Valentina Iadeluca is a dedicated Hakomi therapist and teacher who works internationally and has authored several books. She is part of the faculty at the Hakomi Institute of Mallorca, where she teaches alongside Halko Weiss and Maci Daye, who trained her in Hakomi and continue to be her mentors. She passionately believes in the transformative power of mindful self-awareness as a gateway to authentic connection. She supports partners in embracing sexuality not only as a journey through the senses but also as a profound path toward greater understanding. With warmth, compassion, and a touch of playfulness, Valentina creates a safe and nurturing space for vulnerability, joy, and genuine exploration of real intimacy. She offers sessions in both English and Italian, inviting couples to rediscover a sense of wonder about each other, reigniting curiosity and a spirit of adventure in their relationship by gifting it with presence.

I work with individuals and couples who wish to understand themselves and their relationships more deeply, particularly where intimacy, closeness, or communication feel challenging. I offer a thoughtful and compassionate space where people can slow down, feel met, and explore what is happening beneath the surface of their relational lives. My work is informed by Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy, Passion & Presence® Mindful Relationship Sex Therapy, and Relational Life Therapy (RLT). I take a mindful, body-aware, and relational approach, paying close attention to emotional experience, bodily awareness, and the space between partners, and gently exploring patterns around closeness, desire, vulnerability, and communication. I am interested in supporting meaningful change that feels authentic and sustainable, at a pace that feels right for you.

Máire is the founder of Feminine Sexual Alchemy & a Senior Taoist teacher. She helps women & vulva owners to feel empowered in their health, sex and aging through Taoist practices like Qigong & meditation. Máire has a health science degree in occupational therapy & post-graduate training in polyvagal theory & the Wheel of Consent. She weaves the wisdom of the East with the latest in neuroscience, inviting the physical to bridge with the metaphysical and where science & spirit merge. Máire finds Passion & Presence has huge depth, offering great insight & transformation – she mostly offers this work 1:1.

Liz Hunter, MA, LMFT, specializes in couples work, supporting couples in Washington State. She received her BS in Biology from Stanford University and her MA in Couples and Family Therapy from Seattle University and is licensed in the State of Washington as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She is a certified Hakomi therapist and received training in Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples from Rob Fisher. She also is a certified Discernment Counselor through the Doherty Institute and has additional couples training in the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT). She loves nurturing connection through somatic and experiential methods.

Julia is a Passion and Presence® facilitator who joined the team in 2011. Maci calls Julia “the heart whisperer.” Julia believes that healthy sexuality is our birthright and is passionate about helping people gently and mindfully explore who and how they are in their erotic lives. Julia has provided healing services since 1998. First as a massage therapist with a passion for mind/body healing, now as a somatic psychotherapist, international trainer, and facilitator. She is a Certified Hakomi Trainer, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Julia lives in the Southeastern U.S. with her beloved of 20+ years. You can find her unwinding in the cedar hot tub in her garden when she’s not off seeing her favorite bands play live.

Jaci Hull leads Hakomi trainings and workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Brazil and abroad. She has worked as faculty for both the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and the Somatic Psychology M.A. program at Naropa University. She received her degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University. Her post-graduate training includes Family Systems Therapy, EMDR II, Somatic Trauma Resolution, Brainspotting, Group Leadership Training and Relational Life Therapy. She brings her extensive experience, as well as warmth, safety, and humor, to her practice and to her trainings. A licensed psychotherapist in private practice for nearly 30 years, Jaci works with individuals and couples, emphasizing the empowered self, relational living, healthy community and joy.

My focus is on supporting individuals and couples in creating deeper connections with themselves and others, as well as enhancing their overall sense of freedom, joy, and pleasure. I am a wife, mother, lifetime friend, sister, daughter, and fellow human seeking meaning, belonging, and deep connection in this ever-changing life adventure.

My passion for somatic work began with an extensive training in Yogic tradition, years of teaching Yoga and studies to become a Certified Massage Therapist. I then went on to receive a Masters Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Colorado and I become a Certified Hakomi Practitioner. I participated in the Martha Beck’s Life Coach Training in 2016 and in October 2022, I completed a year long training with Gabor Maté in Compassionate Inquiry®, which offers a map for working with trauma and addiction. I completed the Compassionate Inquiry Mentorship in 2024 and then, in May of 2024, began the sixteen month Passion and Presence Training with Maci Daye and became Certified as a Mindful Relationship Sex Therapist in the fall of 2025.

Emily Ophus (she/her) is a Registered Social Worker and sex therapist based in Victoria, BC. She works at the intersection of science and body based approaches, blending somatic therapy, trauma informed practice, EMDR, and systemic sex therapy. Emily supports individuals and couples navigating desire discrepancies, intimacy challenges, sexual self identity, trauma, and relationship patterns with curiosity and compassion. Her style is collaborative, grounded, and non judgmental, creating space for clients to explore what feels tender, confusing, or important without pressure or shame.

Having over forty years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and families has allowed me to develop multiple skills using a variety of therapeutic approaches. Located in Austin,Texas I am Certified Consultant of EMDR, have extensive experience in the practice of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and in working couples as well an extended family systems inpatient and out patient. The core of my therapy as a mindfully directed practitioner leans towards using accessing, addressing and assisting clients in transforming early attachment wounds through a psycho-neurobiological developmental approach so clients can learn from the inside out how to reduce the effects of negative emotions caused by harmful beliefs about themselves or in their relationships with others. In-person sessions are preferred, self pay only. .

Sex Therapy with Heart from London. Building your play, curiosity and safety in sex. I try to work in an embodied way, using mindful awareness and somatic techniques – Hakomi & somatic experiencing are my recent key influences. There are often developmental factors at play, so I am trauma trained and am highly trauma informed particularly in C-PTSD – where there has been a drip feed of a feeling of being ‘unsafe’ often in childhood experiences whether boarding School or home. A solid understanding of the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal theory is at the core of any model or technique I use. Humour, safety and warmth are often things people say they will remember when they finish work with me.