Recommended Practitioners

Eileen Sendrey, CMT

Eileen Sendrey, CMT completed Myrna’s 700 Hour Practitioner Training; works with adults & families with children supporting healthy connection & helping resolve early developmental trauma; and is an experienced bodyworker with special emphasis in prenatal & infant massage and craniosacral therapy.

Bonnie Davis, RCST

Bonnie is a registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist and pre and perinatal birth therapy practitioner. She offers in person, Skype and group sessions. She teaches developmental movement classes for moms and babes and parental seminars and workshops in B.C.

Jenie Taylor, Bach.Appl.Sc. BCST, RCST®

Jenie is a certified facilitator of Womb Surround Process Workshops and offers a skilled, empathic presence, utilizing prenatal, birth and attachment therapy, somatic trauma resolution, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, inquiry, energetic bodywork, birth simulation and other touch and empathy skills. Her private practice is in Western Australia and she offers profound, life changing Process Workshops In Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Dr. Shannon Zaychuk

Dr. Shannon Zaychuk, a certified IBP instructor, with a practice in Calgary; regularly trains psychotherapists and allied health professionals in this modality.

Susan Hall, MA, CMT, RCST

Susan is a graduate of Myrna’s 700 hour pre and peri natal training and has assisted her numerous times in Birth Process Workshops. She combines a Masters in Counseling Psychology with 29 years of somatic bodywork practice, the last 19 as a craniosacral therapist. Click to learn about Susan’s new classes.

Scott Engler, MA, BCST, RCST®

Scott Engler supports adults and infants experiencing physical symptoms, stress, or recovering from trauma using gentle, non-invasive touch. His training includes certificates in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Castellino Prenatal & Birth Therapy, Lomi Somatic Education, and Massage. Work with Scott can range from relaxing on a massage table receiving the healing of Biodynamic Craniosacral touch to sitting in a chair working somatically with appropriate presence through early traumatic imprints in order to experience a satisfying future as an adult.

Jane Flotron, RTC

Jane has a private practice in Nelson, the Slocan Valley and online, offering 1:1 sessions in Counselling, Relational Somatic Therapy and Attachment Therapy. Her work is also supported by deep connection with the natural plant world, sacred spaces, study of biodynamic cranial sacral therapy & healing arts. She has experience supporting neurodiverse children, individuals and families, and a depth of diverse cultural & dynamic life experience.

Aliyah Hamilton

Aliyah’s Somatic practice is called Sunia- the art of deep listening, located in Nelson, BC. Aliyah offers one on one sessions in Early Developmental Trauma Therapy; Parent Coaching through a Pre/peri natal lens; Registered Craniosacral therapy, Relational Somatic experiencing, Psychedelic therapy and integration.

Livia Ondi, LMFT

Livia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Francisco, California. She supports babies, toddlers and preschoolers and their families, as well as couples and individuals healing relational and regulatory challenges and moving towards inherent health and secure attachment relationships. Livia’s presence and skills are a unique amalgamation of her background in pre-and perinatal psychology, infant- and child-parent psychotherapy, early childhood mental health consultation, somatic psychotherapy, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.

Deirdre Collier

Deirdre practices as an Embodiment Facilitator at Anam Cara Somatics, in Creston Valley, BC and beyond. Her approach weaves foundational principles of biodynamic craniosacral therapy with body-based training from Pre & Perinatal Therapy, Attachment Therapy, Integrated Body Psychotherapy, and Somatic Therapy. Her container is further informed by explorations and training in Earth Medicine, Celtic Shamanism, Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda and Compassionate Communication.

Anne Cartegnie

Anne is a trauma-informed, attachment-focused, somatic practitioner and holistic healer. She has become the therapist her family needed to thrive when she was growing up. She gets a deep joy out of helping people overcome trauma and anxiety to reconnect with themselves, their health, their life force, and their sense of belonging and purpose.

Jennifer Song BCST, RCST®

Jennifer is a registered biodynamic craniosacral therapist and pre and perinatal birth therapy practitioner, a shiatsu therapist, a reiki master and a Yoga Teacher. She offers in person, online and group sessions with a practice based in Burlington, Ontario. Please check out her Podcast called “Early Echoes” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Paola Lagos

Paola Lagos is a holistic wellness practitioner specializing in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Birth and Postpartum Doula support, Somatic Attachment Therapy, and Pre- and Perinatal Education. Based in Ecuador, Paola provides virtual sessions in both English and Spanish.

Karen Strange

Karen Strange has been an American Academy of Pediatrics/Neonatal Resuscitation Program Instructor since 1992. She is founder of the Integrative Resuscitation of the Newborn workshop, which includes the physiology of newborn transition, the evidence-based studies having to do with neonatal resuscitation, and the “when, why and how” to do neonatal resuscitation in a non-traumatizing way.

Brenda Pulvermacher, B.Sc.

Using Craniosacral Therapy (CST), Brenda Pulvermacher is able to tap into our original blue-print for health that began manifesting at conception and is with us all our life. It is especially effective in helping with the common difficulties of the newborn. Brenda is also a graduate of Myrna’s 700 hour Practitioner Training.

Angela Ferri, MA, LMT, ATMAT, RCST

Angela is an advanced prenatal, birth and attachment therapy practitioner. She was trained by Myrna Martin in her 700 hour program, and has assisted Myrna & Janet Evergreen in several Birth Process Workshops. A sampling of her offerings include: womb surround facilitator; Biodynamic craniosacral therapy for adults, children & infants; prenatal bodywork, Maya Abdominal therapy for holistic pelvic care; therapeutic herbalist, family sessions facilitator.

Renee Hella, RCST, PPNE, CGP

Renee is a Certified Process Workshop Facilitator, a Pre and Perinatal Educator and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy teacher. She is also a trained Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet practitioner and has been working with clients around the world since 2003. Renee currently practices and hosts workshops and womb surrounds in Lillooet, BC and in Seattle, Wa. She has a passion for working multidimensionally with digestion and microbiome including early developmental trauma that impact the gut. She also specializes in twin dynamics and working with sexual abuse. Renee works locally with indigenous communities and leans into land-based support for all her work.

Prenatal Birth & Attachment Clinic

Located in Berkeley, California, offering prenatal Birth & Attachment sessions for adults and families; Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy for adults and families; and private Holistic Pelvic Care® sessions.

Chanti Smith, CPM, LM, SEP

Chanti is a midwife; advanced prenatal, birth and attachment therapy practitioner. She was trained by and assistant to Ray Castellino and assistant to Myrna Martin in her 3 year training. A sampling of her offerings include: womb surround facilitator; somatic experiencing® practitioner; holistic pelvic care® practitioner; infant massage instructor.