Draft:Jamie Marich

Jamie Marich (born 1979) is a Croatian-American trauma therapist, author, researcher, educator, and media advocate. She is especially known for her work as a trainer in Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and for disclosing her own mental history with a dissociative disorder.

Early Life
Marich was born in Youngstown, Ohio to parents who met in Croatian folklore groups. Marich performed in the same group that her mother did as a young child, and she was also active in figure skating and theatre. She graduated from Chaney High School where she was valedictorian.

Marich grew up attending a Catholic parish and elementary school, while also attending an Assemblies of God church. Her father converted to this evangelical movement when she was very young. She writes about the spiritual trauma experienced in this religious upbringing in You Lied To Me About God: A Memoir.

Marich lived in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003 where she worked with various humanitarian aid and parish projects connected to the parish of Medjugorje. As of 2022, Marich is a Croatian citizen.