Peter Levine PhD is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology from International University. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International, where his work has been taught to over 30,000 healers in over 42 countries.

He recently finished his autobiography, An Autobiography of Trauma, A Healing Journey, and is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages); In an Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness; and Trauma and Memory, Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past.

Dafna Lender is a family therapy expert, attachment specialist and developer of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT). She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), as well as an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist.

Dafna's expertise is drawn from 29 years of practicing family therapy around diverse problems: extreme acting out and withdrawn children, depression, ADHD, school issues, adoption identity and developmental trauma, as well as parent-child relational conflict, dysregulation and mood instability in parents as well as co-parent conflict. She is author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy and the co-author of Theraplay: The Practitioner's Guide.