Polyvagal Institute

Jan Winhall, M.S.W. F.O.T. is an author, teacher and psychotherapist. She is an adjunct lecturer and practicum supervisor in the Department of Social Work, University of Toronto. Jan is director of Focusing on Borden, a psychotherapy and training center. She has built a community of people who teach and practice Focusing as a way of life. Jan presents internationally on trauma and addiction. Her book, "Treating Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom Up Approach" is the result of rethinking the Felt Sense Experience Model that she wrote about in Emerging Practice in Focusing- Oriented Psychotherapy, 2014. Her most recent book, "20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model" releases March 18, 2025, and will accompany her new Community Practice Groups offering. "Reframing addiction and its treatment through the lens of Experiential Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Imago Relationship Therapy, Jan Winhall has produced a brilliant synthesis and expansion of addiction theory and treatment that should be read by all therapists, not just addiction specialists." ―Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between "In this insightful volume Jan Winhall brings together the essence of groundbreaking modern therapeutic practices with her own decades of hard-won clinical experience to fashion a new, deeply humane and promising model of addiction treatment, illustrated by poignant clinical vignettes." ― Gabor Maté, MD, is the author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. "In Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Jan Winhall introduces a new strategy to treat addiction that brilliantly integrates Gendlin’s classic concept of a felt sense with Polyvagal Theory. The author shares her intellectual journey in which unique insights transform two disparate perspectives into obvious complements leading to a powerful treatment model." ―Stephen W. Porges, PhD, scientist, author, creator of Polyvagal Theory

Jessica Zormann, MEd, RP, FOT, CCC-S is a Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist and Certified FSPM Facilitator based in Toronto, Canada. Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Jessica helps clients with ADHD and AuDHD to manage intense emotions and make progress toward their goals. Jessica will be available to provide accommodations for neurodivergent participants. https://www.jessicazormann.com/

Robert Ragucci became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in 2000, specializing in Addiction and Recovery. He served as a Drug Counselor for Options Recovery Services for 16 years, teaching classes on Terence Gorski’s Denial Management, Stephanie Brown’s Developmental Model of Recovery, Prochaska’s Stages and Processes of Change, and Meditation. For the past 10 years, he has been a student of spiritual teacher Thomas Huebl. Robert has spent the past three years studying Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and is now a certified FSPM Facilitator and Focusing Trainer. He is credited with discovering the fourth circle in Jan’s Four Circles model. Additionally, Robert is a Safe and Sound Protocol Provider and is currently pursuing certification as a Rest and Recover Protocol Provider.