Current Board Members

Maureen Harrington

SEP, NARM, CMT

President
 

Maureen Harrington, SEP, NARM, CMT has held a private practice for over 20 years addressing shock and developmental trauma. In addition to her SE™ Certificate, she holds a California Massage Therapist license and has extensively trained in Kathy Kain’s somatic work. Additionally, she holds certificates in NeuroAffective Touch and as a NARM Practitioner to inform her work with developmental trauma. She lives in San Francisco’s East Bay on the unceded territory of the Ohlone people and she practices in Oakland, CA and Sebastopol, CA.

Maureen has deep roots in the SE™ Community beginning her SE™ training in 2001 and having served as a Teaching Assistant for SEI’s professional trainings from 2005-12. During that time she also served as Coordinator and Lead Assistant to Dr. Peter Levine for his annual Esalen Institute workshops. It’s from these experiences that she was drawn, with a group of her fellow SE Assistants, to develop an SE™ Professional Association in order to offer mutual support, professional growth and social engagement with her SE™ community outside of assisting trainings. Maureen is looking forward to the continuation of collaboration and connection in our diverse Northern California region.

Michael Changaris

PsyD, Past SEI Chairman of the Board

Secretary

Michael Changaris, PsyD. is the Chief Clinical Training Officer, health psychology groups program lead & psychopharmacology rotation lead for the Wright Institute, Integrated Health Psychology Training Program (IHPTP) an APA accredited internship in health psychology. He is an adjunct professor with John F. Kennedy University and The Wright Institute. Dr. Changaris is a clinical health psychologist with a specialty in multicultural psychology, stress physiology, and the neuroanatomy of PTSD. Michael Changaris is a 2018 UCSF, California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) Leadership Fellow. He served on the health disparities committee at Contra Costa County Health and along with the team, was recognized with the 2018 'Health Partnership' award for work addressing implicit bias in health care.