About Daphne

Certified Matrix Energetics Practitioner

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner™

Certified Focusing Professional

Reiki Master

From a young age, music provided a strong mind/body/emotional connection for me. I followed this passion through degrees in music and education at McGill University and into a thirty-year career as a pianist and teacher. Throughout my playing and teaching career, I've been drawn to understand the inner life more directly - mine, and others'.

My training as a healing practitioner began in 1987 and includes in depth training in Psychosynthesis, Reiki, Intuition Development, Inner Relationship Focusing, Matrix Energetics, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, and Somatic Experiencing®. My learning in music, in education, and in somatic therapy is ongoing.

The teaching role took me to the music classroom for twelve years and private piano teaching for decades. I've taught Inner Relationship Focusing workshops and courses, both online and in the Pioneer Valley, annually for 15 years. I also assist at Somatic Experiencing trainings offered by SEI.

Currently, I use the Somatic Experiencing framework as a base for most therapeutic sessions. That being said, my eclectic background allows me to borrow from different approaches to meet individuals in the most effective way possible.

Just some of the themes that arise in sessions and with which I have a comfort level with are:

Acute trauma
Anxiety
Archetypes, allies, and guides
Attachment styles
Chronic Pain
Depression
Distance healing
Early childhood trauma
Earth-based spirituality
Education (public school, alternative education, homeschooling)
Emotion
Energy work
Intergenerational trauma
LGBTQ joys and concerns
Marriage
Meditation and mindfulness
Music and the expressive arts
Parenting children and adult children
Parts work (Focusing, IFS)
Pre-and perinatal trauma
Polyvagal theory in therapy
Religion and spirituality
Somatic-based approaches to therapy
Women's issues