Move into Your Body for a Deeply Nourished Life
M-Bodied® Therapy
Body-based Psychotherapy and Somatic Movement Therapy & Education for Individuals, Parents, Families & Romantic Partners in Atlanta
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®, a somatic therapeutic approach, helps people with complex trauma, parenting, family therapy, addictions, eating and body issues.
Using a blend of somatic and cognitive techniques based on nervous system science, attachment theory and developmental patterns, M-Bodied helps clients discover how their body wisdom can lead to deeper nourishment.
Specialties
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Eating, Drinking, Exercise & Body Image
Do you struggle or cope with food, chronic emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, fasting, bingeing, exercise, or body image? Perhaps alcohol or other substances feel worrisome too. M-Bodied Therapy can help you reach fo a more healthily embodied life.
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Parenting Support & Family Therapy
Going through a rough time as a parent or caregiver? Wonder why tantrum-y toddlers and testy teens are kind of similar? Is the sibling rivalry getting more heated than you can handle? Does the opposition or defiance seem alarming? From womb-to-walking and beyond, M-Bodied Therapy offers trauma-sensitive, body-based practices and cognitive therapies to help provide co-regulation, meaning-making and reconnection that benefit the whole family.
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Somatic Therapy for Trauma Healing & Life Enhancement
Maybe you wonder what somatic therapy might involve. Perhaps you feel stuck, anxious or depressed but hunger for more hope and fulfillment. M-Bodied offers an invitational, client-centered approach to body-mind exploration. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we explore stories and art, sometimes we explore developmental shapes or movement patterns, and sometimes we do all three. You set the pace.
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Somatic Therapy for Romantic Partners
Whether you want better communication, help navigating relational patterns and life transitions, or want to move through a stuck point in your romantic relationship, M-Bodied offers body-based practices to help partners repair, recharge and nourish their relationship. These mindful, invitational and even playful practices help each partner to better support themselves so that they can better show up on each other’s side again and again.
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Embodiment Coaching & Movement Education
Sometimes we need reparative experiences to reconnect with our core self in an effort for a more embodied and present journey through life, along with healthier relational dances with others. M-Bodied Therapy & Coaching offers reparative, somatic practices that celebrate all feelings as well as movement expressions. A robust movement vocabulary, a rich quality of embodiment, helps us to be who we could be if we are loved no matter what.
What is Embodiment?
We learn how okay it is to embody, to be present in an exploratory way, to live with a variety of movement expressions, during our earliest experiences of life. The degree to which our early relational experiences tended to our physiological and relational needs to connect and separate, as well as our multi-generational patterning, sets a foundation for our nervous system patterning, movement expression, and relational dances.
However, no one gets what is ideal. Sometimes we need reparative experiences to reconnect with our core self in an effort for a more embodied and present journey through life along with healthier relational dances with others. M-Bodied Therapy & Coaching offers reparative, therapeutic practices that celebrate all feelings as well as all movement expressions. A robust movement vocabulary, a rich quality of embodiment, helps us to be who we could be if we are loved no matter what.
These reparative somatic practices come from the trauma healing and mindful embodiment method Chi for Two®. Chi meaning energy, Two meaning relational. Chi for Two is a synthesis of many trauma healing modalities and offers that “trauma” is less about what happened and more about the inhibited movement expression.
Chi for Two® offers "trauma healing" as the awakening of the movements that have become inhibited over many, many generations, and the integrating of those movements into our movement vocabulary mobilized by the nervous system state Play/Dance. Therefore, trauma healing can become health-creating.
M-Bodied Therapy and Coaching are both grounded in the principles and practices of Chi for Two. Caroline Gebhardt, LPC, RYT, RSME/T, owner and founder of M-Bodied, is a co-developer of Chi for Two.
“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”
—Marion Woodman, Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women's movement figure