Meet The Team
Faculty Glyndie Nickerson, SEP™
Dr. Glyndie Nickerson, PhD, SEP, LPC, ORDM is a faculty member of Somatic Experiencing® International. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and works with adults, children, and adolescents, integrating somatic, attachment, developmental, Jungian, and relational approaches. Her background in massage therapy, yoga teaching, and decades of contemplative practice informs her grounded, integrative clinical style.
Glyndie specializes in acute trauma and chronic stress, attachment disruptions, dissociation, pre- and perinatal trauma, complex syndromes, and Somatic Experiencing® touch work. Her teaching emphasizes attunement and relational presence, creating experiential learning environments where practitioners directly engage the neurobiological foundations of trauma healing, not only conceptually, but within themselves.
Her work is informed by clinical and community experience with individuals and populations affected by loss, destabilization, and war, as well as by her doctoral research exploring resilience in former political prisoners. She is dedicated to supporting the restoration of natural nervous system regulation, through which the grip of chronic stress softens and renewed vitality can emerge.
FacultySonia Gomes PhD, SEP™
Dr. Sônia Gomes, Ph.D., SEP™️ is a Clinical Psychologist, Senior International Faculty Member for Somatic Experiencing®️ (SE™️), Structural Rolfer®️, and Rolfing®️ Movement Practitioner with over 35 years of experience in the fields of trauma healing, psychotherapy, and embodied approaches to health and well-being. She is the founder of SOMA Embodiment®️, an integrative therapeutic approach that combines neuroscience, body awareness, movement, and relational practices to support resilience, self-regulation, and lasting transformation. Throughout her career, Dr. Sônia has worked extensively with individuals and groups, helping people recover from the effects of developmental trauma, shock trauma, chronic stress, and attachment wounds. Her work is deeply rooted in an understanding of the nervous system and the body’s innate capacity to heal when supported through safe, compassionate, and scientifically informed practices
FacultyPedro Prado, SEP™
Pedro Prado, 77, born in Brazil, graduated in clinical psychology in 1971 and worked and taught body oriented psychotherapy, in a neo-reichian somatic approach. In 1981 he was trained as a Rolfer and added the Structural Integration perspective into his practice. He was the first Rolfer in Brazil and dedicated himself to making Rolfing available in his country. Pedro founded the Brazilian Rolfing Association (ABR) of, and became an Advanced Rolfing and Rolf Movement Instructor for the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute (DIRI), in Boulder Colorado, where he has been teaching since 1991.
In 2000 the Brazilian Rolfing Association brought Peter Levine to Brazil and Pedro followed his inquiries into the somatic dimension of the psyche and incorporated SE into his practice. Pedro, in his pioneer personality, helped bring SE to Brazil, Latin America, and other locations around the globe, founded the Brazilian Association of Trauma (ABT). He became an Instructor for the Somatic Experiencing International (SEI), and has taught the Beginning and Intermediate and Advanced levels since 2005. Pedro has developed a methodology named “Structural Stretches” that integrates SE and the Structural approach. Currently, Pedro has a private practice, teaches for both Institutions all around the world, and, in 2006 completed a PhD in Psychosomatics”
FacultyDea Parsanishi, SEP™
Master’s in Education, Certified Canadian Counsellor, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Faculty with the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute.
As a body psychotherapist who has worked with traumatized humans for 30+ years and as a human impacted by trauma, I am passionate about teaching and learning how humans heal from trauma. I live on the west coast of Vancouver Island, on the beautiful traditional territory of the Hupačasath and c̓išaaʔatḥ peoples. I work here as a trauma therapist. Prior to that, I worked on the front lines with traumatized children, youth and adults. A large portion of my clinical practice is with complex trauma, early developmental trauma, attachment and intergenerational trauma.
Currently, I teach SE™ in Canada, the US, Bosnia and Herzogovina and Japan.
As the child of Japanese-Canadian and white-Canadian parents, I have lived and worked across culture all my life. As well, I have been blessed to work in a number of First Nations communities and was taught how communities survive multi-generational trauma, the importance of spirituality in healing, and the overlap between SE™ and some traditional ways of healing. These personal experiences inform my understanding of culture, race, racism and marginalization and impact how I support healing within these experiences. I work from a body-oriented perspective, incorporating SE™, movement, touch and touch awareness in my practice. I am available for faculty consults and the occasional in-person personal session.
Also, vital parts of my life include my family, playing in the ocean and the rainforest and reading novels.
Lead Assistant Dennis Moorman, SEP™
Dennis is currently living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a Somatic Experiencing® Personal Session Provider and an Individual Case Consultation Supervisor at the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Levels of SE™ training. He has a special interest in working with intergenerational trauma. The regular practice of Aikido also informs his embodied therapeutic approach.
OrganiserWanjiku J. Kiarie, SEP™
Wanjîkū is a Hearth Tender, a Fire Keeper and a Circle Leader whose mission is calling people into REMEMBERING and then guiding them into being and doing out of that REMEMBERANCE.
Wanjîkū is a Trauma-Informed Integrated Wellbeing Practitioner. She combines Family Constellation Systems Therapy, Embodied Healing, Somatic Experiencing®️, Spiritual Companionship, Ancestral Healing, Art and Nature Healing modalities in her work. Wanjîkū is the Founder and Lead Consultant at Integrated Living.
