Built by practitioners.
This work is personal for everyone who teaches it. Our faculty brings decades of combined experience across Somatic Experiencing, Formative Psychology, attachment neuroscience, Chinese medicine, and contemplative practice.
We teach what we practice. Every facilitator continues their own embodiment work alongside their clinical practice and teaching.
The creators and primary facilitators of our certificate programs.
Founder & Lead Facilitator
Will Rezin is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and the founder of Trauma and Somatics, a global training organization dedicated to advancing professional practice in trauma recovery and attachment repair through embodied, capacity-building approaches.
Since 2020, Will has trained over 500 practitioners across 28 countries through live cohort-based certificate programs. His work synthesizes insights from multiple somatic lineages including Stanley Keleman’s Formative Psychology, Ron Kurtz’s Hakomi, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Raja Selvam’s Integral Somatic Psychology, and contemporary attachment neuroscience.
Will holds over 350 hours of training and supervision in Somatic Experiencing and has served as a training assistant for SE International. He is a certified professional coach and maintains an active clinical practice alongside his teaching.
Currently, Will is developing Formative Somatics©, a comprehensive methodology integrating somatic trauma recovery with attachment-focused relational work, in collaboration with Kate Appleton, LPC.
Co-Creator, Attachment & Somatics
Kate Appleton is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with over 50 years of experience working with families. She is the co-creator of the Attachment & Somatics certificate program and brings unparalleled depth in attachment-focused somatic work.
Kate co-authored the manual integrating Somatic Experiencing with Dr. Stephen Porges’ Safe Sound Protocol. She served as a researcher on Dr. Porges’ Rest and Restore Protocol study in South Africa and was a featured speaker at the 2022 Polyvagal Institute Summit.
Her training background spans Somatic Experiencing, Transforming Touch, Transforming the Experience-Based Brain (TEB), Emotionally Focused Therapy, DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Bodymind Centering. Kate brings a lifetime of clinical wisdom to her teaching on attachment patterns, relational repair, and developmental trauma.
Trauma & Somatics guest faculty
Expert practitioners who bring diverse lineages to our foundational program.
Guest Facilitator
Geoff Cox is a leadership and embodiment coach, conflict mediator, somatic trauma bodyworker, and meditation teacher. He teaches at the University of Virginia and integrates multiple modalities including Somatic Experiencing, parts work, hospice care, and Qi Gong.
His work bridges contemplative practice with trauma-informed somatic work, bringing a grounded, masculine presence to the training space. Geoff specializes in helping practitioners develop their own embodied regulation as a foundation for clinical work.
Guest Facilitator
Natasha Pampin is an Argentine-American trauma-trained Mental Health and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner based in New York City. She co-founded an environmental NGO and brings a unique cross-cultural lens to somatic work.
Her training integrates ontological coaching, focusing, and mindfulness practices. Natasha brings warmth, precision, and deep cultural awareness to her teaching on nervous system regulation and trauma recovery.
Guest Facilitator
Ruby Fremon is the author of Potent Leadership and host of the top-rated Potent Truth podcast. She is an SE Practitioner in Training and BASE™ (equine-assisted SE) practitioner who integrates somatic work with spiritual insight.
Ruby brings a powerful presence to her teaching on embodied leadership and relational bodywork. Her work emphasizes the intersection of personal sovereignty, nervous system regulation, and authentic expression.
The Collective faculty
Expert teachers who lead experiential workshops in our monthly membership.
Teacher, The Collective
Dr. Cass Naumann is an integrative medicine doctor, licensed acupuncturist, and ordained Daoist priestess with over 20 years of clinical experience. She specializes in Medical Qigong, Daoist medicine, meditation, and vibrational healing.
In The Collective, Cass leads workshops on Qi cultivation, energetic hygiene, and the integration of Chinese medicine principles with somatic trauma work. Her teaching bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary nervous system science.
The Collective features a rotating roster of guest teachers from around the world, bringing fresh techniques and traditions to our monthly workshops. Past guests have included specialists in breathwork, plant medicine integration, dance movement therapy, and indigenous healing practices.
Expanding the window of tolerance by working with the whole body, not just the nervous system.
This is only a small glimpse into the lineages that have shaped our work…