The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an educational organization guided by the principles of phenomenology (the study of individual lived experience) and qualitative inquiry. Founded by Dr. Jamie Marich as the intensive education program of her private practice Mindful Ohio, the Institute for Creative Mindfulness offers training in the areas of mental health, trauma, addiction, mindfulness, and clinician development. We emphasize person-centered values and the trauma-informed characteristics of flexibility and safety in our mindful approach to education. The Institute currently offers EMDRIA-Approved Basic Training Programs in EMDR Therapy, as well certification programs in the Dancing Mindfulness practice and the Yoga Unchained approach to trauma-informed yoga. We are also equipped to guide individuals in pursuing EMDRIA-Approved credentials as a Certified Therapist or Approved Consultants. We are also proud to offer an individually tailored certificate program in expressive arts therapy.

Core values:

• Assuring for the safety of the people we serve, which can best be practiced through honoring person-centered values of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence; and respecting qualitative approaches like flexibility, openness to context, and honoring individual, lived experience as the guiding principles for services
• Recognizing that no two clients respond to treatment or education in the same way and carrying this value into the way that we train and assure the formation of professionals seeking our services 
• Accepting that an evidence-based practice is more than just empirical research; as stated by the American Psychological Association (2006), context, clinical experience, and client preference are also major components of what constitutes an evidence-based practice. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness believes that many facets of training in the helping professions emphasize only the empirical or quantitative elements; thus, our aim is to give the other elements the primary attention that is lacking in many dimensions of the helping professions. 
• Acknowledging that practitioner intuition is one of the most important assets in the delivery of clinical and community-based wellness services. Intuition can be developed and honed through the vital practices of self-care, spiritual practice (if desired), and networking/consulting with other practitioners and clients/ stakeholders in services.

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Mindful Ohio & The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Mindful Ohio & The Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content.