Move into Your Body for a Deeply Nourished Life
M-Bodied® Therapy
Embodied Psychotherapy and Somatic Movement Therapy & Education for Individuals, Families & Couples in Atlanta
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®, a somatic psychotherapeutic and embodiment coaching approach, helps people with complex trauma, parenting, family therapy, addictions, eating and body issues.
Using a blend of somatic and cognitive approaches based on nervous system science, attachment theory and developmental patterns, M-Bodied helps clients discover how their body wisdom can lead to deeper nourishment.
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 caregivers tend 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. These reparative, therapeutic experiences include not only making space for all of our feelings but also our 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.
Trauma is inhibited movement expression. The trauma healing method 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.
Explore Your Deeper Hungers
Do you struggle or cope with food, chronic emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, fasting, bingeing, compulsive or avoidant exercise, or body image? Perhaps alcohol and other substances or consumption habits feel worrisome too. M-Bodied offers psychoeducation and body-based, nervous system-informed techniques to help you bite into a more healthily embodied life.
Find a New Family Rhythm
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? Are you feeling triggered left and right and wonder how to nourish yourself while you raise children?
From womb-to-walking, cradle-to-college, post-pandemic-parenting and beyond—M-Bodied offers trauma-sensitive, body-based practices and cognitive therapies to help provide co-regulation, meaning-making and reconnection that benefit the whole family.
Baby Steps for Sustainable Growth
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. This somatic approach is like a womb for self-discovery, holding space for nourishment, and celebration for growth. 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.
Interested in Embodiment Coaching or Coach Training?
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine® offers polyvagal-informed, multigenerational trauma healing practices and embodiment coaching from the method called Chi for Two®—the Energetic Dance of Healthy Relationship. Embodiment coaching is appropriate for individuals, romantic couples, families, parents/caregivers, educators, athletic teams, creatives, and business colleagues.
To learn more about M-Bodied Coaching’s worldwide offerings, or to set up a 15-min consultation to explore fit, contact Caroline here or email Caroline@MBodiedCoaching.com.
If you’re interested in becoming a certified Chi for Two Embodiment Coach with potential to become an Associate or Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator with ISMETA, visit ChiforTwo.com. Our next training cohort starts April 2024!
M-Bodied Groups and Workshops
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine offers not only body-based psychotherapy and coaching but also therapeutic movement groups and psycho-education workshops. For full details, visit Events
Current offerings:
M-Bodied Parenting group - an ongoing, in-person somatic coaching group exploring co-regulation practices. For parents of kids of all ages/stages. $200/month, 3-month commitment. Space is limited. Interview required. (One space open in April 2024)
Here are some that have been offered. If you’re interested to know if these will be offered or have space available in 2024, contact Caroline:
M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine 6-week experiential series for healing relationship with eating/food/exercise - This series offers symbolic redos of early relational embodiment as a way to reconnect with one’s core, reach for deeper hungers, and expand one’s appetite for life.
Circles Dance (a family movement experience) - Our early dances within our family system shape our embodiment. ⭐ Based on the Chi for Two Circles of Support, we offer art, rhythms & movement.
Myth & Movement as Medicine ~ Explore stories & somatic movement in a relational way to strengthen intuition & deepen self support.
“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 mythopoeic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women's movement figure
