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 for a life transition? Honoring the whole person while listening to the wisdom of the body, Lori Clarke and associates offer holistic Body Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing ™, counseling 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 counseling, anxiety, and depression, developing a healthy relationship to anger, and cultivating creativity. Lori’s somatic therapy is anchored in 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.

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It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

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.

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Lori Clarke

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 work is anchored in the modality of Somatic Experiencing™ , other somatic and holistic approaches, including NeuroAffective Touch™ and psycho-dynamic work exploring embodied personal, cultural, and social narratives.


All of Lori’s work begins with listening and trusting body wisdom. Using neuroscience and physiologically informed somatic approaches and spiritual care, Lori works with her clients to heal various types of trauma including developmental trauma and early attachment wounds. Lori has worked with dying persons and their loved ones, patients with chronic pain and illness (fibromyalgia, IBS, CFS), caregivers with fatigue, and persons who seek change and greater work-life balance. Lori often collaborates with dance and performance artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers, integrating somatic modes of inquiry, dramaturgy, and companionship in creative process. Collaborative therapeutic work with Lori involves skill-building in body-centred practices, cultivating interoceptive awareness, and renegotiating the imprint of trauma in the nervous system.

Lori is a Certified Professional Member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCC #3865). She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University (1990), a Master of Arts in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (1995), and an Interdisciplinary PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland (2019). She is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), certified by the Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI), a Foundation Graduate in NeuroAffective Touch™and an active Clinical and Somatic Practitioner member of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) Lori acknowledges many teachers and lineages in the field of somatics in her work. Some of her most important early teachers include Lee Saunders, Ian J Grand, Tina Stromsted, and Don Hanlon Johnson. More recent teachers include Berns Galloway, Peter Levine, and Aline Lapierre.