Lori Ruth Federman

LMHC, SME, lruth@yarrowell.com

I am a Trauma Informed Somatic Psychotherapist offering a multidimensional humanistic space in which to connect deeply to the whole self and form healing integrative relationships with all parts of oneself.

The work facilitates psychotherapy, body-mind integration and embodiment. I am interested in one's capacity for establishing baseline resilience, containment, and restorative support as a foundational pathway into relationship with self, recovery, and daily wellness.

In the process, tangible expression and change arise. The somatic approach works with the nervous system and trauma in a titrated fashion that slows down time and expands space to more fully incarnate. Movement is incorporated to free up the body into more supportive present moment options in living.

I integrate my graduate school education in both Anthropology and Mental Health Counseling with my creative sensibilities to facilitate client's of all ages on their journeys.

TRAINING:

My formal training is in Mental Health Counseling (MS, SUNY New Paltz), Somatic Movement Educator (certified by The School for Body-Mind Centering ®), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training (SEI, Advanced Level). 5 Element Shiatsu and Western Massage Therapy and Bodywork (LMT, Swedish Institute), Reiki (I,II), Craniosacral (I,II, Upledger Institute), Yoga in the Sri Dharma Mittra Hatha Raja Tradition (RYT, Dharma Yoga Center); Anthropology (MA, USC), Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology (BA, Tulane University).

Other trainings include Flower Essence Society (beginner practitioner training), Integrative Medicine (workshops with Rudolph Ballantine, MD), Kinesthetic Ballwork (Ellen Saltonstall), Brain Gym (I &II, Mari Miyoshi).

Informal lineage practices includes Tai Chi, Qi Gong (Master Yuwen Ru), Cherokee Bodywork (Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD) and Guided Core Energetics Meditations (Robert Lafargue, MD), The Fajardo Method of Biomechanics (Alicia Fajardo).

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Relational Life Therapy and Authentic Movement also influence my work.

WORKSHOPS:

Somatic workshops/classes combining kinesthetic ballwork & embryological & infant developmental movement to remind those with mental health challenges of their innate primal body wisdom. Body awareness from the bottom up (whole body) and top down (brain) inform each other and reconnect in supportive ways.