Cara Gereau

**Cara is not currently taking new individual therapy clients and has a full wait list.  For somatic individual therapy, please connect with Rose Carr, AMFT, who offers sessions through Somatic Therapy of Marin.

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 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.

Rose Carr

Rose strives to act as a safe haven and guide to those who need radical accompaniment in their personal journeys. She values the potent power of holding space and allowing for a client-led experience, acting as a compassionate mirror and subtle guide, while providing personal relationship, support, resonance, and psychoeducation. 

She grew up passionate about horses but eventually came to wonder about the ethics of just riding horses for personal pleasure and gain. She doubted there would be another type of opportunity to connect with these powerful creatures who had supported her throughout her childhood, but was elated to become connected to the world of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy in 2020. Now she gets to collaborate with the animals and help others be supported by them in the way she had been growing up. 

Rose has a background in dance, somatic movement, and visual arts. She has taught art, film, and somatic movement to adults as well as children ages ranging 4-18. In her undergrad at Hampshire College, she strove to evoke and invoke kinesthetic empathy and an invitation to find home in the body through dance on film, stop-motion animation, and in performative film installations, facilitating Authentic movement groups and other somatic movement explorations with peers. 

A Board registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, she has a master’s in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and has been trained in various styles of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy, including the international non-profit organization, EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association), as well as in the more one-on-one personal style of Lori Halliday. This combination of training has allowed Rose to find her own voice with the horses, tailoring sessions and treatment to best serve individuals and groups. 

Rose acknowledges her positionality of privilege within her identity as a Queer, White/Jewish cis-woman, and holds space for cultural difference within her practice, understanding that White Supremacy has affected all of our lives in varying degrees. Recognizing the White-dominated, colonial nature of Western psychology, she strives to maintain a strong stance of curiosity and radical listening, with the knowledge that her clients are the experts of their own lives and may have been harmed by the field of Western psychology in the past. 

Rose is thrilled to have many tools in her toolbox including Art Therapy, Sandtray, Authentic Movement, Body Mind Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Relational Somatics. With an emphasis on developmental/relational trauma, anxiety, depression, and codependency, her goal is to help children and adults befriend their bodies, learning self-regulation, confidence, and play to work through and address trauma in a safe-enough container. She hopes her clients will experience ease and spaciousness in session while feeling confident in the therapeutic relationship to go where they need to in order to most benefit them in their therapeutic journey. 

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Associate Marriage and Family Therapy # 151168

Supervised by Cara Gereau, LMFT # 128699

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