Kirstie Seaborne

Kirstie is the leading voice for an embodied approach to parenting, an international embodiment teacher and founder of Embodied Parent Education, which grew from her experience as a therapeutic parent and mental health mentor. She specialises in empowering parents and professionals at risk of traumatic stress due to the dysregulated behaviours of the children in their care She has worked with Echo Training, The Carers Trust, Right Choice special school, foster/adoption agencies, and she has coached Directors and Clinical Leads of NHS Trusts, family mediators, social workers, educators and therapists. As a world expert she is invited to appear at live and online parenting summits and conferences Kirstie is a Certified Leadership Embodiment Coach, Compassion Fatigue Teacher and Compassion Resiliency Educator, with a Masters in Movement in Education from Laban, a PGCE, a Post-Graduate certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies from Bessel and Der Kolk’s Trauma Centre, and Certificates in trauma-parenting models, Trauma-Informed Care and Mindfulness for Youth. She is a certified Bowen Therapist and has taught body-based techniques for for over 30 years, ten years as an academic course leader for dance and physical theatre. She is also influenced by her studies in somatic attachment and relational trauma, somatic shame transformation, developmental movement sensory-motor regulation, and interpersonal neurobiology. Clients value her honest, compassionate, non-judgemental approach to working with taboo subjects such as shame, rage and child to parent violence.