Meet the trainers of the trainings
The whole team ensures that a safe, supportive environment is established, that the organisation is fluid and with clear boundaries, so that learning can take place in the best possible way, always at the service of the students.
Lael Keen
Lael Keen is an SE® practitioner and teaches Somatic Experiencin® for the Foundation for Human Enrichment since 1998. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Trauma Association and a senior member of the Brazilian faculty.
Lael is also certified as an advanced practitioner of Rolfe® and Rolfin® Movement and is on the teaching staff of the Rolf Institute. She has been teaching Rolfing and Rolf Movement in the USA and Brazil since 1994.
Kavi Gemin
Kavi is a teacher and co-director of the International Institute for Craniosacral Balancing® and a member of the Somatic Experiencing® faculty. Kavi practices and teaches Craniosacral Biodynamics since 1995.
Graduated through the Canadian College of Osteopathy, he has extensive training in various psychosomatic disciplines, including traditional massage, deep tissues work and Ayurvedic massage.
Liana Neto
Clinical psychologist and PhD in Medicine and Health from the Federal University of Bahia. At the Jungian Institute of Bahia she coordinates the postgraduate course in Psychotraumatology, establishing a dialogue between analytical and somatic approaches.
Collaborating lecturer at the Iberian Centre for Somatic Psychotherapy in Biosynthesis and in postgraduate studies at the Bioethics Centre, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon-PT. She teaches and supervises Somatic Experiencing® courses internationally.
Mariana Boccuzzi
I am a woman, a mother, a psychologist, a psychotherapist and a teacher in relational systemic psychotherapy, as well as in Somatic Experiencing. My clinical approach with individuals, families, and couples integrates psychotherapy and SE. This allows me to address relational issues with special attention to the body and its physiology.
My particular interest lies in the study of issues pertaining to development, relationships and human relations.
Pedro Prado
Degree in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Psychosomatics. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in private practice and as a professor of Somatic Psychology at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo.
He incorporated SE® into his work and in 2005 he graduated as an Instructor from The Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI).
Pedro is currently teaching Somatic Experiencing® in Europe, America and Asia.
Irene Trajtenberg
Clinical psychologist with extensive experience in body approaches and trauma treatment. She has been trained in Character-Analytic Orgone Therapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Somatic Experiencing® and Bodynamic Analysis.
She graduated in Somatic Experiencing® in 2005 and teaches SE at the Basic and Intermediate levels in trainings offered by the Brazilian Trauma Association (ABT). Irene Trajtenberg is also a representative of Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil.