Dr. Sue Redmond is an Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist, Somatic EMDR Practitioner, Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, educator, and facilitator with over two decades of experience supporting individuals, groups, and communities to heal, grow, and thrive.

Her work sits at the intersection of trauma healing, nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and human connection. Drawing on a diverse background spanning psychotherapy, youth and community work, health promotion, coaching, leadership development, and mindfulness-based practices, Sue brings a uniquely integrative perspective to both therapy and professional training.

Sue holds a PhD exploring youth leadership, resilience, and social support, alongside qualifications in health promotion, psychology, pharmacology, youth and community work, coaching, somatic trauma therapy, and somatic EMDR. Her approach has been informed by training in the work of leading pioneers in trauma and embodiment, including Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Janina Fisher, Bessel van der Kolk, Deb Dana, and others whose contributions have shaped the field of trauma-informed practice.

Alongside her academic and professional training, embodied and contemplative practices have been central to Sue's personal and professional life for nearly twenty years. Her work is grounded in the belief that healing happens not only through insight and understanding, but through our capacity to listen deeply to the wisdom of the body.

Over the course of her career, Sue has designed and delivered programmes across Ireland in areas including trauma recovery, healthy relationships, violence prevention, conflict resolution, resilience, wellbeing, and community development. She has worked extensively with young people, families, practitioners, and organisations, supporting meaningful change at both individual and systemic levels.

As a therapist and educator, Sue is known for creating spaces that are safe, relational, experiential, and deeply human. She has a particular gift for helping people navigate complexity with curiosity and compassion, supporting them to reconnect with their innate capacity for regulation, resilience, and growth.

The Professional Certificate in Somatic Trauma Therapy represents the integration of many strands of Sue's life's work—bringing together science and somatics, evidence and experience, nervous system healing and embodied transformation.

At the heart of her teaching is a simple belief:

"When people learn to feel safe within themselves, new possibilities emerge... for healing, connection, belonging, and living more fully."

Professor Sandika Baboolal is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon, educator, researcher and Director of Embodied Leadership.  A specialist in systems and relational dynamics, her work bridges the clinical, the somatic, and the systemic.

Alongside a career in high-stakes surgical medicine, she holds a PhD whose intervention transformed the systemic and relational conditions shaping people and their performance. The doctoral research was conducted within a surgical department — an environment where nervous-system dysregulation, dysfunctional cultures, hierarchy, and collective stress have substantial consequences. A recipient of the Discovery Academic Fellowship Award, among other honours, she is also a graduate of Harvard’s year-long Surgical Leadership Program. She is trained in Embodiment and Regulation Strategies and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, which she integrates into her practice.

Embodied leadership expands on the doctoral research and is a consultancy that helps leaders, teams and organisations create relationally safe, high-performing and more sustainable ecosystems. Drawing on polyvagal theory, attachment, affect regulation, ecological science, and creativity, Sandika’s work asks what happens when equity- attuned somatic principles are extended beyond the individual to the collective level to teams, organisations, and systems. She has developed frameworks for understanding how groups move between states of threat, shutdown, and collective regulation, and how relational coherence can be cultivated within the systems in which people work.

On this programme, she brings the individual nervous-system work into its systemic dimension: how trauma is held collectively, how organisational nervous systems regulate and dysregulate, and what it means to practise somatically within communities and increase resources, capacity and emergent solutions within the wider systems that shape us.