Mary is both a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Body-Worker in the state of Ohio. The primary modality she uses is Somatic Experiencing (SE) and SE Touch. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with Post-Advanced Masters Series Level Training and Assisting with Dr. Peter Levine. Mary has coordinated and assisted Somatic Experiencing trainings and is an SE consult provider and student session provider at all levels. Completed NARM, working with Developmental Trauma, as well as trainings working with Early Developmental Trauma with Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell. See specifics below.
SE Training
Post Advanced Training
NeuroAffective Relational Model, NARM, with Brad Kammer.
Co-coordinated and completed NARM 6-module Therapist Training. October 2018. Columbus, Ohio.
DARe - Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience
Masters of Education in Clinical Counseling, M.Ed, The Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Spring 2012
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Mary's journey in the work...
Mary began doing transforming work with people in 1998 as a certified IMPACT instructor for a full impact self defense program, IMPACT Safety Programs formerly Fight Back Of Central Ohio. A 24 hour training in which she taught people to break free from the freeze response and physically defend themselves. To become certified to teach she embarked on a 3 week intensive training with Bay Area Model Mugging in San Francisco California followed by a year long apprenticeship with IMPACT of Ohio focusing on the repercussions of rape, assault and oppression.
Mary became fascinated with the nervous system, the fight flight freeze response, how it is affected by intense experiences, anxiety and fear. The training and experience gave Mary the knowledge and tools to work with people who had been traumatized and how to safely facilitate students to transform their experience into empowerment and choice through physical movement, finding and using their voice and facilitated group support.
During this time she began to study Polarity Therapy. This brought her fascination deeper into the body and energy systems, broadening her understanding of how people get stuck on many levels as a result of life experience and their response to it. This led Mary to go to Massage School to understand more about the body, the physiology, the nervous system, anatomy, how it all works together. She became a Licensed Massage Therapist by the State of Ohio Medical Board in 2004 and earned Neuromuscular Therapy Myofascial Release Certification in 2005.
In January of 2006 Mary went to a 5 day workshop that introduced her to STR, Somatic Trauma Resolution. She could hardly contain her excitement that a training had been developed on how to work with people individually, that was specifically addressing frozen defense responses and truncated responses in the body. A way of working with clients that empowers them to engage fully, consciously to release where they are stuck, build resiliency and gain skills to take into their daily life with full awareness of their own process. This training was based in part on SE and BCST. After completing the STR training she soon after began the SE and BSCT trainings. STR left her very skilled and with more questions. She wanted to understand more about trauma and what happens in the body. The subsequent trainings, SE and BCST, answered all those questions.
Mary is committed to continued study and training in her field, to broaden and refine the base from which she works. She completed her certification in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Gary Peterson in 2009, and completed Somatic Experiencing Certificate in 2010 and continues to do Post-Advanced Masters Series Training and Assisting with Peter Levine as well as assisting Somatic Experiencing trainings. She completed a Master's degree In Education in Clinical Counseling at The Ohio University in 2012 and is licensed in the State of Ohio as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.
Working with attachment developmental trauma is her current learning edge. She started with DARe, studying and assisting in 2013. Most recently in training with Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell as well as coordinating and participating in The NeuroAffective Relational Model, NARM Practitioner training, a somatic model of healing developmental trauma, with Brad Kammer.
Also important to Mary is utilizing supervision and regularly engaging in her own personal process. Mary is at the beginning of her homestead journey living on 10 1/2 acres in central Ohio with her best friend and 2 giant dogs. Living her best life!
SE Training
- Completed Somatic Experiencing Certificate, Fall 2010
- Somatic Experiencing Master Level Class Series with Peter Levine:
- Emotions, Memory & Trauma, October 2012
- Advanced Body-work: Complex Syndromes & Polyvagal Theory, April 2013
- Eye of the Needle: Working with Near Death and Anesthesia States, February 2014
- Psychology of the Body - Body Reading & Developmental Trauma, at Kripalu, Stockbridge, Ma. Assistant, October 2016
- Shame and Pride, at Kripalu, Stockbridge, Ma. Coordinator, October 2018
- Eye of the Needle: Working with Near Death and Anesthesia States. Part II, Corte Madera, Ca. Assistant, March 2019
- Body Reading and the interplay between Shock & Developmental Trauma, at Kripalu, Stockbridge, Ma. Assistant, November 2019
- Chronic Pain & Syndromes – Work with the Somatic Side of Trauma. Corte Madera, Ca. Assistant, October 2020
- COVID, Long-Hauler Syndrome treatment and Ventilator Trauma treatment. February 2021
- SE Approved Provider
- Approved SE Personal Session Provider: All Levels
- Approved SE Individual Case Consult Provider: All Levels
- Approved SE Small Group Case Consult Provider: All Levels
- SE Assistant: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced & Master level training.
- Coordinated first SE training in Ohio 2014
- Lead Assistant SE training Yellow Springs, Ohio 2016 & 2018
- Assisting Team Perth Australia, Fall 2016
Post Advanced Training
- TEB Transforming the Experience-Based Brain with Steve Terrell. Durham, NC, 2018-2019. Coordinated 3 TEB cohorts Columbus, Ohio. 2020 (on-line), 2021, 2022.
- Relationship Development, Rupture & Repair, Dave Berger & Abi Blakeslee, Columbus, Ohio. 2022.
- Alchemical Alignment Foundations and Advanced Skills- Taught by Brigit Viksnins. 2021-2022
- BASE - Body Work and Somatic Education. With Dave Berger. Columbus, Ohio. Module I & II. 2019
- Concussions and PTSD with Dave Berger, Columbus, Ohio. January 2018
- Concussions and PTSD with Dave Berger, Chicago, Ill. April 2017
- SRR Somatic Resilience and Regulation: Early Trauma: Modules I , II & III with Kathy L. Kain & Stephen Terrell, PsyD, SEP: A somatic approach to supporting recovery from early developmental trauma. 2016-2017
- CST Releasing the Face, Mouth & TMJ with Ken DiPersio KJD Therapy, October 2015
- Alchemical Alignment with Brigit Viksnins: Assistant, 2013
- OI Organic Intelligence with Steve Hoskinson 2012
- Certification in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Gary Peterson, Fall 2009
- BCST Post Certification Course Working with Viscera: Heart and Lungs with Gary Peterson, October 2009
NeuroAffective Relational Model, NARM, with Brad Kammer.
Co-coordinated and completed NARM 6-module Therapist Training. October 2018. Columbus, Ohio.
DARe - Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience
- DARe I: Healing Early Attachment Wounds & Embracing the Authentic Self. Cincinnati, Ohio, March, 2013
- DARe I: Healing Early Attachment Wounds & Embracing the Authentic Self. Cincinnati, Ohio, Assistant, June, 2013
- DARe I: Healing Early Attachment Wounds & Embracing the Authentic Self. Santa Fe, NM, Assistant, September, 2013
- DARe II: Creating Healthy Adult Relationships. Cincinnati, Ohio, October, 2013
- DARe III: The Neurobiology of Loving Relationships. Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 2014
- DARe I: Healing Early Attachment Wounds & Embracing the Authentic Self. Charlottesville, Va., Assistant, May, 2014
- DARe IV: Wellness: Working with Victim/Perpetrator Dynamics and Disorganized Attachment. Completed DVD.
Masters of Education in Clinical Counseling, M.Ed, The Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Spring 2012
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Mary's journey in the work...
Mary began doing transforming work with people in 1998 as a certified IMPACT instructor for a full impact self defense program, IMPACT Safety Programs formerly Fight Back Of Central Ohio. A 24 hour training in which she taught people to break free from the freeze response and physically defend themselves. To become certified to teach she embarked on a 3 week intensive training with Bay Area Model Mugging in San Francisco California followed by a year long apprenticeship with IMPACT of Ohio focusing on the repercussions of rape, assault and oppression.
Mary became fascinated with the nervous system, the fight flight freeze response, how it is affected by intense experiences, anxiety and fear. The training and experience gave Mary the knowledge and tools to work with people who had been traumatized and how to safely facilitate students to transform their experience into empowerment and choice through physical movement, finding and using their voice and facilitated group support.
During this time she began to study Polarity Therapy. This brought her fascination deeper into the body and energy systems, broadening her understanding of how people get stuck on many levels as a result of life experience and their response to it. This led Mary to go to Massage School to understand more about the body, the physiology, the nervous system, anatomy, how it all works together. She became a Licensed Massage Therapist by the State of Ohio Medical Board in 2004 and earned Neuromuscular Therapy Myofascial Release Certification in 2005.
In January of 2006 Mary went to a 5 day workshop that introduced her to STR, Somatic Trauma Resolution. She could hardly contain her excitement that a training had been developed on how to work with people individually, that was specifically addressing frozen defense responses and truncated responses in the body. A way of working with clients that empowers them to engage fully, consciously to release where they are stuck, build resiliency and gain skills to take into their daily life with full awareness of their own process. This training was based in part on SE and BCST. After completing the STR training she soon after began the SE and BSCT trainings. STR left her very skilled and with more questions. She wanted to understand more about trauma and what happens in the body. The subsequent trainings, SE and BCST, answered all those questions.
Mary is committed to continued study and training in her field, to broaden and refine the base from which she works. She completed her certification in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Gary Peterson in 2009, and completed Somatic Experiencing Certificate in 2010 and continues to do Post-Advanced Masters Series Training and Assisting with Peter Levine as well as assisting Somatic Experiencing trainings. She completed a Master's degree In Education in Clinical Counseling at The Ohio University in 2012 and is licensed in the State of Ohio as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.
Working with attachment developmental trauma is her current learning edge. She started with DARe, studying and assisting in 2013. Most recently in training with Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell as well as coordinating and participating in The NeuroAffective Relational Model, NARM Practitioner training, a somatic model of healing developmental trauma, with Brad Kammer.
Also important to Mary is utilizing supervision and regularly engaging in her own personal process. Mary is at the beginning of her homestead journey living on 10 1/2 acres in central Ohio with her best friend and 2 giant dogs. Living her best life!