Everyone is welcome. 

Each Fourth (and Fifth) Monday, we will have a different "Guest Speaker" on topics relevant to our HeartQuesters.

Have some curiosity or want to present? Drop us an email.

This Month on Monday, June 24, we will have Willy Ren speak on "Releasing Trauma using the Somatic Experiencing® Model."

Trauma is a fact of life. It does not have to be a life sentence.                                   — Peter A Levine, PhD

Explore a gentle and natural healing technique to release you from the effect of trauma.  Somatic Experiencing® Model holds that trauma is in the nervous system (body), not in the traumatic event itself, and we as humans are resilient and able to heal from trauma through focusing on bodily sensations rather than working with only our thoughts.

Willy Ren received his Master's of Science in Clinical Psychology from Vanguard University and is working hard on completing his 3,000 clinical hours to be licensed as Marriage and Family Therapist in CA. Willy came to know and experience somatically oriented therapies through his own recovery from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (a type of anxiety disorder). Even though somatically orientated therapies overcome the limitation of typical talk therapies in addressing underlying trauma associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety, not all somatically orientated therapies are created equal. Willy realized that there needs to be a gentle and natural way of healing from trauma that focuses on integration and healing rather than emotional catharsis. His search brought him to trauma healing program created by Dr. Peter Levine, Willy is currently an Advanced Student in the three-year Somatic Experiencing®  Practitioner Certificate Program and is expected to be fully certified in 2025. 

Some Topics we covered recently are 

• Reflections on my Move to Orthodoxy
• Enneagram – Another Personality Type Model 
• Dealing with Grief using Different Modalities
• Hanna Somatics – Mind-Body retraining to address chronic muscular pain
• Healing from Trauma
• Listening to and Calming your Inner Self – The Echo Process 
• Transforming Childhood Myths