Founder and CEO, The Institute for Creative Mindfulness
Approved Trainer and Consultant in EMDR Therapy
Dr. jamie marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500
TOPICS - • Addiction • Burnout • Creativity
• Dissociation • Emotional Intelligence
• Expression • Spirituality • Trauma • Workshops
dr. jamie marich - PROGRAMS
- “Trauma 101” Topics:
- Healing the Wounds that Keep Us Stuck
- What We Get Wrong About Trauma
- Working with People and Their Wounds/Traumas in Any Setting
- The Wide World of Parts and Dissociative Responses
- Listening to Your Parts of Self
- The Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse Detox
- What is Spiritual Abuse and Why Does it Matter?
- Creativity and Expression Topics:
- Making the Expressive Arts Work for You
- Navigating “Art Scarring” and Other Blocks to Creativity
- Rewriting the Fairytale (and Other Tools for Navigating Expectations)
- Living in Genuine Expression
- Memoir Writing as Spiritual/Healing Practice (can be taught with either word as the focus)
Jamie's Additional Programs
- Mindfulness and Yoga Topics
- Life: The Path of Meditation
- Yoga Fundamentals: Off the Mat and Into Life
- Emotional Intelligence
- Healthy Spirituality for the 21st Century
- The Dance of Life
- Authenticity as Higher Power
- Mindfulness in Business
- LGBTQ+ Topics
- The Trauma of the Bisexual Experience
- How to Parent Your LGBTQ+ Child
- How to Minister to LGBTQ+ People in Spiritual Settings
- Spirituality for Queer Folks
dr. jamie marich - Biography
Dr. Jamie Marich inspires people and systems to achieve success as they define it by addressing the wounds that keep them stuck. Taking the stage since the age of 3 as a musician, dancer, and actor, she went on to achieve great success as a high school speech coach in the early days of her career as an educator. After beginning her career in post-war humanitarian aid in 2001 and then becoming a highly trained clinical trauma specialist, Jamie naturally parlayed her love of being in front of audiences to a successful career as a trainer, workshop presenter, and keynote speaker. Not only is Dr. Jamie a recognized clinical professional and author, she candidly shares from her own lived experience as a trauma survivor and a person with mental health challenges in long-term recovery from addiction. She is the best-selling author of Trauma and the 12 Steps: A Complete Guide to Recovery Enhancement (2012/2020), Dissociation Made Simple: Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life (2023), and You Lied to Me About God: A Memoir (2024), which was awarded a Kirkus starred review. Unafraid of controversy, she will also boldly speak to where her field and society at large gets it wrong about mental health and recovery. Her multi-layered perspective allows her to feel at home in front of diverse audiences, as she addresses how to heal our history of wounding in new and creative ways that lead to emotional, spiritual, vocational, and interpersonal flourishing.
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Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to healing the wounds of traumatic experiences, although most survivors agree that just talking about the trauma does not work. Expressive arts therapy offers a wide range of potential solutions for trauma survivors by taking an all of the above approach to creative practices, working with multiple expressive pathways in a variety of combinations. This book invites you into artmaking, music, dancing, movement, writing, and other expressive practices to both cultivate your existing strengths and to help you step outside of your comfort zone. Explore how the practices of expressive arts can best support your healing and recovery journey.
Trauma and the 12 Steps
An inclusive, research-based guide to working the 12 steps: a trauma-informed approach for clinicians, sponsors, and those in recovery.
Step 1: You admit that you’re powerless over your addiction. Now what?
12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) have helped countless people on the path to recovery. But many still feel that 12-step programs aren’t for them: that the spiritual emphasis is too narrow, the modality too old-school, the setting too triggering, or the space too exclusive. Some struggle with an addict label that can eclipse the histories, traumas, and experiences that feed into addiction, or dismisses the effects of adverse experiences like trauma in the first place. Advances in addiction medicine, trauma, neuropsychiatry, social theory, and overall strides in inclusivity need to be integrated into modern-day 12-step programs to reflect the latest research and what it means to live with an addiction today.
Dr. Jamie Marich, an addiction and trauma clinician in recovery herself, builds necessary bridges between the 12-step’s core foundations and up-to-date developments in trauma-informed care. Foregrounding the intersections of addiction, trauma, identity, and systems of oppression, Marich’s approach treats the whole person–not just the addiction–to foster healing, transformation, and growth.
Dissociation Made Simple
Dissociation 101: The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation.
“Just as important as The Body Keeps the Score (but an easier read for me).”
—5-star reader review
Guided by clinical counselor Jamie Marich—a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself—this book tells you everything you need to know about dissociation…but were too afraid to ask.
About You Lied to Me About God
“An intimate and important memoir of deconstructing and reconstructing faith after abuse … a spiritual memoir that does not shy away from abuse, queerness, or the multifaceted character of God.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A courageous, vulnerable, and spellbinding memoir that explores with visceral impact what happens when harm starts at home—and is exalted as God’s will
For readers of Unfollow and Jesus Land: Jamie Marich explores spiritual abuse, intergenerational trauma, and weaponized faith.
Dancing Mindfulness
"This ... is an invitation and a portal into the practice of dance and movement as meditation. All bodies are welcome and all abilities. Anyone can dance, although many of us hold back because we don't look like dancers or because we have physical limitations. But I am willing to bet that most of you holding this book have touched a moment of transcendence or freedom in an experience of dance that leads you to explore deeper. You have a worthy guide in your hands."