Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS

Jamie Marich specializes in EMDR Therapy and works to meet people where they are “at” on their recovery journey, blending in several other modalities and complementary practices. She works with clients in her home region and also offers EMDR intensive sessions to those traveling from outside of her region to seek her services. She is the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness practice and the co-creator of the Yoga Unchained approach to trauma-informed yoga.

Marich co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care along with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger, which was released with Springer Publishing in 2017. Her newest title, Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery, is due to be released in April 2019. Marich’s writing and work on Dancing Mindfulness was featured in the New York Times in 2017. In 2015, she had the privilege of delivering a TEDx talk on trauma (available on YouTube), and she made her first appearance on the popular Recovery 2.0 Conference. Additionally, NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, now identified as a distinct approach to psychotherapy, is my primary modality—most of the clients that I see seek me out for EMDR. However, I do not force it on people. I am also trained in cognitive-behavioral interventions, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-informed therapy, and I have competence working with Gestalt, existential, and pastoral counseling interventions. I created a program called Dancing Mindfulness, and I integrate many of the dancing mindfulness concepts, attitudes, and elements into my clinical work as well. I have my own yoga practice and teach trauma-informed yoga, and I am also a Reiki Master.

Sexual violence and sexual abuse are the two primary forms of trauma that I’ve worked with since I began my practice. Before entering private practice in 2008, I spent several years working in chemical dependency treatment and adolescent residential treatment, and I witnessed how ineffective care can be for survivors of sexual trauma. My training in specialty trauma modalities like EMDR therapy was targeting to addressing survivors of sexual trauma, and my dissertation research (published in 2009 and as an article in 2010) focused on addicted survivors of trauma, primarily sexual and spiritual trauma.