About me

My name is Karen Hargot and I am instinctively drawn to learning. I seek out awareness, courage, authenticity, diversity, belonging, and joy. I cherish making space for new insights to occur. I am intrigued by the unique qualities of each person I meet, and I endeavor to empower others by sharing my resources.

Holding a deep-rooted passion for community service, I transitioned from 10 years in a corporate setting into a therapeutic capacity. Since 2011, I have guided individuals on how to heal through (re)embodiment and empowerment while promoting stability, consistency, safety, and transparency. During this time, I worked collaboratively for four years with a multidisciplinary team at a private residential facility dedicated to providing treatment for individuals experiencing complex and acute PTSD, mental health challenges, and addictions.

The Intersection of Movement, Neuroscience, and Integration

My lifelong relationship with movement began with ballet, yoga, and running, and continues today through the practice of Qigong. This deep, personal understanding of the body informs my clinical practice. As a C-IAYT® certified yoga therapist, recreational therapist, and Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, I support adults navigating developmental and complex trauma. My approach focuses on achieving physiological integration to find lasting relief from overwhelm, dissociation, burnout, anxiety, depression, impulsivity, addiction, anger, and grief.

Neurodevelopmental Movement & Reflex Integration
Many of us carry unintegrated infant reflexes into adulthood. These natural movement patterns are present in all babies, but when left unaddressed, they can disrupt our adult lives. Using targeted neurodevelopmental movements, I assist individuals in safely revisiting earlier, missed stages of development. By building new connections across different parts of the brain, your development can naturally resume where it left off.

Somatic Experiencing®
Through Somatic Experiencing®, we utilize an evidence-based, neuroscientific approach to release bodily tensions and nervous system activation—allowing you to process adverse life experiences without the explicit retelling of the events.

Sessions involve touch work and may include a combination of Rhythmic Movement (RMTi)© primitive reflex integration, Somatic Experiencing®, Transforming Touch® techniques, mindfulness, breath work, and movement. While my practice integrates multiple modalities, you can find practitioners who specialize exclusively in Somatic Experiencing by visiting the Somatic Experiencing practitioner directory.

As a Registered Naturotherapist with Association des Naturothérapeutes Professionnels du Québec (ANQ) and Academy of Naturopaths and Naturotherapists of Canada (ACNN), I can provide receipts for private health insurance plans. While functional in French, my sessions are offered in English.

I offer my reverence to Kanienʼkehá꞉ka and Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee-Ga people, and to this land on which I live and work.

Benefits

In my work, I follow a humanistic, neuroaffirming, person-centered, strengths-based approach. This means that my clients will receive acceptance and support, regardless of the state they may be in. The benefits of this approach may include:

• Increased positive emotional states, creativity, vitality, and physical energy

• Ability to attend to your needs first while caring for others

• Increased felt sense of your healthy boundaries

• Improved sleep and ability to rest

• Decreased symptoms related to chronic pain, migraines, digestive issues, and other dis-ease

• Increased presence in your daily life and comfort in your own skin

• Increased ability to fluctuate between different states of intensity in life without feeling stuck

• Decreased physiological patterns of impulsivity, survival, or coping that no longer align with how you want to show up in the world