Meet Jonatan
Mentor and teacher within Primal Trust™, and someone who has walked this path himself.
The journey that shaped this work
I know this terrain intimately. After living through chronic neurological Lyme disease, my nervous system spent years in a persistent state of survival. That lived experience, along with my gradual journey toward greater stability, meaning, and health, has profoundly shaped how I understand healing and how I support others today.
This is where nervous system regulation comes in. It offers a way to gently, sometimes gradually, sometimes surprisingly quickly, move out of survival and toward a state of greater safety and coherence.
As this shift unfolds, deeper alignment becomes possible. Old survival strategies begin to loosen. We reconnect with values, intuition, and parts of ourselves that feel authentic and alive. Over time, this inner reorganization naturally extends outward into our relationships, our work, and our sense of connection with life and with ourselves.
Training and experience
I bring a combination of scientific training, professional education, and ongoing study to my mentoring work.
Mind-body & brain retraining
- Primal Trust™: Regulate, Creating Calm, Level 2 Mentorship, and the Healing the Heart series with Dr. Cathleen King
- Over two years of weekly live teaching within the Primal Trust™ community
- Dynamic Neural Retraining System (DNRS) and the Gupta Program
- Foundations of Wellbeing with Rick Hanson, PhD
- Joe Dispenza workshops and an ongoing personal meditation practice
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Medical & neuroscientific foundations
- Seven semesters of medical school
- Extensive independent study in neurophysiology and nervous system regulation
- Ongoing mentorship with Uprooting Lyme Academy (not applied within Primal Trust™ mentoring)
- Training in Nutritional Counselling through Life Academy (not applied within Primal Trust™ mentoring)
Somatic & trauma-informed practices
- Breathwork: holotropic-inspired, Buteyko, and other approaches
- Parts work (IFS-informed)
- Nature-based regulation
- Deep Rest 1:1 Facilitator Training Programme with James Reeves (ongoing)
Health challenges I’ve personally navigated
Not read about. Not studied at a distance. Lived through.
- Chronic neurological Lyme disease and co-infections
- Mold toxicity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
- Chronic pain, fatigue, and sensory hypersensitivity
- Anxiety, depression, and patterns of addiction
- Sleep disturbances, digestive issues, and trauma imprinting
- Benzodiazepine, neuroleptic, and antidepressant tapering and withdrawal
My true skill lies in having lived and implemented every one of these tools. Not in ideal conditions, but while symptomatic, dysregulated, and navigating real-world challenges.
While these trainings and experiences offer a meaningful framework for understanding what may be happening beneath the surface, they are not what define my work. Teaching ourselves safety in the middle of a storm, while in pain, is like defying gravity. It’s a complete surrender into a new way of being, and that is the step we all need to take to heal.
Ready to take the first step?
My schedule is released on a rolling 90-day basis. If no times are visible, it simply means I’m fully booked for now.
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