Alisa is a storyteller, writer, facilitator and childhood sexual abuse survivor. Her work focuses on offering emotional support to other young survivors healing from sexual trauma.

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Alisa is a MothStorySLAM competition champ and has been in publications such as Allure, Teen Vogue, BUST, TIME, The Guardian, Bustle, Thought Catalog, Oprah Winfrey Network, Hello Giggles, Brit+Co, and the Voices for Change 2.0 podcast.

While based in DC, she travels around the country giving talks and facilitating workshops to support other young survivors in their communities.

In This Episode

• Alisa's Website
• Work With Alisa
• Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, Aishah Shahidah Simmons

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Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, RPT-S (previously on episode 402) has over 15 years of practice in family and play therapy, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption.

Robyn’s diverse clinical training includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, Circle of Security Parent Educator, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training.

Robyn has integrated these training modalities with a foundation of attachment theory and the relational neurosciences to create an attachment-rich, sensory-sensitive, and relational neurosciences- supported healing environment for children and families.

Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US, including as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College, and with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program offered by Portland State University and Oregon’s Department of Human Services.

Marshall Lyles, LMFT-S.

Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, (previously on episodes 152 and 393), is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and has over 15 years of practice in family and play therapy.

He has extensive speaking and training experience and has worked in a variety of mental health settings. Most of Marshall’s clinical practice has focused on attachment trauma and its effect on family relationships. Marshall conducts supervision and consultation sessions with counseling professionals and leads training in both parenting and professional settings; much of his consultation and training focuses on the use of sandtray therapy within a trauma-informed context.

Marshall sees clients at Nurture Family Counseling in Cedar Park, Texas.

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• Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling

Robyn

• Robyn’s Website
• Contact Robyn
• Consultation for therapists

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Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT is a therapist, mentor, and author who delights in integrating the discoveries of relational neuroscience into the art of therapy.

For 28 years, her work has focused on supporting trauma survivors and those with significant attachment wounds reshape their neural landscape to support a life of meaning, resilience, and warm relationships.

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At this stage of life, Bonnie enjoys mentoring those in the helping professions through offering longer-term immersion trainings in the embodiment of interpersonal neurobiology principles.

Her books includeBeing a Brain-Wise Therapist; The Brain-Savvy Therapist’s Workbook; The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process (co-edited with Susan Gantt), and The Heart of Trauma. People are saying that these books fill the gap between science and practice with clarity, compassion, and heart.

In This Episode

• Bonnie’s website
• Bonnie’s Trainings
• Bonnie on Facebook

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Cissy White is a trauma-mama writer and joy-stalking survivor. She believes it's possible - but difficult - to live, love, and parent well while post-traumatically stressed. Her goal is to make talk about trauma and healing less clinical and more conversational, less abstract and more accessible. She's currently working at the ACEs Connection as the Northeast Community Facilitator and Parenting with ACEs Community, Manager. She believes the trauma-informed movement must be survivor-led.

In This Episode

• Christine's website
• Cissy published in the Elephant Journal
• ACEs Connection
• ACEs Too High Articles
• There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate, Cheri Huber
• Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal, Belleruth Naparstek

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Heather Cobb is a peer facilitator, poet and trauma survivor. She lives with her partner and an adorable staffordshire bull terrier in Yorkshire, England.

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Heather’s activism draws on her ongoing recovery from bipolar and childhood sexual abuse; after losing a decade in the psychiatric system, failing to get a degree and hold down paid work, Heather decided to use her lived experience to become a peer facilitator.

Heather is Wellness Recovery Action Plan Facilitator accredited by the Copeland Centre.

Currently, she facilitates bibliotherapy sessions in NHS inpatient and community settings - using stories, poems, comics and myths to support her peers in defining their struggles and making a recovery.

Heather has never met a hopeless case. She would like you to know that whether recovered or not, you have more to offer the world than you might think.'

In This Episode

• The Words in Mind Bibliotherapy project in Kirklees, Yorkshire
• The Words In Mind Pandemic Podcast
• Heather’s blog: The Mad Covid Project

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Dr. Leslie Ellis is a teacher, author, speaker and psychotherapist. She teaches therapists how to help clients access their inner life and implicit memory through dream therapy and focusing/somatic work, with a focus on working with PTSD and complex trauma.

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Leslie’s book A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy, was recently published by Routledge. Leslie has a PhD in Clinical (Somatic) Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and developed a new approach to treating PTSD nightmares for her dissertation. She has a Masters from Pacific Graduate Institute and is vice president of The International Focusing Institute.

In This Episode

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• A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy, Leslie Ellis
• Contact Dr. Leslie
• Dr. Leslie’s courses
• Connect with Dr. Leslie on Facebook
• Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
• Eugene Gendlin

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Today I'm joined by Dr. Tian Dayton. Tian is a board certified trainer in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, and the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute, as well as a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in psychodrama, trauma and addiction.

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Dr. Dayton is the author of fifteen books including The Soulful Journey of Recovery, The ACoA Trauma Syndrome, Emotional Sobriety,Trauma and Addiction, Forgiving and Moving On and The Living Stage. She has developed an approach for incorporating experiential work into treatment programs and group work, Relationship Trauma Repair RTR.

Tian Dayton has a masters in educational psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology and is a board certified trainer in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. She is a certified Montessori teacher. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute. She is a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in psychodrama, trauma and addiction, ACoAs and self help related issues.

In This Episode

• Tian's Website
• Tian's books
• Psychodrama

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Esly Regina Carvalho, Ph.D., is a Brazilian-American clinical psychologist who maintained a private practice in the Dallas area where she grew up for many years before her return to Brazil in 2006 and where she now directs the TraumaClinic in Brasilia, Brazil, and spends extended time training EMDR professionals in that country.

She was trained in EMDR in the US (1996-7) and eventually became and Trainer of Trainers with the EMDR Institute. Since her return to her native country, over 3000 EMDR therapists have been trained through the efforts of her team. EMDR training is offered in over twenty cities in Brazil, as well as advanced courses. Esly served the first two terms as EMDR Iberoamérica (EMDR IBA) president (2007-2010/2010-2013), the regional EMDR association for Latin America.

Her first training approach was in Psychodrama and Esly was approved, with distinction, as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama in the US. She was also honored as a Fellow of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.

Due to her husband’s duties, Esly lived in many countries in Latin America: Ecuador, Bolivia, and then in Colorado Spring, Dallas, and finally Brazil. She is a native speaker of English and Portuguese, and speaks and trains in Spanish as well.

An international trainer and speaker in great demand, Esly has published books and articles about the use of EMDR and the integration of Psychodrama. She has been presenting workshops in the US more recently, with the Creative EMDR protocols she developed and teaches practical ways for EMDR therapists to help their clients.

Her commitment is to help people overcome the challenges of life, so often brought on by traumas and adverse experiences.

Esly married a Canadian widower 28 years ago, who was raised in China and spent 30 years in Ecuador; she has a grown daughter who recently moved to Canada after doing a Ph.D in the US, also a clinical psychologist; and Esly loves those grandchildren!

In This Episode

• Esly's English Website
• Esly's Portugese Website
• Connect with Esly on Facebook
• Francine Shapiro, EMDR
• Jacob T. Moreno, psychodrama

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Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D., integrates Somatic Experiencing with clinical research, the psychobiological principles of attachment, psychodynamic therapy, and somatic bodywork in her practice and teaching. She has conducted original research on the role of implicit memory in Somatic Experiencing with a committee that included Dr. Daniel Siegel.

Dr. Blakeslee holds a Masters of Arts in Counseling and Depth Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. She is interested in the intersection between neuroscience, current trauma research, and the psychobiological principles of Somatic Experiencing.

She works with individuals, couples, children, and families and treats a broad base of issues.

In This Episode

• Abi’s website
• Peter Levine
• Be Here Now, Ram Dass
• Stephen Porges
• How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self, A. D. (Bud) Craig
• Somatic Experiencing Institute
• Find an SE practitioner

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Associate Professor Michael Salter is a criminologist and Scientia Fellow at the University of New South Wales, where he undertakes research on child sexual exploitation, complex trauma and gendered violence. He is the author of Organised Sexual Abuse (Routledge, 2013) which examines the narratives of adults who were sexually abused by groups of perpetrators as children, and Crime Justice and Social Media (Routledge, 2017), which details how social media and the internet is impacting sexual offences and discussions about them. He sits on the board of directors of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, who awarded him the 2018 Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement. He is a national and international consultant to child protection agencies including the Australian Child Abuse Prevention Service and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. He is also a practicing Buddhist and has taught a weekly meditation class at his local temple for the last ten years, and he lives in Sydney with his husband and cat.

In This Episode

• Michael at UNSW
• Article: A deep wound under my heart”: Constructions of complex trauma and implications for women’s wellbeing and safety from violence.
• Women's Trauma Recovery Centre
• Michael on Twitter: @mike_salter

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Shari Botwin, LCSW has been counseling survivors of all types of trauma in her Cherry Hill, New Jersey private practice for over twenty-two years. Her second book, " Thriving After Trauma: Stories of Living and Healing (Rowman & Littlefield, November 4, 2020)" addresses readers who have experienced trauma or loss due to a variety of experiences--whether abuse, accidents or injury.

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Shari shows, through personal stories, how many who have experienced the worst kinds of trauma have managed to move on and thrive beyond their experiences. She has given Keynote presentations at a variety of universities and professional conferences and has also provided commentary on a variety of international media platforms; including, ABC, NBC, CBS, CTV, Radio Europe, The Associated Press, The New York Times and Prevention Magazine. She has written features for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Thrive Global, Medium, The Toronto Star and Huffington Post.

In This Episode

• Shari's Website
• Shari's services
• Contact Shari
• Connect with Shari on Facebook
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD
• The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down, Abigail Pesta
• RAINN
• Sidran Institute

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Today my guest is Johanna Lynn, the founder of The Family Imprint Institute. She’s fascinated by what parents share with their children, the invisible stuff passed along in their very DNA.

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Johanna says that our earliest experiences, while we don’t consciously remember them, have a profound influence on how we live our lives. She works with what the body remembers and the knowledge that we are more than our own individual experiences.

If you’ve just been working with your client’s present struggles, you are only working with part of the story. The new science of epigenetics and inherited family trauma shows us that often what we struggle most with inside our relationships, health challenges, habitual patterns or our success often lives in our family’s experiences.

In This Episode

• Johanna's Website
• Connect with Johanna on Facebook
• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn
• Dani Shapiro

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Today I’m joined by April Harter who has made it her mission to help people understand where their racism is originating from. As a community and as a world we find ourselves in incredibly tense times, and yet times which are also creating opportunities for cultural and societal awareness around the topic of equality and racism. This episode is hopefully a small drop of water in that ocean.

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April is a former medical social worker, where she provided counseling to her patients and their family members to help them cope with the trauma of medical emergencies in the state of Texas. She later moved to Colorado and started her private practice to serve QTPOC patients with a history of racial trauma. After having worked with QTPOC, she decided to help prevent racism in society by working with white clients as a coach using the Racist Signature Theory. Finally, she opened up the Racism Recovery Center to provide psychotherapy for the treatment of racism.

In This Episode

• Racism Recovery Center
• April on Facebook
• Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT
• Cynthia Wall, LCSW
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngela

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Sometimes after I do these interviews, I have to stop and really think about what I'm doing. I mean, with this job I've chosen. On the one hand, as we all know, this topic of trauma, is nothing short of devastating. Sometimes the interviews are challenging and stories can be hard to listen to.And yet at the same time, after almost all of the interviews I do, I walk away completely inspired, energized by the strength of my guests, and also truly hopeful with the courage of the human spirit.

Today's episode truly encapsulates each of those elements. And it was an interview that really did bring me back to center and made me realize (again!) that I'm in the right place and doing what I love.

The Kavanagh Sisters were born into a large family of ten children in the mid-1950’s and 1960’s in a disadvantaged area of Dublin, where their father sexually abused each of them for over two decades. In 1989 they made the decision to bring charges against their father and, in 1990, the Irish state took a successful case against him and he was convicted and sentenced to a term of seven years and was released having served five years.

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In 1992 the sisters took part in a groundbreaking RTE documentary series entitled Tuesday File, Silent Scream (produced by Moya Doherty). Up to that point, RTE programmes on child abuse always had the interviewee’s face hidden and voices distorted, but my guests openly volunteered to share their story and despite the attempted injunction by their imprisoned father, the documentary was aired on RTE in October 1992.

The programme won a Jacobs Award in 1992 and early the next year the sisters were nominated for the Harvey’s/Sunday Independent Irish Women of the Year. This program also went on to be used as a training tool for professions dealing with abuse victims and won the US National Women’s Studies Association Award in 1994.

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• The Kavanagh Sisters' Website
• Why Go Back?, Paula Kavanagh, Joyce Kavanagh, June Kavanagh
• Click, Click, Paula Kavanagh, Joyce Kavanagh, June Kavanagh
• The Kavanagh Sisters’ Podcast
• The Kavanagh Sisters on Facebook
• Neale Diamond Walsh
• Gary Zukov
• Oprah

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Dr. Pauline Thompson is a US Navy veteran who served aboard the USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37) in the Nuclear Repair division, during the 1988 Persian Gulf conflict. Subsequent to her service, she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at DeSales University and a PhD in Psychology from Temple University.

Pauline has a way of identifying, and cogently articulating, that most crucial element in the work of psychotherapy: the importance of the self-awareness of the therapist. Because it is this which dictates the foundation of the therapeutic relationship, and thus the course of healing.

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Pauline is a critical community health psychologist and is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Penn State Brandywine campus. For more than 20 years, she’s been involved in community-based research and development with an emphasis on alternative understandings of mental health and social, emotional, and physical wellbeing and health. Her work spans the globe, working with refugee, migrant, and Indigenous Peoples, with 10 years living in New Zealand and six years in Australia to the USA.

She’s spent the last 12 years using the cultural safety model to educate health and human service professionals to work with clients who are different to themselves. Current projects include: working with reconciliation strategist Ulysses Slaughter on a reconciliation process between the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia MOVE organization; and the New Integration Accommodations project, a community-focused cultural transformation and sustainability initiative in collaboration with Ulysses Slaughter at the Chester Housing Authority. The 3rd Edition of her award-winning, co-authored book, Healthcare and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice, was recently released (April, 2019). Dr. Thompson is currently writing a cultural safety book for the US context.

Pauline’s quote

Every academic discipline has its technical nomenclature, and modern psychology has a word that is used, probably, more than any other. It is the word maladjusted. This word is the ringing cry of modern child psychology. Certainly all of us want to live a well-adjusted life in order to avoid the neurotic personality. But I say to you, there are certain things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon all men of good will to be maladjusted.

--Excerpt from Martin Luther King on June 6, 1961 at Lincoln University. Read full text here.

In This Episode

• Pauline's website
• Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural safety in practice, Kerry Taylor and Pauline Thompson Guerin

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Pat Ogden, PhD is back and I have to say, I did it! I think I’ve done my best interview, yet, with her! (Not that this is the best interview that she’s done. I’m not saying that.)

I feel this is a really good one in that we go into a lot of detail about one particular case of Pat’s, and my goal here was to highlight the use of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, (SPI), rather than simply talk about it in general terms.

Pat is a pioneer in somatic psychology and both Founder and Education Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute®, an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic–cognitive approaches for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and attachment disturbances.

She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and trainer, and first author of the book, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. Her second book, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015) is a practical guide to integrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® into the treatment of trauma and attachment issues.

Dr. Ogden is currently developing Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® for children, adolescents and families with colleagues.

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A giant thank-you to my sponsor for this episode:

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SPI is hosting a live webcast, Thursday, June 11, 2020.

Understanding and Addressing Hopelessness and Helplessness through the lens of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

The last several months have been disorienting for all; in the midst of so many of us living in fear of both the virus and its economic consequences, the United States is once again shaken as cities erupt amidst feelings of anger, anxiety, hopelessness and despair.

Join Dr. Bonnie Goldstein with discussant Dr. Pat Ogden, creator of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, for a special webinar on exploring ways to collaboratively address hopelessness, helplessness and despair amidst arduous complications and challenges.

We will deconstruct the negative or self-defeating messages our clients say to themselves while concomitantly addressing damaging messages implicitly and/or explicitly directed towards our clients.

Dr. Goldstein will explore the particular challenges therapists face when working with our younger clients, adolescents and young adults, fostering resilience in the face of uncertainty. Dr. Ogden will offer a wider understanding of the issues of hopelessness, helplessness, and vulnerability with an adult population.

Join the webcast by visiting sensorimotor.org. It will be offered live on Thursday, June 11 and then subsequently sold as a pre-recorded digital seminar.

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In This Episode

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• SPI COVID resource page

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Lisa Danylchuk, LMFT, E-RYT returns to The Trauma Therapist | Podcast!

Lisa is an author, licensed psychotherapist, and yoga teacher-trainer specializing in bringing yoga into trauma treatment, and she first joined me back on episode 33 of the podcast.

Lisa is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard University, and is the founder of the Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery in Oakland, CA, and creator of the Yoga for Trauma (Y4T) Online Training Program.

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Lisa has authored three books: Yoga for Trauma Recovery: Theory, Philosophy, and Practice (2019), Embodied Healing: Using Yoga to Recover from Trauma and Extreme Stress (2015), and How You Can Heal: A Strength Based Guide to Trauma Recovery (2017), and is a contributing editor for Best Practices for Yoga for Veterans, published by the Yoga Service Council. She also serves on the Board of Directors and the UN Task Force for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and was recently elected to serve as Secretary for the organization.

Lisa is a leader in the movement to incorporate yoga into trauma treatment, she has trained yoga and mental health professionals around the world, and she presents her work internationally.

She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and when she’s not writing or traveling, you’ll likely find her climbing mountains and running trails in nearby parks.

In This Episode

• Lisa's website
• Lisa’s Trainings
• Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery
• Yoga for Trauma (Y4T)
• Routledge Publishers is offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners a 20% discount on Lisa’s new book, Yoga for Trauma Recovery: Theory, Philosophy, and Practice, with discount code: BSE19

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Today we conclude the series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak, with none other than Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis.

Thema, a repeat guest on this podcast, is a light of hope for all of us. Watch this interview and you'll feel it. Thema is a licensed psychologist, ordained minister, and sacred artist who has worked nationally and globally to provide relief and empowerment to marginalized persons.

Dr. Thema, a professor at Pepperdine University, is a past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women. Her contributions to psychological research, policy, and practice have been honored by national and regional psychological associations.

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Dr. Thema earned her doctorate from Duke University, completed her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center, and is a past American Psychological Association representative to the United Nations.

She has served as a mental health media consultant for numerous print, radio, and television media outlets, including but not limited to the Huffington Post, NPR, CBS, Oxygen, CNN, BET, TV One, Lifetime, and We TV.

Using artistic expression, spirituality, psychology and culture, Dr. Bryant-Davis is an internationally recognized lecturer, performer, and minister. She has presented at conferences, universities, churches, community centers, schools and prisons throughout the United States as well as in South America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Dr. Bryant-Davis is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She leads a community mental health bible study at Walker Temple AME Church in Los Angeles and lives by words from her mother, Rev. Cecelia Williams Bryant, who states “God is speaking. My life is God’s vocabulary.”

In This Episode

• Dr. Thema's Website
• Contact Dr. Thema
• Connect with Dr. Thema on Facebook

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Suzi Rutti, MSW, LISW-S, is a Clinical Social Worker that works with children, adolescents and adults of all ages, and specializes in the treatment of complex PTSD, dissociation/dissociative disorders, preverbal trauma, sexual violence, childhood abuse, traumatic birth experience, intimate partner violence, secondary trauma, and other adverse life experiences.

She owns and operates Rutti Counseling & Consultation, LLC in Columbus, Ohio, and is a co-owner of the Ohio Institute for Trauma and Wellness, LLC and the Central Ohio EMDR Connection, LLC.

Suzi is a faculty member with The Institute for Creative Mindfulness and provides EMDR therapy training and advanced EMDR therapy training in Central Ohio.

She founded the Secondary Trauma: Awareness, Resilience and Support (STARS) group in 2016, and is passionate about supporting professionals who work with trauma survivors. Suzi believes in the importance of making high quality trauma treatment accessible to all communities, and has presented to numerous local and national audiences on a variety of topics relevant to the impact of trauma and how best to support survivors.

In This Episode

• Suzi's Website
• Rutti Counseling's Groups and Workshops
• Contact Suzi
• Connect with Suzi on Facebook
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk

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Today I welcome back one of my favorites--Sarah Peyton.

We conclude our series with this fourth and final episode, Truth Not Trauma.

Sarah Peyton is Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain.

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Go beyond theories and gain practical ways to open a new dimension for effective therapy.

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Sarah works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Her special interest is the way that difficult events impact our automatic brain patterning, and how to transform our tendencies toward self-criticism into self-warmth. Her first book,“Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing,” is coming out from Norton Publishing.

In This Episode

• Sarah’s Website
• Sarah’s events & trainings
• Marshal Rosenberg
• Sarah’s book: Your Resonant Self
• Jaak Panksepp PhD
• Stephen Porges
• Beatrice Beebe

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Angi Yoder-Maina is one of those people.

She’s one of those people who after you get through talking to, you walk away feeling lighter, more inspired, and that you, too can change the world. She’s one of those people I love having on the podcast.

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Go beyond theories and gain practical ways to open a new dimension for effective therapy.

Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online at sensorimotor.org today.

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Angi Yoder-Maina is the Executive Director of a local Kenyan NGO called Green String Network (GSN) based in Nairobi, Kenya. GSN’s programs create opportunities for people currently in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan at the most local level to learn about the effects of trauma, begin to heal and come together as a community to plan community-wide activities and structures to support further healing, and reconciliation.

Angi is finalizing her Applied Conflict Transformation Studies Doctoral at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Her dissertation is: “Wellbeing and Resilience: A Grounded Theory using a Trauma-Informed Lens for a Healing-Centered Peacebuilding Approach". The Wellbeing and Resilience approach is a trauma-informed practice-based approach, which GSN is applying currently in the Horn of Africa.

In This Episode

• Green String Network
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem

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We continue with the series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak, with Christine Forner (B.A., B.S.W., M.S.W., Registered Social Worker).

Christine, who specializes in the intersection of mindfulness and trauma dissociation, shares her insights on managing within the context of the current pandemic.

She began her career early starting as a volunteer at the age of 16 at a crisis line for Teens. She has worked at The Calgary Sexual Assault Centre, Wheatland Crisis Shelter for survivors of domestic violence and in 1998 Christine started her clinical experience at The Calgary Women’s Health Collective.

A huge thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

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Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience?

Learn a comprehensive approach to conceptualize your clients’ concerns. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy uniquely includes the body in therapy as both a source of information and target for intervention…because words are not enough.

Go beyond theories and gain practical ways to open a new dimension for effective therapy.

Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online at sensorimotor.org today

Since 2011, Christine has worked in her own private practice which specializes in complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She has over twenty years experience working with individuals with Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Dissociation, Developmental Trauma and Dissociative Disorders, with specialized training in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Psychotherapeutic Meditation techniques, Neurofeedback and Havening.

Christine is the current clinical supervisor at Waypoints Sexual Assault Centre in Fort McMurry, Alberta and teaches locally and at an international level on the issue of dissociation, complex trauma, and the intersection of dissociation and mindfulness.

Christine was the treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2011-2012) and was the President of the ISSTD in 2019.

As well as being a board member she is also a member of the Conference Committee and for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Christine has spent the last 15 years working on methods of meditation that are affective for persons who have Complex Posttraumatic Disorder and Dissociative Disorders. She is the author of Dissociation, Mindfulness and Creative Meditations: Trauma informed practices to facilitate growth (Routledge, 2017).

In This Episode

• Christine's Website
• Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations, Christine C. Forner

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Eduardo Duran is back.

Eduardo is one of the foremost authorities on working with veterans and Native populations around the subjects of war and healing soul wounds.

Eduardo was born in northern New Mexico and at age 14 his family relocated to California. He worked in the fields as a migrant farm worker and at age 17 enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he served for 6 years on board submarines and other vessels during the Vietnam war. Once he was discharged he became interested in psychology and began his studies and at the same time began working for the Navy as an engineering psychologist.

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Dr. Eduardo Duran has been working as a clinical psychologist for over two decades. Much of his clinical and research work has concentrated on working with the legacy of historical trauma, which is the trauma that occurs in families and is then passed on to the following generation unless the trauma or soul wounding is dealt with.

Through that process he has learned that wounding of the spirit has been endured by most people in the world and the lessons learned from this work is relevant to most people presenting with therapeutic issues.

Dr. Duran has served as a professor of psychology in several graduate settings and continues to teach, and lecture in community settings all over the world.

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In This Episode

• Eduardo’s website
• Books by Eduardo
• Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples (Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling), by Eduardo Duran
• Buddha in Redface: Third Edition 3rd Edition, by Eduardo Duran

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I’m very excited to have back Kate Hudgins, PhD, TEP - Therapeutic Spiral Model as my guest today as we continue with the series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak.

Kate continues from her previous episodes as we use the context of managing during the current pandemic as a backdrop for healing with experiential therapy, and specifically psychodrama. Experiential therapy, as you’ll learn in this interview, involves a certain immediacy from the people involved. It demands courage from both the client and therapist, and it has an incredible power to heal.

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

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Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience?

Learn a comprehensive approach to conceptualize your clients’ concerns. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy uniquely includes the body in therapy as both a source of information and target for intervention…because words are not enough.

Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online at Sensorimotor Psychotherapy today: https://www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/

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This series came together quickly and unexpectedly, as did news of everything that’s been going on!

When things started getting serious with the virus and talk of it spreading was all over the news, I started to become very anxious. I’m already an anxious type, but this was a bit more intense.

My wife was continuing to go to work (fortunately, though now with a growing concern that she’s going to be infected), I continued to work at home, but now I was suddenly joined by my two kiddos (ages 4 and 11!). Crazy!!!

As someone who enjoyed reading the news, I was now becoming very anxious with all the numbers and tallies and imminent threat of sickness, and trying to manage my kids at home while also trying to keep my business going—I realized that if this continued, if I continued like this--that I was going to go nuts.

So, I just slowed down. I stopped reading the news as much and I said to myself, Okay, what can I do (my inspiration was Leo Buscaglia), what can I control, what can I do to take care of myself and my family, and how can I model for my kids during this time. This became my purpose.

This shift helped me a lot. It’s not easy. It’s not perfect. I still experience waves of anxiety day to day, and continually have to remind myself of what I can do and what’s important to me.

Creating something like this series was also something I could do, and reaching out to others in a time like this is also helpful to me. My hope is that it would offer some help or guidance or inspiration.

I want to thank the individuals who’ve taken part in this so far and who shared their time and thoughts: Bruce Perry, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Sharon Salzberg, Mica Gonzalez, Peter A Levine, PhD, Cathy Malchiodi, Christine Drabek, Peter M. Bernstein, Fran S. Waters, and Kate Hudgins, PhD, TEP - Therapeutic Spiral Model.

You access the series here (interviews will be added as they become available): http://bit.ly/2kh8Gp5

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We continue the series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak, with none other than Pat Ogden, PhD, a pioneer in somatic psychology and both Founder and Education Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute®, an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic–cognitive approaches for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and attachment disturbances.

In this interview Pat shares her thoughts on how this pandemic, and the trauma associated with it, is impacting us not only on an individual level, but on a global scale, as well. She shares her thoughts 0n the importance of recognizing our body's responses and reactions as a means of regulating our nervous system, when we find ourselves in the center of anxiety.

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

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CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience?

Learn a comprehensive approach to conceptualize your clients’ concerns. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy uniquely includes the body in therapy as both a source of information and target for intervention…because words are not enough.

Go beyond theories and gain practical ways to open a new dimension for effective therapy.

Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online

at sensorimotor.org today

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Pat is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and trainer, and first author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. Her second book, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015) is a practical guide to integrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® into the treatment of trauma and attachment issues. Dr. Ogden is currently developing Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® for children, adolescents and families with colleagues.

In This Episode

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• SPI COVID resource page
• Deb Dana, LCSW

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Today we continue with the special series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak, with my guest Peter M. Bernstein, PhD, and I couldn't be more honored.

Peter, who was first on the podcast in episode 91, shares his story and his story truly embodies journey of authenticity. I recall first interviewing Peter and being inspired by what he's overcome to do the work he ---does.

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Peter is founder and director of the Bernstein Institute. As a coach, mentor, educator and trainer, Peter has almost 50 years of experience providing relief and recovery from trauma and emotional and physical pain

Peter's unique approach utilizes a combination of coaching, mentoring and bodywork to offer hope and healing through transformative resilience.

In This Episode

• The Bernstein Institute
• The Bernstein Institute on Facebook
• Trauma: Healing the Hidden Epidemic, Peter M. Bernstein, PhD
• Peter's incredible first interview on the podcast, episode 91 (and then on 269)
• Peter’s podcast: The Survivor’s Guide To Life

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Today, we continue with the series, Managing in The Midst of The Current Outbreak, with my guest today, Cathy Malchiodi.

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPAT, LPCC, ATR-BC, REAT is a leading international expert, writer, and educator in the fields of art therapy, expressive arts therapy, trauma and arts in healthcare.

In this interview Cathy brings to our current situation of shelter-in-place and quarantine, a breath of fresh air in the form of authenticity and the suggestion that this experience has presented us with the fact that this is an opportunity for us to learn of different ways to cope.

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Learn a comprehensive approach to conceptualize your clients’ concerns. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy uniquely includes the body in therapy as both a source of information and target for intervention…because words are not enough.

Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online today at: http://sensorimotor.org

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Cathy is a psychologist, a Board Certified and Licensed Professional Art Therapist, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and has had over 30 years of experience and education in trauma intervention and disaster relief and integrative approaches to health.

She is the founder, director and lead faculty member of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, and her most recent book is titled, Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process.

In This Episode

• Cathy's Website
• Cathy on Youtube

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Today my guest is the inspiring Michele Solloway, PhD.

Michele is a nationally certified healing arts practitioner with training in somatic therapy, polarity and craniosacral therapies, and energy medicine. She is on the board of directors for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, an organization founded by Dr. Peter Levine and dedicated to the development, training and dissemination of somatic therapy.

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First though, a giant thank-you to my sponsor today, Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)!

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

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https://traumahealing.org/kser

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Michele Solloway has a particular interest in working with professional service providers who are at high risk for secondary or vicarious trauma. She also has over 25 years’ experience as a health services researcher with a focus on child and family health, vulnerable populations, federal and state health policy, and most recently childhood trauma and integrative medicine. Her practice is based on core values of service and living her passion.

In This Episode

• Somatic Experiencing Website
• Michele Solloway on the SE website
• SE on Facebook
• The Tao of Trauma: A Practitioner's Guide for Integrating Five Element Theory and Trauma Treatment, Alaine D. Duncan, Kathy L. Kain
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laure van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
• Peter A. Levine books

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Today we continue with the series Managing in the Midst of The Current Outbreak, and my guest is the incredible Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT.

Manuela is a licensed Somatic Psychotherapist. She is an International teacher of psychology and trains health professionals in California, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Europe and starting in China next year. When I began putting this series together, Manuela was right there at the top of the list. She has a way of explaining concepts about therapy that always bring us back to that most important element--human beingness.

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Do you struggle to help numb, disconnected clients who can’t feel emotion or explore inner experience?

Learn a comprehensive approach to conceptualize your clients’ concerns. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy uniquely includes the body in therapy as both a source of information and target for intervention…because words are not enough.

Go beyond theories and gain practical ways to open a new dimension for effective therapy.

Visit Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute online today at: http://sensorimotor.org

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

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Manuela co-directs and teaches at the Hakomi Institute of California that hosts her trauma training: From Trauma to Dharma. (starts again in April 2016) This training integrates current neuroscience of trauma theory, somatic and mindfulness-based interventions with dharmic teachings and embodied meditation practices.

In addition Manuela has trained in various methods of working with trauma (e.g.Somatic Experiencing) and counseled survivors of political oppression, torture and trauma for the past 25 years.

In This Episode

• Manuela's Website
• Manuela's trainings. From Trauma to Dharma
• Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress, Manuela Mischke-Reeds

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Mica Gonzalez, PhD. Managing in The Midst of COVID-19

Today we continue with our series on Managing during the current outbreak with my guest, Dr. Mica Gonzalez.

Mica is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Family First Psychotherapy in Oakland, California and he specializes in helping anxious, aggressive, and hyper kids and their stressed out parents.

When I queried people about who they wanted to hear from for this series, Mica’s name came up. And when you listen to this interview, you’ll understand why. Mica has an amazing way of articulating concepts about early child development and therapy while at that same time conveying a sense of groundedness and calm. Perfect for this series!

Note: Mica is hosting a free webinar April 8th at 10:30 am PST on Developing resilience in uncertain times.

Register for it here. Developing resilience in uncertain times.

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Mica received his doctoral degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and trained in a variety of settings, including a middle school, an adult day treatment facility, and home-visiting early intervention programs. He is trained in Child-Parent Psychotherapy, a trauma-informed approach to early intervention, and has an endorsement as an Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist from the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health.

Mica also provides online early parenting education through his blog and website, The Good Enough Parents.

In This Episode

• Family First Psychotherapy
• The Good Enough Parents
• Article by Aisha Ahmad
• Mica is hosting a free webinar April 8th at 10:30 am PST on Developing resilience in uncertain times.
• Register for it here. Developing resilience in uncertain times.

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Today, we continue with the series Managing in The Midst of The Outbreak, with Sharon Salzberg, New York Times Best selling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West.

In 1974, Sharon co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

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Sharon’s emphasis is on vipassanā (insight) and mettā (loving-kindness) methods, and she’s been leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades. Her books includeLovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, andReal Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program.

In This Episode

• Sharon's Website
• Sharon’s books

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Today we continue with the series, Managing in The Midst of COVID-19.

My guest today, Fran Waters is one of those therapists you wish you had: She’s funny, warm, creative and super smart.

In this interview we talk about the global impacts of trauma and how to manage during this unprecedented time, as well as explore how the trauma of this experience is impacting individuals and therapists alike.

First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for this episode:

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

Fran S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT, is an internationally recognized trainer and consultant in the field of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation. As an invited presenter, she has conducted extensive training programs nationally and internationally ranging from a day to 5 days in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, and North America. She is the author of Healing the Fractured Child: Diagnosis and Treatment of Youth With Dissociation, and past president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSTD). She is a Fellow of the ISSTD, and received ISSTD's Presidential Award and Cornelia Wilbert Award, the Media Award from American Professional Society on Abuse of Children for her 3 Part DVD on Trauma and Dissociation of Children, and the William Friedrich Memorial Child Sexual Abuse Research, Assessment and/or Treatment Award from Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma. She maintains a private practice in Marquette, MI.

Fran is an internationally recognized trainer and consultant in the field of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation and has conducted extensive training programs nationally and internationally ranging from a day to 5 days in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, and North America.

In This Episode

• Fran's Website

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

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I hope you're continuing to stay healthy during these times.

Today my guest is the incomparable Janina Fisher, PhD.

This is the third in the series, Managing in The Midst of COVID-19, (listen to Bruce Perry here and Peter Levine here).

When I reached out to the Trauma Therapist | 2.0 community to ask them who they’d like to hear from for this series, Janina’s name (not surprisingly) came up quickly.

I’ve been fortunate to have been trained by Janina during my Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 and Level 2 trainings, and be a member of one of her consultation groups. Her knowledge of trauma is inspiring and her humor is non-stop. She’s incredible.

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CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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Dr. Fisher has been an invited speaker at the Cape Cod Institute, Harvard Medical School Conference Series, the EMDR International Association Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, University of Westminster in London, the Psychotraumatology Institute of Europe, and the Esalen Institute. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of research and treatment and how to introduce these newer trauma treatment paradigms in traditional therapeutic approaches.

In This Episode

• Janina's Website
• Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors, Janina Fisher, PhD

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

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Today in this second of the series, Managing in The Midst of COVID-19, (listen to Bruce Perry’s interview here) my guest is Dr. Peter A. Levine.

Peter received his PhD in medical biophysics from the University of California in Berkeley and also holds a doctorate in psychology from International University.

He has worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years and is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing® method.

Peter’s original contribution to the field of Body-Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP).

That same year he also received the honorary Reis Davis Chair in Child Psychiatry for his innovative contribution to therapy for children and adolescents.

In This Episode

• Somatic Experiencing Institute
• Books by Peter Levine
• Brother Richard Hendrick (read his poem, Lockdown, here)

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Today on the podcast, I bring on two senior members of Gould Farm team. This episode truly inspired me because it really validated the fact that there are incredible people, and in this case--teams of people--doing amazing work to help those who've been impacted by mental health issues and trauma.

I turned off the mic and walked away from my desk after the interview and I was like, "These two women are amazing and their team must be incredible to do the work they do."

Gould Farm. A Model of Compassionate and Holistic Healing.

Gould Farm is a unique and pioneering refuge for people with mental disorders…a place where respect and relationship, work and friends, are central to the healing process. We need many more such places in the world.”

— Dr. Oliver Sacks

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

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Founded in 1913, Gould Farm is the first residential community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health challenges move toward recovery, health, and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical support. Within this safe, family-like community made up of guests, staff, families and volunteers, all members are accepted, respected and celebrated as individuals.

We work with adults who are living with mental health conditions such as depression, bipolar and schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia. Gould Farm provides a safe environment in which everyone feels accepted and trusted while also being held to high expectations as a productive, working member of the community. Guests are empowered to share their many talents with the community and are also given the opportunity to learn and practice new skills in a supported environment.

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My guests for this episode are Lisanne Finston, Executive Director and Jane Linsley, Clinical Director.

Lisanne came to Gould Farm after 20 years serving as Executive Director of an innovative anti-hunger organization serving people with mental health and addiction challenges in N.J. She received her MSW from Rutgers University and her Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Lisanne values the pioneering model practiced at Gould Farm that blends old fashioned, life-enhancing work, with the best in clinical practices to support healing and recovery. From the Farm to Fellside, she loves being a part of this community and seeing people regain a sense of purpose and widen their circle of support for the journey.

Jane Linsley, Clinical Director

Jane has been working in the field of mental health and addictions for over 30 years, and on the Gould Farm Clinical Team since 2004. She has been Clinical Director of the team since 2006.

A graduate of Smith School for Social Work, Jane is licensed in social work and addictions, with additional certifications in both Trauma and Women’s Relational Theory of Mental Health.

Jane has as an on-going passion for beneficial new therapies and work in the area of mental health care, as well as an on-going, and long-standing, passion for how people relate to issues of inclusion and the shame resulting from stigma – both for the individual and as a culture.

Listen to the episode here: http://bit.ly/33AfuB9

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0

If you’re a new trauma therapist and you’re looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0: https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/community/trauma2/

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Dr. Bruce Perry is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

He is senior fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy and an adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

In addition to having written more than two hundred scientific articles, Dr. Perry has coauthored with Maia Szalavitz two books for general audiences: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook and Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential — and Endangered.

In This Episode

• Bruce's website

Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists.

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Today on the podcast a Trauma Therapist | 2.0 member spotlight with Diana Lea Baranovich. Trauma Therapist | 2.0 is my online membership community that helps support, educate and inspire new trauma therapists.

Diana is an American who has lived in Malaysia for the past 12 years. Along with being a full-time professor and research supervisor at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, she also runs a very busy private psychotherapy practice where she specializes in traumatized children, at-risk youth and families in transition.

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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Diana is also an adoption and family reunification specialist. Many forms of therapy are incorporated into her work such as play, dance, art and sand tray.

Diana has published many articles and presented journal papers and experiential workshops at international conventions throughout Asia and the Middle East. Her first book, Understanding and Caring for the Hurt Child was published by Pearson in 2013. Her second book, Understanding and Mentoring the Hurt Teenager was published by Partridge Publishers was published in 2017. Her third book – Bonding Through Play was published by Pearson in 2019.

In This Episode

• Connect with Diana on Facebook

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0 is my online membership community for new trauma therapists.

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0: https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/community/trauma2/

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Today on the podcast, an incredibly tragic subject, the loss of a child, though ultimately one that is profoundly inspiring. My guest, Megan Hillukka encourages and supports grieving mothers to recognize that despite having gone through an unimaginable experience, that life is not over for them. Megan, herself, is a grieving mother, with 6 children, 5 of whom are still alive.

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for this episode:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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Megan experienced PTSD after finding her daughter, Aria, when she died, and since that experience, she’s done the work to find healing in her brain and in her life. Because of this, Megan wants everyone to know that PTSD is not a life sentence, and that healing is possible.

In This Episode

• Megan's Website
• The Body Keeps The Score
• The Gifts of Imperfection

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists.

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

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At the age of 12 my guest today, Jeannette Dijkstra was raped at a campsite. A life ruled by this trauma lay ahead. Jeannette managed to grow up and had a good job in the OR in an academic hospital. At the age of 40 she started her training as a therapist, with a transpersonal specialization. More and more her own traumatic experience became important, but no therapist could ever help her

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First, a huge thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

Talkspace

Talkspace online therapy is the most convenient and affordable way to make lasting change in your life with the support of a licensed therapist.Send your licensed therapist text, audio, picture or video messages from your phone or computer whenever you need to.

Even if it’s on the way to work! You don’t have to make appointments or deal with extra commutes. Everything happens within Talkspace’s secure platform, all on your schedule.

As a listener of the The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, you can get $100 off your first month on Talkspace by going to Talkspace.com and using the code TRAUMATHERAPIST

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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Now, most often, Jeannette's clients are victims of sexual abuse and she continues to search for good trauma training. Jeannette was very lucky to find a good teacher and recently she finished her study as a trauma-sexologist.

In This Episode

• Connect with Jeannette on Linkedin
• Traumasexuality: Men abused as boys, men between victim and perpetrator, Peter John Schouten
• Jeannet’s website

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Lack of self-belief, or self-esteem, or confidence? Who me?

I've been doing this podcast for a few years now and I think each month I can feel myself able gaining a bit more courage and able to peel back the layers and share the things about myself that maybe aren't the easiest to share, or that maybe aren't the qualities that you'd (or I'd!) most want people to see.

I often talk about how when I stepped into graduate school I knew from the get go that I wanted to focus on trauma and become a trauma therapist, and that I thought the way to do that was to read everything I could or go to every conference I could and so forth.

What I neglected to realize was the importance of who I was within the context of trauma treatment, of working with those who'd been impacted by trauma.

It wasn't that I didn't realize the importance of me, or authenticity or genuineness, in general. Rather it was that I didn't get how integral those qualities were to the actual therapeutic, relationship, healing process. My focus was on bringing all the external knowledge I could find, inside. Essentially, I was leaving myself out of the vital equation, the vital relationship.

First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

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CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, while working at a clinic in Northern California, assessing and treating young individuals with early psychosis, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists.

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0: https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/community/trauma2/

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors for this episode:

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Dr. Craig Heacock is an adolescent/adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is the host and co-producer of the psychiatric podcast Back from the Abyss, a place for stories of hope and healing, recovery and redemption.

Dr. Heacock is a co-therapist in the Phase 3 trial of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD and has particular interest in the use of ketamine and other psychedelics to treat severe mood disorders and PTSD. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and did his psychiatry training at Brown University.

In This Episode

• Dr. Craig Heacock's website
• Back from the Abyss Podcast
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

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The combination of passion for helping those who’ve been impacted by trauma, and the knowledge that comes from working with those who live in a land constantly under threat, is exemplified in this week’s guest, Professor Mooli Lahad.

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First, a giant thank-you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Somatic Experiencing

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences. For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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When you combine a passion for helping those who’ve been impacted by trauma, and the knowledge that comes from working with those who live in a land constantly under threat, you’re speaking about my guest today, Professor Mooli Lahad.

Dr. Lahad is a senior medical psychologist and has been working with individuals, civilians as well as soldiers, and veterans suffering from PTSD since 1975.

He is the founder and president of the Community Stress Prevention Center in Kiryat Shmona Israel, the oldest center in the world that deals with community as an ecological entity for recovery and healing pre- and post critical incidents.

Dr. Lahad is the author & co-author of 35 books on resiliency and coping from early childhood to old age and has developed the integrative model of coping and resiliency. His most recent work is, The Lonely Ape That Told Himself Stories: The Necessity of Stories for Human Survival (Psychology Research Progress).

In This Episode

• The Community Stress Prevention Center
• Mooli's Wikipedia Page
• The Lonely Ape That Told Himself Stories: The Necessity of Stories for Human Survival, Mooli Lahad, PhD
• Principles and Techniques of Trauma-centered Psychotherapy, David Read Johnson, PhD., Hadar Lubin, M.D.

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists.

If you’re a new trauma therapist and you’re looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0: https://www.thetraumatherapistproject.com/community/trauma2/

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Today it’s about what is going on around here. And by “here,” I mean with the podcast and me and everything.

In this episode I share with you folks some of my thoughts about doing the podcast, and take you behind the scenes to check out the ins and outs of what it takes to put together a podcast and how I’m still learning thGuy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

In 2014, while working at a clinic in Northern California, assessing and treating young individuals with early psychosis, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists.

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Today it's about one of the subjects that has always intrigued me on its own--buddhism--but also intrigued me within the context of therapy, and more specifically, trauma. Mark Epstein, M.D. is my guest today. Mark is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy.

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First, a huge thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

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Mark's books include Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, Psychotherapy without the Self and The Trauma of Everyday Life and his latest work, Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself (Penguin Press). He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University.

In This Episode

• Mark's website
• Contact Mark
• Mark’s books:
• Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
• Going on Being
• Open to Desire
• Psychotherapy without the Self
• The Trauma of Everyday Life
• Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
• Trauma and Human Existence (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series), Robert D. Stolorow
• D. W. Winnicott
• The Challenge of Being Human, Michael Eigen

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Trauma Therapist | 2.0. a community for new trauma therapists.

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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My sexual abuse does not define me, it fuels me. I am not a victim, I'm a fighter.

These are the words of my guest today, Christian Griffith.

This interview is a powerful and inspiring one, and it's also one that some might find hard to listen to at times. So please listen with discretion and take care of yourselves.

This interview is also a great example of why I do this podcast: to talk to incredibly courageous people and to help build awareness about the subject of trauma.

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First, a huge thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

Somatic Experiencing

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, the staff helps adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives.

Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

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Christian has completed over 100 races of marathon distance or farther, racing over volcanoes, across deserts, and through tropical jungles and infested swamps, all over the world. He's earned his 50-mile bib at the World's Toughest Mudder on CBS, took a beating on American Ninja Warrior on NBC, and survived hell as a finisher on The Selection: Special Operations Experiment, on History Channel.

Now, Christian helps to raise money for Help For Children.

HFC has grown from a single fundraising event in NYC to a global foundation that operates in 12 cities in 7 countries, and has just one overriding mission: the prevention and treatment of child abuse. Over the past 20 years they have distributed close to $50 million in grants to organizations who protect and heal children.

In This Episode

• Christian's Website
• Christian on the History Channel’s The Selection
• Help For Children
• Christian on Facebook

Trauma Therapist | 2.0

If you're a new trauma therapist and you're looking to learn from seasoned professionals and be inspired by other therapists from around the globe, this online community might be for you.

Check it out here: Trauma Therapist | 2.0

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Dr. Sam Himelstein is back!

We talk a lot on this podcast about the importance and significance of authenticity within the context of working with those who've been impacted by trauma.

And one of those practitioners who exemplifies this topic in terms of both his knowledge on the subject and the way he integrates his own experience into his work, is Sam Hemelstein.

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First, a huge thank you to my sponsors for helping me keep this podcast afloat!

Talkspace

Online therapy is the most convenient and affordable way to make lasting change in your life with the support of a licensed therapist.

Send your licensed therapist text, audio, picture or video messages from your phone or computer whenever you need to. Even if it’s on the way to work! You don’t have to make appointments or deal with extra commutes. Everything happens within Talkspace’s secure platform, all on your schedule.

As a listener of the The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, you can get $100 off your first month on Talkspace by going to Talkspace.com and using the code TRAUMATHERAPIST.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

Dr. Sam Himelstein is a youth worker, author, speaker, and licensed psychologist in the state of California. Most of his work has revolved around working with trauma-impacted, juvenile justice-involved, substance-using youth. He is the founder and CEO of the Center for Adolescent Studies, a multi-disciplinary training institute that teaches youth professionals how to build authentic relationships, practice trauma-informed care, and share mindfulness with young people.

Dr. Himelstein is a formerly incarcerated youth and was privileged to change from a path of drugs, violence, crime, and self-destruction to that of healing and transformation. He has written three books, the most recent being Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Norton, 2019), and it's this one which we're focusing on today!

In This Episode

• Center for Adolescent Studies
• Sam on Facebook
• Sam’s first interview on The Trauma Therapist | Podcast
• The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, Bruce Perry, MD and Maia Szalavitz
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk

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This podcast is about the human spirit. Period.

Trauma, yes.

Healing, yes.

Relationship, yes.

But most of all, the humanbeingness within each of those things.

Today, it's about the journey of the survivor and one of the people forging a path by sharing her journey, and the lessons we can all take whether we're a therapist, teacher, survivor, or all of the above--Cissy White!

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First, a huge thank you to my sponsors for making this podcast happen:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Gould Farm

Gould Farm is the first residential therapeutic community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health and related challenges move toward recovery, health and greater independence through community living, meaningful work, and clinical care.

In a supportive community environment made up of residents, staff and their families, we help adults begin to rebuild and regain their lives. Gould Farm offers a full continuum of care, with programs in both Boston and Western Massachusetts for those ready for new challenges and structured transition.

To learn more visit: https://www.gouldfarm.org

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Cissy White is a trauma-mama writer and joy-stalking survivor. She believes it's possible - but difficult - to live, love, and parent well while post-traumatically stressed. Her goal is to make talk about trauma and healing less clinical and more conversational, less abstract and more accessible. She's currently working at the ACEs Connection as the Northeast Community Facilitator and Parenting with ACEs Community, Manager. She believes the trauma-informed movement must be survivor-led.

In This Episode

• Christine's website
• Cissy published in the Elephant Journal
• ACEs Connection
• ACEs Too High Articles
• There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate, Cheri Huber
• Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal, Belleruth Naparstek

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Miles Neale, PsyD, is a Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice and founder of the two-year online Contemplative Studies Program. Author of Gradual Awakening (Sounds True, 2018) and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2017), Miles is a faculty member of Tibet House (US) and Weill Cornell Medical College. With more than twenty years integrating the mind science and meditative practices of Tibetan Buddhism with psychotherapy, trauma research and neuroscience, Miles is a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy, and leads pilgrimages around the Buddhist world.

In This Episode

• Miles' website
• Miles' programs
• Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human, Miles Neal, PsyD
• Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy, Joe Loizzo, Miles Neal, Emily J. Wolff
• Miles’ Contemplative Studies Program
• Contact Miles
• Mark Epstein, MD
• Dan Siegel, MD

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Today it's about getting to the core of what this podcast is about.

It's about reacquainting myself--and perhaps, you, as you're listening to this--to what I'm trying to do here on a daily basis, which is to create not just a greater awareness of trauma, but to explode the awareness of trauma, so that more and more people are able to recognize it and talk about it. Because, that's when the healing will get done on a larger scale.

A giant thank you to my sponsors for this episode:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Brighter Vision

As the industry-leading company that makes marketing simple for therapists, Brighter Vision understands exactly what it takes to help your practice grow to new heights this year.

Brighter Vision’s team of developers will work with you to first understand your business and what makes it unique, then use this information to build you a website centered around attracting and retaining your ideal client.

During the entire month of January, Brighter Vision is running its biggest sale of the year. Until the end of the month, pay no setup fees and get your entire first year for just $49/month.

The Trauma Therapist | Podcast/ listeners can save $200 on their first year by going to: brightervision.com/guy

Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, while working at a clinic in Northern California, assessing and treating young individuals with early psychosis, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma­-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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What does it mean to become embodied? Why is it important and how does one go about doing it?

Today my guest, Mark Walsh, takes us on his own journey of becoming embodied.

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First off, a giant thank-you to my sponsor:

Somatic Experiencing

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences. For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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Mark is the founder of The Embodied Facilitator Course, Embodied Yoga Principles, The Embodiment Podcast and The Embodiment Conference.

With an honours degree in psychology, 20+ years of yoga experience and an aikido black belt, he has dedicated his life to embodied learning. These days, he teaches and mentors young embodiment teachers all over the world.

In This Episode

• Mark's Website
• Embodied Facilitator Website
• Contact Mark
• Embodied Facilitator On facebook
• The Embodied Trauma Conference. February 3-8, 2020, online
• The Embodiment Conference. October 4-25, 2020, online
• Seeing That Frees, Robert Burbea
• This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, Seth Godin

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Adrian Marquez at Florida Counseling Centers brings a unique perspective to the field of counseling. He spent 16 years in the Marine Corps as a Reconnaissance Marine and Marine Special Operations – Critical Skills Operator. During this time he served as a sniper, combatant diver, military free-fall jumper, Force Reconnaissance team leader, and Special Operations Team Chief.

After a complicated history, which required him being medically retired and seeking his own mental health services, he decided to become a Mental Health Counselor.

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors that help make this podcast happen:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

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Brighter Vision

As the industry-leading company that makes marketing simple for therapists, Brighter Vision understands exactly what it takes to help your practice grow to new heights this year.

Brighter Vision’s team of developers will work with you to first understand your business and what makes it unique, then use this information to build you a website centered around attracting and retaining your ideal client.

During the entire month of January, Brighter Vision is running its biggest sale of the year. Until the end of the month, pay no setup fees and get your entire first year for just $49/month.

The Trauma Therapist | Podcast/ listeners can save $200 on their first year by going to: brightervision.com/guy

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Adrian has also had the opportunity to fulfill many other nontraditional roles under Special Operations Command. He has participated in large operations like the capture of Fallujah, as well as many irregular posts across Afghanistan as a Marine Raider.

After a complicated history, which required him being medically retired and seeking his own mental health services, he decided to become a Mental Health Counselor. Shorty into his career he was provided with the opportunity to pursue his true passion and create a program specifically for veterans and active duty personnel, which he named, The Sheepdog Program.

Adrian’s personal experiences in wounded warrior battalion, and being out-processed through the military, provided a unique perspective on how mental health services were falling short in understanding and treating his brothers and sisters in arms. After retirement, he decided to put his future career where his heart was and pursue an education in mental health counseling.

In This Episode

• Adrian's website
• Adrian’s phone: 321-345-0638
• The Sheepdog Program on Facebook
• Contact The Sheepdog Program via Florida Counseling Centers
• Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman

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This one is intense. With the immigration situation the way it is in the country now (and yes, too, the world!), it’s comforting to know that there are people like my guest today, out there.

Georgia King, LCSW is a psychotherapist who specializes in immigration law. Working with lawyers throughout Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., she has completed more than 90 clinical evaluations for immigration cases.

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First, a huge-thank you to my sponsors that help make this podcast happen:

Brighter Vision

As the industry-leading company that makes marketing simple for therapists, Brighter Vision understands exactly what it takes to help your practice grow to new heights this year.

Brighter Vision’s team of developers will work with you to first understand your business and what makes it unique, then use this information to build you a website centered around attracting and retaining your ideal client.

During the entire month of January, Brighter Vision is running its biggest sale of the year. Until the end of the month, pay no setup fees and get your entire first year for just $49/month.

The Trauma Therapist | Podcast/ listeners can save $200 on their first year by going to: brightervision.com/guy

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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As the director and founder of The Immigration Evaluation Training Center, she is committed to helping therapists develop the skills and confidence they need to provide exceptional immigration evaluations. Georgia has trained extensively with the advocacy group, Physicians for Human Rights, and she regularly appears in court as an expert witness for asylum cases. She has also been a guest speaker at the Georgetown Law School, teaching law students about the impact of trauma on asylum seekers.

In This Episode

• Georgia's Website
• Contact Georgia
• Georgia King on Facebook
• The Immigration Evaluation Training Center
• The Immigration Evaluation Center Workshops
• Physicians For Human Rights

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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Rebecca Cooper has been named to the newly created role of National Spokesperson & Vice President of Public Affairs for Childhelp, one of the nation’s largest non-profit organizations dedicated to the treatment and prevention of child abuse.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors for this episode:

CPTSD Foundation :

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Somatic Experiencing Institute

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

Founded in 1959, Childhelp is embarking on its 60th year helping children and families with services across the United States, including residential living communities, treatment centers and the national child abuse hotline 1-800-4-A-CHILD.

Named by the Washington Business Journal to its inaugural “Power 100” list of the most influential people in Washington, Maryland and Virginia, Rebecca Cooper has spent three decades in senior positions in media, business and government in the nation’s capital.

The creator and longtime anchor of the weekly Sunday news show “Washington Business Report,” Rebecca became the founder and CEO of consulting firm Capital Insights LLC in 2015 and joined the faculty at American University, serving a two-year term as an Executive-in-Residence at the Kogod School of Business and professor at AU’s School of Communications.

The winner of several top journalism awards, Rebecca has worked for NBC News, ABC News and CNN as a producer and reporter and ABC7 News/WJLA in Washington, DC as a reporter and anchor.

Rebecca also served in the White House and State Department as the Clinton Administration’s Chief of Staff to US Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson and in the U.S. Senate as a senior legislative assistant to Sen. David L. Boren (D-OK), handling international trade, environment, education and health care issues on the Senate Finance Committee.

Rebecca Cooper Dupin is the mother of three sons - Max, Gus & Finn - and one Schnoodle rescue dog. A member of Leadership Greater Washington, Rebecca serves on the board of the University of Oklahoma College of Intl. Studies. A Duke honors graduate, Rebecca also attended the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and American University in Washington.

In This Episode

• Connect with Rebecca on Linkedin
• Childhelp.org
• Silence Broken: Moving from a Loss of Innocence to a World of Healing and Love, Sara O'Meara, Yvonne Fedderson
• Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents, William Steele

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Sarah Peyton returns. This is the third in our four-episode series on Relational Trauma and The Brain. (Sarah on episode 260.)

Sarah is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain.

she works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsor for making this podcast happen!

Brighter Vision

As the industry-leading company that makes marketing simple for therapists, Brighter Vision understands exactly what it takes to help your practice grow to new heights this year.

Brighter Vision’s team of developers will work with you to first understand your business and what makes it unique, then use this information to build you a website centered around attracting and retaining your ideal client.

During the entire month of January, Brighter Vision is running its biggest sale of the year. Until the end of the month, pay no setup fees and get your entire first year for just $49/month.

The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners can save $200 on their first year by going to: brightervision.com/guy

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis.

SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit:

traumahealing.org/TTP

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Sarah's special interest is the way that difficult events impact our automatic brain patterning, and how to transform our tendencies toward self-criticism into self-warmth. Her first book,“Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing,” is coming out from Norton Publishing.

In This Episode

• Sarah’s Website
• Sarah’s events & trainings
• Marshal Rosenberg
• Sarah’s book: Your Resonant Self
• Jaak Panksepp PhD
• Stephen Porges
• Beatrice Beebe

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Jennifer Kindera is a complex trauma survivor who has been traveling the path of recovery for over 25 years.

As a Certified Advanced Trauma Recovery Coach, she works one-on-one and in a group setting with survivors of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Offering an honest, inclusive and compassionate space for the unfolding of her client’s life journey, she focuses on some of the bi-products of trauma: shame, codependency, and addiction.

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Somatic Experiencing

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

SE was founded by Dr. Peter Levine, author of the bestseller Waking the Tiger, who developed Somatic Experiencing based on explorations of how animals deal with threat, nervous system overwhelm, and traumatic experiences on a daily basis. SE focuses on regulation of the nervous system and offers the opportunity to engage, complete, and resolve the body’s instinctual responses to traumatic experiences.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit: traumahealing.org/TTP

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Jennifer’s writings can be found on Medium, most often curated under the Mental Health category, and she also serves as the Director of Innovative Client Solutions and is a mentor to current students at the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching.

Jennifer practices with gentle guidance to help her clients identify the core beliefs trauma taught them, and the repetitive patterns which are holding them back from being the best version of themselves. Jennifer teaches her clients healthy coping skills and tools to stabilize their lives in the short term, and to evolve from that new space, longer-term. She helps her clients increase awareness and make space for growth and healing by integrating psychoeducation, the neuroscience of trauma, somatic recognition and trigger tools all of which help to manage complex trauma symptoms.

In This Episode

• Jennifer’s quote: It’s Not, Why Me? It’s What Now.
• Jennifer's Website
• Coaching Sessions with Jennifer
• Connect with Jennifer on Facebook
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma, Pete Walker
• Brene Brown

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Harry Zeit MD, Dr. Zeit has been involved in teaching and in creating educational events in the field of psychotherapy and trauma, bringing together physicians and mental health care workers in order to foster dialogue and build bridges between disciplines.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors that help make this podcast happen:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

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Dr. Zeit is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy and currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychotherapy. He previously worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge and Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005 and is currently active in the Medical Psychotherapy Association of Canada.

Dr. Zeit has been involved in teaching and in creating educational events in the field of psychotherapy and trauma, bringing together physicians and mental health care workers in order to foster dialogue and build bridges between disciplines. He created the Caring for Self while Caring for Others series to meet what he perceived to be a growing need for the medical profession to face challenges around unremitting stress and burnout, and to differentiate these physiology-driven processes from a mental health model which favored treating burnout as anxiety or depression.

In This Episode

• Harry’s Website
• Harry on Facebook
• Harry’s articles
• The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life, Reginald A. Ray.
• The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Awakening the Sacred, Reginald A. Ray.
• Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey, James Hollis, PhD

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In this final episode of 2019 I pause to look at the journey of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast and share a bit about what's next for it and for me!

Thank you for being a part of this podcast and for your support.

It means the world to me.

Have an awesome 2020!

Guy

And a huge thank you to my sponsor:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, while working at a clinic in Northern California, assessing and treating young individuals with early psychosis, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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The Trauma Therapist | Podcast is a podcast about the human spirit.

It’s a podcast about hearing the stories and the journeys of those who have dedicated their lives to helping others who’ve been impacted by trauma.

It’s about cultivating authenticity, presence, and compassion.

Nancy Morgan is one of those individuals who I believe epitomizes what this podcast is about, and she is back as my guest this week, and I couldn’t be more excited!

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

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This episode is also sponsored by CPTSDFoundation.org

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

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Nancy Morgan specializes both in working with adults with severe mental health challenges whose traumatic histories influence and inform their thoughts and behaviors and in providing Trauma-Focused training and supervision to future therapists.

Her primary work has been in Partial Hospitalization Program settings, Secure Residential Treatment Facilities, and Intensive Outpatient Programs, where she’s served as a clinician, manager, or most often as program clinical supervisor.

Currently, Dr. Morgan works as the Director of Behavioral Health at LifeMoves, Northern California’s largest agency dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness where she has developed a Trauma-Focused Mindfulness-Based training curriculum whereby she provides didactics, supervises, and mentors graduate psychology students.

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Today, I’m very excited to be joined by one of our special Trauma Therapist | 2.0 members, Caroline Cook.

Caroline is a mental health advocate who shares her lived experience of TBI, PTSD, anxiety and depression.

In February of 2014 Caroline was injured with a TBI. By July of that year, she experiencing PTSD and by the end of the year she became homeless for a full year.

Caroline shares her journey, and generational trauma, in the hope that someone else may find healing and move forward. Caroline supports Veterans (family), First Responders (former EMT) , and civilians with Peer Support online.

In This Episode

• Contact Caroline:
• phone: 408.438.0798
• Email: carolinecook2015@gmail.com
• Trauma Therapist | 2.0: is a membership site dedicated to supporting, educating and inspiring therapists of all kinds starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

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This month I've been posting some of my favorite episodes of the year.

Of course Dr. Bruce Perry is going to be on that list!

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Before I dive in about Dr. Perry, let me first thank a new sponsor, Skillshare.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of amazing classes covering dozens of creative and entrepreneurial skills, and they are offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners 2 months for free by going to Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY

I talk a lot on this podcast about knowledge, but also the importance of personal growth.

With Skillshare you can take classes in:

creativity

entrepreneurship

psychology

film

personal growth

productivity

personal branding

A few of the classes I’m going through right now are

Create Your Ideal Week

Create a Perfect Morning Routine

How to find your true Self

Marketing and personal branding classes

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Ever since I read Dr. Perry's book, The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog, I was hooked. A lot of things started to make sense to me, in terms of what it means to work with those who've been impacted by trauma, and what it means to help, to heal, and to guide.

Dr. Perry is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

He is a senior fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy and an adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

In addition to having written more than two hundred scientific articles, Dr. Perry has coauthored with Maia Szalavitz two books for general audiences: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook and Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential — and Endangered.

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This is the second installment of my holiday reposting series where I'm bringing back guests during the month of December who represent what this podcast is all about: courage, authenticity, vulnerability and courage.

Last week it was Adena Bank Lees. This week, it's Laura Brown.

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First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsor this week:

CPTSD Foundation.

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

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Laura Brown breathes genuineness, authenticity and humor. And when you listen to her you can't help but think to yourself, Geeze, I wish she were my therapist.

At least, that's what I'm thinking to myself!

Laura is a feminist trauma psychologist who lives in Seattle and has published extensively on topics related to trauma treatment, feminist practice, cultural competence, ethics, and LGBT concerns.

She is the founder and past director of the Fremont Community Therapy Project, a training clinic serving low-income individuals.

Though she retired from psychotherapy practice in December 2018, Laura continues to offer supervision and consultation as well as forensic psychology services.

Laura’s second popular press book is Not the Price of Admission: Healthy Relationships After Childhood Trauma.

Her first popular press book is: Your turn for care: Surviving the aging and death of the adults who harmed you.

Laura is also a late-in-life student of aikido and earned her black belt in November 2014, on the cusp of turning 64. She continues in its practice.

In This Episode

• Laura's website
• Laura’s consultation
• Irv & Miriam Polster, Gestalt therapists
• Laura’s email: laurabrownphd@gmail.com
• Jeff Dowdy on The Trauma Therapist | Podcast: Aikido, Conflict Resolution & Trauma

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This month, as part of my December/holiday series, I'll be reposting some amazing interviews. And by that I mean, amazing guests!!

I begin with Adena Bank Lees.

When it comes to really getting to the bottom of what this podcast stands for, there truly is no better representative than Adena.

Adena exudes authenticity, passion and vulnerability, and within the context of working with those who've been impacted by trauma, this is what it's all about.

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A giant thank-you to my sponsor for this episode,

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

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Adena Bank Lees is an internationally recognized authority on trauma related to childhood sexual abuse, in particular Covert Emotional Incest (CEI). Adena’s mission is to bring CEI out of the shadows and shine light on the process of identifying and healing from it.

In her book, Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse, Adena details the complex nature of CEI, its damaging consequences, and the path to restoration of health and well-being.

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Today I’m very excited to be joined by Jellis Vaes.

Jellis is the founder of Inner Picture Stories, an educational platform on life. The platform contains hundreds of resources, life lessons, quotes, practical articles, courses, and a regular podcast, The Inner Picture Stories Podcast. (I was proud to be his guest, and you can check out that interview here.)

First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing going!

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

How Jellis created his inspiring platform is an incredible story not just of overcoming or learning to work through hardship, but of using those challenges and experiences to help others.

The overriding aim of Inner Picture Stories is to provide lessons about life and this world we live in and to bring forward life education on topics we learn little to nothing about in school.

In This Episode

• Jellis' website
• Guy on the Inner Picture Stories podcast
• Jellis’ courses
• Jellis on Facebook
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
• Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
• The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety, M. Scott Peck

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Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-C is one of those clinicians you’re glad are out there helping people. She exudes a searing passion for her work, and that, together with her vast knowledge is the reason I invited her back. Plus, there was just so much left to talk about after her initial interview on the podcast I didn't have a choice!

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

Mara is a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis around pregnancy & parenting, and relationship-based and developmentally supportive care to babies and their families. She offers training in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) for perinatal mental health specialists, as well as Advanced practice workshops in EMDR for perinatal mental health.

Dr. Tesler-Stein is the co-author of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey (Fulcrum, 2004) and Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Journey Through the NICU (Fulcrum, 2013).

In addition to her certification as an EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDRIA Approved Trainer for the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, Dr. Stein is also certified in Emotion-Focused Family and Couple Therapy, is a Gottman Certified Therapist, and continues to pursue training in Clinical Hypnosis, Advanced applications of EMDR, Brainspotting, and Ego-State therapies.

She brings a wealth of clinical expertise and insight along with all she has learned interviewing families around the world for her two books to her EMDR Basic Trainings and advanced practice workshops. All of this is grounded in her personal perinatal journey, which began 25 years ago and took her through infertility, twin pregnancy, prolonged hospital bedrest, the NICU, and years of raising NICU graduates. Those children, identical twin girls born 10-weeks early who spent 10-weeks in the NICU, and a son who was almost full-term but not quite, are out of their teens and making their way in the wider world.

In This Episode

• Mara's website
• Mara’s consulting
• Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey, Mara Tesler Stein
• Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Journey Through the NICU, Mara Tesler Stein
• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby, Deborah L. Davis
• Unspeakable Losses: Healing From Miscarriage, Abortion, And Other Pregnancy Loss, Kim Kluger-Bell

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Today, in this next episode of The Author Series, it's all about CBT, with my guests Leslie Sokol, PhD and Marci G. Fox, PhD.

In this special series I work with publishers to interview today’s top authors in the mental health field and we explore, and do a deep dive into the books that will expand and inspire your work and practice.

And what better way to learn about the power of CBT than to hear from these two seasoned experts in the field talk about their new book, The Comprehensive Clinician’s Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2019).

First, a huge thank you to my sponsor for this series:

PESI

PESI is offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners 20% off Leslie and Marci's new book, The Comprehensive Clinician’s Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2019).

Go to www.pesi.com/cbtguide and use the discount code: TTP20.

Leslie Sokol, PhD, a licensed psychologist, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy with more than 35 years of experience in practice, teaching, and research. She is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and a past president. Dr. Sokol has coauthored numerous books and book chapters.

Marci G. Fox, PhD, a licensed psychologist, has been in private practice for over 25 years specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy and has coauthored numerous books. She has worked with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy for most of her career. As an Academy of Cognitive Therapy Founding Fellow and Certified Trainer/Consultant, she trains individuals in CBT both nationally and internationally.

In This Episode

• Marci & Leslie's Website
• Connect with Marci On Linkedin
• Connect with Leslie on Linkedin

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Today I’m very excited to have as my guest, Miles Adcox.

Miles is an entrepreneur, speaker, host, and coach. He’s leading the way not only in terms of delivering trauma care and treatment to groups and individuals, he’s also paving a clear path to provide a space for therapists and clinicians to do their own inner-work, something I talk a lot about on this podcast.

First, I'd like to take this time to introduce and thank an exciting new sponsor to the podcast, Skillshare.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of amazing classes covering dozens of creative and entrepreneurial skills, and they are offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners 2 months for free by going to Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY

We talk a lot on this podcast about knowledge, but also the importance of personal growth,

With Skillshare you can take classes in:

creativity

entrepreneurship

psychology

film

personal growth

productivity

personal branding

A few of the classes I’m going through right now are

Create Your Ideal Week

Create a Perfect Morning Routine

How to find your true Self

Marketing and personal branding classes

If you’d like to join me and the millions of other students already learning on Skillshare and also get 2 months for free, go to:

Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY

Miles is the Owner and CEO of Onsite, an internationally-known emotional wellness lifestyle brand that offers short and long term experiential therapy workshops designed to help individuals and couples experience a breakthrough and discover a better future.

Onsite partners with the world’s top therapists specializing in trauma, codependency, process addiction, stress, and burnout, family of origin, and shame resiliency to help people overcome dysfunctional patterns and establish healthy relationships.

Miles’ work at Onsite has been featured on 20/20, Good Morning America, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dr. Phil Show, and The Doctors. He has consulted major brands on organizational health and emotional wellness and is a communication, personal growth, and mental health consultant to the entertainment industry.

In This Episode

• Miles’ Website
• Connect With Miles
• Onsite
• Onsite Programs
• Onsite on Facebook

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/donations
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One of my main inspirations for beginning this podcast was to support and inspire new therapists who were interested in learning about trauma. It's also the reason I started my membership community, Trauma Therapist | 2.0.

From time to time I invite Trauma Therapist | 2.0 members onto the podcast to share their story, journey, struggles, and inspiration. Today it's about celebrating one such member, Kelly Rae.

First though, I'd like to thank the sponsors who help me keep this podcast afloat!

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

Kelly started studying for a Masters Degree of Counseling and Psychotherapy in 2008 after her 40th birthday. Following that , and then after leaving what she calls a tricky marriage, it seemed increasingly clear that maybe she was meant for a different path.

Hailing from Sydney, Kelly took her first counseling job at a remote Aboriginal community north of Alice Springs and stayed for three years. Upon returning she took a break and finished her degree.

In 2015 she began working for an Aboriginal organization called Link Up and accepted a position as their Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Childhood Sexual Abuse.

Currently, Kelly is working at Functional Family Therapy - Child Welfare, which she is Team Lead of four talented FFT-CW therapists.

In This Episode

• Contact Kelly: kellyerae@gamail.com
• Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown, Pema Chodron
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan

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Amy Oestreicher has returned!

As you may recall, Amy joined me back on episode 267 of Trauma Therapist | 2.0. She is an Audie award-nominated playwright, performer, and multidisciplinary creator. A singer, librettist, and visual mixed media artist, Amy dedicates her work to celebrating everyday miracles, untold stories, and the detours in life that can spark connection and transform communities.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at:

https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

Amy overcame a decade of trauma to become a sought-after PTSD specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, international keynote speaker, RAINN representative, and health advocate.

She has given three TEDx Talks on transforming trauma through creativity, and her story has appeared on NBC’s Today, CBS, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen Magazine, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and MSNBC, among others.

Amy’s book is out, My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful, and today we talk about the genesis of the book and dive into her journey.

You don’t want to miss this one!

In This Episode

• Amy's Website
• Amy’s new book: My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful
• Connect with Amy on Facebook
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk
• Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter A. Levine.
• The Overstory, Richard Powers

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

In 2014, while working at a clinic in Northern California, assessing and treating young individuals with early psychosis, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

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Today I'm very excited to have as my guest Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, RPT-S.

When you listen to this episode you'll hear Robyn's passion for supporting therapists in their journey to cultivate presence and authenticity, and all within the context of working with trauma. And yes, this topic gets me very excited!

Robyn has over 15 years of practice in family and play therapy, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: https://cptsdfoundation.org/traumatherapistpodcast/

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

Robyn’s diverse clinical training includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, Circle of Security Parent Educator, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training.

Robyn has integrated these training modalities with a foundation of attachment theory and the relational neurosciences to create an attachment-rich, sensory-sensitive, and relational neurosciences- supported healing environment for children and families.

Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US, including as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College, and with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program offered by Portland State University and Oregon’s Department of Human Services.

In This Episode

• Robyn's Website
• Contact Robyn
• Consultation for therapists
• The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), Bonnie Badenoch
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing, Bruce Perry, M.D., Maia, Szalavitz
• One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out, Torey Hayden

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Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is an author, a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation. He is the founder of the non-profit, Open-Hearted Awareness Institute, and has worked in community mental health, established homeless shelters and counseled family members of 9/11.

First, I want to take this time to introduce and thank an exciting new sponsor to the podcast, Skillshare.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of amazing classes covering dozens of creative and entrepreneurial skills, and they are offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners 2 months for free by going to Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY

We talk a lot on this podcast about knowledge, but also the importance of personal growth,

You can do that with Skillshare. They have classes in:

Lifestyle

productivity

marketing

creativity writing

freelance & entrepreneurship

A few of the classes I’m going through right now are

-Create Your Ideal Week

-Create a Perfect Morning Routine

-How to find your true Self

-Marketing and personal branding classes

If you’d like to join me and the millions of other students already learning on Skillshare and also get 2 months for free, go to:

Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY

Loch has studied in Sri Lanka, India and at Columbia University. Loch collaborates with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn, and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing.

Lock is the author of, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life, a book which, Dr. Richard Schwartz, Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) says, “brilliantly weaves together meditation, neuroscience and psychotherapy to truly support a compassionate awakening."

In This Episode

• Loch's website
• The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life, Loch Kelly
• Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
• Loch’s courses and workshops

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Dr. Damon Wood is back on the podcast.

Damon was my guest on episode 370 of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast in which we talked about safety within the prison setting.

Today, though, we’re talking about what it means to work within the prison setting. What’s involved, what’s it like working with this particular population? What are the specific challenges, and also, what are the upsides and the rewards of doing this type of challenging and demanding work?

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing moving along!

PESI

Re-activate the trauma impacted brain with the help of these simple but effective trauma treatment worksheets. Presented by PESI, these take-home hand-outs give your clients structured tools that leverage the latest neuroscience insight to help clients think, express themselves, and finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement. PESI is allowing you to instantly access these today, absolutely FREE!

Visit episode 370 to get your copy today.

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

Damon has held an interest in trauma focused therapies since his graduate education and has completed trainings in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and DBT.

Since 2009, Dr. Wood has worked for the state of California in forensic institutions including Napa State Hospital and four California state prisons where he has provided treatment to the severely mentally ill, the severely behaviorally challenged, and the severely traumatized.

In 2015 Dr. Wood was promoted to the mental health leadership team at Salinas Valley State Prison where he has led teams of clinicians to provide treatment in one of the state’s most violent maximum security prisons. In this role and setting, Dr. Wood has championed trauma informed organizational support for the clinical staff that work in such a stressful and difficult environment.

The Quote

Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

-Sir Richard Branson

In This Episode

• Damon website
• Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit by Knowing Them, by Bud Allen, Diana Bosta
• damonwoodphd@gmail.com

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This is what it’s about--passion, heart and helping others.

And today, my guest exudes all of those elements.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

PESI

Re-activate the trauma impacted brain with the help of these simple but effective trauma treatment worksheets. Presented by PESI, these take-home hand-outs give your clients structured tools that leverage the latest neuroscience insight to help clients think, express themselves, and finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement. PESI is allowing you to instantly access these today, absolutely FREE!

Visit www.pesi.com/traumaworksheets to get your copy today.

MIA, developed out of the work of our founder, Juditta Ben-David, SEP M.A, in refugee camps in Turkey, aims to build a website that will offer an eight-week Mindfulness course in Arabic, designed for refugees and people in transition. Any person with internet access may enter the website, free of charge, anywhere around the world. The course will provide practical tools and exercises tailored specifically to support a shaken population that suffered traumas of fear, death and extreme violence.

The website will also provide tools for therapists, social workers, welfare and volunteers who are currently working with refugee populations, so that they may use mindfulness-based tools for their own needs in coping with work stress and related DP camp difficult experiences, as well as passing them on to their clients.

In This Episode

• Juditta's website
• Contact Juditta
• MIA on Facebook
• Donate to The Mindfulness in Arabic project
• Elaine Miller-Karas
• Peter Levine

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Welcome back to The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, The Author Series.

In this new series, I join with the leading publishers in the mental health field and interview today’s top authors to explore, and do a deep dive, into the books that can expand and inspire your work and practice.

Today I’m joined by Timothy Gordon, MSW.

Tim is a social worker and peer-reviewed ACT trainer (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, said aloud as ‘act’), who specializes in treating attachment and trauma related disorders, and he’s also a yoga teacher who integrates movement and yoga practices into his treatment.

I've often said how much I love doing this podcast because I get to speak with amazing people, and Tim is one of the amazing ones. He's knowledgeable, compassionate and super-passionate about his work, and you can hear it in this interview.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsor:

PESI

Re-activate the trauma impacted brain with the help of these simple but effective trauma treatment worksheets. Presented by PESI, these take-home hand-outs give your clients structured tools that leverage the latest neuroscience insight to help clients think, express themselves, and finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement. PESI is allowing you to instantly access these today, absolutely FREE!

Visit www.pesi.com/traumaworksheets to get your copy today.

In this Author Series interview Tim and I discuss his new book The ACT Approach, which won the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Gold Seal for Psychology, as well as The Coping Skills Deck for Trauma, a collection of brief practices to encourage self-care, acceptance, and positive affirmations in the face of recovering from trauma.

The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners can receive %20 off!

I want to thank PESI and Timothy Gordon for joining us today. Don’t miss out on PESI’s special offer just for Trauma Therapist Project podcast listeners.

Today you can purchase Timothy Gordon’s Coping Skills for Trauma Card Deck for 20 percent off with promo code TTP20! Featuring 54 practices to overcome trauma-related stressors, deal with shame and guilt, and increase resiliency, this card deck is a must-have forclinicians.

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In This Episode

• Tim's website
• Tim’s books & courses

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Today on the podcast, I am excited to have Courtney Armstrong, MEd. LPC!

Courtney is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery.

First, a huge thank you to my sponsors:

CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD Foundation provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

Courtney Armstrong, MEd. LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery. With a career spanning more than two decades, she is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy and developed her Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy (TM) approach after studying with numerous trauma experts and helping thousands of clients overcome trauma and grief.

Courtney is the author of, most recently, Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience, as well as, The Therapeutic “Aha!” (2015) and Transforming Traumatic Grief (2011).

In her 20 years of practice, she has helped thousands of clients recover from trauma, and experience deep personal transformation.

Courtney also offers training to mental health professionals, showing them how to use creativity, care, and humor to elicit transformation for their clients and make trauma recovery less painful. She is a regular contributor to magazines like the Psychotherapy Networker and The Neuropsychotherapist and has appeared on CBS Radio News, NPR affiliates, and networks in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Courtney also was my guest on episode 107 of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast.

In This Episode

• Courtney's website
• Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience, Courtney Armstrong
• Courtney’s Trainings & Events

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Today I’m very excited to have as my guest, E. C. Hurley, Ph.D., a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army,

E. C. is an approved trainer for the EMDR Recent-Traumatic Events and Group-Traumatic events protocol used with enlisted personnel in the U.S. Army in 1966.

First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsor, PESI.

Re-activate the trauma impacted brain with the help of these simple but effective trauma treatment worksheets. These take-home handouts give your clients structured tools that leverage the latest neuroscience insight to help your clients think, express themselves, and finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement.

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On retirement from the military E. C. founded SoldierCenter, a community-based treatment center, near Ft Campbell, KY, which specializes in treating military personnel, veterans and their families with a broad range of military-related stressors ranging from acute stress to PTSD.

Following 9-11, as Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom were evolving, E. C. was treating an average of 8 soldiers a day, infantry from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), a Special Forces Group at Ft Campbell and members of the (Blackhawk down) special operations aviation regiment dealing with combat related issues. At first it was mostly single incident combat trauma, then later complex PTSD as multiple deployments continued.

Looking for an effective treatment for military-related trauma, E. C. was trained in EMDR therapy which became a core treatment for clients seeking treatment at his center, Soldier Center.

E. C. ‘s military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (two Oak Leaf clusters), the Bronze Star Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the U.S. Army’s Air Assault badge.

In This Episode

• E.C.s website
• E.C.’s EMDR Trainings
• E.C.’s EMDR Intensive 10-Day Training
• EMDR Mentorships
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD
• Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy, Francine Shapiro

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Dr. Daniel Roberts who holds a doctorate of management in organizational leadership is an author and consultant who conducts world-class, women-centered education, research, and advocacy in spiritual leadership and spiritual support.

Daniel has over 15 years of experience in providing emotional and spiritual support to men and women in the armed forces. He also provides training and mentorship to thousands of military chaplains through conferences, classroom instruction, and one-on-one coaching. His students include chaplains from the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Daniel also helped the CAF develop military doctrine for the deployment of chaplains as religious advisers.

Dr. Roberts created the Comprehensive Female Soldier Support Model, a framework of spiritual care for women service members. His current research includes women-centered theory development on spiritual leadership and moral injury. Daniel is also an expert on world religions.

Dr. Roberts’ recent publications include Combating Religiously Influenced Racism in Organizations (SAGE Business Cases), Modifying the Qualitative Delphi Technique to Develop the Female Soldier Support Model (The Qualitative Report), Women and Leadership: Using the Delphi Technique to Effect Organizational Change (SAGE Business Cases), and The Comprehensive Female Soldier Support Model: A Delphi Study (Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy).

Dr. Roberts holds a doctorate of management in organizational leadership from the University of Phoenix, a M.S. in information systems from Strayer University, and a B.A. in management and ethics from John Wesley College.

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Donald Altman. Reflect. Awaken To The Wisdom Of The Here And Now.

Welcome to The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, The Author Series.

In this series I interview today’s top authors in the mental health field and we explore, and do a deep dive into the books that can expand and inspire your work and practice.

Today my guest is Donald Altman.

Donald is a psychotherapist, an award-winning author, and a former Buddhist monk. He was featured in The Mindfulness Movie and profiled in The Living Spiritual Teachers Project, and he has written over 15 books that teach how to incorporate mindfulness into daily life.

First though, a giant thank-you the sponsor of this episode, PESI.

PESI is offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners %20 off!

Today you can purchase Donald Altman’s Reflect, Awaken to Wisdom of the Here and Now workbook for 20 percent off today with promo code TTP20!

Visit www.pesi.com/altman, and use promo TTP20 code to save today.

Donald's award-winning books include: The Mindfulness Toolbox—winner of two Gold IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, as the best book in the “Psychology” and “Body-Mind-Spirit” categories; Clearing Emotional Clutter—named “One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2016,” and The Mindfulness Code—named “One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2010.”

Donald has served the community for many years, as past vice-president of The Center for Mindful Eating, and as an adjunct professor in the Interpersonal Neurobiology program at Portland State University. As a national speaker for PESI, Donald has trained thousands of mental health professionals on changing the brain through mindfulness practices.

In This Episode

• Donald's website
• Donald’s books & courses

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When I think of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast and what it stands for, which is (I hope!) authenticity, presence, advocacy and trauma healing, there are a handful of past guests who come to mind.

My guest today, Marshall Lyles, is one of those guests!

Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, who joined me first on episode 152 of the podcast, is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and has over 15 years of practice in family and play therapy.

First, though, I’d like to take this time to introduce and thank an exciting new sponsor to the podcast, Skillshare.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of amazing classes covering dozens of creative and entrepreneurial skills, and they are offering The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners 2 months for free by going to Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY

We talk a lot on this podcast about knowledge, but also the importance of personal growth,

With Skillshare you can take classes in:

Creativity; entrepreneurship, psychology; film; personal growth, productivity and more.

A few of the classes I’m going through right now are Create Your Ideal Week; Create a Perfect Morning Routine; How to find your true Self, and Marketing and personal branding classes.

If you’d like to join me and the millions of other students already learning on Skillshare and also get 2 months for free, go to:

Skillshare.com/TRAUMAGUY.

Marshall has extensive speaking and training experience and has worked in a variety of mental health settings. Most of Marshall’s clinical practice has focused on attachment trauma and its effect on family relationships. Marshall conducts supervision and consultation sessions with counseling professionals and leads training in both parenting and professional settings; much of his consultation and training focuses on the use of sandtray therapy within a trauma-informed context.

Marshall sees clients at Nurture Family Counseling in Cedar Park, Texas.

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Shelby has 15 years professional experience supporting folks with trauma and a lifetime of healing the Complex PTSD that she carries, both ignited by a fascination for what truly grows embodied resilience, connection, and thriving.

First off, a huge thank you to my sponsor: PESI

Re-activate the trauma impacted brain with the help of these simple but effective trauma treatment worksheets. Presented by PESI, these take-home hand-outs give your clients structured tools that leverage the latest neuroscience insight to help clients think, express themselves, and finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement. PESI is allowing you to instantly access these today, absolutely FREE!

Visit PESI worksheets to get your copy today.

In her years as a licensed somatic psychotherapist, a certified coach, meditation teacher, and gentle breathwork facilitator, Shelby has become deeply interested in identifying how to create spaces that are truly welcoming, inclusive, and aware so that people who have experienced trauma feel safe enough to be able to receive the support they seek.

This work has culminated in her online course “Creating Safer Space” which offers accessible, professionally transformative trauma awareness to any facilitators (meditation teachers, yoga teachers, coaches, therapists, leadership trainers, dance teachers, healers, shamans, wellness providers, and beyond) so that they feel unshakable and integrated in offering their gifts and services to the people who need them the most.

Shelby is in awe of the capability of her students when supported with kind awareness, who have ranged from teens on mindfulness retreats through Inward Bound Mindfulness Education to hundreds of adult students in their certification process as Sex, Love & Relationship coaches studying tantra and becoming mindful of their powerful impact within the therapeutic relationship through trauma awareness.

From her current home in Bend OR, Shelby enjoys the creative balance between growing her own resilience through a lot of time near a river in the sunshine, teaching trauma awareness workshops, offering retreats, facilitating consultation groups, and seeing individual clients in person and online worldwide.

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Today I’m very excited to have Jondi Whitis on the podcast.

Jondi is a NYC-based Trainer and Practitioner and holds certifications from the largest Energy Psychology associations.

Jondi is passionate about helping veterans, and in this episode, another in our Military Series, Jondi talks about her work healing veterans.

First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsor, CPTSDfoundation.org

CPTSDfoundation.org provides live, daily, peer-led, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

Jondi, a former Lead Trainer for the Newtown Community Trauma Relief Project, sits on the Training Board of the original non-profit global Tapping association, EFT International. She continues to create and foster community for Tapping professionals and fans who share her passion for healing in the world through this and her many trainings and annual USA event, The Spring Energy Event.

Using a variety of techniques from the field of energy psychology, Jondi calls herself a ‘People’s Teacher,’ reflecting her love for what is simple, real and useful. Among her favorite tools are those in the EFT family, Emotional Freedom Techniques, which she uses in conjunction with other adaptations that combine Mindfulness with Meridian-based energy point stimulation. Jondi has a simple motto, which is, I help people feel better fast.

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Today, another episode in our Military Series. I’m very excited to be joined by Mary Cortani.

Mary is a Vietnam-era veteran and a Certified Army Master of Canine Education. She’s been training dogs for more than 35 years, starting in the military where she prepared dogs for work in sentry and explosive detection.

First off, a giant thank-you to my sponsors:

Brighter Vision Web Solutions

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Brighter Vision’s team of website designers will create you a website that is centered around attracting and retaining your ideal client, so that you can have a nice looking website as well as a successful one.

Brighter Vision is offering one month free for The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners. Go to: brightervision.com/guy

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Trauma may be a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence.

Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story. For more information please visit: https://traumahealing.org/kser

In 2010, a former Marine approached Mary seeking assistance in acquiring a service dog to help him overcome anxiety disorders caused by combat hyper-vigilance. The multi-year waiting lists for trained dogs from existing organizations were just one more source of frustration for that returning vet.

Mary knew that she could leverage her extensive dog-training experience to train that vet to train his own service dog. She also realized there are thousands of dogs waiting for loving homes and that many of them have the right temperament for service work. Those factors combined to form a strategy that would dramatically reduce the waiting time.

The approach turned out to do so much more: It gave the vet a sense of mission and purpose, and as the training proceeded, it provided a sense of accomplishment and renewed confidence as well. Thus was born the Operation Freedom Paws (OFP) program, and for Mary, the alignment of her skillset, her capacity as a gifted leader and her life purpose.

In This Episode

• Mary's website
• Mary’s CNN Heroes Video
• Mary’s training services
• Support Operation Freedom Paws here

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One of the things that continually inspires about doing this podcast is not only the people I get to speak with, but the specializations they’re in and the work they’re doing.

Enter, Mara Tesler Stein​, my guest today.

Mara is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis around pregnancy and parenting and perinatal trauma.

First off, a giant thank-you to my sponsors for this episode:

Praxis CET

Praxis aspires to set a new standard in continuing education for mental health professionals. Based on the philosophy that mental health is a key feature of human well-being, Praxis trains clinicians in using proven-effective tools for helping their clients heal by mixing groundbreaking theory with hands-on, experiential learning models.

Praxis provides innovative live and online trainings conducted by leading experts in behavioral therapies including acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, and more.

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Brighter Vision Web Solutions

First off, a huge thank-you to my sponsor for this episode, Brighter Vision Web Solutions

What’s the point of having a beautiful website if it doesn’t attract the clients you want to see?

Brighter Vision’s team of website designers will create you a website that is centered around attracting and retaining your ideal client, so that you can have a nice looking website as well as a successful one.

Brighter Vision is offering one month free for The Trauma Therapist | Podcast listeners.

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Mara consults to health care practitioners and hospitals, guiding their efforts to provide relationship-centered, developmentally supportive care to families experiencing perinatal crisis. She is the co-author of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey (Fulcrum, 2004) and Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Journey Through the NICU (Fulcrum, 2013).

Dr. Stein is a staunch advocate for trauma-informed care and is trained and certified in a range of integrative trauma therapies. She is a certified EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and a Trainer for the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, where she is on faculty. In response to the requests of her maternal mental health colleagues, she now offers EMDR training (both Basic Training and Advanced practice) for therapists who treat families facing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and reproductive trauma. Her trauma work is grounded in her personal perinatal journey, which began 25 years ago and taking her through infertility, twin pregnancy, prolonged hospital bedrest, the NICU, and years of raising NICU graduates.

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Today, I’m peeling back the curtain on my membership community, Trauma Therapist | 2.0, and letting you listen in on a 2.0 Master Class, which is something I haven’t done before.

This Master Class is with Cynthia Price, a body therapy researcher. Cynthia studied massage therapy in 1981 and was in private practice for 20 years as a body psychotherapist before pursuing her doctorate to do research in the field. Now an Associate Research Professor at the University of Washington, her research is focused on the study of Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT), a body therapy approach developed to teach interoceptive awareness skills for self-care and to facilitate emotion regulation. This work, while helpful for people from all walks of life, is particularly useful for individuals who are disconnected from their bodies due to trauma, depression, chemical dependency, chronic pain, stress or illness.

The Director of the Center for Mindful Body Awareness http://www.cmbaware.org/ in Seattle, Cynthia is committed to increasing health care access to underserved populations, and works with local and international programs to provide and improve integrative care through her research, teaching, and service.

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Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and internationally-recognized expert on anxiety and trauma, and the neuroscience of mental health.

Trauma Treatment Toolbox: 165 Brain-Changing Tips, Tools & Handouts to Move Therapy Forward

Jennifer completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master's degree in affective neuroscience from Stanford University.

Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is a sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained more than 10,000 mental health professionals in her workshops.

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In This Episode

• Jennifer's website
• Trauma Treatment Toolbox: 165 Brain-Changing Tips, Tools & Handouts to Move Therapy Forward, Jennifer Sweeton, PhD
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• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, MD
• Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalom

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Dr. Dan Allender has pioneered a unique and innovative approach to trauma and abuse therapy over the past 30 years.

Central to Dr. Allender’s theory and approach are the categories of Faith, Hope and Love, and their converses betrayal, ambivalence, and powerlessness.

Through identifying and engaging these categories in one’s personal narrative, healing and transformation can occur by bridging the story of the gospel and the stories of trauma and abuse that mark so many.

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In 1997, Dan and a cadre of others founded The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, in order to train therapists, pastors, artists, and leaders to more effectively serve in the context of the 21st century.

Dan is the author of The Wounded Heart, The Healing Path, To Be Told, and God Loves Sex,

After receiving his Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary, Dr. Allender earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University. Dan taught in the Biblical Counseling department of Grace Theological Seminary for seven years (1983-1989). From 1989-1997, Dan worked as a professor in the Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling program at Colorado Christian University in Denver.

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Dr. Susanne Babbel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the author of the self-help book Heal the Body. Heal the Mind. A Somatic Approach to Moving Beyond Trauma and has been a contributing author on trauma for nearly a decade to the Psychology Today Online Blog.

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Praxis aspires to set a new standard in continuing education for mental health professionals. Based on the philosophy that mental health is a key feature of human well-being, Praxis trains clinicians in using proven-effective tools for helping their clients heal by mixing groundbreaking theory with hands-on, experiential learning models.

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Dr. Babbel practices with a trauma specialty in her private practice in San Francisco, CA., has been quoted by magazines and newspapers such as USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Verily, Refinery29, New York Times Motherlode Blog, and more.

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What am I doing? What’s my purpose? And how do I know I’m on the right track?

Today I take you behind the scenes a bit and share a bit about my own journey here at the The Trauma Therapist | Podcast.

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Go to: brightervision.com/guyThe 380+ interviews continually bring me back to the theme of authenticity and vulnerability, and not just within the context of working with those who’ve been impacted by trauma, but within myself.

So, how do I continually develop these aspects of myself, and where are the challenges?

These are also the themes that I’m going to be exploring in my workshop at The Art of Living Retreat Center, September 20-23, in Boone, North Carolina.

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Dr. Laurel Parnell is a clinical psychologist and director of the Parnell Institute for EMDR. One of the world’s leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she is the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping.

Laurel is the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Rewiring the Addicted Brain, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR and Tapping In.

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There are few things that inspire me more than the ability to cut to the core of an issue within the context of helping those who’ve been impacted by trauma. Meet my guest, Adam Young. Adam wastes no time in this interview cutting sharing his story and the passion which fuels the work he does with both couples and individuals.

Adam is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the states of Colorado and Georgia and holds Master degrees in Social Work (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Divinity (Emory University). He’s completed extensive training with The Allender Center, including the Certificate Program and Externship Program, and is also the host of The Place We Find Ourselves podcast.

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I’m very excited to have Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP, as my guest today.

Kate is all about experiential therapy, and specifically psychodrama. Experiential therapy, as you’ll learn in this interview, involves a certain immediacy from the people involved. It demands courage from both the client and therapist, and it has an incredible power to heal.

Kate is an inspirational leader and a stellar trainer known worldwide for her innovative model of safe and effective trauma treatment.

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Recognized as an international expert and author on trauma, Kate brings rigorous clinical training in psychology, psychodrama, and experiential psychotherapy as well as cross-cultural and indigenous learning and her own life experience.

Along with Francesca Toscani, M.Ed., TEP, Dr. Kate has developed, refined, and taught the Therapeutic Spiral Model, the healing method for survivors of trauma, in 35 countries and counting. She has been an experiential psychotherapist and trainer for more than 40 years, bringing spontaneity, creativity and healing to people who have experienced trauma in many settings.

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For over 20 years, Carla Van Walsum has been internationally recognized in the areas of relationships, inherited family trauma, mindful parenting and emotional healing.

Carla was trained in the Netherlands in Clinical Psychology, Holistic Therapies, and Energy Psychology, and owns HeartBased Solutions, a holistic practice for individuals, parents, and families.

She has helped many clients create quantum progress through her unique combination of psychological, spiritual, and metaphysical approaches.

Thank you to my sponsor CPTSD Foundation for sponsoring this podcast and the inspiring work they're doing to support those who've been impacted by trauma.

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A master in helping relationships heal, in improving family relationships, in clearing limiting beliefs, non-violent communication, and in discovering the blockages related to inherited family trauma/epigenetics, Carla teaches others how to develop the life they desire. Her work and programs are focused on healing and creating a fulfilling, creative and successful life and career.

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Today on the podcast, I'm very excited to have Sarah Peyton back.

Sarah's joined me previously in episode 260, and she's been a contributor to the Master Class series in my membership community, Trauma Therapist | 2.0.

This interview is a first with The Trauma Therapist | Podcast.

In this interview, (the first of 3 in a series), Sarah leads us in an introduction to the 8 neurological circuits (eg, happiness, disgust, and seeking, to name just a few) that were initially introduced by the late Estonian neuroscientist, Jaak Panksepp.

Sarah talks about how these different circuits are impacted and influenced by trauma, what's involved with treating them, and how clinicians can learn to identify whether or not they've been impacted.

Today, in episode #1, we talk about rage.

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Sarah is Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Her special interest is the way that difficult events impact our automatic brain patterning, and how to transform our tendencies toward self-criticism into self-warmth. Her first book,“Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing,” is out from Norton Publishing.

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Today, I'm very excited to have back on the podcast, Adena Bank Lees.

Adena is an internationally recognized authority on trauma related to childhood sexual abuse, in particular Covert Emotional Incest (CEI) and her mission is to bring CEI out of the shadows and shine light on the process of identifying and healing from it.

In her book, Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse,

Adena details the complex nature of CEI, its damaging consequences, and the path to restoration of health and well-being.

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In This Episode

• Adena's website
• Adena on episode #223 The Trauma Therapist | Podcast
• Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse: A Story of Hope and Healing, Adena Bank Lees LCSW
• Adena’s Consulting
• Psychodrama
• Richard Schwartz
• Healing World Trauma with the Therapeutic Spiral Model: Psychodramatic Stories from the Frontlines, Kate Hudgins, Francesca Toscani

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I’m continually amazed at the incredible people I interview on this podcast. The people who dedicate their lives to helping those people who’ve been impacted by trauma are nothing short of incredible and inspiring.

In this episode, I share one of the main themes that quickly showed up on this podcast when I first started it, and now, comes up almost every week--the importance (and the often overlooked quality) of authenticity.

First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing going!

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Authenticity is also that element I’m continually trying to infuse into my membership community, Trauma Therapist | 2.0. Today, I talk a bit about what makes up this community and how I invite my guests to talk about the ways in which they bring their presence and authenticity to the work they do, and why that is so crucial and important for this work.

Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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I'm honored to have Edward Tick​ back on the podcast.

Ed is an internationally recognized transformational healer, psychotherapist, writer and educator. He has worked internationally on the psychospiritual and cross-cultural healing of military and war trauma and on holistic and psycho-spiritual healing.

A giant thank-you to my sponsor for this episode, Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)​

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He was the co-founder and Executive Director of Soldier’s Heart, which after 13 years, has just closed its door.

He was the U.S. Army’s 2012 trainer in the holistic healing of PTSD, training over 2,500 chaplains and officers, and is the author of six books including the groundbreaking War and the Soul, as well as, Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War.

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Today on the podcast​, ​Everett Painter, PhD and the role of tattoos and trauma survivors.

Everett's research agenda includes a focus on trauma and professional identity development, and currently, his research involves investigating the role tattoos play for survivors of trauma.​

Clinically, he values an integrative approach informed by humanistic, Adlerian, Jungian, constructivist, and ecological perspectives.

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​Everett is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Counseling at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He holds a B.S. in Psychology, an M.S. in Counseling and Human Development from Radford University and a Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Tennessee.

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There are some people who are on a mission of healing, and you can hear it when they talk. And I love speaking with those individuals.

Bryanna Dee is one of those people.

Bryanna is a transformational coach, speaker, and podcast host who is committed to personal activism—campaigning for transformation of society through the transformation of individuals—in both personal and professional settings.

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For years Bryanna was living what felt like a double life.

By day, she was chasing her passion of mental health advocacy through the pursuit of a law degree, while working in nonprofit organizations, mental institutions, prisons, and court rooms; places where shadow and hardship were highlighted and often inflated.

By night, Bryanna was obsessively seeking to expand her own personal healing through studying spiritual teachings and new age personal development; places where shadow and hardship were diminished and deemed as negative (sometimes outright, sometimes by implication).

Bryanna realized that there was a huge gap between the mental health industry and the wellness industry and became frustrated with the limitations of each.

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Today on the podcast, Adam O'Brien.

Adam is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor in New York State.

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Adam is located in Chatham (Albany/Hudson area) where he maintains a private practice. He is certified in EMDR, Brainspotting, and trauma-informed expressive arts and has experience working with addictions, domestic violence, victims of crime, first responders, veterans, children, adolescents, and adults.

Adam is an EMDRIA approved consultant, and provides EMDR consultation through the Institute for Creative Mindfulness with Dr. Jamie Marich.

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Joshua Sylvae has been involved in Somatic Experiencing® since 2004. His study of nervous system regulation has incorporated inquiry into many disparate fields including ecology, philosophy, and neurobiology. Joshua holds an MA in clinical psychology (with an emphasis in somatic psychology), a PhD in Higher Learning and Social Change, and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. His clinical practice is grounded in SE™, and he also integrates psychodynamic perspectives, mindfulness approaches, a systemic orientation, and a good deal of humor in his work.

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A big thank-you to my sponsor for this episode, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.

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Joshua’s background includes participation in social change efforts, movements for social equality and ecological sustainability, and he maintains a passion for encouraging and assisting communities working toward the creation of a just and healthful society.

Joshua envisions Somatic Experiencing becoming an integral part of healing and transforming our world, and feels greatly inspired when helping professionals integrate these simple principles for treating and transforming trauma and distress.

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Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. is here to talk about his new book, Trauma & The Struggle to Open Up. Dr. Muller trained at Harvard, was on faculty at the University of Massachusetts, and is currently at York University in Toronto.

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Dr. Muller is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD) for his work on trauma treatment. His new book is Trauma & The Struggle to Open Up, and his therapy bestseller, Trauma & the Avoidant Client, has been translated widely, and won the 2011 ISSTD award for the year's best written work on trauma.

As lead investigator on several multi-site programs to treat interpersonal trauma, Dr. Muller has lectured internationally (Australia, UK, Europe, USA), and has been keynote speaker at mental health conferences in New Zealand and Canada. His online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report," is visited by over 100,000 readers a year.

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I talk a lot on this podcast about safety and creating safety for both the therapist and the client. But what about organizations? How does one go about creating safety for groups and organizations? And more specifically, how does one go about creating safety for the clinicians working within the state correctional facilities?

Today my guest is Dr. Damon Wood. Damon has held an interest in trauma focused therapies since his graduate education and has completed trainings in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and DBT.

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Since 2009, Dr. Wood has worked for the state of California in forensic institutions including Napa State Hospital and four California state prisons where he has provided treatment to the severely mentally ill, the severely behaviorally challenged, and the severely traumatized.

In 2015 Dr. Wood was promoted to the mental health leadership team at Salinas Valley State Prison where he has led teams of clinicians to provide treatment in one of the state’s most violent maximum security prisons. In this role and setting, Dr. Wood has championed trauma-informed organizational support for the clinical staff that work in such a stressful and difficult environment.

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Beck Gee-Cohen is back!

Beck joined me previously on episode 74 of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast.

I truly love having Beck on the podcast because he brings a powerful authenticity to the way he incorporates his own story and struggles and strengths into the work he does. And that inspires me!

First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing going!

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This episode is also sponsored by Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

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The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

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Today Beck continues to train clinicians and facility staff on LGBTQ+ issues, helps facilities establish LGBTQ+ inclusive policies, and provides program development for facilities that want to expand their services to LGBTQ+ populations.

Beck helps institutions through his company, BGC Consulting and also works with LGBTQ identified young people and their families to help navigate educational institutions and treatment settings as an associate consultant at The Romeyn Collective.

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As many of you know, one of my inspirations for starting this podcast was my brother, a former Navy SEAL who returned from combat with PTSD.

I've created an entire Military Podcast Series which consists of interviews of the incredible therapists who’ve dedicated their lives to helping veterans heal.

Duane France is one of those individuals.

First though, a huge thank-you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing going!

CPTSD Foundation provides peer-led, daily, interactive group calls, in a safe atmosphere for survivors of complex trauma, equipping them with skills and information they can use every single day in their healing journey.

Receive 50% off the first month when you join at: http://bit.ly/2MEbBqc

This episode is also sponsored by Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Check out Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI) right here:https://traumahealing.org/kser

And thank-you to PESI

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Check out Jennifer Sweeton's new book, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, through PESI and save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10.

Go to https://www.pesi.com/toolbox.

Duane France is a retired United States Army Noncommissioned Officer. After 22 years of service, which included tours of duty with the 82nd Airborne Division, service as an Army Recruiter at Fort Meade, Maryland, and five combat and operational deployments, he became a clinical mental health counselor serving veterans in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

As Duane started to work with veterans, he realized that there are some common challenges that all veterans face and that there are many individuals who want to support veterans that do not fully understand what these challenges are.

Duane started the Head Space and Timing Blog and Podcast to help amplify this message and support those who have served.

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Today, a somewhat controversial, and yet very relevant topic with Jane Latimer: Psychedelics and the treatment of trauma.

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This episode is also sponsored by Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

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And thank-you to PESI

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Check out Jennifer Sweeton's new book, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, through PESI and save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10. Go to https://www.pesi.com/toolbox.has more than 30 years of experience working with trauma, eating disorder and addiction recovery, as well as nature and expressive arts healing.

Jane Latimer is the author of two books on eating disorder recovery, and the founder of the first spiritually-informed online recovery program, Bodyway.

Through the years working with clients suffering with CPTSD and related addictions, Jane has discovered the power of psychedelics for getting to places that are otherwise impossible to access.

As she witnesses the power of psychedelics to help individuals heal from crippling CPTSD, she has become an advocate and activist on behalf of psychedelic psychotherapy.

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Carl Waggett is back on the podcast and this guy is amazing.

I don’t say that lightly.

There are some people who are able to articulate concepts and feelings in a kind of perfect, let’s-get-to-the-heart-of-the-matter way, for a particular group of people, and Carl is that person for the first responder tribe.

First off, a huge thank-you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing going!

CPTSD Foundation​ has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Daily Recovery Support? Yes!

Free Support Groups? Yes!

The Healing Book Club? Yes!

This episode is also sponsored by Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

Check out Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI) right here: https://traumahealing.org/kser

And thank-you to PESI.

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Check out Jennifer Sweeton's new book, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, through PESI and save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10. Go to https://www.pesi.com/toolbox.

Carl Wagget's been a full-time firefighter for the past 14 years, and Acting Captain for 4 of them. After a fellow firefighter and close friend of Carl’s ended his own life, Carl removed himself from the front line trucks only to be diagnosed with PTSD a short time afterward. Carl says he’s learning that there are many sides to this very intelligent disorder, and would simply like to share his experiences in the hope that others understand that PTSD is more of a winnable battle than you think.

Carl started his podcast, PTSD Bunker Gear For Your Brain, after his experiences with PTSD and to help other first responders.

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This is why I love doing this podcast!

I get to speak with incredibly inspiring individuals like Brad Kammer.

Brad is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in California.

He has trained under and taught with Dr. Peter Levine, the creator of Somatic Experiencing, is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), training assistant and consultant for the SEP Training Program; as well as a presenter on Somatic Experiencing.

A huge thank-you to my sponsors who help me keep this thing going!

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Daily Recovery Support? Yes!

Free Support Groups? Yes!

The Healing Book Club? Yes!

A Weekly Newsletter? Definitely!

Learn more about the CPTSD Foundation

This episode is also sponsored by Somatic Experiencing.

Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological method of addressing clients’ physical and emotional trauma conditions, and helps to give voice to their experiences without a need for them to retell the story.

For more information regarding Somatic Experiencing and the SE professional training program, please visit www.traumahealing.org.

In 2006, Brad had the opportunity to serve on a Trauma Outreach Program to Louisiana to treat survivors and train health care providers in Trauma First Aide, to assist them in dealing with the aftermath from Hurricane Katrina.

In 2012, Brad had the great opportunity to help introduce Somatic Experiencing to mainland China and has also spent a year working internationally with Burmese refugees in Asia.

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Laura on episode #61 of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast.

Laura Brown is a feminist trauma psychologist who lives in Seattle and has published extensively on topics related to trauma treatment, feminist practice, cultural competence, ethics, and LGBT concerns.

First off, a huge thank-you to my sponsors this week:

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Now newly released workbook authored by Jennifer Sweeton, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, teaches clinicians how to take that brain-based approach to trauma therapy, showing how to effectively heal clients’ brains with straightforward, easy-to-implement treatment techniques.

You can get yours now through PESI and with this exclusive offer to save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10. Go to www.pesi.com/toolbox.

This episode is also sponsored by CPTSD Foundation.

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Daily Recovery Support? Yes!

Free Support Groups? Yes!

The Healing Book Club? Yes!

A Weekly Newsletter? Definitely!

Learn more about the CPTSD Foundation here: CPTSD Foundation.

Laura is the founder and past director of the Fremont Community Therapy Project, a training clinic serving low-income individuals.

Though she retired from psychotherapy practice in December, 2018, Laura continues to offer supervision and consultation as well as forensic psychology services.

Laura’s second popular press book is Not the Price of Admission: Healthy Relationships After Childhood Trauma.

Her first popular press book is: Your turn for care: Surviving the aging and death of the adults who harmed you.

Laura is also a late-in-life student of aikido and earned her black belt in November, 2014, on the cusp of turning 64. She continues in its practice.

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Today on the podcast, Bree Bonchay.

Bree is a licensed psychotherapist, with two decades of experience working in the field of mental health and trauma recovery.

First off, a huge thank-you to my sponsors this week:

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Now newly released workbook authored by Jennifer Sweeton, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, teaches clinicians how to take that brain-based approach to trauma therapy, showing how to effectively heal clients’ brains with straightforward, easy-to-implement treatment techniques.

You can get yours now through PESI and with this exclusive offer to save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10. Go to www.pesi.com/toolbox.

This episode is also sponsored by CPTSD Foundation.

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Daily Recovery Support? Yes!

Free Support Groups? Yes!

The Healing Book Club? Yes!

A Weekly Newsletter? Definitely!

Learn more about the CPTSD Foundation here.

Bree Bonchay specializes in helping people recover from toxic relationships, and she shares her insights about narcissistic personality disorder and psychopathy in her blog FreeFromToxic.

Bree’s articles have been featured in major online magazines and have appeared on radio as a guest expert. I am also a dedicated advocate. In 2016, I founded World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day, (WNAAD), which is celebrated every 1st of June.

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Today on the podcast, Michael Salter.

Michael is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Western Sydney University, Australia and specializes in the study of organized sexual abuse.

First off, a giant thank-you to my sponsors this week:

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Now newly released workbook authored by Jennifer Sweeton, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, teaches clinicians how to take that brain-based approach to trauma therapy, showing how to effectively heal clients’ brains with straightforward, easy-to-implement treatment techniques.

You can get yours now through PESI and with this exclusive offer to save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10. Go to www.pesi.com/toolbox.

This episode is also sponsored by CPTSD Foundation.

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Daily Recovery Support? Yes!

Free Support Groups? Yes!

The Healing Book Club? Yes!

A Weekly Newsletter? Definitely!

Learn more about the CPTSD Foundation here.

In addition to his work on complex trauma, Michael Salter has researched and published widely on violence against women and children.

Michael sits on the Scientific Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of theInternational Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociationand is an associate editor of Child Abuse Review, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.

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My new 5-day, live, online workshop, begins next Monday, May 20th!

Early Psychosis: Understanding & Assessing The Signs And Symptoms. An online workshop experience for therapists, coaches, mentors and teachers.

What You'll Learn:

• How to distinguish between the signs of early psychosis and psychosis and schizophrenia.
• Risk factors for psychosis and early psychosis.
• How to determine whether someone is experiencing symptoms of early psychosis, (or psychosis, or schizophrenia)
• How to talk to and assess young clients (young kids and adults ages 12-24) to learn about their symptoms.
• How to talk to young clients about their symptoms of early psychosis without stigmatizing them.
• What to do if a client is experiencing these symptoms.
• And much more.

Course Details:

• When : Monday, May 20th through Friday, May 24th
• How : The course will take place over Zoom video
• Time : All videos will be live and begin at 11 am PST ( time zone converter )
• Cost : $147
• Learn more here: The Early Psychosis Workshop.

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Maddie Caballo is a sought after International Speaker, Educator, Coach, and Equine Facilitator who shares her experience of extreme abuse to enlighten, educate, and encourage others.

First off, a giant thank-you to my sponsors this week:

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

The latest research from neuroscience and psychotherapy has shown we can rewire the brain to facilitate trauma recovery.

Now newly released workbook authored by Jennifer Sweeton, The Trauma Treatment Toolbox, teaches clinicians how to take that brain-based approach to trauma therapy, showing how to effectively heal clients’ brains with straightforward, easy-to-implement treatment techniques.

You can get yours now through PESI and with this exclusive offer to save $10 plus free shipping with code JS10. Go to www.pesi.com/toolbox.

This episode is also sponsored by CPTSD Foundation.

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Check out CPTSD Foundation right here: https://cptsdfoundation.org/

At the age of 20, Maddie Caballo was standing at the crossroads of continuing the pattern of intergenerational abuse she’d experienced, or trying to escape the community that had controlled her since birth, and leave with very few skills to survive in a world outside of her control.

Now, Maddie shares her experience with first responders, lawyers, medical providers, therapists, and other professionals of what are the most effective and respectful ways to work with someone with complex trauma, dissociation, and PTSD.

Maddie brings over 25 years of experience in education with an in-depth knowledge of how to apply teaching to the creative healing experiences. She is helping survivors of abuse and trauma to receive dignified and informed care from professionals.

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Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, New York Times bestselling author, nationally recognized journalist, and the author of the The Atlantic's weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column.

Lori blends her clinical experience with the latest research and cultural developments to help people live better lives.

Her most recent book, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone is in development for a television series at ABC.

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I’m very excited to have back on the podcast, Trauma Therapist | 2.0 member, Jessica Culp, MA, LPC.

Jessica has joined me on the podcast a few times, sharing her journey, from intern to new trauma clinician. She was lost on the podcast on episode 275.

Jessica is a licensed trauma counselor at Steadfast Center LLC in Urbana Illinois and a 2018 masters of counseling graduate from Lincoln Christian University. Steadfast Center LLC is a new practice in central Illinois specializing in helping individuals heal from relational and complex trauma.

This is Jessica’s second career, after receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Communications in 2003 and working in the marketing and resource development field for three local nonprofit organizations that included a food bank, a children’s home, and a crisis nursery.

Jessica has been listening to the Trauma Therapist Podcast since she began her studies in counseling in September of 2015, and joined Trauma Therapist 2.0 in December 2016.

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Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT, RMT travels internationally speaking on topics related to EMDR therapy, trauma, addiction, expressive arts and mindfulness while maintaining a private practice in her home base of Warren, OH.

She is the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness practice and delivered a TEDx talk on trauma in 2015.

Jamie is the author of several books including, EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness for Trauma(in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Dansiger); Focused Care, and Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015) among others.

Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recoveryis her latest book and the one we’re going to be focusing on today!

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As many of you know, I've been working on The Trauma Therapist Project full-time now for about one year.

Prior to that, my position was as a license-eligible clinician, working under a licensed therapist, at a clinic here in Northern California for five years.

Our role was to assess and treat young individuals between the ages of 12 and 25 who were showing early signs of psychosis.

I absolutely loved the job and learned an amazing amount.

I’ve wanted to create a workshop around this topic for a long time, and so, here it is.

In this episode, I introduce this topic and share a bit about the course.

And yes, I’m very excited!

What is psychosis?

And what is early psychosis?

Two great questions, and ones which you have to answer if you're a therapist, and could certainly help if you're a teacher.

The word psychosis is not an actual diagnosis, but rather a collection of symptoms which indicate that an individual can not distinguish between what is real and what is not.

Early psychosis then describes those symptoms which can sometimes precede full or complete psychosis.

Such symptoms could include visual or auditory hallucinations (among others), but yet the individual still continues to maintain their hold on reality. In other words, someone might experience these symptoms but they know that those symptoms are not real.

Assessing for these symptoms, whether you're a therapist or teacher, and whether you work with children or adults, is a crucial skill.

This is what I spent 5 years of my life doing, and I loved it.

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Today on the podcast I'm very excited to have Erica Hornthal!

Erica is a licensed professional clinical counselor, board-certified dance/movement therapist and the founder and president of Chicago Dance Therapy, Inc., a psychotherapy practice founded in 2011.

A huge thank-you to my sponsors:

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Clinicians have advanced their practice and improved client outcomes with education from PESI’s live and online CE seminars for over 40 years.

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CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

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Erica received her MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling from Columbia College Chicago and her BS in psychology from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

While Erica has worked primarily with individuals who are diagnosed with dementia and movement disorders, she also sees many individuals who are looking for a more holistic approach to dealing with anxiety, trauma, depression, and grief.

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I’m thrilled to have Bryon Katie on the podcast!

If you’ve seen her either on video or in-person, then you know why I’m excited. There’s something about her presence, her humor, and her insightfulness that cuts through the BS and gets to the core of the human experience--the struggle, the frustration, and the suffering. That’s exactly why I invited her on the podcast.

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

When you need innovative and cutting edge treatment strategies and techniques to meet the changing demands of your clinical work, PESI connects you with today’s leading experts through their state of the art continuing education.

Download these effective and practical, printable FREE tools for use with your clients today!

This episode is also sponsored by CPTSDFoundation.org

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Check out CPTSD Foundation.

Byron Katie's level of insight, her self-awareness and questioning is precisely what’s required of the coaches and mentors and therapists who work with individuals who’ve been impacted by trauma.

In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year spiral into depression, rage, and self-loathing, Byron Katie woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left her. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she questioned them, she didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Her simple yet powerful process of inquiry is called The Work.

The Work consists of four questions and the turnarounds, which are a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. When you question a thought, you see around it to the choices beyond suffering.

Katie has been bringing The Work to millions of people for more than thirty years. Her public events, weekend workshops, five-day intensives, nine-day School for The Work, and 28-day residential Turnaround House have brought freedom to people all over the world.

Byron Katie’s books include the bestselling Loving What Is, I Need Your Love—Is That True?, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself. For more information, visit thework.com.

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Today I’ve invited on Trauma Therapist | 2.0 member, Tammy Hatherill.

Tammy is the Director of Tammy’s Tarot and Healing and the newly formed Holistic Health Services NT. She is a well-known Clinical and Neuro Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist, Tarot and Reiki Master/Teacher and is the creator of the revolutionary Reiki Chakra Cards (which are oracle/tarot type cards).

Tammy enjoyed sharing her spiritual and therapy knowledge with a regular radio segment on 104.1 Territory FM, Australian radio, and now continues to spread the word through her own podcast, Holistic Health Services NT.

Tammy is the author of four books: Trapped Behind Bars, The Diary of a Fallen Angel, Special Moments, and Trauma to Triumph – A Spiritual Awakening.

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Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others and The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul, has worked directly with trauma survivors for more than three decades.

She has worked with groups as diverse as zookeepers and reconstruction workers in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, community organizers and health care providers in Japan.

Laura is known as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure and much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of community catastrophes–whether they are fatal storms or mass shootings.

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The Trauma Therapist | Podcast is a podcast about the human spirit.

It’s a podcast about hearing the stories and the journeys of those who have dedicated their lives to helping others who’ve been impacted by trauma.

It’s about cultivating authenticity, presence, and compassion.

Nancy Morgan is one of those individuals who I believe epitomizes what this podcast is about, and she is back as my guest this week, and I couldn’t be more excited!

This episode is sponsored by PESI.

When you need innovative and cutting edge treatment strategies and techniques to meet the changing demands of your clinical work, PESI connects you with today’s leading experts through their state of the art continuing education.

Download these effective and practical, printable FREE tools for use with your clients today!

This episode is also sponsored by CPTSDFoundation.org

CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Check out CPTSD Foundation right here: https://cptsdfoundation.org/

Nancy Morgan specializes both in working with adults with severe mental health challenges whose traumatic histories influence and inform their thoughts and behaviors and in providing Trauma-Focused training and supervision to future therapists.

Her primary work has been in Partial Hospitalization Program settings, Secure Residential Treatment Facilities, and Intensive Outpatient Programs, where she’s served as a clinician, manager, or most often as program clinical supervisor.

Currently, Dr. Morgan works as the Director of Behavioral Health at LifeMoves, Northern California’s largest agency dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness where she has developed a Trauma-Focused Mindfulness-Based training curriculum whereby she provides didactics, supervises, and mentors graduate psychology students.

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Nate Postlethwait (Postal-weight) recently left a successful 13-year career in real estate to begin sharing his story of overcoming complex trauma.

Nate is 41 years old and has been in therapy for 23 years fighting to make sense of much of what he was experiencing in his mind and body.

Nate, and the fact that he’s now sharing his story, and the way that he’s sharing his story, is what this podcast is all about.

It’s called courage.

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Nate Postlethwait’s greatest desire is for others to know and understand the difference between dysfunction and trauma, and where to go to get the appropriate help. He hopes to be a pioneer in the way people perceive male sexual abuse and the process for male victims. He is currently traveling the world for a year while building this platform, and personally putting all the disciplines in place to make self care a top priority.

His blog and podcast launched just 2 months ago, and already, have gathered thousands of followers.

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Today, a reflection in the wake of the live, online 10-day program I did last week, The Heart-Centered Therapist.

Note: I will be doing it again next month, in April. If you're interested in learning more about that, you can do so here: http://theheartcenteredtherapist.com

When I created this podcast my initial inspiration was to bring seasoned therapists on to talk about how to treat trauma. What I discovered, however--and what my guests shared--was that and then so much more.

It's not about what you know. It's about who you are.

I think, if I had to put it in a nutshell, that's what it would be.

The process of discovering, of exploring, of honoring, and owning, who we--who you!--are, and then learning to be that, authentically, compassionately and vulnerability, within the context of helping those who've been impacted by trauma, is the foundation (and some would say, the gold!!), of this work.

This is what The Heart-Centered Therapist program is about.

And like many things, it is simple, but not always easy.

This episode is sponsored by my online, 5-day program coming in April, The Heart-Centered Therapist. Click here to learn more: http://theheartcenteredtherapist.com

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Esther Goldstein LCSW is psychotherapist and trauma specialist with a private practice in Cedarhurst, in Long Island NY.

Esther specializes in treating anxiety, trauma, complex ptsd and dissociative disorders.

Esther provides trauma informed consultation to therapists committed to improving their trauma-informed practice and attachment focused EMDR consultation to therapist attaining hours towards EMDRIA certification.

Esther's website is Integrativepsych.co

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Master Dean Siminoff has been studying martial arts for more than 25 years and is a 6th degree black belt in taekwondo.
He is the founder of the Canadian charity Martial Arts for Justice program whose mission is to protect vulnerable people from violence and oppression.
Dean’s schools in the west Kootenay region of British Columbia have positively impacted students there for the past 18 years.
Martial Arts for Justice is currently partnering in Rwanda delivering its Enhance Resilience Training to genocide widows.
Master Dean has a passion for protecting the weak and vulnerable in our society.
The unique program of Enhance Resilience Training can be delivered in a variety of settings including our North American high schools.
Dean is married to Marleen with 2 adult children and 2 granddaughters.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Today I'm joined by Stephana Johnson.

First, a shout-out to my sponsor, CPTSD Foundation​ who has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Stephana Johnson is an award winning transformational speaker, mentor and author who has made it her life’s work to empower leaders and groundbreakers to shine bright for others to follow.

As a result of her personal sexual trauma and abuse, she lived in shame, fear and confusion until she was able to transform those scars into what she calls 'sacred wounds'.

Stephana is the author of "Peace Doesn't Come In A Pill” and "Finding Joy Beyond Trauma"

After counseling and coaching others for over 20 years, she says that she’s discovered our greatest wounds lead to our soul's perfection.

As a direct result of working with Stephana, clients overcome fear, self-doubt, lifelong struggles with weight (both physical and emotional) and set aside other self-limiting beliefs that used to stand in the way of them stepping into their full potential.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Dr. Greenwald is the founder and executive director of the Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute, affiliate professor at the SUNY University at Buffalo School of Social Work, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Greenwald is the author of numerous professional articles as well as several books, including EMDR in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (1999), Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency (editor; 2002), Child Trauma Handbook (2005), EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment (2007), Treating Problem Behaviors (2009), and Progressive Counting (2013). His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Dr. Greenwald is the developer of Progressive Counting and of the Fairy Tale phase model of trauma-informed treatment, and a pioneer in intensive trauma-focused therapy.

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So many of my guests on The Trauma Therapist | Podcast have said, in one way or another, that It's Not What You Know. It's Who You Are. I love that! It inspires me! And I think it's taken me some time to truly live that and to own that. I'm planning a live, online, 10-Day training/workshop/experience for new trauma therapists called The Heart-Centered Therapist. Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2tvQrhv This is also for anyone in the helping professions: therapists, social workers, counselors, coaches etc. The Heart-Centered Therapist, live, 10-Day training/workshop is about uncovering and honoring the unique and incredible person that you are, and learning to bring that to the work you do. Who you are--your story, your experiences, and the degree to which you either shove them down and run from them, or own and honor them, impacts and influences your work with those who've been impacted by trauma. Join me for a 10-Day, online training/workshop/experience over Zoom video. Date: Monday, March 4 thru 8 and then Monday, March 11 thru 15. 11 am PST Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2tvQrhv
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George Kellar is the Executive Director at Zen Hospice Project, responsible for directing its pioneering integration of social and clinical caregiving services grounded in compassion, spirituality and humanity.

He leads all aspects of the non-profit organization - caregiving at the Guest House, a residential hospice house offering 24/7 care; volunteer caregiver programs at the Guest House and Laguna Honda Hospital; and the Mindful Caregiver Education program to teach professional and family caregivers how to reduce suffering for those who are seriously ill and at end-of-life, and to practice self-care in order to build resilience and reduce burnout.

George also oversees Zen Hospice Project engagements with community partners such as UCSF and Hospice By The Bay; with the San Francisco Palliative Care Committee, whose mission is to improve the care of seriously ill San Franciscans through research, education and outreach; and with healthcare organizations such as The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA), The American Society on Aging (ASA), and the California Hospice & Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA).

He has over three decades of executive-level leadership experience, and has held numerous positions at the San Francisco Zen Center, one of the largest community-based organizations in the San Francisco Bay area.

These roles include: Board member and Chairman of the Board, and finance, vision/strategic planning, fundraising/development and healthcare task force committees. George also serves on the Advisory Board of Rock The Earth, a national non-profit environmental organization committed to protecting natural resources through partnerships within the music industry and environmental community.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Today on the podcast Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF.

First, a shout-out to my sponsor: CPTSD Foundation has been successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education since 2014.

Check them out right here: https://cptsdfoundation.org Sarah Buino is the founder of Head/Heart Therapy, Inc and co-founder of Pathos at Head/Heart, a co-occurring and trauma-focused intensive outpatient program.

She is a licensed clinical social worker, certified addictions counselor, Certified Daring WayTM facilitator, and adjunct faculty member at Loyola University.

Sarah integrates her knowledge of complementary healing modalities such as music, yoga, reiki, and the chakra system into her clinical practice to help clients enhance their authenticity and connection to self.

She’s also the host of a podcast Conversations With a Wounded Healer which examines the role of one’s own healing while being a care-giving professional.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Today on the podcast I talk with Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis Marlow on the topic of eating disorders, trauma, and healing.

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Paula Scatoloni, LCSW, CEDS, SEP is a somatic-based psychotherapist, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner in Chapel Hill, NC. She has a private practice and has worked in the field of eating disorders for over two decades. Paula served as the Eating Disorder Coordinator at Duke University CAPS for nine years providing services to college-age students, offering workshops, and managing a multidisciplinary treatment team.

Rachel Lewis Marlow is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 25 + years experience in diverse somatic therapies including Craniosacral Therapy, Energetic Osteopathy, Oncology massage and Aromatherapy.

Embodied recovery is the first trauma-informed eating disorder treatment approach that really takes into account, the body's experience in the development and maintenance of eating disorders.

In this book, my guests blend somatic experiencing, sensorimotor psychotherapy, and body mind centering to offer a somato-sensory approach that is different from the current standard of care for eating disorders (DBT).

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Kate has over 17 years experience working with children and families in the areas of trauma, Child Protection, and attachment and parenting.

She is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker through the Australian Association of Social Workers, as well as a Play Therapist and has worked internationally and locally for both government and non-government agencies.

Kate is an Approved Counsellor with Victims Services NSW and has worked extensively with victims of crime and brings a trauma, attachment and neurobiological framework to her work.

She holds a Bachelor Degree in Social Work awarded by Trinity College Dublin and a Post Graduate Diploma In Play Therapy awarded by Play Therapy International (PTI) and University of Canterbury.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Zabie Yamasaki, truly believes in the healing power of yoga and has had the opportunity to transform her own trauma through the healing asana practice.

For years, Zabie’s unfaltering support for survivors of sexual violence has manifested itself in many forms. She has ultimately made it her life's goal to help empower survivors of assault to regain their strength and self-worth.

Zabie is a founding individual practitioner of The Breathe Network, an organization that connects survivors of sexual violence to holistic healing arts practitioners that offer all services on a sliding scale.

She is the Founder of Transcending Sexual Trauma through Yoga, an organization with the mission of empowering survivors to heal through the practice of yoga.

During her graduate career, Zabie engaged in numerous efforts to help prevent sexual assault through her campus role as the Coordinator of Sexual Violence Prevention. Zabie was previously the Assistant Director of UC Irvine Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) where she developed an 8-week therapeutic yoga program for survivors of sexual assault. She is now working as the Program Director of Trauma-Informed Yoga Programs at UCLA where she oversees wellness and alternative healing modalities for survivors, including therapeutic yoga.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Kimberly Rezarch M.S.W. is a survivor of severe childhood trauma and forced psychiatry. Over the course of 20 years in the mental health system, Kimberly was given 25 different mental health diagnoses and prescribed 11 medications to be taken simultaneously. It wasn’t until her psychiatrist became trauma-informed, that her life was saved with a new diagnosis, Dissociative Identity Disorder. This diagnosis indicated the severity of her trauma, but also provided the answers she was searching for.

During her recovery journey, she developed the Trauma Motivated Outcomes Theory, which recognizes trauma as the motivation behind behaviors. Kimberly also sees that responses to trauma accumulate over time, mimicking mental illness and developing into Trauma Response Syndrome. Kimberly created the Trauma Response Syndrome Model to assist in the recovery from Trauma Response Syndrome. Kimberly wants to bring hope to those who suffer from trauma and provide new tools for mental health professionals.

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Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Ili is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AAMFT-Approved Supervisor, and holds a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy.

She is supervisor, professor, mentor, and wellness warrior for mental health professionals.

Her area of expertise is systems theory, including: self of the therapist, family of origin, relationship and intimacy development through dialogue, and the integration of Christian faith and counseling, as well as applying systems theory in organizational and business consulting.

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Tiffany Chhuom, LSWAIC, CDP-T, MPH, MSW offers 18 years of professional experience practice, policy, research and administration that she used previously to contribute communication plans, marketing
strategies and social media use policies for NASW-WA while also serving on our Communications Committee.

As a therapist, treats veterans, people with disabilities, and survivors of all forms of violence (e.g. workplace harassment, campus sexual assault, Military Sexual Trauma, stalking, cyber abuse, rape, and childhood abuse).

Her new practice, Lucy in the Sky: Therapy for the Gifted, aims to serve gifted adults, those living with disabilities and those surviving trauma and addiction. She is particularly interested in how all of these things intersect as a practitioner, speaker and writer.

As the new NASW Standards for Technology in Social Work Practice influence our field, she recently completed advanced training in the UW Department of Bioethics where she will advance in ethics consultation.

Specifically, Tiffany has contributed original research, clinical skill, campaign management and organizational leadership on the use of technology and health in practice, enterprise, and research.

Her hope is to help practitioners, organizations, educators and policy makers remain relevant and compliant in our ever-evolving Digital Era.

Prior to graduate school, Tiffany was sought out to manage challenging studies in Social Work, Public Health, Criminal Justice, Addiction Medicine, Population Health, Health Disparities, and Child Welfare.

Her authorship in scientific, peer reviewed journals on addiction, child welfare, trauma, study implementation and studying the stress response of marginalized populations is noted.

From time to time she still trains others how to more ethically conduct scientific study with historically traumatized populations.
In policy, she served as a Policy Analyst at the Health Care Authority, making recommendations for the State Innovations Models Initiative and SB 6312. Her earlier policy days took new legislation headed by Partners for Our Children into action, coordinating complex data sharing agreements across 20 government agencies to prevent childhood injury.

While Tiffany’s experience mentioned above keeps her grounded, her favorite job was in practicum at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System serving Military Sexual Trauma survivors.

Her next step in life was to move to the country where she stays busy with 3 dobermans, 1 wiener dog, gardening and junkin’.

Her new practice, Lucy in the Sky: Therapy for the Gifted, aims to serve gifted adults, those living with disabilities and those surviving trauma and addiction.

She is particularly interested in how all of these things intersect as a practitioner, speaker and writer.

In her writing, she is planning a blog that will showcase her strong foundation in trauma and addiction research, her love for using comic book art, and the hobbies she indulges in to practice her own self-care, which include junkin’, thriftin’, succulents and decorating on a dime. She is currently taking no more than 10 clients at any given time so she has space to lead community workshops, teach, write and play.

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Teri Barney is an occupational therapist, OTR/L who finds fulfillment in helping children, teens and adults achieve good physical and mental health through meaningful functional activities, sensory integration, and psychosocial interventions.

As an occupational therapist and adoptive parent of two boys from Eastern Europe, Teri has a special interest in addressing attachment and complex trauma through activity and relationship based interventions that promote competence, self-regulation, and confidence.

She recently completed an intensive 80-hour post-graduate program at ATTACh, an international coalition of professionals and families dedicated to helping those with attachment difficulties.

Teri has over 20 years of experience as an occupational therapist in a variety of adult and pediatric settings. She currently works in a therapeutic day school setting. Teri also is in the process of starting a private pediatric occupational therapy practice with a subspecialty in trauma and attachment. She is passionate about the role of occupational therapy in trauma-informed care.

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In this episode, I talk a bit about the last year within The Trauma Therapist | Podcast and Trauma Therapist | 2.0, and what it’s been like doing this full time!

I also share a bit about what brought some of the Trauma Therapist | 2.0 members to the community, and what they’re going to be working on, as trauma therapists, in the coming year.

Finally, I share some of my plans for the podcast and Trauma Therapist | 2.0.

Guy Macpherson, PhD, is a husband, a father of two, and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He has spent the last several years studying the impact and treatment of trauma, and early psychosis.

In 2014, Guy founded The Trauma Therapist Project with the goals of raising the awareness of trauma and creating an educational and supportive community for new trauma workers.

The Trauma Therapist Project has now grown to include The Trauma Therapist | Podcast, now being listened to in more than 160 countries around the world, as well as Trauma Therapist | 2.0, an online membership community specifically dedicated to educating and inspiring trauma workers just starting out on their trauma-informed journey.

Guy’s focus currently is on creating a vibrant, global community to support, educate and inspire new trauma workers, as well as to upend the present way that trauma is taught at the graduate level.

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Stephen is a long time NJ resident who has been given the gift of many experiences in life. For most of his adult life, he served as Paramedic for 15+ years in many jurisdictions in NJ, PA, and DE.

He also had the honor of serving as a rescue worker at the World Trade Center on 9-11-01 in NYC.

Stephen has seen tragedy and suffering first hand. While saving countless overdose victims in his career, he always felt a pang of sadness when his colleagues would treat a hurting person poorly due to their ignorance of the problem.

Little did they know that he soon would be no different than many of his patients and that he was the one who needed the saving.

It took him overdosing multiple times and having been revived by former colleagues, losing his certification, career, marriage, and children to finally stop Stephen from working towards his grave and start working a recovery program.

His focus is to open up the conversation about addressing the underlying pain, trauma, or lack of coping skills that makes one decide to self-medicate in the first place. If it can happen to the rescuer himself then who perhaps “should have known better”, thus showing proof that no one is immune to the disease of addiction.

Stephen’s story has to be told to give others the courage to voice their pain. Pain shared is pain lessened. He has expertise in Emergency Medical Care, First Responder PTSD and Substance Abuse issues, Recovery Coaching, Intervention, Leadership, and Spiritual Studies. He is also a charter member of the Southern Delaware Toastmasters International Club. He is available for coaching, mentorship, speaking engagements, guest interviews, content production, and consultation services.

Stephen is proud to be the host and creator of the Rescue the Rescuer show, the only show in the world geared towards first responders who battle mental health issues including PTSD, Substance Abuse Disorder, and more.

His show is hosted on the Mental Health News Radio Network where he also serves as the Director of Network Compliance. Stephen is regularly sought out for national and international TV, podcasts, and print media for his expertise. He welcomes you to book him for a free consultation, so we can devise a plan to meet your unique needs.

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Irene Lyon, MSC., is a nervous system specialist who helps people release their deepest traumas from their nervous systems, allowing them to finally heal from chronic mental, physical, and emotional conditions they’ve tried everything to fix.

Irene has intensively studied and practices the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing) and Kathy Kain (founder of Somatic Practice).

Irene has a master’s degree in research in the fields of biomedical and health science and regularly appears on podcasts and online summits teaching all things nervous system health, healing trauma and neuroplasticity.

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This week on the podcast I'm excited to be joined by Angela Englander.

Angela is a passionate and inspired trauma therapist working in private practice in Ontario, Canada.

She began her journey in social services working with children who had experienced trauma, struggled with mental illness and had disabilities.

Over time her career developed and she increasingly specialized in traumatic stress and the impact trauma has on people's lives.

Five years ago she began working towards creating her trauma healing service, Ways to Wellbeing, and she's continued to learn, grow and specialize over time.

Her specialties include cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy and eye movement desensitization reprocessing.

Each day she continues to be open to learning and gaining a better understanding of people's healing journey's and what it means to heal from trauma.

This episode is sponsored by CPTSD Foundation.org: https://cptsdfoundation.org/

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Nikki Webber Allen is a 2-Time Emmy Award winner with 20 years of experience producing content for media outlets including Warner Bros., HBO, ABC, 20th Century Fox and BET.

In 2013, while working as the Vice President of Casting & Talent Relations for the cable network TV One, Nikki lost her 22-year old nephew, Paul, to suicide after his years of struggle with depression and anxiety. Since then, she’s become a passionate mental health advocate.

In Paul’s honor, she launched the nonprofit I Live For.org to create a safe space for honest, unapologetic conversations about mental health in communities of color where the cultural stigma of mental illness discourages far too many young people from seeking help.

Esteemed scholar and advisor to the foundation, Michael Eric Dyson has called I Live For “an incredibly important organization that offers much needed support to those who too often suffer in silence.”

Her work with I LIVE FOR.org has been featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, NPR and NBC News.

She’s the host of Slate Magazine’s podcast “Life Effects” and she’s currently producing and directing a documentary film featuring a diverse group of compelling young men and women who reject the stigma of mental illness and share candid stories about their experiences living with depression and anxiety. The film is being scored by her husband musician Jeffrey Allen of the Grammy nominated R&B band Mint Condition.

In Spring 2017, she was chosen for the highly-coveted TED Residency program which culminated in delivering an impassioned TED Talk entitled, “Don’t suffer from your depression in silence,” which has garnered over 1.7MM views.

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Sara Schulting-Kranz was raped at 17 years of age, became pregnant and chose to keep her child.

23 years later, she found out her husband of 17 years was gay, having affairs with men for most of her marriage and was an addict.

To heal, Sara summited mountains, ran marathons, ultra-marathons, and stand-up paddled deep into the ocean.

Today, she helps other women find the courage to do the same.

Her recovery journey has become a documentary in production, titled, Walk Through This - A Story of Starting Over.

Sara founded Live Boldly Coaching, LLC and became the first Co-Active Professional Life and Leadership coach, Wilderness First Responder andMultidimensional Partner TraumaModel certified coach in the world.

With a vision and dream in my 40’s, she began guiding Transformational Coaching, Hiking, and Meditation Retreats in the Grand Canyon.

Not only does she guide clients physically through the canyon, but also emotionally, mentally, and if they choose, spiritually deep within themselves!

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Dr. Rebecca Milner is an Assistant Professor with the East Tennessee State University Counseling Program, and the clinical mental health concentration coordinator.

Prior to taking a position as a full time counselor educator, Rebecca worked at a university counseling center as a generalist, and a public hospital as a member of the psychiatric emergency team.

In addition to teaching, Rebecca provides consulting services through her LLC, Empatheia Consulting, including psychoeducational and experiential workshops, personal and professional retreats, and organizational consulting services on a variety of mental health and wellness related topics.

Rebecca views counseling as an opportunity for her to partner with clients through a particularly challenging part of their life journey to offer support and collaboration. She believes in the healing power of the therapeutic relationship and uses person-centered, feminist/multicultural, and systems frameworks. She also incorporate expressive arts, narrative, and mindfulness-based practices.

Rebecca is trained in Intergroup Dialogue facilitation and believes in ongoing personal and professional growth and advocacy, particularly with regard to intercultural development.

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Bennett is a social work clinician, academic and researcher who brings a human rights perspective to helping the traumatized trauma worker.

A writer, trauma trainer and consultant, she has worked with trauma workers in Australia and the Asia–Pacific, and has trained trauma workers and/or evaluated trauma services and programs in the UK, Europe, Nepal, Indonesia, Aceh, East Timor, New Zealand, Georgia (Russia) and Sri Lanka.

Margi is a consultant to trauma organisations and their managers and staff, providing context-specific trauma training, supervision for managers and staff in trauma services, and qualitative research to increase organisational funding.

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