Margaret Dunn
Massena, NY, St. Lawrence County
Margaret Dunn, a Certified Level 2 Breath-Body-Mind Teacher received Breath-Body-Mind (BBM) training in Elmira, NY with Richard Brown, MD and Pat Gerbarg, MD beginning in 2015.
Margaret is a psychotherapist at the Massena Wellness Center outpatient mental health clinic of St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, where she provides individual and group therapy to adults diagnosed with psychiatric illness including Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and Substance Abuse Disorders. Margaret offers BBM techniques to interested patients during psychotherapy sessions in addition to other evidence-based treatments such as DBT and CBT. Margaret has also taught BBM skills to people that have serious medical problems such as Cancer to manage pain and insomnia symptoms.
Margaret’s clients find it easy to learn, and most everyone reports a keen sense of calmness in their minds and a stillness in their body after a few minutes of Coherent Breathing.
Previous experience has included working at Hospice/Palliative Care of St. Lawrence County, Claxton Hepburn Hospital Cancer Center, in a local private psychiatric practice and the University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital. She has a MSW from the University of Buffalo.
Margaret hopes to continue to teach BBM in St. Lawrence County and Northern New York.