Speaking

Marcia is available for interviews, Q&A, guest articles, expert commentary, and speaking engagements on:


The intersection of heath, wellness and multicultural identity

A comprehensive look at how cultural identities weave into aspects of health and wellness, and the importance of culturally informed healthcare professionals


Moving between cultures

Innovative approaches to cultural education that can be incorporated into work with culturally diverse populations and oneself


Multiculturalism defined for the modern world

How the concept has evolved to include additional affiliations such as socio-economic status, gender, and sexual identity and more.


Marcia’s experiences as an Indigenous and Brazilian-Italian woman

How her identity has informed and impacted her work and role as a Somatic Counselor/Body Psychotherapist


5 practical tools and practices to begin bridging the mind-emotion-body gap

Cultivating the Pause, the Breathing Body, Mind-Emotion-Body Scan, Oscillation, and the Sensation-Interpretation-Action (SIA) Loop


Finding culture in our bodies

Exercises to explore and affirm how culture is both observed and experienced through our senses and environment


The Presence of Power

How power and oppression can be expressed in the body, and the ways we can shift that power in our work and in ourselves


Trauma and healing in multicultural bodies

The impact of trauma on the nervous system, and the specific ways trauma responses develop for multicultural individuals


Bridging cultural gaps

How being multicultural can unlock our ability to foster change, increase empathy, and bridge division into connection


New and future developments in multicultural psychology such as Embodied Code-Switching®

A therapeutic practice which takes code-switching from a reactive, unconscious behavior to a proactive, embodied skill – uncovering the “superpowers” of multicultural identity


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