Resonance
Somatic Therapy
Looking for a therapist for trauma healing, grief counseling, somatic therapy for depression and anxiety, support for chronic pain or illness, or to reconnect with yourself during a life transition? Honouring the whole person while listening to the wisdom of the body, Lori Clarke and associates offer holistic Body Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing ™, counselling and Art Therapy in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Labrador, and online.
Lori Clarke
PhD, CCC, SEP
Director and Clinical Lead
Lori Clarke (she/her) is a trusted body psychotherapist for trauma healing, grief counselling, anxiety, and depression, developing a healthy relationship to anger, and cultivating creativity. Lori’s somatic therapy integrates a variety of body-centred approaches pulling from 4 decades of study and practice. This includes the trauma healing modality of Somatic Experiencing ™ (SE). Lori creatively employs other somatic therapies and holistic approaches, including NeuroAffective Touch™ and psycho-dynamic work exploring the embodiment of personal, cultural, and social narratives.
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Louisa Iannaci
MA, RP (CRPO)
Associate, Counselling Therapist, Creative-Arts Therapist
Through the development of mutual trust and collaboration, Louisa (she/her)
enjoys creating a trauma healing space, where people feel free from judgment and expectations. She believes that everyone is on their own spiritual journey. For some, participating in therapy can encourage deeper understanding and help to unearth meaning in their lives.
Louisa has delivered therapeutic services to diverse client populations and has offered person-centered holistic approaches to children, youth and adults with psychological, emotional, cognitive and developmental challenges. Louisa believes that clients are the experts of their own lives, who at times become stuck with internal conflict, ways of being.
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Renee Pilgrim
R.Ac
Associate, Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Renee Pilgrim is a cisgender, Queer-oriented, she/they identified, seventh generation settler from the Great Northern Peninsula (GNP), of Newfoundland. Renee has practiced Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for 14 years. She graduated from the Acupuncture Diploma Program at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto (2009), starting her practice while continuing formal studies as a TCM Herbalist. Renee helped to build Eight Branches Academy of Eastern Medicine, joining the staff at the Academy in 2011. Renee established a practice in downtown Toronto as well as in Etobicoke before returning to NL in August of 2020. Since then Renee has grown GNP Health and Wellness which serves the West Coast and Great Northern Peninsula, with locums in Grates Cove and St. John’s. Renee joins Resonance to co-facilitate workshops for practitioners and to offer acupuncture and TCM to St. John’s clients as part of a quarterly locum.
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What is Resonance?
The concept of Resonance speaks to our value of being with and becoming with people. Resonance also encompasses the love of listening; to sounds of the natural world, music, and silence. Resonance is an important part of attunement and connection through listening.
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory – developed by Dr. Stephen Porges– is a neurophysiological framework for observing human experiences and behaviour in the context of adaptive physiologies that have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.