Bio

Camille Djokoto (they/them, she/her) is a Black, African Diasporic Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Embodied Somatic Coach, Master Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist (MSME/T, ISMETA), Registered Somatic Dance Educator (RSDE, ISMETA), and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner™ based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario.

Camille’s practice is spiritually and culturally affirming, rooted in an animistic relationship with the living world. Their work supports clients in accessing and honouring ancestral memory as part of the healing journey — across spirit, body, and mind. Camille’s offerings span registered psychotherapy, embodied somatic coaching, somatic movement and dance, restorative somatic touch, and embodied facilitation — offered individually and for organizations, companies, and communities.

Drawing on over 40 years of embodied movement and dance experience — including African Diasporic dance lineages and SWANA traditions including Raqs Sharqi, Baladi, Lebanese Debke, and Khaleegy through the Egyptian and Syrian teaching lineage of Yasmina Ramzy — Camille integrates somatic modalities including Somatic Experiencing®, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy™, and Body-Mind Centering® within a framework that understands these as expressions of embodied, relational, and spiritual traditions far older than their Western codification. Their dance work includes co-founding a Toronto-based dance company bridging cultural knowledge from global artists to Tkaronto, and serving as lead dancer and resident dance instructor.

Camille specialises in using rhythmic, body-based approaches to address sensorimotor processing through embodiment practices and somatic movement and dance. This work draws from African Diasporic rhythmic traditions of living historic embodiments of meaningful communications, as embodied practices harmonizing body, mind, and spirit — encouraging self-expression and communion, otherwise categorized as emotional and nervous system regulation by engaging bilateral stimulation and cross-rotational movement patterns that organically process, integrate and metabolize — moving energy through relationship and connection.

Camille’s psychotherapy practice supports adults 18+ navigating racialized and intergenerational trauma, complex PTSD, chronic stress and burnout, grief, life transitions, and the ongoing embodied impacts of systemic oppression and chronic illness.

Their embodied somatic coaching typically draws women and femmes who are consciously seeking to transform their lives; high achievers and those who have accomplished a great deal but suffer the costs. Individuals seeking embodied somatic coaching are ready to inhabit their lives with more intention, purpose, and alignment.

Embodied facilitation is offered for groups to nourish collective ritual, liberation, and resilience. Practice consulting is available for practitioners seeking culturally responsive, embodied, and liberation-centred frameworks for their own work.

Each one of their services is grounded in anti-oppressive, anti-racist, queer, intersectional-feminist, and disability justice values. Camille’s services centre Black and African Diasporic communities, and individuals that tend to seek out Camille are often women, femmes, gender-expansive, 2SLGBTQ+, Global Majority (BIPOC), and neurodivergent individuals who value a socio-culturally attuned, liberation-centred approach.

Camille is a member in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT), the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – Ontario Chapter (CADA-ON), and the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA), where they hold registration as a Master Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist (MSME/T) and Registered Somatic Dance Educator (RSDE).