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Michael Anne Conley, MFT
I am interested in how connection with others
contributes to healing in person and in family —
and how lack of such community contributes to and
perpetuates illness. My groups and classes are
intended to generate shared experiences that
supports connection that can assist healing.
In addition, my work with individuals, couples,
families and groups is a bridge between the “talk”
therapies that are associated with insight or psycho-
spiritual connection, and body-oriented work that is
emerging on the leading edge of psychotherapy. This
integrative approach supports self-management and
self-contact, two activities essential to humane and
peaceful living.
In my personal and professional experience, what we call
the body truly is “The Temple of the Soul.” Body-oriented
approaches to human being are inclusive and, I believe,
more promising for those who seek fundamental change in
their lives than traditional “talk” therapies associated with
insight alone.
In this clinical work, I have been strongly influenced by
Stanley Keleman, known as “a pioneer in the study of the
body and its connection to the sexual, emotional,
psychological and imaginative aspects of human
experience.” Keleman’s Somatic-Emotional approach is an
elegant method for helping people develop self-
management and self-contact that is so lacking in the
“civilized” world.
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