Sonia Telle

About

A licensed Somatic Psychotherapist who enjoys working in private practice with individuals and couples in California, USA. She has a passion for Holotropic Breathwork and offers workshops in Northern California, Spain, and Europe. She has worked closely with Stan Grof since 2000 and has facilitated GTT modules in the US and Europe. 

Sonia has also trained with MAPS in MDMA-assisted therapy to work clinically with expanded states of consciousness and has taught self-care and integration for psychedelic-assisted therapies. 

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Sonia has a strong commitment to work therapeutically in multicultural settings (fluent in English/Spanish/ French).
Translator and interpreter of various books, trainings, and conferences related to psychology. Experienced performing psychological assessments for immigration purposes.

Lived and grew up in France and Spain. She currently lives and spends time between California, her main residence, and Spain.

Qualifications

* CA Marriage and Family Therapy License, June 2008
License meets the requirements of the Board Of Behavioral Sciences, according to the state of California.

* Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Concentration in Somatic Psychotherapy California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, December 2000-2004

Trauma Trainings

* MAPS   MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy. Trained to work with patients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 2017 

* Ketamine- Assisted Psychotherapy  at Polaris, California, USA 2022

* Hypnotherapy Training. Tiburon , California

* Sensory Motor Psychotherapy: 3year training on Trauma and attachment theory. Berkeley CA 2009-2012

* EMDR, Rapid Eye Movement Desensitization therapy: Processing Trauma Training.

* Grof Transpersonal Psychology and Holotropic Breathwork Training, Mill Valley, CA 1996-2005

Training modules in: Cross Cultural Training, Gender reconciliation, Spiritual Emergence, Psychopathology, addictions, somatic and emotional release work.
Besides the training itself, also worked as a translator during the training in Mexico (2000-2004).

* Analytic Somatic Training Institute, Northern American Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. 2002-2006 Somatically based psychotherapy.

* EFT Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples with Sue Johnson, San Francisco June 2012 Couple’s therapy training

* Calmeccac Training, Instituto de la Raza, San Francisco, CA. September 2003- June 2004 Participant to the monthly training leading toward developing cultural awareness and counseling skills to work with the Latino Community.

* B.A, Bachelor of Arts in Languages “lettres Modernes” University de Paris Cluny. June 1992 * B.A Bachelor of Arts in Translation (Spanish, French, English)

University de Paris Cluny. June 1992