Who we are
Somatic Experiencing Spain
Who are we at Somatic Experiencing Spain?
Our international teaching team at Somatic Experiencing Spain includes:
- The instructor in charge of lessons, demonstrations and coordination of the whole team.
- Senior assistants (supervisors) teach and assist both students and the rest of the team. They also facilitate supervision sessions on the clinical cases presented by the students.
- The assistant providers deliver the sessions required in the training.
- Junior assistants or assistants in training are those who are in the learning process.
The whole Somatic Experiencing Spain 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.
Summary of the talk about Somatic Experiencing given by Fuensanta Muñoz de la Cruz,
Organiser of the Somatic Experiencing training in Spain.
Organizer
Fuensanta Muñoz De La Cruz
Pioneer in the organisation of Somatic Experiencing® training in Spain, in 2015 the first promotion, started in 2013, was completed, obtaining the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) accreditation.
Fuensanta Muñoz de la Cruz has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cordoba (1987) and has been a Rolfing® therapist since 1990.
In 1994 she participated in a Somatic Experiencing® workshop in Corfu with Peter Levine (also a Rolfer). The interest that this workshop aroused in her led her to organise Rolfing® and Trauma courses with Lael K. Keen, teacher of Rolfing and Somatic Experiencing®, which resulted in the organisation of the first Somatic Experiencing® training in Spain.
Since 2010, it has been the main organiser of workshops and official training courses in Spain.
He currently devotes his professional activity to Rolfing® and Somatic Experiencing®, as well as teaching and organising courses.
Coordinator Somatic Experiencing Spain
Beatriz Chacón
Instructors Somatic Experiencing Spain
Pedro Prado
Pedro Prado
Pedro holds a degree in Clinical Psychology and a 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.
In 1981 Pedro Prado became the first Brazilian Rolfer and was a founding member of the Brazilian Rolfing Association (ABR).
In 2000, the ABR invited Peter Levine (also Rolfer) to Brazil where he started teaching Somatic Experiencing® (SE) to the Brazilian community. As a result, Peter was able to delve deeper into the somatic investigation of the psyche. He incorporated SE® into his work and in 2005 he graduated as an Instructor of The Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI).
Pedro Prado's SE® teaching focuses on the psychobiological perspective of therapy, as well as on behavioural and movement aspects.
Pedro is currently teaching Somatic Experiencing® in Europe, America and Asia.
Liana Netto
Liana Netto
Liana is a Clinical Psychologist and has a PhD in Medicine and Health by the Federal University of Bahia.
At the Instituto Junguiano de Bahia, Bahian Faculty of Medicine, he also coordinates the postgraduate course in Psychotraumatology, establishing a dialogue between analytical and somatic approaches.
Liana is a collaborating professor at the Iberian Centre for Somatic Psychotherapy in Biosynthesis and in postgraduate studies at the Bioethics Centre, Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon-PT. She is also co-founder and coordinator of the Social Project ‘Desenvolve’, which since 2011 has been providing free psychotherapy to trauma victims suffering from anxiety disorders among the vulnerable population of Salvador-Bahia.
Liana Netto teaches and supervises Somatic Experiencing® courses internationally.
Lael Katherine Keen
Lael Katherine Keen
Lael Keen is an SE® practitioner and teaches Somatic Experiencing® 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 Rolfer® and Rolfing® 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.
Lael Keen also holds a fifth degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and has studied many different disciplines that focus on the mind-body connection.
Kavi Gemin
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.
His further studies include NLP, work with the inner child, co-dependency and developmental psychology. He completed the training on prenatal and birth work with Ray Castellino and is educated in the principles of System Centered Teachings®, developed by Yvonne Agazarian, for working with Group dynamics and human systems.
Kavi has a certificate in andragogy, as a teacher and educator for adults certified SVEB in Switzerland and teaches full-time.
Fascinated by Somatic Experiencing®, he studied with Peter Levine and is SEP certified since 2001. Since then, Kavi has assisted and supervised students in many Somatic Experiencing® trainings, deepening and integrating his understanding of the method.
As approved trainer and faculty member of Somatic Experiencing®, Kavi brings his passion and his love for anatomy, physiology and neurobiology in his lessons with clarity and creativity.
Irene Trajtenberg
Irene Trajtenberg
Irene is a Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience in body approaches and trauma treatment, including Character-Analytic Orgonotherapy, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), SE (Somatic Experiencing®), and Bodynamic Analysis.
She graduated in Somatic Experiencing® in 2005 and she is currently a SEI teacher at the Beginner and Intermediate levels of the training courses offered regularly by the Brazilian Association of Trauma. Likewise, Irene Trajtenberg is a representative of Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil and teaches SE in Spain.
Mariana Boccuzzi
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 human development, attachments and relationships. The “discovery” of the physiological basis of the appeasement response, although familiar in daily clinical practice, has added a new dimension of depth and clarity in the understanding of our interpersonal relationships.
Senior Assistants | Supervisors Somatic Experiencing Spain
Nina Hutchings
Nina Hutchings
Nina Hutchings has been teaching Visual Education with the Bates Method for over 20 years. In 2009 she trained in Somatic Experiencing® in France.
A graduate of the School of Visual Education in the UK, Nina Hutchings teaches workshops in France and abroad. She founded the French School of Visual Education to train teachers in the Bates Method. In 2009 she trained in Somatic Experiencing® in France.
Nina integrates the Somatic Experiencing® perspective into the way she teaches the Bates Method. Trauma has an impact on gaze, visual function and orientation, so the two techniques are fully complementary.
Nina is also trained in Sensorimotor Rebalancing and assists children with learning disabilities in the integration of persistent primitive reflexes.
Nina Hutchins has her private practice in Aix-en-Provence, France, but is also available online for Bates Method and Somatic Experiencing® sessions.
Fuensanta Muñoz de la Cruz
Fuensanta Muñoz de la Cruz
Fuensanta Muñoz de la Cruz has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cordoba. She has been a pioneer in SE training in Spain since 2010, SE therapist since 2015 and Rolfing and Rolf Movement teacher since 2018.
Brendan Mckiernan
Brendan Mckiernan
Brendan started his professional journey working as an addction Counsellor, in 2004 he completed his training as a systemic family therapist and in 2015 he completed his training as an SEP, being part of the first cohort of SEPs in Spain. Having managed a mental health facility for the Health service in Ireland for many years he has been in private practice since 2012. Here he focuses on integrating an embodied trauma perspective into his clinical work, working as a systemic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and educator. He is also now a senior assistant in SE having assisted for many years both in Spain and the U.K.
Dolors Molina Cuesta
Dolors Molina
Dolors began her specialization in Somatic Experiencing® in 2015, as part of the first SEP training cohort in Spain. Since then, she has been an official assistant in the certified Somatic Experiencing® Spain Training Program, currently serving as a Senior Assistant.
In addition to her clinical practice, she has been offering workshops and training sessions for over 10 years, both in person and online. Her professional background encompasses Homeopathy, Body Therapy, and the Facilitation of Conscious Stretching, bringing together an integral and multidisciplinary therapeutic approach.
She currently works in collaboration with the Concora Institute, taking part in various healthcare projects, most notably her work at the Hospital San Juan de Dios in Barcelona. She is also actively involved with organizations supporting survivors of gender-based violence and families in situations of social vulnerability.
Paula Mattoli
Paula Mattoli
Email: mattolipaula@gmail.com
Alejandra Martí
Alejandra Martí
Anny San Martín
Anny San Martín
Assistant Providers Somatic Experiencing Spain
Xabier García Clemente
Isabel Barriuso Rojo
Miryam Cubiles Rico
Bárbara Jiménez Douglas
José Javier Calvo Luis
Andrea Häberlin
Elvira Gil Chagoyen
Gloria Alberg Cobo
Nora Uranga Celaya
Clair Wicker
Anita Ogilvie
Laura Marsiaj
Rocío Vicente del Río
Ana Vega Martín
Pablo Martínez García
Eva Medel Rodríguez
Miki Alcalde Tremiño
Carmen Gloria Muñoz
Rosana Korin
Cristina Camesella
Norma Pérez
João Neto
Chema Alvear Almunia
Gisela Montanari
Yolanda Soriano García
Alberto Martín-Loeches
Assistants in Training Somatic Experiencing Spain
Alexia Puch Cisneros
Ignacio Mahiques Meseguer
Laura Lépez
Lucía Martínez Domínguez
Hannes Svanqvist
Rosario Sánchez
Laura Cortés
Isabel Morcillo Nieto
Lola Fernández
Anna Misztella
Daniela Sangiorgio
Breeda Mckibbin
Isabel Segura
Sabina Sadecka
Soraya Clement
María Jesús Marín López
Juana Gómez
Viyan Idan
Isabel Sandoval
Patricia Cano
Rosa Moreno
Ivette Dickinson
Emi Iizuka
Ignacia Schiesewitz
Goretti Díaz
Melanie Mayer
Carme Vila
Rosalía Caballero
Mireia Forns
Silvia Cobos
Yulin Sun
Ilkgün Jankowski
Drew Stockton
Regina Ehlers
Translators Somatic Experiencing Spain