ANA M. DO VALLE, Founder, OTR, SEP Ana is the clinical director and supervisor for the Soma Healing Center in Boulder, CO. She has developed her studies in the areas of Anthroposophical Counseling, Sensory Processing and Somatic Experiencing. Ana specializes in working with the social nervous system. Her focus is on addressing the art of integrating sensory information in order to create embodiment, empowerment and coherence in our capacity to “experience” the other and ourselves. Ana works with families and individuals by facilitating attunement and promoting deeper awareness in regards to the power of healing through relationships. She works with birth and medical trauma, emotional regulation and trauma resultant from cultural fragmentation. She teaches and provides supervision to clinicians on the subject of trauma and healing nationally and outside the US.
During her career Ana has traveled and learned important cross-cultural principles, reinforcing the basic concept that recovering and repairing of humanity’s suffering resides on our capacity to connect to each other as a way to kindle our own transformation.
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DR. JOSEPH DILLARD, Advisor Dr. Joseph Dillard is a psychotherapist, author, and educator with over forty year’s clinical experience treating individual, couple, and family issues. Joseph also has extensive experience with pain management and meditation training. The creator of Integral Deep Listening (IDL), he is the author of over twenty books on escaping life drama, waking up, dreaming, Dream Sociometry, nightmares, near death experiences, and meditation. Joseph received his Master’s in clinical social work from the University of Arkansas in 1979 and his PhD in Holistic Health Sciences/Health Education from Columbia Pacific University in 1981. |
KERI SHEE, MA, OTR, TCTSY-F Keri Shee (she/her) is a trauma-informed occupational therapist dedicated to empowering children and parents to learn strategies for nervous system regulation, enhance self-awareness, develop mindfulness-based coping strategies, and understand and communicate their sensory and emotional worlds. Keri specializes in supporting adolescents with anxiety, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, general life transitions, and family changes. Keri also offers parent coaching, facilitates parent-child sessions and has extensive experience in consulting and collaborating with families, educators, psychotherapists, and a variety of multidisciplinary teams. Keri began her occupational therapy career at Johns Hopkins Hospital and later worked in Baltimore Public Schools. In 2009, she earned a Master’s degree in Secondary Education at CU Boulder and became a middle school language arts teacher in the Boulder Valley School District. During her children’s early years, Keri founded Bolder Writers, LLC where she led creative writing groups for middle school students. She also completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training, eventually founding Spark Youth Yoga, LLC. In 2017, Keri transitioned to her current role at Soma Healing Center, training in polyvagal theory, Safe and Sound Protocol, and HeartMath and earning a 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY-F) certification from the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI.
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KORRIE SPARKS, OTD, OTR/L As a doctor of occupational therapy, Korrie Sparks supports Soma Center to understand the whole child through in-depth evaluations. Assessments involve 2-3 hours of in-person testing using the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests (SIPT), the gold standard of sensory integration testing. This is a battery of 17 tests to understand your child’s ability to register and interpret sensory information including vision, touch, balance, body awareness, auditory processing, and praxis. Insights from testing can provide a deeper understanding of your child’s nervous system and support pin-pointed and effective treatment. You are provided with a 10-12 page report that can be used to support wellbeing at home, school, and within the community.
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LAURA PICHE Laura moved to Boulder, CO from Chicago, IL in 2005. She began her training in the healing arts when working for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma (SETI) Institute in 2007 and remained at the Institute for nine years. The SE Trauma Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to resolving trauma worldwide by providing state-of-the-art professional training and public education in Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).
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