PORTLAND OREGON, TEXAS & ONLINE - IFS INFORMED

somatic psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families & women seeking deeper healing

Your body tells one story. Your mind tells another.

I listen to both at the same time AND that's how things start to change.

THERAPY
THERAPY INTENSIVES
one year immersion
membership

When you are in pieces... and longing to be whole.

You're beautiful, but who cares — you're in so much pain you can't feel it.

Something happened and you can't find yourself.

There's a way of listening.

We go back and forth — your story and your body, your body and your story — until it makes sense.

Until your body can unlock. Until you can feel your own beauty again.

That's the journey.

Coming home to yourself.

HOW I WORK

If this is you, I got you.

I work with the body, the mind, and the heart — your ability to connect with yourself and your ability to connect with the people you love.

That’s the work.

Whether you’re coming to me alone, with your partner, with your family, with your infant, with your child, or in a year-long group of women doing this together — it’s the same work.

We start by listening. Really deeply listening. To you. To your body. To the story your pain has been trying to tell you that no one has heard yet.

Most people find me because they’ve been managing their pain — pushing through, performing willingness, going from provider to provider. None of it reached them. Because no one stopped to hear the story underneath.

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What Happens

Here's what happens when someone works with me.

We go back and forth between your story and your body.

Your body shows me where it locked down. Your story tells me why.

Together we build a conversation between the two — until your body starts to trust that someone is listening. Until it can begin to let go.

This isn't about fixing. It's not about willpower.

It's about developing empathy and deep compassion toward yourself.

Toward the parts of you that locked up to survive.

That's where healing starts.

Your body locked itself down to survive.

The pain came after.

When you finally hear its story, shift happens.

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CORE OFFERINGS

ONLINE OR IN PERSON IN PORTLAND

Psychotherapy

IFS-informed and somatic psychotherapy.

Working with the whole person, integrating talk therapy, attachment work, developmental understanding, nervous system support, and body-based approaches to healing and regulation.

Individuals and couples
Children and families

Whole body recovery Intensives

For children, adolescents and adults.

Months of healing in days of time.

Each intensive is customized.

We’ll design the right format together in a consultation call.

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The Work Takes Many Forms

Some people come to me for individual somatic psychotherapy — weekly, or in a therapy intensive where we go deep fast.

Some couples come because the distance between them has become unbearable and they need a guide who can keep them both safe as they find their way back to one another.

Some families come because something broke and they need to learn to hear each other again.

Some parents come because they love their child fiercely and want support navigating illness, developmental challenges, attachment, or the weight of caregiving.

And some women come for EMBODY™ — a year-long journey in a small group, working with somatic movement, body story, and the medicine of being witnessed by other women who understand.

For others, sensation, gesture, breath, movement, or creative process become important parts of healing and self-understanding.

It's all the same work.

The body.

The mind.

The heart.

The connection to self.

The connection to other.

Whole Movement Center offers:

Somatic Psychotherapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Couples Therapy

Therapy Intensives

Somatic Movement Therapy

Parent-Child and Family Support

In person in Portland, Oregon.

Virtual psychotherapy throughout Oregon and Texas.

Somatic movement therapy and coaching available worldwide.

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  • “Margery Segal’s practice is therapy and touch akin to washing in a mountain spring. I experience no separation between the words, the seeing, and the nourishing beat of my heart. I know when I walk from her doors, we have dissolved the boundaries between careful attention and action. My life is now more than I could expect.”

    — Tim H.

  • “What a lovely experience! Margery created a magical place where I immediately felt safe to explore my connection with self and others through movement.   It was fun and profound.   I am forever grateful.”

    — Jackie B.

  • “Margery has a beautiful gift for creating safe, sacred space to help others drop deeply in with themselves. She brings a loving, compassionate presence, a playful spirit and a creative passion to all she does. Margery’s wealth of knowledge, skill and expertise has offered me many opportunities for new insights, discoveries, and wisdom that has inspired many areas of my life.”

    — Elissa Shapiro, LCSW and Movement Facilitator

  • “Margery has given me great insights into what motivates my daughter and what triggers some of her behaviors - because, as parents of special needs children - sometimes we lose perspective of our own children in the  face of day-to- day struggles.”

    — Lizzie M.

  • “The Family Somatic program (a training for professionals taught in Brazil) is a very complete methodology of working with family from a somatic and psychological perspective. Connecting very efficient technics of perceptions of the family’s body, with tools that are very efficient to help kids in their developmental process. All this with the background of perinatal psychology, attachment theory and embryology. This course forms people to meet family with their needs and to provide somatic support with the idea that the family is a system to be taken care of, as a whole.”

    — Mariana Camerote

  • “Margery offers a unique chance to reflect, process, and experience in such a beautiful way. The high level of possibility of exploration within a relatively short time is refreshing and elegant. Anything I brought with me during the days of meeting was perfectly ok, be it silly, frenetic, peaceful, small or big. I so appreciate her guidance and space setting for a group process like this”

    — M.B.

  • “Beyond her education and professional experience, Margery is insightful and thoughtful in her approach to working with moms. I’ve participated in similar programs and was particularly impressed with her offerings – especially the journal topics and third-party resources she provided. Highly recommend!”

    — Jennifer Shaw Bonessi

  • “I came to Margery with knee and hip pain that expensive physical therapy hadn’t helped with at all. Working with Margery, I saw enormous improvement, and am now able to sleep, walk, and practice yoga again without pain. For that alone, I’m extremely grateful. But I also got much more that I never expected – a greater connection with and understanding of my own body; awareness and release of old physical and emotional habits and patterns that were causing me pain, and just a greater confidence and presence in my body. It’s been a revelation. I recommend her to everyone.”

    — Katherine Catmull, Writer & Actor

  • “Margery’s work is transformative. She began working with my son (who was born with an airway malformation and underwent many surgeries) when he was nine months old. We have seen incredible development not only in how he is able to move his body but in his confidence to do so and therefore, his pride and happiness. Margery has taught me how to listen to and help my son in ways I never could have on my own. Her work has helped me help him grow, and helped feel connected to him. For that I will remain deeply grateful and inspired by her work.”

    — K.R.

  • “It has now been 8 weeks since our first session. I’m continuing to taper as before, yet my mental well-being is unmistakably better. These movements are simple and easy! I spend 15 minutes in my backyard every morning doing them, sometimes combining them with yoga movements.”

    — J.J

  • “On the mornings I wake up anxious, they typically reset my mind and body, and I carry on with my daily life. I have done other things that have helped, but I am certain that these movements, and the loving way that Margery taught me them, is the core reason for the marked improvement in my daily experience.”

    — J.J

  • "I'd heard wonderful things about Margery's work and knew she was in demand, so I was grateful when she found a space for me. It turned out to be exactly what I needed."

    — S.J

go deeper in community

The Whole Soma Integration Lab

Online only

A monthly membership offering two live two-hour somatic movement classes each month and access to an online portal with all recordings.

This is where many women begin.

A way to experience the work, find your footing, and discover what becomes possible when you show up for yourself consistently.

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EMBODY : The Art of Trusting Yourself

Online & in person immersion

A Year Long Whole Body Recovery Immersion. Somatic healing and embodiment for women.

For women who have spent years caring for others, navigating loss, illness, trauma, or major life, transitions and are ready to stop abandoning themselves.

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