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About

Paula Soto LCSW, ERYT, YACEP

Paula is a social worker and yoga teacher, with over two decades of experience empowering individuals and communities toward wellness.  Paula founded Intersections Wellness in 2012, to improve awareness and accessibility of body/mind healing practices.  Paula balances her time between her private psychotherapy practice,  offering professional consultation and continuing education trainings, public speaking, and teaching yoga.


Paula is an advanced topics trainer with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, an EMDRIA-approved/Institute for Creative Mindfulness Consultant in Training, a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, a Dancing Mindfulness facilitator, an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, and a member of EMDRIA and NASW.  Paula is certified by Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute in Intensive Trauma Focused Therapy

Qualifications

What do the letters mean?

Clinical Education and Expertise

Clinical Education and Expertise

LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker

ERYT - Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher

YACEP - Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider

EMDR Certified - Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy, Certified Therapist

EMDRIA - Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing [Therapy] International Association

NASW - National Association of Social Workers

Clinical Education and Expertise

Clinical Education and Expertise

Clinical Education and Expertise

Masters in Social Work, with Concentration in Children and Family Work, Fordham University


BA in English, with Concentration in Creative Writing, New York University


EMDR Certified Therapist (trained by Institute for Creative Mindfulness)


Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator


Paula is continually learning:  She has taken a number of trainings via Institute for Creative Mindfulness, and enjoys expanding her knowledge about dissociation, treatment for early trauma, and expressive arts therapy.

Yoga Expertise

Clinical Education and Expertise

Yoga Expertise

Registered Yoga Teacher 200 Hour 

Certification - Sangha Center for Yoga and Wellness, Beaver, PA


Yin Yoga Instruction Certificate- Frameworks Yoga


Accessible Yoga Instruction Certificate - Accessible Yoga Association


Paula has attended numerous continuing education trainings focused on yoga service, trauma-informed and trauma focused yoga.  She has been fortunate to  learn from nationally renowned teachers associated with the Yoga Service Council, as well as several gifted Pittsburgh-area instructors, including Andrea Kirkham, Richard Gartner, Ali Popivchak, Sterling Painton, and Linda Meacci.


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