Somatic Experiencing

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. Click on the button to book your appointment.

Ways of Working Together Using Somatic Experiencing

Movement and body-oriented therapeutic interventions to anxiety and other forms of freeze/dissociation
Post-trauma coaching
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.

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.

Not sure if SE is right for you? Book a free 30 minute consultation with Lindsay. Email fearlesshealingwaterloo@gmail.com to book, or for more information.
60 minutes - $80+hst **
Book three sessions - $215+hst

About Lindsay Gulanes, SEP
I use my experience and training from multiple disciplines in each session. I have studied fascia and the nervous system with Tom Myers, founder of Kinesis Myofascial Integration, formerly also of the Rolf Institute. I have practiced with renowned yoga teachers such as David Swenson, Danny Paradise and Diane Bruni. I have been the lead instructor of a 200-hour yoga teacher training program since 2014 and have been leading yoga retreats since 2012.
I have had the privilege of attending the kinesiology anatomy lab at University of Waterloo to study the donor bodies. I am deeply influenced by the practical and philosophical work of Dr Gil Hedley and the late Michael Stone.
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.
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.

** sliding scale available based on individual need