Cara Gereau left a Corporate Executive career in pursuit of her own healing and never looked back. What began as a personal journey through trauma and relationships became a calling to support others in doing the same.

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Cara is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #128699) and a graduate of California Institute of Integral Studies, one of the few programs in the country with a dedicated focus in Somatic Psychology, where she now serves on the graduate faculty as an Adjunct Lecturer.

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Clinical Training & Certifications

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EMDR & Advanced EMDR Trauma Treatment

Relational Life Couples Therapy — Levels I, II & III

Certification in Child & Adolescent Anxiety and OCD Treatment

CBT, ICBT, ERP

Anorexia, Orthorexia & ARFID

Safe Sound Protocol

Hypnosis

Janina Fisher's Complex Trauma Certification — Levels I & II

Clinical Supervisory Training

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Equine Work

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Decades of training in Equine Handling and Horsemanship with teachers including Caroline Beste, Warwick Schiller, and Elsa Sinclair. Four levels of Equine Craniosacral training with Tom Mayes. Cara is the creator of Equine Somatic Pathways, her own somatic method of equine therapy, which she now teaches to therapists, coaches and those interested in self development.

 

Beyond the Office

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Cara serves as a volunteer with Marin County Parks Open Space Mounted Patrol, has served as Board Chair and President of Seeds of Awareness, and has guest lectured in graduate studies on Somatic techniques in Equine Facilitated Somatic Psychotherapy. She is the author of I Love Your Heart and All Your Feeling Parts, a children's book introducing parents and children to parts work.

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Cara is sensitive to issues of marginalization and belonging and strives to have cultural humility. She has been married for two decades and is a mother to two children.