Dissociation, the process of severing or dividing from the present moment or aspects of self, is an ordinary part of the human experience.
Course Content
Presenter
Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they), a Rogerian influenced therapist, describes herself as a facilitator of transformative experiences. She is a woman in long-term recovery from an addictive disorder and is living loudly and proudly as a woman with a dissociative disorder with the goal of smashing stigma about dissociation in the mental health field and in society at large.
Jamie began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Warren, OH.
Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. She is the developer of Yoga for Clinicians.
Marich is the author of:
- EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011)
- Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012)
- Creative Mindfulness (2013)
- Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors (2014)
- Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015)
- Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019)
