Josie Davenport, LMT (MA 3599) LCSW (SW 5130), has been a licensed massage therapist for more than 20 years and is a licensed clinical social worker. Since the beginning of her career she has balanced her health care skills to include the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical areas of health and wholeness. With a two year degree in music, she earned a BS in health education and wellness from the University of Florida and her MSW from Florida State University, graduating with honors in all three degree.

Josie is co-owner of the Florida School of Massage, one of the premier massage schools in the country. She has taught courses in the evaluation and treatment of injuries, deep tissue bodywork and gestalt communication skills. Josie is a member of the educational staff of the Gestalt Center of Gainesville, Inc. and has led and assisted in numerous suport groups, bereavement groups and gestalt professional training groups. She is a practitioner in the EMDR® method of trauma recovery. The book which she co-authored (Korb, Korb, Davenport & Martin), iContact: A Gestalt Guide to Skilled Communication, (2007) is available through the Gestalt Press.

Josie is a Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner with nearly 15 years of advanced training and experience working with infants and children with special needs and with rejuvenation and anti-aging in adults.

Josie loves photography, art, music and dance and enjoys bringing creativity into the healing process. She plays both concert and wooden flutes and concertina and sings in the traditional Irish band Kelltara.

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