Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises TRE®
The Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) was developed by Dr. David Berceli.
Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) was developed by Dr. David Berceli Ph.D., a social worker and a therapeutic body worker who has worked in several countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations around the world. He developed the TRE® out of his observations that all humans contract in overwhelmingly stressful situations. He created a sequence of exercises that release this contraction and instigate neurogenic tremors that help release survival stress activation. I am a certified TRE® provider and offer the TRE® in person and remotely.
I learned the TRE from Dr. Bob Scaer, who wrote the forward to Dr. Berceli’s first book, “The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process,” and received my certification from Alex Green in Boulder, Colorado.
My Teachers
David Berceli, Ph.D. is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He has a Doctorate in Social Work (Ph.D), a Masters of Social Work (MSW): Direct Practice, is a Board Certified Psychoneurologist, a Board Certified Neurotherapist & Certified Neurotherapy Instructor, and is Certified in Field Traumatology, as well as a therapeutic bodyworker.
Dr. Bob Scaer, (1938-2021) was a board-certified neurologist that had a 4-decade career in neurology and rehabilitation medicine, 20 of those years was spent as the Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at the Mapleton Center in Boulder.
He was the first physician to use Somatic Experiencing in a clinical setting.
Ana do Valle is the clinical director and supervisor for the Soma Healing Center in Boulder, CO. She has developed her studies in the areas of Anthroposophical Counseling, Sensory Processing and Somatic Experiencing. Ana specializes in working with the social nervous system. Her focus is on addressing the art of integrating sensory information in order to create embodiment, empowerment and coherence in our capacity to “experience” the other and ourselves.
Alex Greene became trained and certified in TRE –Tension & Trauma Release, Somatic Experiencing, Safe & Sound Protocol, NARM – NeuroAffective Relational Model, and Internal Family Systems to develop a complete toolkit of somatic and nervous system-oriented approaches to help overcome trauma and promote psycho-emotional and spiritual growth and well-being. Alex is a master bodyworker also trained in Zen by Tanouye Rotaishi and trained in bodywork by William ‘Dub’ Leigh, the founder of Zen Bodytherapy.