Facilitators
At HISE, our teaching team blends trauma-informed, body-based methods with a commitment to transformational healing. Rooted in the principles of Somatic Experiencing® developed by Peter A Levine, PhD, our facilitators bring diverse expertise in healing, embodiment, and relational practice, with decades of combined experience designing and leading powerful workshops and retreats worldwide. The team is guided by founder Melissa Stager, EMBA, SEP, and collaborators including Peter A Levine, PhD, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, Betsy Polatin, Barbara Collier, and others who co-create rich, immersive learning experiences grounded in compassion and wholeness.
HISE Facilitator
Barbara Collier, LPC, SEP
Meet Barbara
Complimentary Meditations with Barbara
Letter to Barbara…
“Being in this space with you was unlike any other learning experience I’ve had. Your facilitation feels less like instruction and more like an invitation into presence—into the kind of learning that happens through the body, through relational field, through timing and resonance. You have a way of weaving poetic language, deep listening, and somatic attunement that made the entire experience feel alive. I could feel how you were tracking the group—not just what we said, but how we said it, what was underneath, and where the collective energy wanted to go. You model what it means to lead without control: there was clarity, there was steadiness, but also so much space. I felt both safe and free. These sessions weren’t just about content—they were transmissions. Something settled in me. Something remembered. Thank you for that.”
- Student from Argentina
Barbara Collier is an experienced trauma recovery expert with over 30 years of experience. She has co-taught with some of the topinovators in the field, including Peter A Levine, PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing®.
A registered ICU nurse turned somatic trauma psychotherapist, she’s a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and Embodied Psychosexual Practitioner.
Barbara integrates movement therapies, sensory awareness, nature-based healing, bodywork, and equine-assisted work to address developmental, intergenerational, and sexual trauma.
As co-founder of Equinimity Tucson—a nonprofit offering trauma-informed services to underserved communities—she brings a grounded, compassionate presence that holds deep healing with grace and attunement.
Her teachings with Healing Informed Somatic Education and Ergos Institute invite reconnection with our inherent wholeness and aliveness, often through the wisdom of body, nature, and relational repair.