Abi Blakeslee, PhD, MFT, SEP

Dr. Abi Blakeslee is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy and a leading figure in somatic and trauma-informed care. She serves as senior faculty at Somatic Experiencing International and as legacy faculty for Dr. Peter Levine's Ergos Institute for Somatic Education — having been personally mentored by Levine to teach SE Master Classes. She is also the Director of Training and Education for the Neuro-consulting Group.

Dr. Blakeslee holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychology. Her doctoral dissertation generated original research on the role of implicit memory in healing trauma, which formed the foundation for her development of Implicit Psychotherapy. She integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, secondary trauma interventions, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma.

Implicit Psychotherapy is an innovative therapeutic approach designed to reinstate secure attachment, increase regulation, and restore a person's sense of essential self. The training program — launching in Bozeman in Winter 2025–Spring 2026 — offers clinicians physiological, embodied cognition, exercise-focused attachment repair, and neuroscience-based training across three modules. Dr. Blakeslee also co-founded the Brazilian Trauma Association with her husband Russell Jones and teaches Somatic Experiencing on four continents, including at a training center in the Atlantic rainforest of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

In her clinical practice, Dr. Blakeslee treats individuals, couples, children, and families. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, with her husband and their three children, and teaches and consults worldwide.