Unyte Mentorship Program:
Nurturing Provider Excellence
Nurturing Provider Excellence
Increase your confidence and effectiveness in program delivery through coaching and experiential learning.
Choose from two mentorship types:
Experiential
Experiential includes the Mentor delivering a program to the mentee(s) in a therapeutic setting. The intention of the Experiential is co-created by the Mentor and Mentee.
Advanced Coaching
Advanced Coaching focuses on deepening comprehension of relevant material and can include case consultations, as well as guidance and discussion on specific clinical factors, situations and experiences.
Interested in Advanced Coaching?
As a first step, we recommend you book a complimentary call with Unyte’s Client Success team. As a benefit of your subscription, the Client Success team can answer many of your questions surrounding delivery considerations and implementation.
What to Consider When Selecting a Unyte Mentor
- Your Objective: What type of mentorship will meet your goals and needs?
- Your Readiness: Where are you on your journey? Some mentors offer mentorship prior to getting started with training, while others offer mentorship to certified providers.
- Your Practice: What populations, backgrounds and other modalities do you prefer your mentor to specialize in?
- Your Finances: What budget do you have allotted for mentorship?
- Mentorship Format: What format do you prefer? Unyte Mentors may offer mentorship in either individual and/or group format. Individual mentorship consists of a mentor meeting with one mentee in a one-on-one capacity. Group mentorship consists of more than two mentees. The group can be small or large depending on the objectives and intentions, and it can feature a single mentor or multiple.
Meet Your Unyte Mentors
Click on the ‘+’ symbol next to each name to view mentor details. To connect with a mentor, use the website link provided.
Kate Appleton, M.Ed: Sp.Ed/M.Ed: Coun, LPC, SEP
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP, ILS
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Kate is a somatic psychotherapist, personal development coach, mentor/supervisor, teacher, writer, artist, spiritual director and storyteller for Creative Integration Therapy and Kate Appleton Consulting, LLC. Kate has developed an integrative model for healing professionals that combines somatic practice with human development across the evolutionary journey. Kate works with the developmental patterns of attachment, sensory integration, traumatology, energy work and storytelling through myth, metaphor and archetypes. Kate works with people all over the world helping them integrate Sound Programs into their particular practice. How to adapt these for wide ranges of usage.
To contact Kate, visit: https://www.kate-appleton.com/consulting/supervision-work/
Laurie Belanger, LCSWR
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual
Laurie M Belanger LCSWR is a Clinical Social Worker & Trauma Therapist providing in-person and remote services to children, adults, and families in New York State. She is passionate about serving the needs of families coping with multi-layered, complicated concerns. Over a career of 20+ years Laurie has developed a strong interest and background in trauma, sensory development, chronic pain, adoption, mental health and neurodiversity. She is an approved EMDR Consultant through EMDRIA, and was professionally trained in TBRI®️ (Trust Based Relational Interventions) by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development. Laurie deeply integrates and includes access to some of the most up to date trauma therapies and supports in her practice. Included in this is The SSP (Safe and Sound Protocol), a Polyvagal informed, evidence-based therapeutic tool designed to reset the nervous system and return it to safety. Her passion for safely combining deeply sensory oriented, trauma informed materials and supports into diverse settings successfully has led to an increased focus in Mentorship, Consulting, and Training. Laurie has been using the SSP for multiple years in private practice, eventually integrating this valuable aid into the core of how she provides EMDR Therapy and other trauma informed modalities with clients of all ages. She has significant personal experience using the SSP for self care and resilience as well. Dedicated to providing cross discipline education to the community, Laurie enjoys providing both Experiential SSP Mentorship to colleagues as well as SSP Coaching Mentorship focused on practical & clinical integration.
To get in touch with Laurie, visit: lauriebelanger.com
Amy Bjorkman, PhD
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual
I am a seasoned Licensed Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in private practice in Scottsdale, AZ. Through my work as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I work with clients from a somatic perspective that focuses on how the body holds trauma and the concomitant dysregulation of the nervous system that directly impacts a person’s sense of safety and ability to self soothe. In my work, I support clients who struggle with trauma, eating disorders, overwhelming anxiety, and depression. For the last four years, I’ve been utilizing the Safe and Sound Protocol to enhance my somatic practice in supporting the regulation of my clients’ nervous systems. Using the SEGAN™ model as a framework allows me to further enhance trauma healing as clients participate in the SSP.
I am also the founder of the Mind Body Healing Collective; a group practice of multi-disciplinary practitioners that collaboratively support whole-body healing for those impacted by trauma.
My ideal mentee is someone who has received the SSP training and is interested in facilitating the protocol in their adult therapy client population. I am particularly skilled in implementing the SSP through the SE lens and would welcome the opportunity to support fellow SEPs who are interested in using the SSP in their SE practice.
To get in touch with Amy, visit: www.mindbodyhealingcollective.com
Catherine Cavaliere, PhD, OTR/L
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP, ILS
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Dr. Cavaliere has been a practicing clinician for over 20 years supporting children, adolescents and adults with sensory processing and regulation differences including Autism and ADHD through a polyvagal and sensory informed lens. She has used both the Focus system and the SSP, with her clients since 2014. Catherine is a contributing author to the SSP training guidelines and the Sensory Integration and SSP clinical guidelines as well as in the in progress Early Intervention and SSP clinical guidelines. She’s studied Polyvagal Theory since the early 2000’s during her doctoral work in which she investigated vagal responsivity to sensation, via heart rate variability, in autistic children. Catherine is actively involved in mentoring several research projects utilizing SSP in various settings and has mentored many clinicians on the use of the SSP with diverse populations.
Dr. Cavaliere is an Associate Professor and Research Coordinator in the Graduate Occupational Therapy Program at Dominican University New York. She combines trauma informed, polyvagal and sensory informed approaches in her teaching and presents at both the state and national level, on topics related to these approaches. Dr. Cavaliere has several publications in peer reviewed journals and has co-authored a book chapter on promoting mental health in children and youth.
To get in touch with Catherine, visit: https://www.duny.edu/ot/occupational-therapy-faculty/
Liz Charles, MD
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
I am an MD based in the UK and I specialize in delivering SSP online to adult clients with complex trauma and chronic illness. I have developed my Sensitive Approach: Client at the Core™ over years of in-depth clinical work which I use in all my client sessions. It combines my personal experience and deep understanding of the impact of trauma, my medical knowledge, and interest in neuroscience. Developing a relationship of trust and mutual respect is a central component of my work. I love to share my experience and skills with fellow SSP providers, and it’s wonderful to see how it can be so easily and effectively integrated into so many different therapeutic modalities and client populations. I enjoy giving 1:1 and group online mentoring for all SSP providers, both newly trained and experienced. I also have on-demand recorded training material and my SSP-Skills Workshops include live demonstrations of skills that can be integrated into your clinical work straight away.
To get in touch with Liz, visit: https://sensitiveapproach.co.uk/book-your-one-to-one/
Cindy Dawkins, OTR/L
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP, ILS
Experiential Mentorship Offered: None
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual
Cindy is an experienced OT with over 40 years in the field. Her passion lies in working with the pediatric population with challenges with emotional regulation and sensory integration. As an SSP provider since its inception, Cindy has been coaching families and mentoring practitioners remotely as well as in person. Cindy provides mentoring to practitioners and organizations from a foundation of years of clinical experience. She has worked with Unyte/ILS since 2009, providing training, home coaching, and consultation.
To get in touch with Cindy, visit: OTHOMECOACH.COM
Katie McClain, SEP, TIST, TST, SRR
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
I offered the SSP in a gently titrated way, supporting each clients’ ability to tolerate the protocol. Sessions are weekly one hour for 5 or 10 weeks and include support using Somatic Experiencing, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST parts work), and Somatic Touch. Mentorship is offered as experiential sessions as described above, as one or one coaching or consultation sessions, or in group experientials with other participants.
To get in touch with Katie, visit: https://katiemcclain.com/ssp/
Laura Moorehead, CST-D, SEP
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP, ILS
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Laura Moorehead CST-D, SEP has been offering programs through Unyte since 2019 and has led 100’s of people through their excellent programs. Due to her extensive background in Somatic Experiencing and Somatic EMDR she is able to bring a particular attunement and understanding to her work with clients. She specializes in working with children with learning challenges as well as adults who are looking for a heart centered, in depth approach to healing trauma.
Laura believes that one of the most important aspects of being an SSP provider is the capacity to attune to each client who arrives and what their particular nervous system and heart needs may be. Therefore she brings much focus to these skills during mentorship. Each client is unique and what has worked for one person may not work for another, thus she is intent on finding individualized approaches for your clients.
Tracking your clients nervous system response is just one aspect of SSP delivery. Mentorship can also support in setting fees, establishing communication systems, integrating the SSP into your current work, marketing and more.
To get in touch with name, visit: https://lauramoorehead.com/safe-and-sound-protocol
autum romano, CNMT, CST,RM
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual
I have been a bodyworker for 28 years and have logged over 25,000 massages. I have been using SSP in combination with bodywork since 2019. I am passionate about nervous system health and regulation and truly love helping folks learn more about how their unique, intelligent form is clever and on their side.
To get in touch with autum, visit: www.autumromano.com
Shelly Melroe, MS, MA, LMFT
She/Her/Hers
Mentorship For: SSP
Experiential Mentorship Offered: Individual
Coaching Mentorship Offered: Individual, Group
Shelly Melroe, LMFT, provides coaching programs and trauma therapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Her approach integrates modalities and helps clients understand the dynamic, circular nature of regulation and wellness within a person and between people. She brings creative problem-solving and change leadership expertise from a prior career in innovation and organizational consulting. Ideal SSP mentees for coaching have questions about business models, how to start and expand the use of new technologies within current practice, conceptualizing cases, designing effective SSP experiences, and learning from their client experiences. For experiential mentoring, mentees will experience it through her harmonized growth coaching approach that integrates physiological, cognitive, emotional, and energetic components of regulation and wellbeing.
To get in touch with Shelly, visit: https://www.rhythmforliving.com/ssp-mentoring
Interested in becoming a Unyte Mentor? You can learn more here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mentorship can include coaching, experiential learning or both, and is hosted in an individual or group format. Within this context, each Unyte Mentor chooses the mentorship type they wish to offer that fits their expertise. As a mentee, you decide what elements of mentorship will serve you best and then choose a mentor who is your best match.
Mentors can be contacted via their individual websites included in their profiles above.
Each mentor sets the cost of mentorship based on their specific and unique offering. You can find each mentor’s pricing on their websites.
No, mentorship is not required to be a Unyte Provider.
Unyte’s role is to qualify and endorse mentors who meet our evolving criteria and expertise when using our programs. Furthermore, Unyte acts as a bridge, connecting mentees and mentors so they may begin their mentorship journey.
If you’d like to provide insights, thoughts or feedback on your mentorship experience, or have questions, we’d love to hear from you!
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