**Cara is not currently taking new individual therapy clients but is accepting clients for her wait list.

Cara’s current availability includes Couples Coaching Intensives and Equine Somatic Pathways™ training.**

 

Cara Gereau ditched her Corporate Executive career in pursuit of healing and freedom.  Her goal is to use her own healing experiences in trauma and relationships to support others.

 

Cara is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who attended California Institute of Integral Studies, one of the few Graduate programs in the country to offer a focus in Somatic Psychology.  Cara has post graduate training in EMDR, Advanced EMDR trauma treatments, EFT, Relational Life Couples Therapy Level I, II and III, Certification in the Treatment of Child and Adolescent Anxiety and OCD, CBT, ICBT, ERP, Anorexia, Orthorexia, ARFID, Certification in the Safe Sound Protocol, Hypnosis, Janina Fisher's Complex Trauma Certification Training Levels I and II, as well as Supervisory Training. Cara has decades of training in Equine Handling and Horsemanship attending clinics and trainings with teachers such as Caroline Beste, Warwick Schiller, Elsa Sinclair and more.  Cara has completed four levels of training in Equine Craniosacral with Tom Mayes. Cara has developed her own unique Somatic Method of Equine Therapy, Equine Somatic Pathways, which she teaches to Therapists.

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Cara is a Clinical Supervisor in the practice as well serving as a Clinical Supervisor at the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy.

 

Cara serves as a volunteer for the Marin County Parks as a an Open Space Mounted Patrol.  She has previously served as the Board Chair and President of Seeds of Awareness. She has Guest Lectured in graduate level 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 that gives both parents and children a gentle introduction into the theory of parts work.

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