SOMI.Clinic was founded by Eileen Wurst, a WA state-licensed mental health counselor and somatically oriented psychotherapist supervisor and instructor in private practice in Seattle, WA for over 15 years. Previously she founded and directed the Reiki Training Program, the only state-licensed vocational school of this healing art. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in somatic psychology through CIIS conducting research on the effect of the body scan meditation in telemental health. She has been featured in The Guardian and on KUOW, the NPR station for Seattle. Eileen published Touching the World Through Reiki, numerous articles in print and online, as well as guided meditations and instructional videos. ​