Specializing in integrative therapy, Joanna’s skills combine her training as an Occupational Therapist with Body-Mind Centering,® CranioSacral Therapy, and Healing from the Core.

Body Journeys individual therapy sessions are for children and adults. Joanna accepts clients through self-referral and by referral from physicians and health care professionals.

Body Map Skills workshops and classes offer opportunities in somatic movement education for individuals and professional development for therapists.

Joanna teaches Healing From the Core: Full Body Presence workshops at local, national, and international conferences sponsored by the Upledger Institute.

“Joanna has a wonderful gift of engagement with students and clients. She integrates the principles of Body-Mind Centering with her practical knowledge of occupational therapy.”

—Bob Lehnberg, Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and Co-founder of Kinesthetic Learning Center

Joanna Haymore

Portrait of Joanna Joanna Haymore, MS, OTR/L, Healing From the Core; Grounding and Healthy Boundaries Certified Instructor, has a private practice as an occupational therapist using CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Sensory Integration, and Body-Mind Centering® to work with children and adults.

Joanna graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Masters in Occupational Therapy in 1994 and from the School of Body-Mind Centering, founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in 1989. She is a Registered Movement Therapist with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association and a licensed massage therapist NCBMBT #637. Ecologian Thomas Berry inspired her work as a creative editor and writer for the The Ecozoic Reader: Wisdom of Women.

Joanna believes in the human potential to live lovingly with oneself, other beings, and the planet, and offers classes and individual work to help achieve that goal.