Embodied Emergence LLC
"Movement is happening everywhere all the time."​​
- Anna Halprin
Hello
My name is Averie
I see you in your authenticity; I encounter you without judgment; we co-create this moment together.
About Averie
Averie Glass is a holistic, pragmatic, body-based therapist who holds a master’s degree in Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling from Columbia College Chicago. Averie blends somatic interventions informed by neurobiology with expressive and healing movement practices in alignment with therapy frameworks such as CBT, DBT, and ACT. She is trained in ecotherapy and Emotional Freedom Technique for the purpose of activating a polyvagal response for the reintegration of traumatic experience. Averie believes that the body contains inherent wisdom from generations of human development as well as holding the knowledge of all experience within a single lifetime. This wisdom can be harnessed to influence the mind and vice versa, for the optimal cohesive healing experience. Come join the “dance” of actualizing your most authentic and desired reality.
"A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits."​
- Carl R. Rogers
About Dance/Movement Therapy
Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) is defined by the ADTA as the “psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive and physical integration of the individual, for the purpose of improving health and wellbeing.” This practice materialized in the United States in the 1940’s partially as a response to treating traumatized soldiers from the war, and it originally incorporated ballroom dance techniques. Dance/movement therapists promote the belief that movement, and being embodied, are our first mode of communicating and connecting with our lived experience, thus returning to the body serves as a universal language and can promote deep healing, insight, growth, and catharsis. It is now known in the field of psychotherapy that trauma is stored primarily in the body and talk therapy only provides limited relief or, at times, can lead to more harm. As with other clinical diagnoses, such as developmental disorders or those characterized by the perception of altered reality, the body can serve as an essential tool to connect with deep understanding, empathy, and ultimately lead to the release of previously held patterns. Dance/movement therapy can be combined with many other classical and emergent psychotherapeutic theories, such as polyvagal theory, to foster a transformative experiential healing process that is unique to each individual or group of individuals in the moment which it occurs.
Specialties
Emotional Freedom Technique
Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT emerged from a new field of psychotherapy called energy psychology which entails combining traditional therapy methods with somatic techniques for releasing stress and trauma from the body. EFT was introduced in 1995 by Gary Craig and can be read about more in depth in his newest edition of The EFT Manual (2008). When used clinically, this practice involves activating acupressure points in a safe controlled environment with a trained therapist, while revisiting traumatic experiences which have been stored in the nervous system. Clients are not advised to attempt reprocessing their own trauma while alone outside of therapy sessions.
Ecotherapy
Ecotherapy was originally proposed by Theodore Roszak in his book The Voice of the Earth (1992) and is based on the premise that individuals are fundamentally inseparable from the environment in which they live. In the busy and chaotic world of modern society, it is easy to forget about our surroundings, the air we breathe and the gentle connection and support offered to us by nature. By Immersing oneself in a natural setting, or even just engaging with items from nature as well as pictures and sounds of the natural world, an individual may experience a shift in perception of negative emotional states to a feeling of mindfulness and elevation of connectedness with self and others.
Couple's Counseling
Therapy is all about relationships. There’s the relationship with self and others as well as a caring, trusted and safe relationship with a provider, but one of the most important and revealing relationships is the one with your partner or spouse. Renee believes that our connection with our significant other holds the most potential for growth and fulfillment out of any of our myriad of associations with others throughout our lives and she approaches this aspect of her work by blending experiential techniques with the Gottman method which has been empirically researched using studies with over 3,000 couples over a duration of 40 years. The Gottman method emphasizes healthy management of conflict, augmenting friendship, and creating shared meaning to enhance positive emotional connection and long-term intimacy.
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