Team | Mentors

Dr. Heather Berberet is a San Diego Psychologist specializing in couples therapy and a Mentor in the OI HEARTraining^®. When not working with adults, couples and adolescents in her private practice, she is mothering her daughter, loving her wife, and watching Doctor Who (and Star Trek, and Star Wars, and anything sci-if/geeky, really). In addition, she can found in the morning and evening walking her three dogs, trying to see the world for what it really is and enjoying the view.

Michelle Borok, LM CPM is a mentor with the Berkeley HEARTraining^®.  She is a California Licensed Homebirth Midwife, and holds a B.A. in Social Welfare from U.C. Berkeley.  She has studied Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, working with both adults and newborns.  She is currently completing the San Francisco HEARTraining and the Organic Intelligence^® OI Expert Master Class Program with Steve Hoskinson and Sean Feit Oakes. 

Michelle has a special interest in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and weaves its principles into her beloved midwifery practice.  She has taught many classes and original workshops, including Female Sexuality at U.C. Berkeley, and  Legacies of Medical Racism and Transgender Competency for Healthcare Providers at Maternidad La Luz Midwifery School.  She has been a mindfulness and insight meditation student for the last 12 years, studying and meditating with some of the most extraordinary Buddhist teachers of our time. 

Michelle co-parents her amazing goddaughter and finds parenting and communing with nature to be her most devotional and resourcing practices. 

Berkley has been a meditation and mindfulness practitioner, artist, educator, and social justice organizer for the past fifteen years. Berkley has been integrating these skills into her study and practice of nervous system regulation and trauma healing since 2015. Berkley believes that everyone deserves wellbeing, justice, and access to our full spectrum of human experience including connection, love, and joy.

Berkley practices nervous system support in the Organic Intelligence^® tradition and is an OI Expert and Mentor.

Intrigued for many years in his youth by the intersection of Buddhism and psychotherapy, Andrew trained in Core Process Psychotherapy — a Buddhist psychotherapy practice — at the Karuna Institute in Devon, England, in the 1990s.

Since then, alongside his private practice, he has played sax and percussion in funk bands, facilitated drum circles and samba bands in schools and the local community and currently plays in a New Orleans-style brass band. He lives with his wife and teenage daughters in the west of Ireland.

Andrew has a daily sitting practice which he regards as indispensable for both his personal well-being and his professional practice.

In his one-to-one and group work, Andrew draws upon a deep trust in the power of attuned presence, laughter and the embodied wisdom of the organism. There is an invitation for connection and coherence to arise as a precondition for the processing of discomfort and disregulation; a dance of attunement between persons and organisms.

Andrew feels deeply privileged and fortunate to be engaged in this work.

For Sarah Cotten, the art and science of healthy living have been a lifelong passion. At an early age, Sarah clearly noted the mental and emotional roots in her mother’s struggle with Crohn’s disease and other illnesses. The quest for a deeper understanding of that stress-disease link inspired her training and work in the practice of Organic Intelligence^® trauma resolution and Functional Nutrition.

Additionally, Sarah is a life-long meditator and yogi and has been in private practice since 2012.

Robin Craig is OI Associate Faculty and has studied with OI Founder Steve Hoskinson since 2006. She studied Neuroscience at the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research in Portland, OR before moving to Arizona in 1996 where she became a Licensed Professional Counselor and reconnected with land and heart. Initially, this reconnection came during the time she spent on the Navajo reservation, for the first time experiencing how connection to place and community truly creates a foundation for the exploration of being a human on this planet.

The practice of meditation has changed how Robin views herself and others and allowed the changes she has experienced through OI to become trait changes, rather than passing state changes. Robin continues to study with teachers who emphasize the path to awakening that includes cultivating a joyful mind including Kittisaro, Leigh Brasington, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Thanissara, and Guy Armstrong. These teachers have opened the doors for the fullness of kindness and compassion in meditation, with clients, and in moment-to-moment living. Robin has found this to be the foundation from which true healing and awakening can arise.

Today, Robin is exploring how to restore physiological, spiritual, and psychological resiliency through the natural interweaving of Organic Intelligence^® and meditation. Through her Meditation Teacher Training program and her time studying OI with Steve, Robin has been discovering the natural ways that OI’s understanding of going “beyond trauma” goes hand in hand with deep spiritual teachings and practice. Both teachings bring the understanding that joy is a part of the path to the deep spirituality and interconnection that is ours by nature.

Link to Robin's OI Blog Post

Being a bodyworker since 2000, Eve has been witness to the wonder that is: we all share the same anatomy and physiology – a common biological language. A common experience, connecting us to the same powerful thing: life force. This has kept her focused specifically to understand the effects of stress on the body.  And, more relevant, the innate healing capacity therein.

Eve’s practice began in 2001, and it includes training in various bodywork modalities and somatic approaches, is influenced and guided by the principles and teachings of Organic Intelligence®. She continues to remain curious, interested and inspired by her work.

She has been practicing Bikram Yoga since 2009. The mindfulness, focus, and discipline that practice offers have rippled through her studies and work. Additionally, she has studied and practiced various forms of seated and moving meditation which all influence her awareness, presence, and way of life.

Dana Duclo, EdS, MHS, has completed the three year OI HEARTraining^®, is a member of the OI Expert training and is an OI Mentor in Tucson, AZ.

Dana is the founder of Inner Rhythm Consulting, LLC, where she teaches Heart Rhythm Meditation^® and Organic Intelligence^® embodied approaches to trauma and stress resolution that help clients restore a sense of inner rhythm and connect to the innate wisdom, aliveness, and coherence within. Dana is passionate about helping people discover they can live vibrantly and easefully beyond the effects of stress and trauma, offering nervous system education and compassionate support to children, adolescents, and adults.

Dana holds an EdS degree in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She is a certified School Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the education system as a psychologist, counselor, and educator. Dana is also a certified meditation teacher and faculty member at the Institute for Applied Meditation, where she has practiced and taught meditation for 12 years.

Chrysta Faye is honored and enthusiastic in joining the Organic Intelligence^® team as coordinator for the Tucson 2 HEARTraining^®. The positive, empowering, and resilient approach of the OI protocol resonates with nature’s most profound teachings. And for that, Chrysta is deeply aligned with learning, sharing, and spreading the healing capacity of OI’s principals.

Chrysta’s professional background is born from one seed, and has grown into two complimentary plants. Motivated by social and environmental justice, Chrysta worked many years as an organizer with NGOs and small grass roots organizations. Her desire to help alleviate burn-out, PTSD, and build resiliency in her communities lead her to learn traditional healing modalities such as Western Herbalism, Acupuncture, Medical Massage, CranioSacral Therapy, and Permaculture. Organic Intelligence offers the integral piece in mind-body healing, by supporting the nervous system as it self- organizes and heals from the nervous system up.

In her moments of orienting toward pleasure, Chrysta can be found grooving to drumbeats, sitting and watching the plants in her garden grow, balancing on one leg at way-too-hot-for-the-desert yoga, and climbing a rock while listening to trickling water in the canyon.

Monika Harrison, LMT, CNMT, SEP, OIX is Assistant Faculty and Lead Mentor with Organic Intelligence. She is co-teaching the Tucson 2 HEARTraining with Robin Craig and has done ongoing study with Steve Hoskinson for a decade. Monika has had a private practice since 2006, facilitating healing through nervous system regulation and supporting systemic coherence. She works with individuals, helping them get to a place of integration, wholeness and feeling fully alive and engaged in this world. She uses both a face-to-face and hands-on approach, pulling from her training in OI, as well as her background as a SEP and bodyworker. Her specialty is working with folks who suffer from syndromal patterns with pain associated. This includes but isn’t limited to PTSD, anxiety disorders, depression, fibromyalgia, history of trauma (physical/emotional), etc... She also does pre- and post- medical procedure work. Monika’s practice comes from the belief that everybody has an intrinsic impulse towards being whole and healthy. She feels that compassionately tending to this impulse helps a person shift their system towards self-healing and self-support.

In addition to her practice, Monika enjoys witnessing how this intrinsic impulse shows up in her children, and how they explore the world and their interconnectedness through play and experimentation. In her own activities of daily mindfulness, strength training, and dance, she is continuously curious about the fractal nature of the universe and how it becomes embodied in our daily lives.

Kevin Lanoue, JD, CST, LMT is a Mentor at the Tucson 2 HEARTraining^® in Arizona. He holds two degrees from the University of Arizona: a B.S. in Creative Writing, and a J.D. from the Rogers College of Law (2007). He also studied poetry and film for two years in the MFA program at the UA. In addition to his private practice (Present Moment Integrative Wellness), Kevin also works in the hospital unit at a renowned treatment center in Tucson, Arizona. He is currently completing the Tucson HEARTraining and the Organic Intelligence® OI Expert Master Class Program with Steve Hoskinson.

Kevin is passionate about Organic Intelligence^® and Craniosacral Therapy — independently and in concert with each other — and the many benefits these subtle yet powerful modalities offer in support of health and well-being. He is deeply grateful to be doing this work, and to his clients, teachers, and mentors. Using techniques and practices from both the Biomechanical and the Biodynamic approaches to Craniosacral Therapy, Kevin’s treatments include gentle work with structural alignment, the ebb and flow of cerebral spinal fluid, the movement of muscles and connective tissue, and restoring balance to the fundamental fascial structures of the body. Craniosacral sessions can be deeply grounding, and offer physical unwinding, emotional release, and improved energetic flow. In Nervous System Regulation sessions, Kevin supports an understanding of the nervous system state, and shepherds observable physio-emotional states using techniques from the Organic Intelligence protocol (which includes elements from the wisdom of mindfulness and is based on the science of self-organization).

In this way, healing happens from the nervous system up and leads to a more vibrant life in the present moment.

Maggie Locke is a Mentor at the OI HEARTraining^®. She discovered somatic therapies in the mid-1990s during a course of personal treatment in Bioenergetic Analysis. The work affected her so profoundly that she transitioned from a successful 20-year career in journalism to study and practicing this approach.

After 10 years of working as a Psychotherapist with the severely mentally ill in a variety of settings she was introduced to Somatic Experiencing^® during a workshop. Almost immediately she sensed significant change in her system and entered the SE™ training.

Another 10 years later, having established a private practice based on somatic approaches, Organic Intelligence invites further expansion into her relationship with herself, her work and the world.

Maggie is a mother, a grandmother and a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. Her life — much of it lived abroad — has been an effort to bridge different cultures and eras to find her ground amidst breathtaking change. While the kind of community and connection she knew as a child in a rural Irish hinterland no longer exists, she has found a sense of connection and grounding within herself, through the deep experience of her own body.

Her work aims to open this capacity for others who navigate their own losses and longings, to help bring them home to themselves in the natural world of their own physiology.

Brent Morton is a Mentor at the HEARTraining^®, a Buddhist meditation teacher, bodyworker, and a somatic provider using the Organic Intelligence^® approach. Brent lives in Seattle where he teaches group meditation classes and provides one on one Organic Intelligence sessions.

His practice and training includes completion of a 4-year Buddhist meditation teacher training through Jack Kornfield and Spirit Rock Meditation Center; completion of the 3-year advanced training in Somatic Experiencing; continued mentorship with Steve Hoskinson and the Organic Intelligence approach to trauma healing; completion of a 750-hour massage training and licensure as a massage practitioner; completion of 3 yoga teacher trainings and 8 years of teaching yoga asan in a studio environment; 2 years of study of Craniosacral therapy through the Milne Institute; over 10 years of practice and study of Buddhist meditation, including over 50 silent meditation retreats and practice in Thailand, Burma, and India.

People typically come to see Brent for a somatic approach when they are feeling sad, anxious, overwhelmed, angry, confused; when they have recurring symptoms that confuse other providers (easily "triggered", digestive issues, panic attacks, auto-immune issues); because they are having problems with their close relationships or have issues with boundaries; because there is a specific issue they are coping with; because their identity is somehow in flux; because they are seeking growth and increased wellness; or simply because they feel something is "missing" and desire deeper meaning in their lives.

On a more personal note, Brent enjoys saunas and cold plunges, long philosophical conversations, beaches, nature, coffee, chocolate, music, sailing, good books, and unplanned international adventures.

Mark Read-Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, Certified Rolfer™, and nervous system health coach in private practice at Coalesce in Asheville, North Carolina. As an Expressive Arts Therapist, Mark enjoys using creativity to facilitate an experience in session and with groups.

Mark has extensive training in the nervous system process, movement, structural integration, and group work. Mark has experience bringing the principles of Organic Intelligence into use at a residential substance abuse treatment center; working with individuals and groups. In addition to in-person and online sessions, Mark consults on several online nervous system class platforms.

Mark is grateful to be part of the mentoring team in the current San Diego HEARTraining^®. Mark feels love and joy for all of those who are currently a part of the San Diego training; teachers, mentors, OI staff members, and students.

Nathan Rehm joined the Organic Intelligence^® (OI) team as Outreach Manager out of passion for OI’s model and practice, as well as his desire to serve and expand the OI Community. As part of the Communications department, Nathan is responsible for assisting in content arrangement, program organization, and public engagement.

As a licensed clinical social worker and OI Expert member, Nathan brings a wealth of experience and understanding in psychotherapy and the Organic Intelligence framework, culture, and application. These strengths combined with his natural love for community and skill in engaging individuals and groups are valuable assets to the team.

Nathan lives in Bend, Oregon with his partner where he enjoys cooking, hiking, meditating, and gathering with others (especially around campfires!).

Charlie Ruce, LMFT is a licensed therapist with extensive training in trauma and understanding how the autonomic nervous system reorganizes itself at higher and higher levels. Using this understanding, Charlie has helped executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs heal their traumatic wounds and build their capacity to find more fulfillment and satisfaction in their personal and professional lives.

Before starting his own coaching and counseling practice, Charlie spent 7 years working at the Soul Care House, a group therapy practice in San Diego. He also spent 2 years helping manage, train, and supervise the Soul Care House staff team as the Clinical Director. Charlie lives in San Diego with his wife Heather and their Great Dane Matilda.

Charlie is also a student of the Wisdom and Perennial teachings within the Christian tradition. He has seen a Spiritual Director for the last 7 years and he and his wife Heather attend an annual week long retreat focusing on centering prayer and other wisdom practices.

Tiffany Sankary is an artist who integrates Organic Intelligence^® with the Feldenkrais Method^®, Authentic Movement and creative process. She loves how direct connection to the here and now supports the unfolding of bigger life vision/ purpose.

In addition being a continuity Assistant Trainer for the Boston Feldenkrais Training Program, and maintaining a private practice, Tiffany teaches and organizes classes and workshops in Boston, MA and online. She’s the creator of Movement & Creativity Library, an online resource/community with 150+ Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons and guided practices to support nervous system regulation and awaken creativity.

Tiffany is the editor and illustrator of Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning, a visual guide to the philosophy and writings of Moshe Feldenkrais. Her drawings have been published in Tikkun magazine, Turning Wheel, and the Feldenkrais Journal.

Tiffany is a mentor in the San Diego OI HEARTraining^®.

Martin Schlozer is a Mentor and Coordinator of the Basel HEARTraining^®. Martin is a Physical Therapist and a Feldenkrais Teacher (IFF). He has a long experience with and broad theoretical background in many areas related to movement, pain management, learning, mindfulness, neurophysiology, and personal growth and manages a private practice in Arlesheim, Basel, Switzerland.

Martin has worked with the Feldenkrais Method^® in personal sessions through touch (Functional Integration^®) and with groups (Awareness through Movement^®), while deepening his understanding through NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, focusing, Somatic Experiencing^®, and Organic Intelligence.

Through the 3-year Embodied Life Mentorship Program with Russell Delman, a combination of Feldenkrais, Focusing, Meditation and Nonviolent Communication, he deepened his experience in  Mindfulness and Compassion.

Through Aikido he found SEITAI Noguchi, a Japanese Method to support the body’s inherent energies and impulses for self-healing. He teaches SEITAI Groups in his DOJO and supports his teacher Unsho Sensei to bring more awareness to this work in Europe.

Martin’s hobbies are aquarelle painting and hiking.

Committed to the OI work, Martin mentors students in the Istanbul HEARTraining in Turkey and promotes and coordinates the first HEARTraining in Switzerland, which will take place in his new SHINGENKI DOJO in Arlesheim, close to Basel.

Rachel is a white, female, psychologist. In a previous life, she lived and worked in England as a high school teacher.  She came to the US in 1997 and earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2007.  Rachel completed training in Somatic Experiencing^® in 2013, and the Organic Intelligence^® OI Expert training in 2018.

A leading edge in her own growth is in using what she has learned from SE™ practitioners of color to develop self-awareness and resilience as a white ally.  She is committed to making the wonderful training and practices of SE and OI more available to all those who wish to access it but aren’t privileged with the time, money or support to do so.

In the past three years, Rachel has also returned to her practice of ki-aikido with tremendous excitement:  she finds that the integration of this embodied spiritual practice and meditation with understandings gained from OI is leading her down unforeseen spiritual paths.

When she’s not working, she snatches time for singing and reading, and indulge her domestic self in cooking, garden, and knitting.  She’s a cat person.

Charles Stacey received his MA in Family Therapy from the University of Houston/Clear Lake. The Satir Model and Milton Erickson’s work formed the basis of his practice. While doing a general practice he found his focus was on trauma and that continues to so today. He was introduced to Bruce Perry and his work with attachment trauma and the brain while doing home-based family therapy.

Next stop, was the Navajo Nation where one of his tasks was to integrate traditional healing and western methods. This brought Charles’s childhood among the tribes of Oklahoma and his earlier career as a filmmaker to the fore. Much of the work documented cultural retention and spiritual practices.

He added EMDR to his toolbox and then Somatic Experiencing^® with Steve Hoskinson and a seamless shift to Organic Intelligence^® in 2017. In his private practice, he used Supportive Touch extensively. In addition to his therapy work, Charles is a singer/songwriter performing with his wife and a group of talented friends.

Amie Summers is Associate Faculty at Organic Intelligence^®. Among her firmly held beliefs is that we all possess an innate impulse for healing — within each of us we have exactly what we need to get there. The intention of the work she engages in with children and adolescents is to help them reconnect with this inner strength and knowing.

This belief, coupled with the teachings of Organic Intelligence, has meant bearing witness to awe-inspiring transformations in children and their families. Helpful tools along the way include lots of play, sensory awareness, dialogue and narrative-creation, and mindfulness.

Her two greatest teachers are her children, two boys under the age of five. They’ve taught her more about herself than she could ever hope to teach them — not to mention they’re experts in living playfully, with ease, and in the moment! Growing a personal practice of mindfulness meditation, one of Organic Intelligence’s guiding principles, has meant engaging with herself, other humans, and the world-at-large in a deeper and more meaningful way.

As a psychotherapist Amie has maintained a private practice since 2013 and specializes in working with children, teens, and young adults struggling with significant life events and transitions. She is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker in the state of Minnesota. Amie holds post-graduate certifications of Somatic Experiencing^® Practitioner and OI Expert level in Organic Intelligence.

Maggie Truelove (she/her/hers) is an Organic Intelligence^® coach and Somatic Experiencing^® Practitioner, and sees adult clients in Portland, OR and online.

Maggie's background is in bodywork, and she practiced Deep Tissue Therapy, Myofascial Release, Shiatsu, and Medical Qigong from 2007-2016. She is an OI Mentor and former Coordinator for the Bay Area HEARTraining, a long term practitioner in her Buddhist tradition, and former Program Director and instructor for IMPACT Bay Area, a nonprofit that teaches Empowerment Self-Defense and boundary development courses for women, girls and the LGBTQ community. Maggie is white, cis, queerfemme and middle class, and works most frequently with women and LGBTQIA individuals. Her current practice is informed by the OI clinical protocol, and holds feminist, decolonial and positionality-oriented respect and attention. She continues to orient toward the beauty and possibility of this life, and her own system's spontaneous resource and dynamic intelligence, to live fully and better serve the wellbeing of her clients.

You can reach her through her website, somaticpdx.com
You can read Maggie's writing at: https://medium.com/@somaticpdx

Heath Wilson is an OI mentor at the HEARTraining^® in Istanbul, Turkey. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in psychology and is a long-time Rolf Practitioner, Craniosacral Therapist, Enneagram-Coach and meditation teacher. He is founder of Good Guy With Edge™, a men’s integral growth process, and is proud to have recently trained as a self-defence instructor for women, based on the holistic Model Mugging^® system.

He believes the most enduring transformations in a human life come from the conscious exploration through one's body, sexuality, emotions, mind and spirit, especially in relationship with others. To this end, Heath welcomes all themes when working with people. He integrates Somatic Experiencing^® and Organic Intelligence^® in a variety of ways in the personal development work with clients. He has over 20 year’s experience supporting positive changes in his clients’ lives.

Book a session or group work with Heath in Cologne, Germany or an individual Skype session. Visit the mentor list in your OI Virtual Classroom for contact info.

English, Spanish and German spoken.