Cultivating a Felt Sense: Sound, Rhythm, and the Neurobiology of Embodiment in Clinical Practice 

Sheila Frick, OTR/L, is an internationally esteemed clinician, lecturer, and pioneer in Occupational Therapy. She has over 20 years of clinical experience, having worked in psychiatry, rehabilitation, and home health before specializing in pediatrics. Her expertise includes sensory processing dysfunction, sensory integration, and auditory interventions. She created and continues to expand Therapeutic Listening, which she has taught to over 10,000 therapists worldwide. She also lectures on such topics as clinical neurology, respiration, the vestibular/auditory system, and various auditory interventions. She is the creator and author of Listening With the Whole Body, and co-author of Core Concepts in Action, Astronaut Training, and Out of the Mouths of Babes.

Jaymie Stavdal, MS, OTR/L, is passionate about sharing joy, compassion, playfulness, and connection with the world. As an occupational therapist, she specializes in sensory integrative processing and has extensive training in trauma responsive practices, relationship/attachment theories and interventions, sound therapies, oral motor/feeding, and craniosacral therapy. She is also a practitioner in Trust-Based Relational Intervention and Circle of Security Parenting and serves as the Director of Continuing Education for Avanti Therapeutic Projects. Jaymie’s work is marked by collaborative and holistic support for families, a curiosity and love for learning, and a drive to empower others through compassionate connection. 

Leah Dawang, SEP, is a Relationship Restoration Guide, supporting couples and individuals in clearing the way so that they may receive Love and connect with themselves, others, Nature and Spirit. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing, Relational Life Therapy and the Safe and Sound Protocol practitioner and, through her practice, Clear The Way, offers a tapestry of transformation woven from interpersonal neurobiology, somatics, relationality, attachment, Nature-guided living, listening therapy, parts work and grounded mysticism. Leah also leads partnerships at Unyte Health, cultivating impactful relationships with outstanding individuals and organizations across the therapeutic and healing landscape. In both roles, she’s committed with stubborn hope to actively participating in clearing the way individually, intergenerationally and collectively so that Love is made manifest in the world.