Maggie Kline A.A. in Secretarial Science, B.S. in Distributive Education, New Jersey High School Teaching Credential, California Teaching Credential K through 12, M.S. in Counseling Psychology (Graduated with Special Honors Top 1% of Counseling Psychology Class 4.0+), California Pupil Personal Credential, School Counselor, California Pupil Personal Credential, School Psychologist, California Board of Behavioral Sciences Licensed Marriage, Family, Child Therapist, Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing Faculty, California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Long Beach Unified School District (Teacher, Counselor, Psychologist), Published Author since 2002-2022 (3 Books; 2 Professional Journal Articles; 2 Anthologies Chapters, 1 Magazine Article)
USA
Case Consult & Personal Session Provider
Maggie Kline has been a marriage, family and child therapist for nearly 40 years and is a retired school psychologist. Originally trained in Satir’s Family Systems, Gestalt, and Humanistic Psychology, she specializes in trauma recovery through the lens of Somatic Experiencing and embodied mindfulness. Maggie integrates S.E. concepts with art, dream work, movement, and attachment play when working with children and teens. She is a senior Somatic Experiencing instructor for SEI
www.traumahealing.org teaching internationally and creator of Conscious Connections PlayShops. Maggie co-authored
Trauma through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing (2007) and
Trauma Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide to Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience (2008) with Dr. Peter A. Levine. Her latest book,
Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being (2020) is intended to inspire an evolutionary shift to relieve trauma and stress in communities and cultivate a culture of kindness.
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Berns Galloway SEP, CCC, MEd
Somatic Psychotherapist, Educator, Certified Canadian Counsellor
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, then earned a Masters degree from the University of Victoria in 1995.
Berns 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 also maintains a private practice. In 2000, Somatic Experiencing entered his life 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 his SE learning process, Berns was privileged to be part of a gifted training team working with First Nations peoples 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 process. For him, it helped him to appreciate the organicity of somatic work, 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.
Berns teaches the Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced years of the SE Professional Training in the US and Canada.
Instructor Level: SE Professional Training Faculty
Teaching In: North America, Australia, New Zealand
Levels Taught: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
Sees Private Clients: Yes
Offers Case Consultations and Personal Sessions: Yes
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Francine Kelley SEP, RYT500, LCPC
Chicago, IL United States
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT500)
So how does a Jamaican country girl end up teaching SE? It’s been an interesting journey!
As a little girl growing up in Jamaica, I wanted to be a dancer. Watching dancers move, and moving my own body, seemed like the most natural and delightful of experiences. My father had a daily yoga practice learned from a fellow graduate student at Boston College. It wasn’t usual to know someone who did yoga in Jamaica at that time. So it was natural that as a bookish and ever-curious tween, I picked up a book my dad had bought for my mom on learning yoga and started to do the practices myself. I was bendy and it was fascinating, and though I didn’t know it at the time, the seed of whole new way of being with my body had been planted.
That seed was nourished through immigrating to the US and being introduced to West African dance in college. Then through years of studying and performing modern, West African, Afro-Modern and Caribbean dance. Yoga teacher training and meditation teacher training continued to feed my soul throughout a 10-year career in Corporate Information Technology.
When I went back to grad school to study counseling, I discovered Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Amy Weintraub’s Yoga for Anxiety and Depression and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga training at the Trauma Center in Boston. I also learned a valuable lesson while teaching yoga to women at the DV shelter where I did my internship and to young women on exchange from rural villages in Niger: less is more. Sometimes very small shifts can lead to big changes.
Serendipity led me to Ariel Giarretto’s Intro to SE very shortly after I competed Level 1 of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training. In response to a student’s question she replied: “premies (premature babies) have one foot in this world and one foot still in the last.” That was a summary of my life, and I knew I had to learn more from her. More than that, I knew I needed SE to truly heal from wounds I hadn’t even had the knowledge to name.
I didn’t really understand embodiment until I studied SE. SE helped that seed, planted so early, to truly take root, and it’s been a joy to share SE with the clients who entrust me to walk the journey of healing with them.
My integrative private practice in Chicago combines SE, SP, yoga, DBT, somatic touch and a healthy dose of humor. I support SE students with personal sessions and individual and group consultations. I also volunteer as a supervisor for counseling interns at Chicago Women’s Health Center, a women’s health collective.
Sharing the magic of SE with BIPOC practitioners during my mentorship in the BIPOC cohorts has also been a very fulfilling experience for me. It is my intention to continue to share SE with communities that so desperately need ways to heal from the very human, and so often debilitating, effects of trauma.
I also have one grown son who is a college student and YouTube influencer, and my “baby girl” is almost out of high school.
Instructor Level: SE Professional Training Faculty
Levels Taught: Beginning
Teaching in: North America
Sees Private Clients: Yes
Offers Case Consultations and Personal Sessions: Yes