Faculty & Practitioners

segreece training programs are carried out by experienced professional SE™ trainers who are certified by the international SEI association and who undergo a rigorous guidance and continued education program by their certification body, thus ensuring the maintenance of high professional standards throughout duration performing their work.

Berns Galloway

Faculty of the Third Cycle
- First, Second and Third Year in Athens

Berns Galloway’s first professional incarnation was as an elementary teacher in New Brunswick and Northwest Territories, Canada. After 12 years of being in front of the classroom his focus shifted to psychotherapeutic group work. He studied various humanistic approaches and bodywork at PD Seminars, and then earned a Masters degree from the University of Victoria in 1995. For 14 years he has worked as a mental health therapist for a non-profit community agency, providing short-term therapy to adults, training and supervising volunteers, and supervising graduate students’ practica. He has had a private practice and now facilitate SE trainings full time.
Somatic Experiencing® entered his life in 2000 and has since been a major focus in his professional orientation. Incorporating SE bodywork / touch has deepened his experience and strengthened the impact of the therapeutic process. Early in this learning process he was privileged to be part of a gifted training team working with First Nations peoples here on Vancouver Island. The depth of the trauma and commitment to change foreshadowed the transformation through the healing process. He is grateful and humbled to have witnessed this. They reinforced how organic somatic work is, the power of connection, and the necessity of embodying the full range of life’s energy. Collaboration and connection is key. We are not meant to go-it alone.
He continues to marvel at, and be awed by, the continuous richness Somatic Experiencing offers. Training internationally has expanded his scope and appreciation for just how similar our nervous systems are, and how unique our experiences manifest.

Kari Elise Slinning

Faculty of the Introduction Course in Athens

Kari Elise is a Norwegian gestalt therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner SEP working in Sweden. She is a mother of 3 and lives with her youngest daughter and husband in Stockholm.
Before turning to gestalt therapy in 1999, Kari Elise had a career as a classical musician; as a violinist and an orchestra conductor, working in professional symphony orchestras around Scandinavia.
Her MSc dissertation in gestalt therapy, “Free from Bulimia Nervosa”, was a phenomenological study based on interviews with people about their recovery process from eating disorders.
Kari Elise was for 7 years manager of the Swedish Eating Disorders Association “Healthy and Free”, a national NGO working with eating disorder prevention and support. After finishing her Somatic
Experiencing training in Norway (2012) her longing for working with Somatic Experiencing led her to quit her job as manager. Since then she works exclusively as a SEP in her private practice in
Stockholm, assists at SE trainings around the world and nowadays also teaches Introduction courses to Somatic Experiencing (SE-intros).
Together with some colleagues Kari Elise founded the Swedish Somatic Experiencing Association in 2013 and she was a member of the European Association for Somatic Experiencing (EASE) Board from 2015 to 2023.
Kari Elise has been an SE assistant since 2013 and is accredited Senior Assistant level 2 which means she offers sessions and consultations as well as group consultations to SE students. In October 2023 Kari Elise was approved by EFAC, European Faculty Accreditation Committee, to enter the mentoring program to become Somatic Experiencing Faculty.

List of Greek SEP Practitioners

(in alphabetical order)

fani arpatzoglou

Ulrike hasbach-doussis

helena kampisopoulou

LIANA KONSTANTINIDOU

elissavet koutouxidou

Anita Pataga

Gulistan Plevri

She is passionate in finding ways to live a healthy, balanced and harmonious life. She has been traveling to North, Central and South America, Europe, India, Japan, China, Australia and other countries discovering hidden essential practices from each culture to maintain health. She uses methods to bring awareness on a physical, emotional and mental level liberating past tensions supporting the person to live life with a new flow of energy. BA in History, Psychology and Education from Oxford Brookes University, England, 1997. Post graduate diploma in Methodology of Teaching, Profile Language School, Athens, Greece, 2000. Instructor of the Science of Raw Food Nutrition and a Gourmet Raw Food Chef, Living Light International, U.S.A.

She is a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing® -Trauma Healing (Somatic Experiencing® Practioner). She currently assists the SE training in Mexico, Romania and Greece. Certified therapist in numerous alternative therapies ((Primal (Childhood Deconditioning©), Tantra (Sexual Deconditioning), Healing the Inner Teenager, Transomatic Dialogue, 1st Akashic Process, Dream Dialogue, Past Life Dialogue, Oshos Diamond Breath, OSHO Art therapy, Ayurvedic Massage for Women, Reiki Master, Upledger Craniosacral therapy 1 and Detoxing)). Certified facilitator of the OSHO Meditative Therapies and OSHO Active meditations.

Programs she has created:

Co-founder of Path of Meditation (2006)
Founder and creator of Conscious Nutrition (2007)
Co-creator of Healing the Inner Teenager Training, The Quest for Passion (2013).

Has been working with children, teenagers and adults since 1992. She gives groups and retreats in different countries and meditation centres around the world. She gives sessions in Greek, English and Spanish. Currently lives in Athens, Greece.