Shauna is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Somatic Touch provider at AIM. She specializes in treating the effects of chronic stress, early life trauma and inter-generationally transmitted traumatic stress through Somatic Bodywork. Her scope includes neonatal trauma, birth trauma, syndromal patterns or unexplained illnesses, women’s health and stress illnesses, including the impact of compounded shock traumas. Shauna also treats the effects of shock traumas such as motor vehicle accidents, falls and injuries and offers trauma informed lymphatic drainage and scar integration work for those who have had surgery recently or in the past.
Shauna uses Somatic Touch and Bodywork to address the layers of traumatic stress that stores in our bodies. Sharing our story and experiences in life is important, but much of what is patterning in our bodies has a non verbal story. She brings to her practice over 20 years of bodywork and massage experience. Her own experience in life, as a mother of three and having experienced motor vehicle accidents, surgical trauma, early life and inter-generationally transmitted trauma patterns led her to seek out body based, nervous system work to heal.
Education:
Shauna completed her certification in Lymphatic Drainage Massage, Aromatherapy and Body mechanics in 2001. In 2013, Shauna continued her studies, completing an Applied Psychology Bachelors’ degree in pre-counselling Psychology. Her studies included early human development, self regulation and emotional intelligence.
Honouring her many years of experience working with clients nervous systems through massage practice. In 2019, Shauna began her studies in Somatic Experiencing® a body based psychotherapy model for traumatic stress regulation and trauma renegotiation. She has taken specialized training to offer her sessions in person and online.
Shauna has completed post graduate studies in Somatic Practice Touch® skills and Resilience and Regulation® training in the Somatic effects of Early Developmental Trauma, Epigenetics and Attachment. This focus helps her provide healing from the effects of early trauma and traumatic stress by working directly with our nervous system.
Her own experience in life as a mother of three, having experienced motor vehicle accidents, surgical trauma early life and inter-generational transmitted trauma patterns led her to seek out body based, nervous system work to heal.