Integrative Body Psychotherapy
Join me for a personalized online Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) session, a body-based approach that helps release tension, chronic blockages, and emotional stress. Through mindful movement, breath, and awareness, you’ll begin to restore your natural body-mind connection, unlocking your body’s capacity to feel, process, and heal.
With ongoing IBP sessions online, you’ll develop the skill to notice what arises within you (sensations, emotions, and thoughts) and respond with compassion. This process strengthens emotional regulation, builds resilience, and helps you meet life’s challenges with greater ease and authenticity.
Online IBP offers the freedom to access sessions from your own home. Ideal for those seeking privacy or living in remote areas. Providing you with the same somatic depth and therapeutic presence as in-person sessions. Inviting you to regulate your nervous system and return to your body’s natural rhythm.
Book your online IBP session today and begin your journey toward greater presence, vitality, and freedom. I am RITMA-accredited and provide insurance receipts for reimbursement.
Healing. Vitality. Freedom.
Anger Workshop
Discover the Wisdom in Your Anger
Anger is often misunderstood, dismissed as destructive or suppressed until it bursts. Yet when explored with awareness, anger becomes a powerful source of clarity, strength, and transformation.
In this anger workshop, we’ll use an Integrative Body Psychotherapy approach to help you understand, feel, and express anger safely. Through guided body-based practices, mindful movement, and group sharing, you’ll reconnect with your body’s signals and learn to transform anger into healthy expression and emotional resilience.
You’ll leave with practices that teach you how to assert boundaries, reclaim your voice, and respond to life’s challenges with grounded confidence.
Whether you’re new to exploring anger or ready to deepen your self-awareness, this workshop invites you to honour your full emotional range and cultivate a more authentic relationship with yourself and others.
Events
Current & Past Workshops / Circles
I offer embodied workshops, reflection circles, and educational events grounded in integrative body psychotherapy, mindfulness, and sensory awareness. These experiential offerings create space to explore emotions such as anger, grief, and regret, reconnect with the body’s wisdom, and cultivate greater self-trust,presence, and emotional regulation.
Events are offered both online and in person, and are designed for individuals seeking embodied healing, personal growth, and meaningful connection within a supportive and inclusive environment.
Upcoming Events
Ancestral Healing & Integrative Body Psychotherapy with Vanessa Salvatore & Mmabatho Montse - Online Workshop
July 4th from 10:30-12:30pm EST - 6:30-8:30pm SAST
This two-hour workshop invites you into a biospiritual practice of embodied reflection. We explore how story lives in the body, how sensation carries meaning, and how inherited patterns shape our ways of responding to life.
Through guided inquiry, relational listening, and gentle somatic integration, we create space for clarity to emerge from what may feel vague, implicit, or unfinished. This is a space of collective wit(h)nessing, where attention is offered without fixing, interpreting, or correcting, allowing the body’s intelligence to unfold.
Past Events
Grief — Online Workshop
Champlain College Continuing Education - June 2025
A gentle exploration of grief, offering space to acknowledge loss,providing compassionate guidance and resources for navigating grief, death, and dying.
“This was a fantastic workshop, and everyone seemed to really appreciate your compassion and knowledge. Thank you so much. It was a very moving and powerful workshop, and I am thankful for you to guide people with such ease with a very difficult subject.” (Cyndy—Event Organizer).
Integrative Body Psychotherapy - In-Person Workshop Manoir St-Francois - September 2025
An integrative body psychotherapy workshop for older adults focused on reconnecting with the body’s vitality and energy. Cultivating a sense of wonder and awe for what the body can feel and express, even within its changing capacities.
“The residents absolutely loved the workshop you gave them!” (Gaby - Activities Coordinator)
Anger — In-Person Workshop
Espace Liance -November 2025
An experiential workshop that supports the safe expression of anger through movement, breath, and embodied awareness.
“Thank you so much, Vanessa. This workshop was Beautiful, and so much fun! I walked away with some powerful and easy-to-implement practices to work through anger and other difficult emotions as they arise. It was such a great reminder to use the body & voice to move through anger, not just the rational thinking mind.” (Jenna)
Mindfulness — Online Workshop
Mental Health Estrie - December 2025
An online workshop inviting participantsto slow down, reconnect, and explore simple practices that support more calm, clarity, and presence in daily life.
“Thank you for leading the workshop last night. It was very well received and drew a large number of participants.”
(Emily— Event Organizer).
Anger - Online Workshop Mental Health Estrie - February 2026 Explore anger as a natural human response, learn body-based practices to build awareness of what anger is signalling, and discover embodied ways to express it.
“Great workshop, very informative and well explained!” (Workshop Participant).
