When the case doesn't fit the framework you have.
Consultation, mentoring, and study groups for practitioners in the somatic and bodywork field. Bring the case that standard training doesn't fully account for — I will give you an honest read from twenty-three years of hands-on osteopathic practice, and tell you plainly what falls inside and outside what I can see.
Practitioners who need someone to think with.
DO/DOMP · Physio · RMT · CST
You have years of clinical experience and cases that no single framework fully accounts for. You want a peer who can sit with that complexity, not another technique to add to the stack.
Sensorimotor · NARM · IFS · SEP · Body-Oriented modalities
You work in nervous-system and trauma-aware terms and want to understand what a hands-on practitioner notices and reads through touch, for your referral decisions and your own intellectual development. You want a peer who speaks both languages without translating either down.
PhD candidates · Faculty · Journal reviewers · Course designers/planners
You are working at the intersection of manual therapy, somatic practice, and pain science. You want a practitioner with a current research orientation and an established clinical record to think a specific question through with.
Three forms of engagement.
Professional Consultation
$250/hr250 USD or EUR · 340 CAD per hour · GST included · 60 or 90 min.
A single structured session: brief case presentation, clinical discussion. A written summary is available on request — writing time is billed at the same rate. Recording allowed, and I'll provide voice transcripts for free if agreed. Online or in-person on Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria BC.
Mentoring
By enquirySix or twelve months · Application required · Open to experienced manual and somatic professionals — I only teach osteopathy itself to osteopaths with four or more years of training
Monthly 90-minute sessions over six or twelve months, with email contact between sessions. Limited to a small number of active mentees at any time.
Every format can be online, in person at my clinic, or where you practise (with a travel fee). Payment through Wise, or “Card on File” with Jane.app.
Lucas Vergnettes, DO(FR)
I graduated from the Institut Supérieur d'Ostéopathie in Aix-en-Provence in 2003 and have been in continuous clinical osteopathic practice since. I spent five years on faculty at CEESO Paris, teaching in the osteopathic programme, and served as president of the Académie d'Ostéopathie de France from 2012 to 2015. I moved to Victoria, BC in 2018. My current interest-led research sits at the intersection of neurophysiology of touch interactions, pain science, predictive processing, and person-centred manual practice — I am working toward a Master's at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki. I see clinical patients through Saisons Osteopathy in Oak Bay, about a thousand sessions a year. For the past ten years I have put a significant part of what the practice earns back into advanced CPD.
Full background →Structured reading and case discussion — forming now.
Small groups meeting regularly to work through clinical literature, case presentations, and the practical application of frameworks from pain science, enactive cognition, and somatic therapy. Format and frequency determined by group; participation by enquiry. My office has capacity for a group of 6-8 practitioners.
Consultations book directly. Mentoring and study groups begin with an enquiry.
A consultation requires no prior contact — book and arrive with the case or question. For mentoring and study group enquiries, a short email is the right starting point.