Marcia Bonato Warren

Marcia Bonato Warren is a therapist, facilitator, teacher, and writer with over thirty years of cross-cultural experience in the fields of international education, minority business development, Native American federal policy and legislative initiatives, non-profit organization management, and most recently, culturally responsive and trauma-informed counseling and training and education. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Colorado and holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from John’s Hopkins University, a Master of Arts in Somatic Counseling/Body Psychotherapy from Naropa University, as well as certificates in Clinical Supervision (I and II), Intercultural Foundations, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Trauma Training (I and II), and Indigenous Psychology.

Marcia has provided counseling and training to individuals and groups in the areas of cultural awareness and competency, social justice, and intercultural communication, working with organizations such as the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC), the Society for Intercultural Education and Training (SIETAR), and the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA), as well as serving as a guest lecturer, adjunct
faculty and Master’s Paper Reader at Naropa University’s Somatic Counseling and Buddhist-Informed Contemplative graduate programs.

In 2015, Marcia developed her own therapy practice called Embodied Code-Switching®, which focuses on developing the resilience and unique expression of multicultural identities through somatic awareness. Her work has been published previously as a chapter entitled “Moving Between Identities: Embodied Code-Switching,” in the book Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions, as well as in the article "The Body as Cultural Home: Exploring, Embodying, and Navigating the Complexities of Multiple Identities" in the Journal of Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.

She is passionate about developing the potential in human beings to embrace diversity through multicultural embodiment and the sharing of stories and creativity and is thrilled to offer her first book on this subject, Movement and Identity: Multiculturalism, Somatic Awareness, and Embodied Code-Switching ®.

Marcia is proud of her heritage and the gifts of her ancestors and identifies as an enrolled member of the Santa Clara Pueblo of New Mexico and as Brazilian-Italian.