Nice to Meet You.

Hi, I’m Mac (she, her) —

I’m a fully trained Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), having a Three Year SE™ Professional Training Program with the SOS Internationale and Somatic Experiencing International in Canada and the U.K. between 2020-2023. I’ve also trained in and have facilitated movement modalities such as Movement for Trauma, contemporary Pilates, yoga, and meditation for the last decade, which is a lens that I apply to all of my work with clients.

Having completed a Five Year Training Program in Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, I also practice as Therapist In-Training and am working towards registration as a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). Since 2025, I have been a member of the Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT).

To complement my clinical practice, I serve as an Assistant in the Three Year SE™ Professional Training Program with Somatic Experiencing International, founded by Dr. Peter Levine, throughout North America to support the growth of future SEPs and increased access to leading, trauma-informed care.

I am also an Approved Provider for Personal Sessions at the Beginning Level for students pursuing professional training with Somatic Experiencing International.

TLDR:

Ultimately, I get my kicks from exploring the therapeutic process as a way of feeling back into your fullness, seeing the ways relational, body-based practices can unstick what gets in your way, and restoring your felt sense of nervous system resiliency.

What Happens in a Session?

  • Anxiety*

  • Burnout*

  • Chronic Illness

  • Chronic Pain

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Developmental Trauma* (The lasting emotional, psychological, and physical impact of chronic, repeated adversity, abuse, or neglect during childhood)

  • Embodiment Challenges* (Not feeling your body or feeling “too much” of your body — “Somatic Hyper-Fixation”)

  • Emotional Disturbances

  • Family Conflict

  • Grief & Loss

Areas of Focus:

  • Life Transitions

  • Matrescence* (The emotional, psychological and biological changes that happen after the birth of a child)

  • Obsessive / Intrusive Thoughts

  • Peer Relationships

  • Perinatal Mental Health*

  • Relationship Issues*

  • Self Esteem

  • Shame

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Sexuality

  • Symptoms of Nervous System Dysregulation* (Including Acute Stress)

  • Trauma & PTSD*

    *Core Focuses

  • 5-Year Training Program in Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Gestalt Institute of Toronto started in 2021 (Expected completion in December 2026)

  • Certificate in Somatic Experiencing | 3-Year Professional Training Program with Somatic Experiencing International (2020-2023)

  • Intermediate Level Assistant and Beginning Level Personal Session Provider with Somatic Experiencing International founded by Dr. Peter Levine (2024)

  • Certification in Reformer Pilates (2024)

  • Movement for Trauma Level I with Jane Clapp (2021)

  • 200 Hour Contemporary Pilates Training (2019)

  • 200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga & Meditation Training (2015-2016)

Education & Training:

As a white, cis-, able-bodied woman, the learnings & un-learnings in what create safer and more accessible spaces is a lifelong practice that I am committed to. I strive to challenge oppression in all of its forms in myself, others, and systems and stay open to receiving such.

This includes forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, fat phobia, and any other forms of discrimination and stigmatization.

I believe that anti-oppressive practices are critical in building a future where access is abundant and belonging is felt. I aim to hold an accountable space and remain open to ways of best supporting the needs and dignity of every person that I work with.

To continually deepen my ability to practice ways of better supporting the folks I work with, some my training has included:

  • Working with Racialized Clients with Dr. Fiona Moola (2025)

  • Reverence and Repair with Marika Heinrichs - Wildbody Somatics (2023)

  • Comfortable Conversations About Race with Natalie Haynes (2023)

  • Reclaiming Pleasure: Embodied Joy in Trauma Recovery and Social Change with Kai Cheng Thom (2022)

  • Reaching In, Reaching Out with New Leaf Foundation (2021)

  • Sharing Privilege with Robin Lacambra (2020)

Belonging Practices:

Feel It For Yourself

Feel It For Yourself

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E: hi@mckenzietaylor.ca