About
You have a unique life experience.
How you have adapted to the challenges in your life are your strengths, your “coping skills.”
They are there for a reason.
Yet even your biggest strength can become your biggest weakness.
Over time it defines who you are, and then you feel caged in that definition and feel “stuck” in your body, in your mind, and in your life.
This “stuckness” manifests in hurtful or unsatisfying relationships.
It holds you back in your career and it blocks your ability to live your life to the fullest.
You want to change and feel like you don’t know how.
People are attracted to different helpers, and for therapy to be useful it must be an authentic, collaborative effort between two or more people.
Deeper Than a Degree.
Healing and growth do not happen because we have read the books and gone to school. Of course, that helps and is often necessary.
You want to put your trust in someone who is knowledgeable and has experience in the areas of your concern.
Yet, as is true of parenting, we can only help you if we are fully present with you. And you can only grow if you are truly present in yourself, in your life.
About Isabella Scapini-Burrell
Many years ago, before I started College in therapy myself, and as I was considering becoming a therapist, I signed up for a Dance/Movement Therapy introductory class at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
While practicing a therapy exercise, something in my body and mind connected.
That moment was not just a “ah ah” realization in my thinking, nor just a felt-sense of myself in my body, but a joining of mind, body, a true awareness of who I am, and how I relate to others.
Clinical Experience
Before starting a private practice, I worked in outpatient hospital-based day treatment programs and clinics, among them St Vincent’s Medical Center of Richmond, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, all in New York City.
I worked as an individual, group, child and adult psychotherapist and dance/movement therapist.
I’ve worked in the areas of Schizophrenia, Autism, ADHD, Mood Disorders, Chronic Anxiety and Depression, OCD, PTSD, Sexual Abuse, Trauma and MICA (Mental Illness and Chemical Addiction.)
This laid the foundations for a deep understanding of how severe mental and emotional pain can weaken a person’s sense of self and hinder or delay growth, how health can feel so out of reach.
Firmly by your side as we confront the pain.
But it also gave me the courage to keep on going, despite the pain and the confusion, and has continued to inspire me to learn more and more about mental health.
I also have experience in the areas of disrupted family relationships, illness in the family, postpartum depression and fertility issues, child anxiety and fears, dissatisfaction with marriage, affairs, poor self-worth, creative blocks, and eating disorders.
I have worked with incest survivors, with people who experience internal or relationship conflicts because of their sexual and/or gender identity.
Education
1990 – BA in Psychology and Dance, Hunter College of the City of New York.
1994 – Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy, Hunter College of the City of New York.
1994 – Master of Social Work, Hunter College School of Social Work, New York.
1994-1997 and 2000- 2005, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, New York,
Post Graduate Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
2012- Present, The International Psychotherapy Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Post Graduate Training in Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy, Family and Individual Psychotherapy.
Certifications
Certified Social Worker (CSW) 1994 – New York
Dance Therapist Registered (DMT-R) 1995
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) 2004 – New York
Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical (LCSW-C) grandfathered 2011, Maryland
Current Memberships
American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
The International Psychotherapy Institute.
About Michael P. Burrell
When you walk into a CHIme Technique session, the first thing you experience is that your body is your own; you are in control of your body; you are in control of your movement, your recovery, your health.
The space is empty of all prescription; there is no, “this is what you should do.” There are no quantitative or other forms of measure, “do 20 of these”, “take 2 of these”, “do this for 20 mins.”
This space is devoid of everything, except your own awareness, which begins with body recognition of where you are.
This is fertile ground for you to experience enormous growth.
I have studied and practiced Chinese medicine, martial arts and meditation for several decades.
I have also worked with subtle energy in people and the environment and examined how they impact our health and wellbeing.
For many years, I have studied with intuitive masters on developing and applying intuition in daily life.
Leading with Experience and Innovation in the Field.
I have developed a methodology, SomaLinguistic Interaction™, that allows for the comprehensive identification, assessment and treatment of injuries, trauma and illnesses.
Over the course of many years, I have worked in the corporate field, helping executives and business owners make decisions, through intuitive and practical means, about the right technologies and resources needed to move their business forward.
Together, we start on a path.
Working with us, you will gain more clarity about yourself and explore what’s needed for you to move in the direction you wish to pursue.
Find the comfort in yourself, in the strengths you already possess and gain confidence that trust and change physically, emotionally as well as in your relationships is a possible and a highly rewarding process.
Call (443) 333-9647 to schedule a free 20-minute consultation, so we can get acquainted and answer your questions.
“We must avoid the mistake of drawing formal divisions between the body, the mind, and the external world. The last is represented internally as a microcosm and externally by the macrocosm. If we halt the course of a person’s existence, we can say that, at that moment they are a mind, a body, and an external world. Yet, as soon as that person moves, he becomes a significant totality. Therefore, even though we talk about the three dimensions of a person, there is actually only one – the human dimension.” Enrique Pichon Rivière.