Mary Ray is a licensed clinical social worker and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist based in Alexandria, Virginia. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, an EMDR Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant, and an Imago Therapy Advanced Clinician. She earned her MSW from Indiana University with a specialty in systems and completed an externship in family systems at the Family Institute of Virginia. She serves as Senior Faculty at The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy.
Specialties
Depth orientation
Ray integrates Somatic Experiencing with sex therapy, using body-centered and trauma-informed approaches to help clients reconnect with embodied erotic experience. Her work with EMDR and Imago therapy brings unconscious attachment patterns and somatic trauma into the sex therapy process.