.
Jane Riese, LSW, TCTSY-F
York, Pennsylvania
Jane is a licensed social worker from York, Pennsylvania. She’s been a yoga instructor since 2002 and provides TCTSY at Turning Point Counseling and Advocacy Center, serving adults and teenagers who have endured childhood sexual abuse. She directed the Victim-Witness Program in the York County District Attorney’s office where she provided advocacy to survivors of violent crime. In her current role as Associate Director of Safe and Humane Schools at Clemson University, she advocates for children’s rights and protection as co-author of program materials for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program and co-developer of Olweus certification training. Jane received a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Elizabethtown College and a Master of Social Work degree from Temple University. Jane has served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors. Contact information: jriese@clemson.edu
Elizabeth Sherman
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth is a licensed occupational therapist, TCTSY Facilitator and certified yoga instructor based in southwestern Pennsylvania. She completed her 200-hr yoga training certification with Alison Donley, E-RYT-500 at West Chester University. She became interested in trauma sensitive yoga methodology through her own experience with recovery and complex trauma and through her work as a pediatric occupational therapist informed by the D.I.R. model and Floortime approach. She studied trauma sensitive yoga with Arts Holding Hands & Hearts and Transformation Yoga Project, which lead to the discovery of TCTSY at the Center for Trauma & Embodiment. In her work with individuals, children and families, she values a non-directive approach as a way to shift the power to her clients and truly offer a safe space where radical healing and empowerment is a possibility for all. She is currently transitioning to private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You can learn more about her treatment offerings at her website:
heartofgoldpgh.com and by emailing Elizabeth at heartofgoldpgh@gmail.com.
Gwen Soffer, MSW, E-RYT, TCTSY-F
Media, Pennsylvania
Gwen Soffer is co-founder of Enso yoga studio (
www.experienceenso.com
) in Media, Pa. and co-founder of Trauma Informed Lens Yoga (
http://bit.ly/2EEvTJu
), which is a training and advocacy program that guides yoga teachers in how to make all of their public classes trauma-informed. She is E-RYT certified through Yoga Alliance and received her Masters in Social Work with Trauma Certificate through Widener University. She is the Wellness Specialist at the Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia, Pa., which serves individuals and families living in the U.S. with refugee, asylum seeking, and immigrant status. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition, which promotes accessible and body positive yoga and Voices, Inc., which provides healing services to trauma survivors and their families. Gwen is committed to creating safe space for her students and teaches all of her classes through a trauma-informed lens. In addition to her public trauma-informed weekly classes, she teaches private trauma-sensitive classes to groups and service providers.
Texas
Dallas Adams, LCSW, TCTSY-F, RYT 200
Houston, Texas
Dallas has been working with children, adolescents, and adults in the mental health field for 30+ years. In 2000, while living In Maine, he began looking for large muscle exercise that would not stress his limbs and joints and that he could do in the winter. He found yoga and began what has become a regular practice. Through this practice, he also began to realize the impact of yoga on his own body, mind, and spirit and that how he approached his life was the same both on and off the mat. He learned he could practice and experiment with life changes by first practicing them on the mat. In 2011, Dallas became a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200 hour level by the Yoga Alliance. During his mental health career, he became increasingly interested in complex trauma and its impact on people’s lives. He completed the Trauma Center’s 40-hour Trauma-Sensitive Yoga course in 2013 and then followed up the next year with the Trauma Center’s certification process, completing that in April of 2015. Since February 2015, he teaches 4 groups sessions of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga a week at the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas . He also offers Trauma-Sensitive Yoga classes to individuals there as well. He is open to providing ongoing TSY groups and individual sessions in other venues. You can contact him at 207-322-2153 or dallasladams1@gmail.com
Evan Bodine, Ph.D., ERYT-200, TCTSY-F
Dallas, Texas
Evan is a TCTSY-F, an ERYT-200, and a licensed psychologist in Dallas, Texas. She has been providing therapy since 2013 and was certified in Hatha yoga in 2009. In her training, she has worked in a variety of treatment centers, including university counseling centers and community agencies working with survivors of interpersonal violence and sexual assault. She is currently in private practice in Dallas, TX and owns Alchemy Therapy, PLLC. Evan specializes in working with survivors of trauma, and also works concerns related to anxiety, depression, life transitions, interpersonal relationships, family issues, and cultural identity development. She seeks to discover how your relationships, feelings, labels, and constraints have impacted your life so that transformation can be authentic to you. She weaves her expertise in mental health and yoga to understand how your experience is informed by your mind and body. Her goal is to help you regain control, feel grounded, and become empowered in your life. For more information on Evan’s practice, please visit www.alchemydallas.com
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For the past eight years, Melanie has worked as a social worker in Fort Worth, Texas. Specializing in healing-centered care, she currently works with children and families in the child welfare setting. In addition to her social work practice, Melanie is a registered yoga teacher with nearly 1,000 hours of yoga training. Melanie completed the Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) 300-hour certification program in 2019, and currently facilitates trauma-sensitive yoga with youth and adults in both group and private sessions. Her yoga classes provide opportunities for participants to explore present moment experiences, internal sensations, and choice-making with their bodies through movement, stretching, strengthening, and rest. In addition, Melanie loves to provide training for groups who want to learn more about trauma-sensitive yoga! For more information, you can contact her at mel.wilmoth@gmail.com . Pronouns: she/her/hers
Priya is a 500 hr registered yoga teacher, TCTSY-F (Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator), and certified meditation instructor. Utilizing the training she received along with her personal journey to self-help and healing Priya created The Intention Table with programs that cultivate awareness. Using the tools of mindful eating, trauma-sensitive yoga, and meditation these programs give people opportunities to explore patterns of behavior and mindset all while developing an open, receptive and present relationship with their mind, body, and soul. Priya dedicates her teaching to the concept that empowerment, choice making, and bringing the body into treatment are important pieces for recovery. She has taught TCTSY to programs that support trauma recovery for sex trafficking, addiction, and abuse in Dallas. Priya also teaches TCTSY in Dallas Counseling and Treatment Center 12 week Outpatient program and AP Counseling and Yoga center. http://bit.ly/2X93piw |
Utah
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Kindra is a licensed clinical social worker who graduated from University of Utah in 2013. She has focused her practice on treating trauma. During her career she came upon trauma sensitive yoga and found the amazing benefits of it personally and professionally. She went on to become a registered yoga teacher. She currently works at a non-profit organization where she provides individual and group therapy incorporating TCTSY and other evidenced-based methods in treating trauma. Email: kindra@thefamilyplaceutah.org |
Lisa Stachitus, RYT, TCTSY-F
Salt Lake City, Utah
I have always been fascinated with the inner workings of the brain and how our life experiences impact our development as children and into adulthood. After attending a workshop about Trauma-Sensitive Yoga and finding out there was a style of yoga that works hand in hand with understanding and healing the connections between the brain and the body, I immediately knew this was a way I could bring my passions together, and give back to my community (and humanity) by becoming a facilitator of TCTSY. Originally trained in the Baptiste Power Vinyasa style of yoga, RYT-200, I was struck by the differences between the traditional yoga I have experienced and the Trauma-Sensitive Yoga that I experienced with TCTSY. I love their focus on non-coercion, equal power dynamics and always using invitation to facilitate a yoga session. You get to choose when and how you move your body, and to practice getting in touch with your body. The feeling I had of being in control of my body and understanding that I am in charge is something that I wish to help others experience. I am excited for this opportunity to assist others in their healing process. If you have experienced trauma in your life and are curious to know if this style of yoga might benefit you or a group you are involved with, please contact me at lisa.stachitus@gmail.com.
Vermont
Valerie Racine, LCMHC, TCTSY-F
Brattleboro, VermontValerie is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor located in Southern Vermont. After 8 years working in community mental health focusing on individual and family therapy in both schools and outpatient clinics, Valerie launched her private practice in Brattleboro, Vermont. Trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Valerie’s approach to psychotherapy is rooted in a strength based approach focusing on relational dynamics. Valerie also incorporates aspects of mind-body awareness and self-regulation techniques in her work with individuals, families, and couples. Valerie also facilitates an Embodied Yoga Group for Women at a local yoga studio. If you’d like more information about Valerie’s practice, please feel free to check out her website at www.valerieracine.com or email her at racinevalerie@gmail.com
Abby Tassel M.S., TCTSY-F
Vermont
Abby’s work with trauma extends back over two decades, in particular in local organizations and on college campuses with people who are victim/survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and her group work includes an equine-facilitated group for women who are survivors of gender-based violence. While body-mind interventions and the power of movement have been a focus of her work, she also dedicates her time to mobilizing for social change to end violence. In addition to her community work, she is on the faculty of two national organizations: Praxis International and Trauma-Informed Investigation and Adjudication of Sexual Assault on Campus. Abby can be reached at abbytassel@gmail.com
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Marsha D. Banks-Harold, certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) is the founder of the inclusive and diverse PIES Fitness Yoga Studio offering adaptive and accessible yoga therapy experiences for all. She intuitively guides others in building resilience by fortifying self-worth, rediscovering the authentic self and cultivating physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual (PIES) peace. Marsha serves those impacted by complex and microaggressive trauma, body image, inclusivity, diversity, intersectionality and social justice concerns of historically marginalized groups privately or in small groups. In addition, she works with special populations including special needs children and adults living with physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual or mental impairments; trailblazers; intimidated beginners; the aging population; and those living with long-term or chronic medical conditions. Marsha has presented on yoga therapy for the aging population and yoga as lifestyle medicine for stroke survivors at the Smithsonian Institute. She offers yoga teacher trainings and workshops that empower everyone to reach their true potential while enriching their authenticity. She is an active member in the International Association of Yoga Therapist (IAYT) and serves as a member of the Alexandria Wellness Group, Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) and Yoga Alliance (YA). Email: piesfitness@aol.com |
Washington
Alli Ewing, E-RYT, TCTSY-F
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Licensed 20-Hour TCTSY Trainer
Alli is a certified Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga facilitator and trainer. She began a regular yoga practice during her Peace Corps service in Tanzania where she benefited immensely from an embodied practice. After she moved back to the States, she began working at a Residential Treatment Facility for youth in foster care as a Program Manager. She was drawn to learning more about offering yoga as a healing practice to program residents and attended a Taoist Yoga Teacher training. She began to explore best practices for offering yoga for youth who have experienced trauma, and has since completed the 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga certification program. Other professional experience includes working with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative and Baylor College of Medicine, supporting yoga teacher continuing education with Africa Yoga Project, offering yoga for elementary school teachers within the Compassionate Schools Project research study. She has experience teaching yoga with refugees, youth with special needs, pre/post natal yoga and is interested in integrating TCTSY with women who have experienced sexual violence and are navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood. Alli currently offers individual and group TCTSY sessions in and around Tacoma, Washington. Pronouns: she/her/hers.
For more information please visit http://bit.ly/2ECWYNi or email her at alli@safespaceyogaproject.com
Yoli Grandjean, RN, TCTSY-F
Seattle, Washington
Yoli is a Registered Nurse with a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree in community health. She has completed over 500 hours of yoga teacher training, including her TCTSY facilitator certification. Yoli has worked as a nurse in a broad range of community settings with vulnerable populations and is a faculty member in the School of Health Sciences at Seattle Pacific University. She currently leads TCTSY sessions with women transitioning out of homelessness as part of a research study. Yoli offers TCTSY for individuals and groups in the greater Seattle area. For more information, you can contact her by email: genesisyoga.life@gmail.com
Morgan Vanderpool, LICSW, E-RYT, TC-TSY-F
Tacoma, WA
Supervisor, Latinx Certification Program
Licensed 20-hr TCTSY Trainer
Agency Trainer
Morgan is the TC-Trauma Sensitive Yoga trainer for the Western United States, México, Latin America and the Caribbean. Morgan is a queer, gender fluid clinical social worker, who is multi-lingual and multi-literate in Spanish and English. They are passionate about facilitating empowering learning experiences for other professionals on how to use the neuroscientific foundations of TC-TSY’s body-up approach to movement and breath, to help facilitate healing for the most complex intersections of systemic oppression and individual trauma.
Morgan has over a decade of experience in the social work field, and joined the TC-TSY team, in 2012. Currently, Morgan integrates TC-TSY in their therapeutic and community organizing practice in Tacoma, WA, where they primarily work with individuals, and organizations that serve, their LGBTQ community & internationally-born survivors of crime & systemic violence. Additionally, they are well rounded in the full spectrum of the healing work of complex trauma, from one-on-one work, group facilitation, and training/consulting other professionals in trauma sensitive practices. Since 2017, Morgan has closely collaborated with Dunna-Alternativas para La Paz in Colombia, and Integra Salud in Puerto Rico, to integrate ongoing trauma sensitive yoga trainings for professionals working with survivors of 50+ years of civil war, as well as survivors of the intersection of natural disaster and ongoing colonialism. You can find out more information about Morgan and their work at- http://bit.ly/2XcQgEV.
Wisconsin
Clare Norelle, bilingual TCTSY-F
Madison, Wisconsin
Clare loves using the evidence-based practices of TCTSY to help create safe and healing environments for people with trauma to practice moving their bodies, making choices about them, and feeling what’s going on as they do. She teaches with gentleness, gratitude, humor, and respect for diverse experiences and abilities, offering TCTSY classes and individual sessions in English and Spanish on a sliding scale basis. Clare enjoys teaching yoga to students of any age or background, but finds it especially meaningful to offer yoga in ways designed to help people relieve stress and strengthen resilience after traumatic experiences. Since 2007 she has taught yoga for veterans, domestic violence survivors, bereaved children, youth, and adults, people with secondary trauma, and those with complex trauma or PTSD related to childhood neglect or abuse, sexual assault, displacement/immigration, racism, poverty, and other forms of social or political violence.Clare is an RYT 200, has trained in teaching yin yoga with Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers, and completed an MEd in community education focused on creative educational approaches to race, ethnicity, and social justice. (608) 335-7163 / clarenorelle@mac.com. Website: www.clarenorelle.com.
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La Crosse, WisconsinRachel is a marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, and Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga facilitator in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area. She has completed advanced trainings in EMDR and Gottman Method Relationship therapy and is currently completing training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She provides psychotherapy services in Spanish and English to children, adolescents, and adults through Gundersen Health System’s Sexual Abuse Counseling & Support Program. Rachel completed a Fulbright grant in 2008 in Chile. She holds a Bachelors degree in Hispanic Studies and English from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Masters of Library Science from Indiana University, and Masters of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Rachel specializes in trauma treatment, with particular interest in intimacy and relationships after abuse. She can be reached at rmslough@gundersenhealth.org |
Kristin Sutter, RYT-200, TCTSY-F
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
As she was in talk therapy grappling with the physical ramifications of some childhood experiences, Kristin started going to yoga class every week. There, she fell in love with moving and breathing and having all that time to just be and notice. Yoga became a powerful tool that helped her navigate through both her past and her present. A decade later, she completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training with Tias and Surya Little of Prajna Yoga. And in April 2017, she became a Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F). Her intention is to create a safe space for students to practice yoga on their own terms. She taught a weekly yoga class for veterans for two years at the Milwaukee VA inpatient center and has taught TCTSY classes at The Healing Center, Sojourner Family Peace Center and through Milwaukee County Comprehensive Community Services. Kristin currently teaches private and group yoga classes for people who’ve experienced complex trauma and relational trauma at Milwaukee Area Psychological Services. To reach her, please email kristinsutteryoga@gmail.com or visit her website kristinsutteryoga.com.
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