Body Psychotherapy DC

DC Body Mind Psychotherapy - Downtown Washington, DC Location

Body Mind Tranquility

Washington, DC

Meet Carmen

Carmen Calatayud, LPC

I’m a psychotherapist who is passionate about helping adults of all ages with healing, growth and healthy change.

I received my formal psychology training at Marymount University, where I earned the Master of Arts degree in Counseling.

My training and work history include mental health counseling with HIV/AIDS clients, grief counseling with clients experiencing depression and anxiety, and addictions counseling with clients experiencing mental health disorders.

I have additional training and experience in body-mind therapies, addiction, grief, trauma and creative arts techniques.

My post-graduate study includes teacher training certification in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program based at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

I'm certified as a Level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma clinician. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a treatment approach created by Pat Ogden, Ph.D. and endorsed by worldwide trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. I've also trained with Daniel Leven, founder of SomaSoul: Somatic Expressive Therapy, a mind-body therapy that integrates mindfulness, body psychotherapy, creative arts and somatics to foster healing and transformation.

Personally, I'm familiar with life path changes, as I worked in several fields before a midlife shift to psychology. My experiences as a public radio news reporter, writer, editor, voice talent, literacy advocate and published poet have informed my life path. I bring the creativity and wisdom I've gained from family, friends, colleagues and teachers to my work.

As the daughter of immigrants, I have an innate cultural sensitivity. This includes a deep respect for all world and spiritual views, and sexual and gender identities.

Credentials

~Licensure: Licensed Professional Counselor in Washington, DC

~Licensure: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland

~Board Certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors

Experience

~Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Washington, DC

~Wendt Center for Loss & Healing, Washington, DC

~Kolmac Clinic, Washington, DC

~Capital Hospice, Falls Church, Virginia

~Carl Vogel Center, Washington, DC

~Demeter House, Vanguard Services, Arlington, Virginia

~CrisisLink Crisis/Suicide Hotline Listener, Arlington, Virginia

Education/Training Highlights

~MA, Counseling, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia

~BA, English, minor in Spanish, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

~Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma, Level 1 Certification, Pat Ogden, Ph.D.

~SomaSoul: Somatic Expressive Therapy, Daniel Leven, RSMT

~Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Certification, Mike Healy, Ed.D.

~Body-Mind Psychotherapy, Susan Aposhyan, LPC

~Advanced Asian Meditation Therapies, Jack Mangold, LCSW, Johns Hopkins University

~Expressive Arts Techniques to Resolve Grief and Pain, Tana Slay, Ph.D.

~CrisisLink Crisis/Suicide Hotline Training, American Association of Suicidology

Memberships

~United States Association for Body Psychotherapists

~DC Area Guild of Body Psychotherapists

~DC Mental Health Counselors Association