Somatic Resilience & Renegotiation

Bonnie Olechno, Registered Nurse Clinician, Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner SEP™

"Driven by a passion to educate all about the dance of the body’s autonomic nervous system"

Bonnie Olechno, founder of Somatic Resilience & Renegotiation is driven by a passion to educate all about the body’s “autonomic nervous system” (ANS), the stress response and how to increase resilience. When Bonnie broaches the fascinating subject of how somatic mindfulness can affect our brain activity, her re-assuring voice rings with the sound of experience, expertise and even more important, a huge reservoir of compassion.

 

Bonnie completed her Nursing and Health Sciences education by consolidating the years of education, theory and practice in the Intensive Care Unit. She became a Registered Nurse Clinician with the College of Nurses of Ontario beginning her career as Registered Nurse Clinician, Case Manager in a large Mental Health Organization in Ontario with 19 years experience.

 

Bonnie is a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario. She follows the professional standards and code of ethics with the College of Nurses. Bonnie is also a member of the Registered Nurses Asscoiation of Ontario (RNAO). Bonnie has professional liability insurance.

 

All of Bonnie’s work is informed by the foundation of Mindfullness Based Stress Reduction, MBSR informed by John Kabat Zinn, Mindful Self Compassion, Dr Kristen Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer.

 

Bonnie is an Informed Dialectial Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Facilitator, providing Psychotherapy using Dr. Marsha Linehan’s Model to help others gain the foundation of Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance Skills since 2017. You will also notice her sessions contain the best practices of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Brief Therapy to result in concrete and measurable improvements and results. Bonnie has been supported and contributed extensively to The Trauma Informed Committee in her community from  2017 to 2022.

 

All of Bonnie’s work is informed according to the Poly Vagal theory, Dr. Stephen Porges. 

 

 

 

 

 

According to the Trauma foundation.org: There is an epidemic of personal and social issues including addiction, chronic disease, anxiety, depression, PTSD and more whose roots can all be traced to trauma, adverse childhood experiences, chronic stress, and ultimately nervous system dysregulation.

In the last number of years there has been groundbreaking research in neuroscience that has fundamentally changed our understanding of how trauma can impact individuals psychologically, physiologically, emotionally, and socially. From this, several new and highly effective treatment modalities have been developed at the clinical level to build resilience and support the healing of individuals struggling with chronic symptoms resulting from unresolved trauma. Somatic experiencing is one of these highly effective treatment modalities.


I invite you to watch this 8-minute video about the autonomic nervous system with subtitles in Polish, as Bonnie was born in Sololka, Poland.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuRvtq5kih0


Bonnie started the Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Program in 2017 and completed the 3 year program (216 hours of training) as well as professional consultations and personal SE™ sessions. This training intertwines perfectly with everything else she has been doing providing support as Registered Nurse Clinician, Psychotherapist, Mindfulness Meditation Instructor and DBT facilitator.


Bonnie started her Somatic Experiencing Training with Berns Galloway in London, Ontario. She completed the SE training with Kathy Kain and Linda Stelte in Victoria, British Columbia 2019 and has become a life long member of Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute ever since.


Bonnie is a committed member to Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and she loves supporting other students in their process of becoming Somatic Experiencing Practitioners. She has assisted for Linda Stelte (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), Gina Ross (Los Angeles, California, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel), and Berns Galloway (London, Ontario, Canada), Dea Parsanishi (Vancouver, Canada) and Debra Clydesdale (Los Angeles, California)


Bonnie is an approved session provider offering sessions for credit towards the Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner program in the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Levels in the three-year curriculum.  Bonnie invites other SE™ students to contact her for personal sessions as needed.

Bonnie is impartial and has a huge reservoir of compassion to support you during metabolizing implicit sensations, emotions and memories.