Practitioner Directory
Meet the compassionate practitioners guiding your healing journey.Dr. Christine Baker is the Clinical Director at Wayfare Counseling. She works primarily in the areas of sexual compulsivity/addiction, trauma recovery, and somatic healing. She is EMDR trained, a Certified Sexual Addictions Therapist (CSAT), and is currently an SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) in training. She has also completed the Traumatic Stress Studies program through The Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute under Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. Dr. Baker believes strongly in the idea that trauma is stored in the body, and, therefore, that the body must be involved in the recovery process. She is passionate about making somatic work understandable to the everyday person and about offering easy to access skills to help people come back to a more regulated state.
Laura Bautista is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (TM) & Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. She is also DARe trained (Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience w/ Diane Poole Heller) and an ISP graduate (Integral Somatic Psychology with Dr. Raja Selvam).
After healing herself holistically from Multiple Sclerosis and a lifetime of non-stop health issues, she became a practitioner to help others transform their minds, bodies & lives. She’s been studying with Dr. Aimie Apigian & the Biology of Trauma since 2021 and has a 10-year health coaching background in gut health, autoimmune issues, emotional healing, and energy medicine. She currently lives in sunny Atlantic Beach, FL with her husband and two doggos.
Brandon Bennett is a Mindful Leadership Coach supporting highly driven purpose-centered executives and entrepreneurs in slowing down, clarifying their vision, and focusing their energy on what matters most, so they can navigate forward in life, create a positive impact in the world, and do so in a peacefully productive, healthy, and sustainably balanced way.
Olga is a Somatic Coach and Trauma Sensitive Yoga( TCTSY) facilitator. Her own healing journey has lead her down a path of combing the wisdom of ancient spiritual traditions, somatics, parts work, nervous system and trauma education. She supports folk who identify as women on their journey towards reconnecting to the wisdom that lives inside them, befriending their body, and creating sustainable embodied transformation.
All parts of you are welcome here <3
Alissa Boyer is a Mentor for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) with a passion for helping fellow HSPs learn how to reduce overwhelm, manage their energy, and fully embrace who they are. She’s the creator of several online programs including Sensitive & Soulful Self-Worth and the Sensitive Soul’s Business Society. She’s also the host of a podcast called The Sensitive & Soulful Show, and a writer for the award-winning HSP blog, Highly Sensitive Refuge.
Devin Brooks is an Integrative Trauma Therapist from New Zealand. They are a qualified Music Therapist and certified Somatic Trauma Therapist who has worked extensively in the area of complex trauma. They believe in the power of showing up as a Queer & Gender Queer Therapist by encouraging visibility and empowerment of queer communities. They work in private practice online to people around the world, supporting those to meet and move through their trauma experiences and unstuck their nervous system.
I am a nervous system mentor who blends spirituality and science together to help those who are in the process of awakening to feel safe in their own skin & grounded here on Earth.
My own experience of an intense spiritual & energetic awakening led me on a journey of self-healing and self-discovery. Along the way, I came across the Polyvagal theory & nervous system healing & my life transformed.
Thanks to somatic work, I have been able to overcome a lifetime of chronic anxiety & depression, self-harm & addiction. Now I live a life that is free from drama & chaos and instead, filled with peace.
Drawing from my background as a teacher, I work with clients to educate them on the workings of their nervous system, helping them to understand their physiology and guiding them gently and lovingly towards a new way of living.
One that is free from the restraints of survival stress.
I believe that ‘true human enlightenment will happen when all human beings on the planet have regulated their nervous systems’ and I am here to play a role in spreading the word of this amazing work!
Melissa Byers is a non-practicing Social Worker and Mastery Method Certified Coach. Melissa works with women using mind-body techniques to release pent-up tension that’s weighing on their physical and emotional well-being.
Melissa has the innate capacity to hold other women in a space of empathy and compassion, with the conviction that transformation occurs between your physical reality, and your mental, emotional, and spiritual states.