Jamie Marich
Bio: Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they), LPCC-S, REAT travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, yoga, and spiritual trauma while maintaining a private clinical practice and online education operations, the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, in her home base of Akron, OH. Marich is the author of over a dozen books and manuals in the field of trauma and expressive arts, including Dissociation Made Simple (2023), Trauma and the 12 Steps (2012/2020), and Dancing Mindfulness (2015). Her long-time publisher, North Atlantic Books, is releasing the memoir of her lived experience with spiritual abuse and religious trauma, You Lied to Me About God, scheduled for an October 2024 release. Marich, a queer person, grew up with one Catholic parent, one Evangelical parent, has a brother who is a Roman Catholic priest, and also survived a yoga ashram experience. Marich is on the wisdom council of Abbey of the Arts, a progressive Christian ministry.