GABRIELLA R. YATES

Provide somatically-integrated psychotherapy to individuals with a focus on attachment repair, developmental trauma, and nervous system regulation, while engaging in ongoing individual supervision and clinical consultation.

Engaged in advanced clinical training with a focus on developmental trauma, somatic interventions, and relational healing within a depth-oriented, body-based framework; work included supporting at risk individuals navigating complex trauma, dissociation, and early attachment wounding.

Engaged in advanced clinical training with a focus on developmental trauma, somatic interventions, and relational healing within a depth-oriented, body-based framework; work included supporting at risk individuals navigating complex trauma, dissociation, and early attachment wounding.

Serve on the Board of Advisors for Birth Companions Community Center, supporting perinatal equity and community-based care for underserved birthing people; contribute trauma-informed expertise and lead culturally responsive yoga teacher trainings for marginalized doulas.

Partnering with community health organizations to deliver yoga teacher trainings for community health workers and enhance wellness equity. Providing workshops for yoga studios focused on somatic reconciliation.

Coordinate curriculum design and implementation of yoga and mindfulness into Community Health Worker Certification Program through collaboration with community mental health teams.

Certified trauma-informed, hatha, therapeutic, and prenatal yoga teacher with over two decades of experience facilitating yoga teacher trainings, immersive workshops, retreats, private instruction, and weekly classes. My teaching integrates a somatic and relational lens, with a focus on embodied healing, nervous system regulation, and psycho-emotional integration.

Led conflict transformation and dialogue consultancy efforts with local nonprofit organizations for international bodies through United Nations in Kosovo, emphasizing training, workshops, monitoring, and evaluation.

Fostered intercultural dialogue and reconciliation training in collaboration with the United Nations and diverse civil society groups throughout the minority refugee return and reintegration process.

Managed coordination of "Extremely Vulnerable Individual" and "Asylum Seeker" programs across eleven provinces in partnership with UNHCR and Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation to support vulnerable refugees and Afghan returnees.

Delivered 50-hour Master certificate course in Peacebuilding in English and French for Italians pursuing careers in humanitarian aid in partnership with European Union.

Obtained, launched, and supervised grants facilitating establishment of Non-Discrimination Office and Children's Rights Office supporting national human rights lawyers in processing violations concerning gender discrimination and children's rights abuse in post-war Kosovo.

Designated to aid subsistence farmers displaced by Manantali Dam Project, encompassing creation of rural women's center aimed at providing Bambara literacy classes for women and partnering with local schools to advance girls education.

• Twenty years of experience teaching hatha yoga that includes teacher training and developing a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training for formally homeless women in Partnership with Homeless Prenatal Program

• Facilitating yoga teacher training platforms in collaboration with community health organization to increase wellness equity

Facilitated intercultural dialogue with various civil society groups in preparation for minority refugee return and reintegration.