Body Awareness and Oppression in the Body: The Map is Not the Territory- CANCELLED

Abbey L. Carter Logan, LPCC-S, RYT 200, (she/her/hers) is a co-owner of Clintonville Counseling and Wellness and currently serves as the Clinical Director. Her primary role is supporting clinicians in doing their best work and helping clients get placed with the best fit. She provides both clinical and work supervision from the heart and believes in the staff's potential to provide outstanding mental health services to the community. Supporting, teaching and learning from others is her passion.

Abbey believes in her clients and their abilities to heal through talk therapy and mindful practices. She has the utmost respect for those who wish to improve their mental health, as this can be a difficult and often uncomfortable process. Her therapeutic style is creative and integrative, applying interpersonal process, feminist, gestalt, EMDR, and IFS. She is trauma-informed and has studied body awareness and movement as it relates to mental health for nearly twenty years and came to the field of mental health feeling that it was all about the body, mind, spirit and the nervous system. Abbey enjoys working with members of the LGBTQ+ community, gender expansive humans, trauma and post-traumatic growth.

Abbey earned a BA in Art and Spanish in 2003 from Capital University and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from The Ohio State University in 2009. Abbey trained and worked at The Ohio State University, Office of Student Life, Counseling and Consultation Service as a generalist for 8 years before moving to private practice in 2017. Additionally, she has sought training in expressive arts, creative mindfulness and mind-body approaches such as The Alexander Technique, Nervous System Energy Work, Dancing Mindfulness and EMDR. Abbey became a Registered Yoga Teacher in 2015, after studying at the Samyoga Institute in Columbus, Ohio, with a focus on yoga for mental health.

Emily Clark, MA, LPCC-S (she/her/hers) has worked in the mental health field for 15 years with adults, teens, adolescents, couples, and families. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Counseling from the nationally ranked Ohio State University Counselor Education program. Emily started her career in community mental health where she helped create the first comprehensive counseling program at Stonewall Columbus. Emily works primarily with LGBTQ+ clients where she specializes in working with transgender and gender nonconforming persons. Treating the whole person is essential, so she uses a strengths-based approach focused on wellness. Emily considers therapy a collaborative effort; she helps clients find the answers within themselves and prioritizes relationships and mutual transformation. She utilizes an integrative framework incorporating queer humanism, feminist theory, and an anti-oppressive and social justice oriented lens. Emily is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Prolonged Exposure, and an Internal Family Systems (IFS) framework, so she always uses a trauma-informed approach with clients. Emily is a co-owner and clinical director of Clintonville Counseling and Wellness.