Caroline Gebhardt, embodiment coach & somatic movement educator/therapist
Caroline Gebhardt, M.S., is a somatic movement therapist and educator with ISMETA, certified Chi for Two® embodiment coach/trainer, registered yoga teacher, and creator of M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®.
Caroline helps people to reconnect with their body-mind-spirit from a trauma-informed, all-bodies-welcome approach. With a great appreciation for the body’s wisdom, early developmental imprinting and expanding one’s intuition, she draws upon nervous system science, attachment theory and trauma-informed body-based approaches to help clients feel supported and empowered in their bodies and lives.
She offers embodiment coaching and Somatic Movement Education/Therapy to clients worldwide in a virtual format as well as in-person in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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Caroline helps clients to feel deeply nourished by exploring struggles with food, eating, drinking/substance, exercise and body-image journeys using a trauma-informed, depth-oriented, expressive arts approach. She also offers family and parent/child coaching support with experiential, relational, developmental, and nervous system-informed techniques.
Caroline draws upon a blend of body-based and cognitive therapies from an attachment-based, trauma-sensitive and polyvagal-informed framework as well as the trauma healing method Chi for Two, which she co-developed. As a movement educator for 20+ years and a mother of three, Caroline created M-Bodied: Mindful Movement as Mothering Medicine®, an early relational, body-based focus for trauma healing and deep nourishment.
Education/Training:
Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist — ISMETA, International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
Chi for Two Embodiment Coach, Trainer & Co-Developer
M.S. Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Georgia State University - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
B.A., Major: Journalism, Cognate: Women's Studies and Theatre Speech - University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC
Specialized Trainings:
Body-Mind Centering®’s Embodying the Autonomic Nervous System
Postpartum Support International’s Advanced Perinatal Mental Health certificate
300+ hours of Yoga Alliance teacher trainings
Continuing education and self-studies:
Kestenberg Movement Profile
Body-Mind Centering®
Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor therapy
Peter Levine’s trauma studies
Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
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