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.
Training & certifications
- AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
- EMDR Certified and Approved Consultant
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.