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  • Welcome to Fearless Heart
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Lindsay Gulanes SEP
    • Funeral Celebrant
    • Community Resources
  • Location and Contact
  • Karen Hultin M.A., MSW (RSW), SEP
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Somatic Experiencing

To book Somatic Experiencing or postural/movement support session, please email: [email protected]
55 minutes - $120 =135.60 incl HST)
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 - What is Somatic Experiencing and How is it Different Than Traditional Counselling?
There are many different ways that life events might erode your resilience. Approaching healing solely from a talk therapy/cognitive perspective will limit your capacity to prevent repeating patterns that occur as a result of past trauma.

I help support people as they move through the process of working through the impacts of trauma in their thoughts, emotions and in their body. I am not a psychotherapist, but Somatic Experiencing works as a wonderful complement to insight-based therapy.
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​Ways of Working Together Using Somatic Experiencing
  • Movement and body-oriented therapeutic interventions to anxiety and other forms of freeze/dissociation
  • Post-trauma response interventions
  • Concussion support and nervous system regulation
  • Chronic pain and auto-immune support through neuro-behavioural interventions
​An SE session may involve conversation, tracking of physical sensation, movement and in some instances, touch work (with client’s permission). The intention is to move slowly, and when conversation is involved, to integrate the physical experience with the cognitive, in order to avoid re-traumatizing by telling the story over and over again.
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Distance support is available through video-call sessions. To book a video-call click the "book your appointment" button.

Physical symptoms of trauma may include:
  • chronic pain
  • anxiety
  • a feeling that something is wrong without being able to point to specific events
  • injuries that won’t resolve
  •  IBS and other digestive sensitivities
  • addictions
  •  difficulty focusing/concentrating on tasks
  •  phobias
  •  social anxiety
  •  sleep disorders
  •  compulsive/repetitive thoughts or behaviours
You can restore a sense of balance to your nervous system and have a greater capacity to be present and calm. Integrating the cognitive experience, the emotional experience and the physical experience is critical to resolving trauma. Somatic Experiencing supports that transformation. Finding support and relief from the symptoms of PTSD can be life-changing.

 
About Lindsay Gulanes, SEP, licensed funeral director

In addition to the academic training I have had so far, I am also deeply influenced by my own ongoing healing experience as a trauma survivor. This has shaped the way that I approach my work because I understand on a personal level just how important it is to have the right amount of support throughout the healing process.
I draw on each discipline for every individual and group session. I get excited about supporting people in arriving in their bodies, and cultivating a friendlier relationship with their body and experiences.
I have studied fascia and the nervous system with Tom Myers, founder of Kinesis Myofascial Integration. 
 I have had the privilege of attending the kinesiology anatomy lab at University of Waterloo to study the donor bodies, and studied Integral Anatomy with Dr Gil Hedley.
Through the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, I completed the three-year program to receive the SEP trauma therapy designation. I had the privilege of studying with Berns Galloway, Linda Stelte and Dea Parsanishi. With additional support and consultations from Patricia Berendsen and Ariel Giaretto, amongst others. During my SETI studies I also participated an online seminar with Dr. Laurence Heller outlining the Neuro Affective Relational Model for working with shame.
In 2017 I completed the master course on Sexual Trauma with Dr. Peter Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing. I studied with Dr. Kristin Neff's Mindful Schools program Self-Compassion for Educators. I hold a certificate in death, dying and bereavement from the school of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University and I am a Class 1 Funeral Director's licensed with the Bereavement Authority of Ontario.
​ Finding ways to support people making healthy connections is something I am passionate about.
Want to work together? Drop me a line: [email protected]


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