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After Mary experienced her mother’s passage with cancer and death, she realized the lack of touch and meaningful contact in her family. While counseling in battered women’s shelters, volunteering for rape crisis lines and teaching in schools for refugee and immigrant children, she realized she had to heal herself and began the study of therapeutic massage, focusing on cranial-sacral therapy and visceral manipulation.
Trained in non-violent mediation techniques for working with homeless populations, she worked with ex-cons, drug addicts, prostitutes, and senior citizens who came together in shelters due to lack of affordable housing and medical care. After several assaults and one severe beating from violent homeless offenders, Mary sought psychotherapeutic assistance and recognition for policies of safety for staff. She began to weave her tapestry of understanding in the ways that how we live in our bodies and our spiritual, emotional (mental) health are woven in expression.
This bridged her internship and practice from her Master of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture to include drug rehabilitation programs for offenders in prison and through treatment centres sponsored by the Salvation Army as well as local hospital programs for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
Further training continued in London, England in obtaining her BSc honours in Osteopathy. Her intention was to deepen into her somato-emotional practice through cranial and visceral osteopathy. Therefore concurrent to her osteopathic training, she pursued certification in a Biodynamic Cranial and Core Process Therapy for Cranial Therapists and Pre and PeriNatal Therapy in Dresden, Germany with women primarily from the former Eastern Block.
Her London internship and practice included working with torture and trauma survivors in the Turkish, Afghan, Iraqi, as well as Jewish communities.
She undergoes therapy and study with a Jungian Analyst and is in ongoing training and research in the field of psychohistory, whose study informs our understanding of our earliest imprints and how they lead to our expressions of embodiment, our perceptions of ourselves and others, and how we lead our lives.
Somato-emotional acupuncture combined with cranial and visceral osteopathy and birth process is oriented towards the intention of the client and whatever arises from her/his body consciousness in the session. This can range from a facilitated process of dialogue of exploration around a particular issue, specific cranial or visceral applications, or a deep repose for tired and active nervous systems. Longstanding concerns of clients may shift as aspects of previous shock or experienced trauma are acknowledged. Understandings of our stories arise as we take time to listen to and be in “the body”. This is the fundamental underpinning of the birth process work in that it addresses the challenges we experience in this embodiment and the unique way that this is expressed by each individual.
Cost: $70-85
Appointment: 6234 6454
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