About

Travis Wanner, SEP

My work with clients is most influenced by the loving support and healing that I have received over the years as I navigate being a primary parent, a partner and a homeschooling parent. We are not meant to do this alone.

These are the trainings that I utilize most in my work:

- Somatic Experiencing: helps us understand the nervous system, various ways trauma can become stuck in the system and various approaches for freeing up that stuck energy. The whole body is involved in how we respond to safety and threat. When we listen to the body, we can connect to what is being held in the nervous system, particularly around a traumatic event or difficult childhood experience that is impacting how we navigate our daily life. I completed the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training in 2022. (3 year training)

- Early Childhood Trauma & Attachment Healing - Pre and Perinatal Castellino Training: Our early experiences of life actually have a significant affect on our daily lives, relationships and our overall perception of life. This is when we learned how to relate to other people, when we developed bonding and attachment. This is *foundational* work that touches almost all other aspects of our life - we are relational creatures and that is when we first learned how to relate to others (to trust, to reach, to pull back, to feel safe or unsafe with others). I completed the Castellino Foundation Training in pre and perinatal (PPN) trauma in 2026, taught by Tara Blasco and Mary Jackson (a 2.5 year training).

As part of this trainin, I have also attended a number of PPN workshops ( called Birth Process Workshops or Womb Surrounds) to uncover and integrate my own challenges from this time and better understand its influence on my perception of the world (facilitators have included Myrna Martin, Tara Blasco, Kristin Sipley, Alison Greene-Barton, Janet Evergreen, Zakira Beasley and Kirby Moore).

- Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST): provides deeply attuned support for early, non-verbal developmental material. It can also be very supportive for material around existence, as well as supporting the overarching energy of health in the body, mind and spirit. BCST focuses on the organizing and healing mechanisms of the body-mind. It helps the healing forces, that are already alive and active in each of us, come forward when there are places that things have become stuck or tightened due to life experiences. I trained with Roger Gilchrist, James Foulkes, Mary Maruka and Mike Duggan in Silver Spring, MD, completed 2026. (2.5 year training)

- Breathwork: learning to use the breath as an integral tool for resourcing and interacting with the Autonomic Nervous System through the Therapeutic Applications of the Breath training with Alicia Barmon . (participant & assistant, 2021-2023)

- Psychedelic Somatic Trauma Healing - this is ultimately an extension of the trauma work I do with Somatic Experience and early childhood trauma facilitation. It is done with low doses of psychedelics (such as cannabis or ketamine) to help quiet the thinking brain and let more involuntary material emerge. This work can be especially helpful for early non-verbal material, overarching relational dynamics and sense of self. This work is taught by the Psychedelic Somatic Institute. I am Level 2 certified, completed 2023.

- Nonviolent Communication: a powerful method of clarifying communication, conflict resolution as well as exploring our experience more deeply. I learned NVC with Family Heart Camp West Virginia (as a participant and volunteer staff member 2015-2018) and in the Parent Peer Leadership Program (2015-2016).

- Inner Child Work: a profound 6 week class with Robin Grille, teaching how to facilitate the Inner Child Process (2022).

- Men's Work: participating in and facilitating mens work through the Mankind Project since 2012.

And this list would not be complete without mentioning my wife, Alicia Barmon , a psychotherapist, yoga therapist, breathwork teacher and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who has taught me so much by welcoming my wounds and struggles as an opportunity to heal and lean deeper into life.

I have homeschooled our child since 2011 and taught many classes at a local educational cooperative. I have a Master's in Music from Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, a Bachelors of Arts from Colgate University and worked for a number of years in institutional advancement for higher education and non-profit organizations. I also had a local farm business for six years in Frederick, MD. I completed the Permaculture Certification in 2011 and have found it very impactful in all my work.

Here is a link to my resume.

Inalienable Healing is a reminder that the capacity to heal has always been within us and can never be taken away. Our system is designed to move back to health and a vibrant experience of life. There are many ways that our sense of self, safety and empowerment can become locked, muted or seem practically inaccessible. I chose this name to remind me that the amazing living organism in is each of us, is seeking to unfold and heal. I have especially seen this in my own healing with Somatic Experiencing, pre and perinatal healing and Craniosacral work. Our nervous system will show us what is ready to be seen, held and healed if it is given a safe, intentional place with plenty of time, space and support to stretch out it’s amazing complex wisdom. Pieces of what seem indigestible can be freed and integrated, creating a new relationship to life that is more alive in the present.