Michelle Cleary, a licensed psychotherapist (she/her), is trained in EMDR and holds a certificate in Somatic Experiencing® (SE). She regularly assists at SE trainings across the country and serves as the lead assistant for the Manhattan in-person SE trainings. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at SUNY Stony Brook, School of Social Welfare, where she teaches about the neurobiology and treatment of trauma as well as the ways systems of oppression impact the human body. 

Michelle maintains a full time private practice that focuses on treating trauma and eating disorders.

She is dedicated to discovering, understanding, and teaching others the way our nervous system and brain-body development contributes to our mood, behavior, relationships, mental health, productivity and sense of connection to self, others and our environment.

Michelle is guided by the belief that individual healing alone is not sustainable. Healing our individual and collective trauma is interdependent. One cannot fully heal within oppressive systems designed to stifle development, profit from disconnection, and distract with fear.