TFA Instructors

Pam Burnham, PhD, LISW, has been in clinical practice for 30 years with a focus on developmental and shock trauma in infants and children. She is certified in EMDR and SE. Dr. Burnham is in private practice, has conducted research in parent-infant attachment, teaches a somatic based psychotherapy of trauma and is a co-founder of DeColores, The Parent Child Center, a non-profit intensive, therapeutic day treatment program for 3 and 4 year olds and their families. She was a member of the Trauma Outreach Team with the Foundation for Human Enrichment traveling to Thailand and New Orleans post Tsunami and Katrina/Rita as well as a member of the Trauma First Aide teaching staff in Louisiana.

Holly G. Burnes, RN, MS, Certified Clinical Nurse specialist in Mental Heath and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®. Holly is a seasoned psychotherapist who has been using mind/body approaches to help people with physical and emotional issues, predominantly trauma based, throughout her 30 years of experience. Her training started as a nurse, which allows her to be comfortable in dealing with physical disease, disfigurement, and in being with people fearing death, recovering from loss, and reeling from getting life threatening news. She has predominantly been a psychotherapist for adults and some teenagers since then with a particular interest in helping people with physical illness to grow personally as they recuperate physically. From the late '80s until 2001, Holly led mind/body therapeutic groups at a large outpatient medical practice. She created specialized groups for irritable bowel syndrome, infertility, heart disease, and fibromyalgia and has trained other clinicians to lead these groups. Holly was a member of the Trauma Outreach team post Katrina and has been part of the Trauma First Aide© teaching staff in, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Louisiana.

Theresa L. Cangelosi, M.A., LMFT, SEP, is a somatic psychotherapist with a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology. She has been in private practice for fifteen years in San Francisco, California working with individuals, families and couples. Following a psychodynamic and body-based approach, her work has expanded to include attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, bodywork and Sensory Experiencing. She was a member of a post-Katrina outreach team which traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana to assist in an education program for the staff of the Catholic Social Services. Currently, she is active in creating a San Francisco regional trauma outreach program.

Geneie Everett, PhD, RN,SEP, is the founder and Director of Trauma First Aide Associates, LLC. Dr. Everett served as the Director of the Foundation for Human Enrichment’s Trauma Outreach Program (TOP). Dr. Everett has 35 years experience as an Integrative Practitioner incorporating multiple Body/Mind techniques from western medicine and native cultures. In addition to her integrative healing practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she served as a member of the Subcommittee on Integrative Practice to the N.M. Board of Nursing. She also sponsors the “Hundred Medicines©" conferences on integrative practice. Her hospital nursing experience included critical care, renal transplant, and emergency medicine. In January 2005 Dr. Everett led a team to Thailand to assist tsunami survivors. She also deployed multiple outreach teams to Louisiana in response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She is currently offering classes in Trauma First Aide™ across the United States and Canada. Trauma First Aide™ is a short term stabilization model developed by Dr. Everett and colleagues to treat symptoms of acute traumatic stress in emergency settings. Her passion when working with acute trauma is to “prevent more and treat less.” Dr. Everett's coauthored book, Trauma First Aide©, will be published in 2008.

Giselle Genillard, Licensed Midwife, SEP, member of International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI), and TIPS Instructor has been working in the field of human endeavour for 30 years, first deeply involved with the politics of childbirth in England in the early '80's with Sheila Kitzinger and Michel Odent, then as Advanced Rolfer internationally and Licensed Midwife in New Mexico. Since 1999 she has been combining her skills as a somatic therapist with the art of midwifery, the core principles of Somatic Experiencing and the fruits of her experience of a cross-cultural education. She travels extensively for her work, massacres 5 languages with humorous fluency, was a member of outreach teams going to South-East India post-tsunami and to New Orleans post-Katrina. She is the organizer of the SE trainings in both England and France and director of "Sense of Self UK", a London-based organization designed to bring excellence in Eastern and Western approaches to somatic therapy to trauma resolution worldwide. Giselle specializes in working with PTSD, pre- and perinatal and sexual trauma, infertility and early attachment disorders, addictions, and international disasters.

Julia Gombos, MS, LMFT, SEP, has been working with children, individuals, couples and groups integrating relational, psychodynamic and somatic perspectives including Somatic Experiencing and Authentic Movement for the past 23 years. As a body-oriented psychotherapist she treats people with shock and developmental trauma, Post Traumatic Stress symptoms and issues relating to abuse, anxiety, depression, relationships and spiritual practice. She was a member of two response teams to Louisiana post Katrina. As adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral studies she teaches and supervises master's level students in the Somatic Psychology Department.

Lorin Hager, SEP has a private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He served as Chairman of the Board for Foundation for Human Enrichment (FHE) for eight years and helped write Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma, by Dr. Peter Levine. He is co-author of the Healing Trauma Guide Book, and It Won't Hurt Forever, published by Sounds True. Lorin studied with Dr. Milton Trager and has taught somatic-based trauma therapy. He served on the Trauma Outreach Team in Baton Rouge and New Orleans post Katrina has been part of the Trauma First Aide™ teaching staff in Washington, New Mexico, and Louisiana.

Bhanu Joy Harrison, LISW, LMT, SEP is a body-centered clinical social worker, massage therapy instructor and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has been an instructor at the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics since 1985 and has taught classes in polarity therapy, physiology, body-centered emotional support skills, business practices and ethics. Bhanu is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider.

Brad Kammer, MA, MFTI, SEP, holds a Master's Degree emphasizing Somatic Psychology, and is a clinically trained Mental Health Counselor. He is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and assistant trainer for the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He served on a Trauma Outreach Program team to New Orleans post-Katrina and is currently working with a Northern California trauma outreach group. Brad has traveled, lived and worked around the world, and spent one year working with Burmese refugees in Asia. Brad lives in Ukiah, California where he has a practice in Body-Mind Therapy and works with children and their families through Redwood Children Services. He teaches psychology courses at Mendocino College. He is also a youth soccer and basketball coach. Brad was on Trauma First Aide teaching staff in Louisiana post Katrina/Rita.

Kristi Kennen LISW has conducted a private practice for 25 years specializing in working with clients, including adults and children suffering from traumatic events. She currently acts as a team member and consultant for a inter-disciplinary treatment team of physicians, doctors of oriental medicine, body workers, herbalists, and psychotherapists who treat people with auto-immune disorders, and trauma related syndromes. She incorporates Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Eriksonian Hypnosis, Ego-State Therapy, and Play Therapy in her clinical practice offering individual and group therapy. She has presented at major conferences studying PTSD and DID disorders. Kristi was a member of a response team and the Trauma First Aide teaching staff in Louisiana post Katrina/Rita.

 

Patti Lentz, MSPT, SEP, RYT is a physical therapist and yoga teacher. She has an insatiable curiosity of the workings of the body and the creative compensations our bodies create to find balance. In her private practice and yoga classes, she works with clients of all ages and challenges to assist them to deepen their curiosity about the patterns held in the body and ways to work with these challenges. She has been teaching yoga teachers and physical therapists how to work therapeutically with yoga practice as well as working with the emotional/trauma holding in the body from an somatic perspective for 25 years. Patti was a member of the trauma team in Thailand after the tsunami and has worked with the Trauma Outreach Project in New Orleans and Baton Rouge post Katrina/Rita.

Starr Potts, MA, MSW, LICSW is a clinical social worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who blends numerous mind/body/spirit approaches throughout her 29 years as a clinician, community and life skills educator. She has participated in and organized community-based trauma response teams and prevention networks through her earlier involvement in local disaster response, diversity training initiatives, as former director of the Massachusetts Child Assault Prevention training center, and as a consultant/trainer in her company, Dreamweavers. A body-oriented psychotherapist, EMDR and integrative therapy consultant, and psycho-spiritual practitioner, Starr currently works in private practice with individuals, couples and groups coping with trauma, health challenges, grief, life transition and lifestyle issues. She was a member of the Trauma Outreach Program teams in post-tsunami Thailand and post-Katrina/Rita in Louisiana. She has been part of the Trauma First Aide teaching staff in Louisiana, Massachusetts and Maryland.

Kristin Sagert, PhD, LISW, SEP is a psychotherapist in private practice. Her approach is body centered, psycho spiritual, and a pattern level exploration with a Jungian orientation focusing on adults with all types of trauma, in life transitions, emotional distress in its varied forms, acute and chronic health issues and grief. Additionally, she integrates her understanding of diverse ways of healing with an extensive western healthcare experience as a medical social worker and a PhD in preventive medicine, which includes experience in formal and informal teaching of medical and social work students and research. Dr. Sagert was a member of the Trauma Outreach team post Katrina/Rita and has been part of the Trauma First Aide© teaching staff in New Mexico and Louisiana.