Reflections
What People Are Saying
“When I came to Mary with a sense of utter depletion in the midst of perimenopause and other life transitions, Mary met me with the perfect blend of presence, wisdom and a range of therapeutic modalities. I honestly didn’t know exactly what I needed but through conversation and being open to different kinds of body work, she gave me exactly what I needed. Sometimes it was release in the form torrents of tears and sometimes it was rejuvenation. After several sessions I now for the first time in a long time feel I have recaptured my power. I now have a sense of abundance and energy to share with others. What a gift!”
— JB“Whenever I have a session with Mary, I leave feeling cared for, rested, and whole. She helps me remember how important it is to ask for help — to slow down and truly receive it. I always return to my life in a better place to do what I do in the world, and to do it from a slower, more luminous space of restored Being.”
— JULIA CORLEY, Somatic Psychotherapist & Certified Hakomi Teacher"Mary is so present and aware in each session. She is a safe person to navigate the most challenging, vulnerable aspects of the psyche with. She responds in a way that is trauma informed, nurturing, supportive, and loving and makes anything that comes up feel completely ok, normal and acceptable. I cannot recommend somatic therapy with her highly enough."
-R.G.
“Participating in polarity therapy and somatic inquiry has been the biggest healing and growth period of my life. I began polarity therapy, not being a clue what it was or what I was doing during a very difficult time in my life. All I knew was that I had been through some traumatic events that were over but I was unable move on.Something was stuck inside of me that I really couldn’t describe, but I knew I needed to get it out of me, and I didn’t know how to do that.”
“As I worked with Mary, I was able to identify and verbalize what was “stuck inside me” and to understand it and release it so that memories of traumatic events came to my mind much less often, and when they did, my body did not have an intense emotional reaction to them. I talked about what I had been through and Mary stopped me at times and asked me to describe what I was feeling in my body at that moment. It was the first time in my life I had ever paid attention to any feelings my body had, and I was amazed to notice heat and pressure and tingling and the need to sob and the need to breathe and energy pulsing or moving in different places and in different ways in my body. I learned that my body hadn’t liked or wanted to go through some of the things it went through, And I was finally giving my body a chance to be heard. And only then was I able to feel unstuck, to give words to what I’d been through, to acknowledge it and admit the pain it caused me, and to make peace with the fact I had not listened to my body for years because of circumstances I had to get through and the fact that I did “shut down” allowed me to get through those circumstances, but that time in my life is over and my body was just waiting to be heard. At the end of each session there was always a time, through the therapist’s touch to “honor” and recognize what my body released and how energy had moved, and to rest in a calm, grounded state.
Now that I have learned that my body is always telling to me, I am working on listening to it more & more, in all kinds of ways; from being aware that when I started writing this on a computer my heart just felt closed & tight and when I changed to writing by hand, my heart opened and words just poured out, to bigger things like realizing that when I see one person’s name come up on a text on my phone I feel heavy & like I want to curl up tightly and when I see another person’s name I feel light— like I want to open my arms wide, that that is my body’s way of saying who it wants to be around.
I am so grateful to be learning about energy and vibrations and listening to my body. It has allowed me to heal from the past and to make decisions in the present that are true and right for me, which I am now able to discern by noticing how something makes my body feel.”
-JF
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