Lynea TRE US Site Bio

Lynea Gillen, LPC, RYT, Certified TRE Provider, and Trainer, is a pioneer in the field of health and wellness education. Her heart-centered and creative approach to supporting human development was grew from her 50+ years as a schoolteacher, counselor, college professor and mental health clinician.

Lynea’s Yoga Calm for Children [link: yogacalm.org] program was developed in a special education classroom with traumatized children in a rural Oregon elementary school over 20 years ago and is now being used with tens of thousands of children around the world in diverse settings such as urban classrooms, clinics and psychiatric hospitals like the Mayo Clinic. 

In her search for new tools to help with stress and trauma, Lynea found TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) 10 years ago when she attended her first workshop with David Berceli. Since then, Lynea has trained extensively with Dr Berceli and organized and assisted him in dozens of TRE training events.

As a Certified TRE Provider, Lynea provides private TRE sessions online and in person. And will be offering public TRE classes again soon as the Covid crises abates.

As a TRE Trainer Lynea brings to her TRE Certification trainings her counseling sensitivity, personal experience in transcending trauma, and expertise from training thousands of teachers, counselors and therapists in Yoga Calm.

​Lynea is also an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Lewis & Clark College and the University of the Pacific where she has created over a dozen courses in counseling, special education and curriculum and instruction. Working with the University of the Pacific, she received graduate level accreditation for the TRE Module 1 training. 

As an author, her books, like Good People Everywhere, Little Book of Healing, Mindful Moment Cards and other media have won nine national awards. 

Lynea is also a Licensed Professional Counselor with the state of Oregon, holds an MS in Counseling in Education from PSU, and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.