Dedeker Winston

Dedeker Winston is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, relationship coach, author, podcast host, and outspoken advocate for polyamory and non-traditional relationships. She is the co-creator of the Multiamory podcast, a research-backed relationship advice show with over 400 episodes. She is the author of The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know about Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love, as well as Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships. Her work has been featured in NPR, Oprah Daily, BBC News, Vice, and more. She has written on non-monogamy for the Gottman Institute blog and has presented on non-monogamy in the workplace at the Google campus in Seattle.

Theresa Hanaoka

Theresa Hanaoka Ph.D. was born and raised in Japan and received some parts of her education in the U.S. and France. She has multicultural background as she worked as a simultaneous translator in the field of science and technology in Japan and many parts of the world. She has worked as an Enneagram teacher supporting personal growth of people in Japan for more than 30 years, and obtained SEP in 2014. She has served as a SE international organizer, a SE lead assistant, and has become the first Japanese SE faculty member in 2022.

Ruby Jo Walker

Ruby Jo Walker, LCSW, SEP, CHT is the founder of Southwest Trauma Training (www.swtraumatraining.com) located in Durango, Colorado. She has a private psychotherapy practice and is certified in Hakomi Somatic Mindfulness Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She developed Post-Traumatic Growth Somatic Therapy, which includes applied Polyvagal Theory for trauma treatment and the development of resilience. She has provided training to psychotherapists, body work practitioners, pastoral care providers, medical personnel, educators, and agencies throughout the Colorado, the Southwest, and the Navajo Nation. During the pandemic, she was a key member of Colorado’s state-wide task force assisting in the development of a website to support health-care workers (www.cohcwcovidsupport.org). She is a contributing chapter author to a book being published by Norton Press in January of 2025. She delights in how using the lens of Polyvagal Theory brings compassion and humanness to all of her work.

Veronique Mead

Veronique Mead, MD, MA is an educator, consultant and blogger sharing a model of trauma in risk, prevention and treatment of chronic illness. Informed by her background as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Somatic Trauma Therapist, SEP and pre and perinatal professional (PPNP), her work builds on 25 years integrating trauma research. The model also draws from her personal experience of gradual improvement from disabling chronic illness by addressing and healing trauma from SE and nervous system-based perspectives.

Andrea Bell

Andrea L. Bell, LCSW, SEP, DA, is a somatic psychotherapist, ecotherapist and California Naturalist. She is the founder of SomaticWise, an Ecosomatic practice with the mission of supporting life, healing and regeneration during these troubled times. A clinical social worker since 2003, Andrea has served on the Assistant team of SEI since 2011. She has also served as Adjunct Faculty at California State University, Long Beach, in the Graduate Department of Social Work. Andrea completed her Doctor of Arts in Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities in January of 2024. Her passion for indigenous plants and the wildlife they support has led her to help restore local ecosystems devastated by development and habitat loss. She has a special knack for connecting with and supporting “out of the box” creative people and is currently pursuing a Permaculture Design Certificate.

Sonia Gomes

Sonia Gomes (Ph.D.) is a senior instructor in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She has over 30 years of experience in using body-oriented approaches in psychotherapy. As a member of the SE International Faculty, Sonia Gomes is a senior SE instructor in Europe, the USA, South America, and Asia. She also mentors SE instructors. Adopting a multidimensional and holistic approach in her training and clinical practice, Sonia Gomes is dedicated to the use and recognition of SE to alleviate trauma-related pain and enhance personal growth. Her expertise demonstrated in demo works and individual sessions is highly appreciated by the SE community.She is also the creator of the SOMA Program, which is part of the advanced SE specialization training. The program focuses on the use of touch and movement for emotional regulation in trauma therapy (SOMA Embodiment – Hapticity and Movement for Emotional Regulation in Trauma Therapy).

Corinne Castelli

Corinne Castelli holds a diploma in acting and worked several years as a professional actress in Italy. Since 2009 she has been studying, researching and working across the fields of voice pedagogy, somatic education, stress regulation and meditation in the Buddhist traditions. She also holds a B.A degree in Early Childhood education. She works in private practice as a practitioner of the Lichtenberger Method®  for Applied Voice Physiology. Additionally, she is a certified Body Mind Centering® -Somatic Movement Educator, Haptic Gamma Embodiment Practitioner, Heilpraktikerin for Psychotherapy and completed the Somatic Experiencing® Advanced Level II in 2023. She currently lives in Switzerland and offers sessions online and in person around the topics of vocal development and nervous system regulation through voice & embodiment.

Maggie Kline

Maggie Kline has been a family therapist for nearly 40 years and is a retired school psychologist. Trained in Satir’s Family Systems, Gestalt, and Humanistic Psychology, she now specializes in trauma recovery through her Resilience Roadmap Model. Maggie integrates S.E. with art, dream work, movement and attachment play. She has taught SE as Senior Faculty since 1999 and created Conscious Connections Play Shops taught on 5 continents. Maggie co-authored Trauma through a Child's Eyes and Trauma Proofing Your Kids with Peter Levine. Her latest book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools is intended to inspire an evolutionary shift in education.

Sarah Schlote

Sarah Schlote, MA, RP, CCC, SEP (she/elle) is a bilingual neurodivergent Registered Psychotherapist, Canadian Certified Counsellor, and SEP. She has taught coursework on parts work for trauma recovery through Wilfrid Laurier University and regularly consults on the integration of SE, attachment repair, and parts work in clinical practice, especially in relation to complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She has training in Structural Dissociation Theory and is familiar with the IFS framework and techniques derived from ego state therapy, inner child work, psychosynthesis, and transactional analysis. Aside from her work in trauma resolution for equines, she has also trained in EMDR (for humans and for animals), Brainspotting, Deep Brain Reorienting, attachment work, Touch Skills Training with Kathy Kain, Somatic Resilience and Regulation Training, pre- and peri-natal trauma work, Indigenous Tools for Living, and attended a master class with Peter Levine and was selected to present a case.

Debra Clydesdale

Debra Clydesdale, LAc, DNBAO, SEP, ACN, CDS, MSME/T, LMT is currently on Faculty Somatic Experiencing International. She is also on Faculty at Center for BodyMindMovement and has completed certification training in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (Masters Degree), Hellerwork, Acupuncture Detoxification and Addiction (NADA), She is a Master Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist (MSME/T), and has been recognized as a Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California. She has board specialization as a Diplomate in Acupuncture Orthopedics and is a NCCAOM Diplomate (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine). She has published on Electro-acupuncture in the Medical Acupuncture journal, in using Acupuncture for Eating Disorders, and has presented to physicians and clinicians.

Naina Sodhi

Naina is a marriage and family therapist by licensure in the state of California since 2012 and an SEP since 2018. She works in a tiny private practice for adjunct trauma treatment only and as a coordinator for Maternal (peri post partum) mental health programs in a hospital and adjunct faculty at a few local universities. SE has been pivotal in all her work. She is also trained in EOTN, Syndromes, Touch skills and some ISP. She is also in the process of being certified in crania sacral therapy. In her journey as a therapist, she has spent most of her time working with women and children doing individual and group work; building teams and programs in several hospitals; and most of all sharing a journey of learning with colleagues, supervisees and students.