Western Cape TRE® Providers

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For your safety and comfort you should only receive TRE ® guidance from certified individuals. Please do not receive TRE®  guidance from anyone who is not certified and listed on this website or on www.traumaprevention.com. Although the exercises evoke tremors easily, the ability to understand and safely guide a person through a successful completion of a session is more complex. The goal of providing you with certified TRE® Providers is to ensure you have a safe, pleasant and positive experience.

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Dr Salmon brought Dr David Berceli to South Africa to present TRE® in 2010 and train Providers in 2011 and 2012. The Provider Training in South Africa was the first formal training in the world at the time. Between 2012 and 2017 Dr Salmon facilitated several TRE® Pilot Projects ( Helderberg Rape Crisis Centre, SOS Children’s Village , Chrysalis Academy and in 2016 took TRE® into the Cape Flats and into the SA Parliament.

Under Dr Salmons watch and considerable input TRE® has continued to grow exponentially year on year and slowly becomes a tool of choice, negating endless & expensive therapy sessions to deal with ones stress, tension or trauma. In the world that we currently find ourselves in, we are faced with the day to day unfolding of trauma & violence.

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“Our bodies are like an atlas of all the roads that we have traveled in our life time and there are times we feel like we hurt ‘everywhere’. Before we can live in a world with less pain & suffering, we need to deal with the pain & suffering within ourselves. TRE® is unquestionably the tool of choice for finding our road to freedom from our past. ” – Dr Melanie Salmon

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TRE® CERTIFICATION TRAINERS

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Quantum Energy Coach, Learning and Development Facilitator and Trainer, Advanced Diploma for Educators of Adults (UWC)

I grew up knowing that my career and life purpose would be deeply connected. My interest and passion in helping and teaching did not translate into the traditional pathway of teacher or nurse, but instead I have journeyed a 25 year career in the training and personal development field and since 2011 has integrated deeper process facilitation and healing practices into my own life and approach in my work. I am a skilled and experienced facilitator, creating and holding spaces for learning, healing, growth and development of individuals and groups ranging from local government, to corporate and the NGO sectors.

I am a TRE® Certification Trainer and works full time in TRE® Practice since early 2015, using my skills and experience in TRE® along with Basic Gestalt Counselling practice and  Quantum Energy Coaching (QEC) to offer an integrative approach to releasing and healing tension, stress and trauma. I am an active member in the TRE® community, assisting in the training and supervision of TRE® Providers and I serve on the board of the TRE® for Africa Foundation, a Non-Profit Trust, established to create awareness of and introducing TRE® to communities in South Africa.

I also contribute to the gender reconciliation work of an NPO, called GenderWorks, as a Gender Reconciliation process facilitator and as well in an operational capacity, promoting and supporting the work of the organisation. I also serve on the GenderWorks Council.

“Being strongly grounded in my purpose of facilitating healing and empowerment within communities, I especially love working with women and youth. With a strong connection to and belief in the power of doing service, I volunteer some of my time and skills weekly to contribute meaningfully to women’s groups and youth organisations.” 

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Fiona is a TRE® Global Certification Trainer, presenting in Thailand, Romania, Portugal and South Africa.

She practices and teaches Taoist Energy techniques and meditations, and has created ” Nectar – Sexual Wisdom & Alchemy”, a practical, safe and accessible program, practicing the transformation of Jing Chi (sexual energy) for health and lifestyle benefits. She has contributed to Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Shape, Women’s Health and O Magazines, and is currently in publication with her first book on “Healthy Sexual Secrets”.

Fiona has worked, shared and studied with some inspiring people including Master Mantak Chia, Caroline Myss, Wayne Dyer, Bill Kauth , Liz Koch and her TRE® Mentor, Dr David Berceli.  In her practice she also includes, Chi Kung, Chi Nei Tsang (Taoist Visceral massage), Kinesiology, Breath work, Psychic Surgery and Craniosacral therapy. These approaches aim to uncover deep-seated blockages, which may manifest as persistent health difficulties.

Fiona carries a Masters degree in Design, and lectured at The University of The Arts in London for 9 years structuring programs in fashion and product design.

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Clinical Psychologist, Energy Psychology, Somatic Experiencing (SE™) Hypnotherapy, Eye movement integration (EMI)

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Ingrid Regenass is an Integral Health Practitioner, TRE® Certification Trainer, and Mindfulness Teacher (MBSR) based in Cape Town. She has qualifications in nursing, exercise and fitness, clinical nutrition, counseling and coaching and has worked the field of health promotion and wellness for over 25 years. Over the years her work has evolved to include a variety of modalities, which she draws from to empower people to journey towards optimal health and wholeness.

Ingrid trained as a TRE® Provider and Trainer with the founder of TRE® Dr. David Berceli. Apart from including TRE® into her health practice and training TRE® Providers her intention and passion is to take TRE® into communities who are challenged with the effects of chronic stress and trauma.

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ADVANCED TRE® PROVIDERS

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Clinical Psychologist – Practice nr: 086 000 0188956

During my internship year as a Clinical Psychologist I felt a strong sense that ‘there must be more’. After seven years, I felt like I knew very little of the intricacies of the fascinating human being.

Inquisitive, I entered a process called SHIP®. I discovered that the world of wisdom is safely stored inside our bodies – each person concealing a different part of life’s mystery. During my years in SHIP® I opened up and completed trauma locked up deep inside the tissue of my body – discovering so much more of me, waking up the frozen potentialities of self, slowly accumulating wisdom.

Somewhere during those years, I started to experience that my hands could feel ‘more than they are supposed to’. Another world came to life. Integrating this with my love of anatomy and physiology I started my training in CranioSacral Therapy®, Visceral-® and Neural Manipulation®. I discovered that my hands can feel the same process that my body can experience, and can unlock stubborn on-hold energy.

My healing process was profound, but slow and painful and often made me feel ungrounded. Raising two children and running a 7h/day practice in Pretoria, I prayed for a solution. I noticed Dr Berceli’s eyes in an email and couldn’t resist the invitation. This wise man and TRE® changed my life, bringing fun and groundedness to a healing process. Integrating TRE® with the other modalities helped me to unlock parts of me that I couldn’t imagine existed. Changes rippled through my family. Clients and friends blossomed. Life’s impossibilities became possible.

I work from a practice in an idyllic setting but also have a burning desire for projects that can touch countless lives.

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I have a great passion for working with people, for knowing that each person has their unique road they walk and their unique human story. And that every human body keeps that selfsame story inside itself – in the fascia, in the muscles, in the biochemistry – basically in every cell! As medical intuitive, Caroline Myss puts it, our biography is held in our biology. My love of the body really took roots when I qualified as an Aromatherapist in 1994. From there I went on to learn Reflexology, became a Reiki Practitioner and took many courses on energy healing and more.

When I found David Berceli and TRE® in 2012, it was a real “coming home” experience, bringing so many forms of healing into a totally body centered modality. I absolutely “knew” I would resonate with his work and signed up for the course with virtually no research into it. I have not looked back. I have seen countless clients shift physical and emotional parts of their story through TRE®. Whether they are in groups, whether in private sessions, there is always a tremendous sense of reverence as I watch people release their stories through their bodies. Organically, naturally, easily. Making space for a new story to emerge.

I operate in the small town of Fish Hoek, Cape Town, from a space I call my Quiet Room. And I love taking TRE® into my Retreats – in Temenos, McGregor or on our dolphins swims in Mozambique. But best of all, I love doing TRE® myself. This allows me to live a life that is super full – as a director of DreamWorker, an NGO set up to help the unemployed, as a Nia teacher, as a bodyworker and TRE® Provider and as a wife and mother.

What a wonderful tool it has become in my life! I am truly grateful to be able to share it with anyone willing to “shake, shake, shake it off!”

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Somatic Counselor, QEC Practitioner, Trained in Gestalt Therapy

I am a trained Somatic Counsellor with 10 years experience. My passion is to empower people to harness their own inner healing from the wisdom of the body-mind connection. I can only do this work by continuously working on my self, which creates a space filled with authenticity and safety for the client to heal and explore their true selves. I work in a collaborative manner, from the premise that the client is the expert in his/her life.

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TRE® Provider since 2012. I combine TRE® with energy work and have a self-expression, singing, music and communication focus.

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I’ve always been fascinated by the human body and its complex workings, and was a Tui Na (Chinese therapeutic massage with acupressure, and bonesetting) practitioner for many years. Having been through a traumatic life (from the age of 4 to early teens and then later in adulthood), I’d been holding a lot of my own trauma that started taking its toll.

It was through my own TRE® journey that I realised just how profound a release could be and what it took to get there. I’ve worked as a writer and PR consultant for many years, and decided a little while ago to get back to where my soul is fed – through helping others.

I connect what I know from my Traditional Chinese Medicine experience and TRE®, to help those who need fascia release as well as TRE® sessions, and hope that the combination will be as beneficial to others as it has been to me.

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I had been involved with complementary medicine since 1994 when, in 2002, I had the opportunity to begin three and a half years of formal training in Chinese Medicine; this ignited an extensive period of introspection.

At this time I had a “light-bulb” moment when I realized and acknowledged I had been experiencing depression since high school, and so began a progressively intensifying journey to resolution with “internal medicine” – this gave me experiential insight into how our unresolved emotional imbalances are the underlying causes affecting our wellbeing (which is indeed what the Classical Chinese texts tell us), a process that continued when I moved back to South Africa in 2008 to start a practice.

In 2012 TRE® synchronistically crossed my path and gave me an enhanced tool for my own healing, I soon decided to undertake the practitioner training.

Of the many modalities I have investigated TRE® has given me the ability to deal with some highly stressful circumstances – I have been witness to remarkable change and healing in myself and many others.

TRE® beautifully complements Chinese Medicine, philosophically and practically, in that it fundamentally re-connects our awareness with our body’s integral healing mechanism.

I truly see this journey as a gift that has given me not only another wonderful modality to work with, but also deeper sensitivity, intuition and insight for the benefit of those struggling with their own health and sense of fulfilment in life, and it is my privilege to facilitate others seeking well-being; above all, this is a journey of transformation to self-empowerment on which I humbly and gratefully invite others to walk.

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Marléne Nunes has coached, worked with and trained many people both individually and in groups through their own journey of mental and physical discovery and transformation. This is accomplished both informally through exercise and formally since she founded Self & More Integrative Coaching in 2011 focussing on an holistic approach.

During her lifetime, Marléne has gained over 33 years of experience in corporate and physical fitness fields. This, together with her half a decade plus of life experience and personal lived experiences, has allowed her to refine her skills as a Coach and physical fitness professional. She can assist people from all walks of life, ages and circumstances individually and groups. The fundamental approach of her programme is to highlight awareness of the client’s acceptance that the responsibility for change lies with them solely and holds the space for them to release the traumas and move forward into who they are designed to be, a beautiful individual with a sense of joy and freedom.

The programmes on offer equip clients with tools to enable them to begin to embrace change and self-maintain it indefinitely. Marléne assists clients to break through emotional barriers that cause them to resist change, opening doors to new possibilities.  The processes empower them to take steps to become aware of and capitalise on their strengths, be cognisant of their challenges, notice the stressors and reliefs, and be present in their own lives to hold themselves accountable. A strong undertone of the programmes lies in teaching clients to keep their focus and to recognise and reward their own achievements.

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A tragic loss of someone close to me prompted me to change my life path and become a Counsellor, specialising in trauma and loss. While on this personal healing journey, I discovered TRE® and went on to train with Dr David Berceli and Dr Melanie Salmon. Many years on I am still enthralled by this powerful modality which helps individuals to draw on their internal resources to combat everyday stress and overcome traumas.

It is a truly remarkable tool and it is such a privilege for me to witness all the positive changes, both physical and emotional, that my clients and I experience through TRE®. It has helped me to live a healthier, more grounded, fulfilled and purposeful life. 

I consult with clients individually and I facilitate regular ‘Introduction to TRE” courses and another course called ‘Finding the Stillness within‘ where I combine TRE with mindfulness and ‘work’ in a labyrinth. I occasionally offer weekly ‘maintenance TRE’ classes in the Somerset West area. In collaboration with an Integrative Doctor and Yoga and Mindfulness teacher, I host talks and away retreats, called ‘Revive and Thrive’ which focus on encouraging people to embrace lifestyle changes to enhance wellness, something that I am passionate about.

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Wendy Scurr is a qualified educator who has spent 25 wonderful years working within primary and secondary education, teaching learners of all ages. As an experienced teacher she understands the daily stressors that contribute to children and teenagers becoming stressed, and how this impacts on their ability to learn. Her passion for struggling learners took a new turn when, in 2012, she started using Tension Release Exercise (TRE®) as a tool to assist these learners. The results were phenomenal and long lasting, and TRE® soon became her tool of choice.

Wendy trained with Dr Melanie Salmon, the Principal Senior Supervisor for TRE® training nationally. She regularly attends TRE® practitioner supervision as she believes that personal growth is crucial to being a practitioner herself; and she has assisted Dr Salmon in many TRE® practitioner trainings and TRE® groups.

Wendy’s keen interest in assisting the body and mind to heal led her to qualify as a Fascia Release Therapist and Quantum Energy Coach (QEC). As a Health and Wellness Practitioner, she uses a combination of her skills to devise the best treatment plan for each client, attending to their individual and unique needs.

TRE®, Fascia Therapy and QEC complement each other in a wonderfully holistic way – assisting clients along the road to renewed health and wellness.

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A large part of my time is dedicated to the assessment and therapy of children and adolescents with learning, emotional, developmental and behavioural difficulties and to parental guidance.

My training in TRE, EMDR and Hypnosis enables me to help people to deal more effectively with stress and trauma. TRE gives the client the opportunity to let the body speak- and in this way the client’s body is able to release the held stress and trauma.

TRE works effectively in groups and I am privileged to have witnessed incredibly positive changes in individuals since starting with TRE.

My passion is to help both children and adults who have suffered trauma and who experience stress in their daily lives.

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Frances Ward is a registered counsellor (PRC 0013668), specialising in addiction and trauma treatment. She has more than a decade experience in this field.

Read Frances Ward’s article in Blog section: TRE for Addicts – Finding Balance and Sustainability in Recovery

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My aim is to support clients, as well as myself, on the journey to a healthy, balanced, productive and fulfilled life. I am a Life Coach (dip SACAP ), Life Line Trained Counsellor and Internationally accredited Advanced Trauma Release Provider in private practice.

I am married and a mom to two teenagers. Prior to qualifying as a life coach, I was the owner of a successful model agency in Cape town for ten years, but after my children were born my priorities changed and I no longer found fulfilment working in the industry.

As a trauma survivor, I have always held an interest in psychology, as I was curious to gain deeper understanding of the human nature; what motivates us, what breaks us, what keeps us stuck, what helps us endure and overcome… and most importantly, to gain self-awareness that would highlight my own areas that require re-programming and healing in order for me not to unconsciously pass on the experiences I have been through, onto my children.

My current work and focus is on helping clients reduce and recover naturally from Stress, Tension and Trauma Related Symptoms using Neurogenic Tremors (TRE®), Mindfulness, Coaching, Breath Awareness and Restorative Postures. I share and teach these learned methods with passion, because they have personally assisted me to recover, without medication, from chronic muscle tension, lower back pain, insomnia and anxiety symptoms I battled with for more then 20 years.

TRE® in particular has changed the way my body felt, during a six week’s program I participated in for the very first time, on such a profound and deep level, that I have become an instant convert.

It has become my regular practice and a big part of my work. It’s effectiveness has also encouraged my own vigorous research on natural and safe, non-drug methods, in which our own body can assist in reduction of various stress, tension, anxiety and trauma related symptoms.

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TRE® Providers 

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“Every step towards wellness matters.”

I believe that movement is the best tool to expand our physical and mental health. Through body-based stress-release methods, such as TRE® (Trauma and Tension Releasing Exercises), I help individuals become their own movement specialists with functional skills that address their unique needs.

Dr. Elizma Atterbury is a registered Biokineticist, with over 9 years of experience, holding a PhD focussing on neuro-rehab and stress- and trauma-informed modalities from the University of Stellenbosch

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Jessica completed her certification in 2013. Since certifying she has assisted Cape Town L3 TRE Trainer Ingrid Regenass with multiple TRE Certification Trainings and TRE groups.

Jessica’s other passion is myofascial massage. She added this as one of her offerings after learning a myofascial release technique on a Touch for TRE® course. The results have been outstanding, and she loves the fact that she can offer her clients a combination of these modalities. She currently runs her practice in Blouberg, and does house calls in the Southern Suburbs.

As part of developing her expertise, Jessica is studying a BSc in Psychology and Physiology with Genetics.

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I am a Certified TRE provider with a background in Physiotherapy as well as a qualified somatic wisdom coach.

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I combine hard-core academic work with alternative modalities (TRE®, Applied Kinesiology, Kundalini Yoga) to assist individuals, groups and organisations to reduce stress and tension, to balance energy towards more optimal functioning and to open up a path of self-discovery and healing.

The context of my 2014/15 doctoral research is related to organisational change, diversity and stress. As the high incidence of stress is not acknowledged in any organisational change models, I work towards the academic inclusion of this reality into the field or organisational development. My academic research continues to explore individual struggles towards wholeness and self-identity. Most of my research papers are available on my website.

Use this link to read more and download Dr Tonja Blom’s PhD papers.

My areas of specialty includes organisational development and well being. Looking through a lens of change, stress and diversity I apply tailored solutions towards sustainable transformation of the self. I apply these approaches in individual sessions as well as in group work, workshops and retreats.

Personally, in terms of TRE®, my contribution is creating an academic foundation into the reality of stress and alternative modalities. My aim is to create credibility whilst starting to move the methods more towards mainstream interventions which contributes towards easier acceptance while creating academic and public validity.

I included TRE® in my research papers on Organisational Change and continue to present at international academic conferences.

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Hazel is a certified TRE® Provider and Nutritional Consultant and teaches TRE® to individuals as well as holding regular TRE® group workshops. She started her practice in March 2011 after being trained and certified by the founder of TRE®, Dr. David Berceli PhD (USA) in 2010 and 2011, when he first brought TRE® to SA. Prior to this, Hazel owned a franchise shop called House of Health in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban, South Africa for 8 years. During that time she provided nutritional & dietary advice when she was involved in a once-weekly support group for adults with ADD/ADHD for 2 years. Hazel is currently based at Sedgefield, Western Cape, South Africa.

Hazel has worked with all ages – teaching TRE® to emergency responders, businessmen and women, school children, school staff and principals at several schools, office staff, accident victims, hi-jack and break-in victims, frail care residents, and members of the public from all walks of life. Even people who have not suffered a major trauma, or are not under much stress, who simply want to feel more grounded and present, can learn this wonderful tool for life.

Hazel is passionate about empowering others to manage their own health by giving them the tools needed to heal themselves; to facilitate improvement in mobility and reduce pain levels through TRE® for accident injuries and after surgery and to help relieve stress, tension and anxiety in the workplace, home, and in the community.

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As a Breast Cancer Warrior, my beliefs are deeply rooted in the knowledge and experience that a healthy regulated nervous system is a fundamental prerequisite for Body-Mind-Soul-Energy alignment; for optimal Wellbeing, to enable one to heal and stand in the full Magnificence of who you truly are.

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“My career has been in education, but slowly over the last twelve years, I have been evolving into my true calling, working as an energy healer. This is now my full-time occupation and at last, it is my time to fully engage with this, and serve the cosmos, our planet and all who live on her. I feel I have within my hands a magic gift to offer. To bring harmony, peace of mind and a transformed life to all of you who have the courage to want to change what is currently showing for you. 

My skill is a trinity of modalities:
TRE® as a body-based medium (and a self-help tool) for releasing daily pressures, and long term chronic stress accumulation. Creating change by bringing the body back to state of calm and inner peace.

QEC (Quantum Energy Coaching), to help shift your mind out of its negative groove, with thought patterns supporting beliefs that no longer serve you. Change into a dynamic being, living a dynamic life with your subconscious mind helping you create what you really really want.

Energy healing work to help nourish your spirit, re-calibrate and adjust the body’s response to a host of physical symptoms, so that you feel much happier emotionally and mentally. Choose to transform body, mind and spirit for true health and well-being.

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I am a Social Worker and have found TRE to be most beneficial in my work particularly in the field of addiction treatment and recovery and working with people who have ADHD and PTSD.
For more information please see my LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-brophy

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I am a body-oriented Psychologist. In other words, although I am a psychologist and use talk therapy as and when the need and desire arises, I keep and use the info gained in context of healing body, mind and spirit.

My primary goal is at bringing completion to the whole body-mind system.

Somewhere, often in our distant past, we get disconnected from ourselves, and our higher spirit. This happens when there is something that is too big for us, and our body, to handle. So we disconnect from our body with all the discomforts. But unless this event is processed, and the stuck energy released, it leaves us feeling disconnected, empty, lonely, depressed, and often anxious and frustrated.

TRE® is one of the tools that I use to heal the body- mind system, bringing a sense of connection and inner peace.

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Juanita Coetzee – TRE® Provider 
Educational Psychologist
Phone: 079 8810690 j
E-Mail: juanita.coetzee@ma2.sun.ac.za
Saldanha, Langebaan, Paternoster

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I have spent the last few years doing volunteer work mentoring the youth in my community and ministering to the women awaiting trial at Pollsmoor Prison. Having seen so much hurt and trauma in these spaces I couldn’t move forward without being part of the solution and healing.

I experienced TRE® as a client for the first time in 2016. After seeing how TRE® positively affected my life, health and relationships – I couldn’t wait to introduce others to it too. It is an honour to hold space for clients and their healing. 

I work from Strandfontein and run groups and offer individual sessions.

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Yoga has been my passion for many years.  It has helped me make better life choices and one of those choices was TRE®. 

This beautifully gentle self healing modality changed my body and my attitude towards my yoga practice and my life.  After a few months of TRE, I felt like my body went back to basic, which it did. The emotional contractions in my body were suffocating me, I was hard in my practice and hard on myself in life. TRE freed my musculature system, my mind and my attitude towards my body.  I have started strengthening my body with a completely new awareness of how my body feels. The new strength in my muscles is organic and I have an amazing awareness of sensations, tweaks, pains, pulls, pretty much anything the body is doing on the inside.  It’s empowering and I feel quite courageous in the choices I am making for myself in life now.

I have found thatYoga and TRE® are a brilliant combination.  While teaching yoga at rehabilitation centers in Gauteng I have seen the desperate need for those in recovery to experience TRE®. 

I have trained in other modalities, Touch for Health, Neurotraining, TRE® Fascia Release, Dorn technique and Reiki and they all add to the TRE® experience I offer.

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I have been a massage therapist for 17 years and over time I have always been passionate about helping people on a deeper level. Since then I have Certified as a Life Coach, Yoga Body Breath Coach and now TRE® Provider. I work in a holistic manner, integrating what the client needs, when they need it.

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As I work with clients who have been carrying unexplained pain and discomfort in their bodies, I am in awe of the wisdom and power of the body to release the effects of unresolved overwhelming and dis-empowering traumatic experiences.

I use the principles of Integral Coaching, that take the whole being into account, and use the modalities of TRE® (Trauma Release Exercises) to release the traumatic experiences from the body and then to use QEC (Quantum Energy Coaching) to reprogram the resulting limiting beliefs from the sub-conscious mind in order for you to live a life free from the shackles of your past.

TRE® (Trauma Release Exercises) is a natural, safe and unobtrusive modality that allows the body to release trauma. I feel privileged to be able to be a TRE® Provider and offer my clients a tool that sets them free to live their best lives.

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Charisse is a Wellbeing Coach and certified TRE® Provider with a particular passion for somatic healing.

As a trauma survivor Charisse brings a personal approach to helping clients recover from chronic stress and trauma. She uses a combination of somatic experiencing, meditation and TRE® to assist clients restore and rebalance their nervous systems for connection, growth and healing.

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GILLIAN FOWLER  – TRE® Provider
Phone: 064 6844881/ 072 2117462 (w)
E-Mail: gilliancatherine@gmail.com
Seapoint, Cape Town, Western Cape

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MA’AYAN HAMILTON – TRE® Provider
B.Sc. Occupational Therapy (UCT)
Deep tissue and rebalancing massage therapist
Phone: 083 462 5991
E-Mail: maayanhamilton85@yahoo.com
Cape Town, Western Province 

I am a qualified Occupational Therapist (B.Sc.O.T from the University of Cape Town), also trained and qualified in deep tissue and rebalancing massage therapy. 

I feel a deep appreciation and connection with the body and with our lived experiences within the body. TRE® is a powerful tool that enables our bodies to release the stress, tension and trauma which has been held within. This release provides a sense of deep relaxation, inner balance as well as reconnection with a sense of self that is more grounded and calm.

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I run a Wellness Practice in Somerset West where I draw on my knowledge of various complementary and alternative therapies to support and empower people on their journey towards health and wellbeing. My special interest is working with cancer patients and I have been privileged to witness the power of the body to heal when it is supported using a holistic approach. 

I love working with people and witnessing the growth and potential of the human spirit and the wonder of the body’s innate capacity for healing.

WHAT TRE HAS DONE FOR ME
Childhood trauma and the effects of chronic long term stress left me with a diminished ability to cope. Several accidents resulting in spinal injuries further affected my posture and breathing. Eventually the debilitating muscle tension, pain and fatigue caused me to feel that I was just surviving life without any capacity for joy.

TRE® helped my body relax physically and emotionally I became more balanced and peaceful. With continued practice I felt lighter and more joyful. My posture improved dramatically and I have been able to maintain it with ease.  I no longer live with constant pain and have developed a greater sense of body awareness which enables me to listen to my body’s inner wisdom and act on its queues. My energy levels are excellent and I now possess the resources to deal with stressful situations and conflict more positively.

My experience of TRE® is that it is a gentle, self-empowering modality for dealing with past trauma and accumulated stress, without requiring one to verbalise past experiences and in so doing re-traumatise your system. I really enjoy working with this modality and witnessing the positive change it brings to my clients.

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Since certifying in 2012 Manuela has shared her passion for the healing power of ones body and mind through TRE sessions with many people in various underprivileged communities, women shelters and addiction/health clinics around Cape Town.

She offers private sessions in the CBD and facilitates in German, English and (Serbo)Croatian. Manuela also works with the Reiki energy healing.

Read about Manuela’s TRE® Project at Ottery Youth Care Centre
Read about Manuela’s TRE® Project at Pollsmoore Maximum Security Prison in Cape Town

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I have been honoured to spend the last few years doing what I love best – providing the tools and space for people to empower and heal themselves naturally. I have always believed that our bodies know best, but sometimes just need a little guidance. 

TRE® is a powerful and yet very simple way to access the body’s ability to shake off tension and stress.  

It is a physical practice, in which we trigger the natural neurogenic tremoring process through simple stretches and muscle stress exercises, then by lying on a mat and allowing the body to release, in a sustained, yet controlled and gentle way. 

Many clients describe it as feeling like a massage from the inside out.  Every exercise can be modified to suit individual clients, and as we focus on the safety of the client, you are taught how to initiate tremors and also how to stop the process so you are completely in control of your own process and participation at all times.

Over a period of a few weeks, clients have seen significant improvements in many areas, including stress management, sleep, physical pain and improvement in their relationships.

I offer individual as well as group sessions. Sessions can be online or in person. Participating in a group session has a collective benefit. Sessions are between 60 and 90 minutes.

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Read Anette Laker’s TRE® story of recovery from severe Fibromyalgia

For more information on TRE® facilitation, TRE® groups and workshops, go to her website TRE® Healing

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I am a qualified counsellor, with a private practice overlooking the picturesque harbor of Kalk Bay.  I work with adults and adolescents in many areas, including stress, depression, trauma, addiction, difficulties in relationship and personal growth. I believe that for therapy to be effective, it needs to translate into meaningful action in daily life. Therefore my approach includes practical skills and tools to apply in relationships and daily living.

My special love is the ability of the natural environment to facilitate growth and healing. I run weekly groups which prepare girls for adolescence, and a weekly TRE® group in Fish Hoek.

I love the way TRE® works for everyone, and how quickly people themselves recognize the changes they experience from TRE® – It’s very motivating!

TRE® helps people to help themselves:-) easing stress and creating more alive lives!

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Ange is a qualified Occupational Therapist, who is a passionate Health and Nutritional Advisor who has studied and followed alternative healing therapies for the past twenty years while living in New York.

Ange moved away from conventional medicine after witnessing the effects modern drugs had on patients during her Psychiatric practical block at Stikland Medical institution. She realised that modern medicine does not address the cause of illness nor does it aim to heal the patient. Drugs “treat” the disease rather than the patient who is suffering from it and she vowed that she would never use drug treatment unnecessarily when effective and natural solutions are available. Ange will treat the patient as a whole entity and on a much deeper level – spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically.

Ange returned to SA and opened her own practice, incorporating the Vibrant Health range of natural supplements into her treatments as she believed so wholly in ethics and scientific nature of all Mark Timon’s formulations and had experienced the health benefits first hand many years prior when she was very ill and after trying anything and everything this was her turning point.

As a health consultant, Ange uses her broad knowledge of the human body, as well as health and healing modalities to determine her client’s innate needs. She works deeply with her own very strong instincts, as a medical intuitive, which she confirms via Kinesiology. This is all done in conjunction with changing and evolving the client’s lifestyle and diet, and helped with detoxification, nutritional, mental, spiritual and emotional support.

TRE and QEC practitioner training was added to be able to enhance her clients healing path, but it first became her own most powerful healing journey. She now incorporates both QEC and TRE in a significant way to her practice in order to achieve a holistic and complete result

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I work in private practice in Stellenbosch, at 63 Dorpstreet. As a clinical psychologist I use my training and experience to guide clients and to help them move towards health, happiness and wellbeing. Clients consult me because of any form of distress, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, problems with relationships, problems with adjustment, concentration (ADHD), self-image, grief and loss, or any form of trauma.

Human beings can transform and resolve any form of distress or uncertainty. No issue or problem is too big or too small to bring to therapy. Human beings are multi-dimensional and interconnected beings. Whatever affects one system within the human entity, will have an effect on every other system, whether physical, emotional, psychological, neurological or spiritual.

Depending on the client’s needs and experiences, any system may be used as the entry point to start the therapeutic healing journey. Therapy may start with the body based therapies, such as TRE® or SE®, or mind based therapies such as CBT or DBT, or the unconscious or with dissociated states (Hypnotherapy or Ego-state therapy) or positive psychology and energy healing modalities such as EFT or Mindfulness, or more neurological, multi-modal modalities such as EMDR or EMI.

Wherever the journey starts in therapy, the goal is for the individual to function optimally at all levels, as a healthier, more integrated and happier being.

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Having struggled with depression, anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing and much emotional and physical pain, I have found this work to be most helpful and most rewarding in my own journey back towards myself.

I qualified as a TRE provider in January 2019. I have since come to love this work dearly. I love working with people to connect/reconnect to their deep inner experiences of the world. I love holding a safe and grounding space for the full range of human emotion. I love that we as human beings can reframe and allow and accept the deeply painful parts of our authentic selves in this process.

My wish is to offer a held and soft space that allows for release (whatever that may look like for each individual and for each moment in time), for reconnection and reclamation of self.

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Loving yourself – truly, deeply loving yourself – is the most courageous thing that you can do, and is fundamental to living a wholehearted, healthy life from a place of authenticity and connection. As a self-love coach, I use various modalities (TRE®, QEC, NLP) to holistically support you in developing deep, embodied, resilient love, compassion and empathy for yourself. Your true self is able to shine and your self-love grows exponentially, moving you into a place of knowing that – “I am enough. Always.”

TRE® has been and continues to be a crucial part of my own journey to deep, embodied, resilient self-love. It has supported my body in releasing, processing and healing from the stuck tension, stress and trauma which had been sitting in my body for years and years, some since before I was born. This process has supported my nervous system in coming to homeostasis, allowing me to live life from a place of deep, embodied groundedness and presence.

Self-love has been both a natural result of this as well as a tool to deepen the process. 

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I have been practicing as a Therapeutic Massage Therapist since 1997. 

My long-standing intrigue with Yoga led me to engage in study at ‘Ananda Kutir Ashrama’ where I completed my Yoga Teacher’s Certification in 2004. Though not actively teaching classes, the training and my own practice have provided me with invaluable resources when it comes to understanding movement. 

Looking to expand my ‘therapeutic container’, I became a certified Rolfer™ in 2014. Rolfing® recognises the human body as an intelligent whole, connected through the tensional network of fascia, constantly responding to life’s challenges with tension and changes in structure (posture) and therefore in function (movement). Together, the client and the therapist engage in a process of guiding the body back to its most functional ideal. As the client plays an active part in this, it tends to be a very empowering process in which the client walks away with new self-knowledge and awareness over and above a body that can move more freely.

Though TRE is the newest tool (2020), it has been invaluable. It truly is for ‘every one and every body’. Some of my clients are struggling with PTSD or other stress and anxiety related condition and use it as an adjunct to their psychotherapy. But you do not have to suffer from PTSD to benefit from TRE. Our daily challenges at home or work, the sheer number of things we have to accomplish every day, the support we have to give to others whilst no-one is supporting us, all give rise to our Autonomic NS responding to brace us against the demands coming towards us. 

I can accommodate people looking for combination of bodywork & TRE or dedicated TRE sessions (individual, small groups, or sessions in support of client’s home practice).

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I’m passionate about supporting clients in improving how they think about themselves, their dreams and the world they live in.

Techniques from neuroscience, mindfulness, stress and tension releasing body work and acupuncture are available to support clients in achieving their goals.

Sessions are suitable for everyone – children, teenagers, adults, retirees, couples and families.

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I am a psychotherapist working in private practice in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town specialising in trauma, tension and stress release. I use somatic therapy, a holistic approach supporting the whole person considering their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

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Having completed a Transpersonal Psychotherapy and Counselling training in the UK, I worked for many years in private practice and the NHS.  I now work in Hout Bay offering Counselling and Coaching including mindfulness where my main focus is on trauma, stress and personal growth issues.

I have found combining TRE® with the work I do to be a very powerful combination to help my clients work through past trauma and to provide them with a technique to manage their stress and help regulate their emotions.

I also facilitate regular TRE® and Mindfulness Groups in Hout Bay.

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I am a counselling psychologist who has worked in private practice in Mosselbay for almost 20 years.  Before we relocated to Mosselbay, I was involved a the University of the Free State and the University of Namibia. 
I had the privilege to use my training in a wide field that focused on the usual techniques of emotional and cognitive problem solving and/or growth. 

Ego state therapy became part of my practice as well as EMDR and this made me ready to explore Trauma Releasing Exercises through excellent training with Heleen Loubser. 

It opened my therapy in integrating physical, emotional, psychological and neurological aspects of our journey to health and happiness.

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I am an Occupational Therapist and a specialist in the area of psychiatry and addiction. I have 15 years of experience of working in hospitals, clinics and rehabilitation centres around South Africa and the United Kingdom, treating a wide range of psychiatric conditions, addictions, eating disorders and trauma. During my time as an Occupational Therapist I have constantly sought new ways to work with and help people deal with their difficulties and move through their life’s difficulties in a powerful and meaningful way.

It was on this quest that I discovered Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®). This was the missing piece of the puzzle for me; a modality that bypasses the rational mind and that enables the body to do the work that it needs to do to assist in our healing process and to help us cope with life. It became apparent to me that sometimes in speaking about our trauma we unintentionally re-traumatised our system and leave ourselves feeling worse.

TRE® addresses this in a very simple and accessible way. It is a self help tool that I believe is valuable and necessary for every human being. With my work with TRE® I am regularly in contact with the wonder of the human body and spirit and it’s innate capacity to heal itself. Using TRE® in my practice I have noticed such extraordinary results amongst my clients and I am thrilled to be in a position to share this modality with the people I come into contact with.

I love working with people and witnessing the growth and potential in the human spirit.

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I have been incorporating TRE® in my Psychotherapy practice for ten years and I love the results. I have been amazed at the subtle but real changes that occur for those who persevere and the drastic results that I can see when a person has had an acute shock or traumatic experience. It is an honour for me to sit beside a body that is tremoring and to observe the releases that take place. My body has a way of telling me when I need to tremor and I listen.

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I have a background in injury rehabilitation and fitness coach. I am a certified communication and growth counselor in private practice.

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As a practicing Clinical Psychologist in Stellenbosch, I view psychotherapy as a journey, with the role of the therapist that of companion or a fellow traveler journeying with the client toward greater awareness, deeper insight and understanding, and eventual healing and wholeness. The goal of such a journey is to be more present in our lives, relating with more compassion and authenticity, in a mindful manner, to both ourselves and others.

As a qualified Tension/ Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®) provider I offer sessions on an individual basis as well as within small groups in Stellenbosch. Trauma is defined as the chronic and burdensome impact of past events on our current physical, socio-emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. TRE® is a technique that can assist the individual in developing healthier coping strategies to deal with daily and chronic stress due to trauma.

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My journey with TRE® started in 2011 and motivated me to study psychology to enable me to do research about trauma. My master’s thesis in psychology was inspired by the secondary trauma and distress that psychologists face in their profession. I believe that all practitioners of people-oriented professions can benefit from TRE® as a somatic self-care tool.

Having faced an early breast cancer diagnosis in 2022, I was reminded that life-long stress release is imperative. This is especially true through periods of intense challenges. And it is more than okay to seek help when going through a rough patch.

A series of 4-6 facilitated TRE® sessions can empower you to become comfortable in using this modality on your own. Additional facilitated sessions are helpful when you face new challenges or need assistance in breaking through a pattern that seems stuck.

I offer both in-person and online TRE® sessions.

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Healing holistically from the inside out.
Sanmari is a bodyworker passionate about using the body’s natural healing ability to bring healing to people who have been through a traumatic/stressful experience both physically and emotionally.

Sanmari helps clients to empower themselves consciously so they can know themselves as peaceful, complete, whole and safe. She came to TRE® through her studies on psychological, body connections and her love for kids and their healthy development. As her own son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, she became focused on finding modalities with concrete results which led to her personal healing journey. As a result, she wishes to share this work with everyone.  

She is trained in various modalities and is vibrant and passionate about her work. She does individual and group sessions.

Empower yourself to use your body’s natural healing power to live a more fulfilling life.

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I am a registered Psychometrist with experience working in the South African Police Service as well as the corporate and private sector. I am a Bereavement Support Counsellor, Quantum Energy Coaching Practitioner and a Deep Listening Facilitator.

My interest has always been the origin of health (mental and physical) and the ability to heal ourselves. I believe in my own resilience and the resilience of others. I believe in the unwavering potential of human beings and their inherent ability to adapt and evolve.

My path with TRE® has provided me with an opportunity to re-connect with myself on a physical, emotional and intellectual level. Through TRE® I can integrate my personal trauma and have found myself to be more and more of service to others. TRE® is the life long deepening of the connection with self. Through this sacred connection to self, healing becomes possible. My practice is in the Deep South in Glencairn.

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BA Hons Psychology, EFT Practitioner, QEC (Quantum Energy Coach), FamilyMediator (SAAM),  CCSA reg.: CO1968

I am a Holistic Wellness Practitioner with a decade of successful experience in personal coaching, counselling and family mediation.  I specialise in personal growth (body, mind and soul), conflict management, stress management, trauma release, family and relationship problems, dealing with loss and uncertainty, mindfulness, law of attraction and manifestations. 

The results of my co-published academic journal on the relationship between worldview, self-efficacy and psychological distress and health-promoting lifestyle, motivated me to explore and find modalities that is effective in changing limiting beliefs, negative thought patterns and performance issues to bring about a new enriching perception, thus a new worldview, a new empowered state of being to individuals and groups in various context. 

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Integrated Health Practitioner BodyTalk, Family Constellation,
Fascia Release Therapy, Gestalt Counselling Skills,Muscle Activation

I completed my training with TRE® founder, David Berceli and my Dr Melanie Salmon in 2013.  My qualifications include teaching Pilates for 10 years, BodyTalk, Muscle Activation, Family Constellation Therapy and Fascia Release Therapy. Through my years of working holistically with the body and drawing on my years of work experience.

I have found TRE® to be the most powerful body release without engaging our perpetual mind chatter that seems to dominate our every waking moment.

I have experience in working with clients with injuries and trauma from violence.

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I am a qualified Counsellor and Life Coach and have been working with trauma and resiliency since 1999. I always felt that there was something missing in my work and I am delighted that I found out about TRE®. I completed my training in 2014.

During my TRE® training I really realised what a powerful tool it is. It has helped me get through a difficult transition time in my life with real ease and inner strength, and I have seen how it has helped my clients. Combining TRE® with coaching can be very powerful.

I work from Claremont and run groups and offer individual sessions.

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