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Avoiding Landmines with Ali Capurro Feb 24, 2025

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Ali Capurro is a licensed professional counselor in Boise, Idaho and has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. She discovered Somatic Experiencing and fell in love immediately as it provided her with a structure to befriend her own nervous system.
Ali is also the host of the Sneaky Powerful Podcast which is dedicated to Somatic Experiencing©, or SE™. She created it as an offering to anyone interested in the ways stress and trauma impact us, specifically through the Somatic Experiencing lens. On the podcast she has interviewed various SE Practitioners, including SEI faculty, who have all graciously shared parts of their work with SE, as well as personal stories.
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From the archives: Fire. Body. Mind with Annie Brook Feb 20, 2025

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Annie is a Somatic Author, educator, and therapist. She has over 35 years of professional experience helping infants through adults resolve trauma. She teaches courses online, the difference between shock and trauma, and she’s launching a 10-week Healing Complex Trauma course April 7th.
Annie has worked at Children’s Hospital in the child trauma centers, in public schools with gang youth, with sexually abused foster children, and has seen families and adults in private practice since 1978. I was director of Somatic Psychology for Naropa University Somatic Masters Program, and also run my own clinic, Colorado Therapies, since 2006.
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Guest Host: Dafna Lender interviewing Karen Buckwalter: Clinical Use of the Adult Attachment Interview Feb 18, 2025

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Dafna is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice.
Karen Doyle Buckwalter has worked in many roles in child-serving agencies including outpatient therapy settings, foster care, adoption, residential treatment, and program development in all of these areas. She has co-authored two books, written for magazines, and contributed to scholarly journals. She pioneered the Attachment Theory in Action podcast which has had over 1 million downloads.
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Brain, Body + Being with Mallorie Buoy Feb 17, 2025

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For the past 17 years, Mallorie Buoy has studied psychology, education (specialized Waldorf education), yoga, mysticism + philosophy and movement education amongst other subjects. She has spent more than 1000 hours studying in the Himalayas, and many more in study of the Quantum and the direct application of this knowledge within her daily life.
Yet it took a journey of single + adoptive parenting alongside much experience of and with trauma that catalyzed her deep desire to put all facets of her knowledge and experience together to offer detailed and INFORMED healing practices. No more roadblocks because of misguided advice and gas-lighty spiritualisms!
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From the archives: Anjuli Sherin. What Does It Mean To Be Alive? Feb 13, 2025

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Anjuli Sherin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in trauma recovery, resilience-building and cultivating joy. Since 2003 her practice has been working primarily with Immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Muslim & LGBTQI populations. In addition to over 30000 hours of individual and group work, she is the creator of three programs: five-day, 12-week and 10-month-long Cultivating Resilience, including a five-day residential retreat in Hawaii on Embodying Joy.
Anjuli has been widely recognized for her unique achievements in the mental health field. In 2007 she received the Emerging Leader Award from the E-women network, a nationwide business community, where she shared her award-winning essay in front of a live audience of 2500 and to thousands more online. Anjuli has also been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, as a finalist of the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project.
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The Healing Sexual Trauma Journal with Erika Shershun Feb 12, 2025

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Erika Shershun, MA, LMFT, is a somatic psychotherapist who specializes in helping sexual trauma survivors reclaim the life they were meant to live.
She’s the author of the Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook, the Healing Sexual Trauma Guided Journal (March 2025 release), and teaches the PESI Sexual Trauma Clinical Training. Her approach is trauma-informed, rooted in somatic principles, drawing on neuroscience and integrative modalities like EMDR, energy psychology, parts work, and mindfulness.
Erika values diversity, offers individual online therapy sessions in California, and provides coaching to clients outside of the state.
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Guest Host: Jamie Marich, PhD interviews Janja Lalich, PhD. Cults and Complex Trauma Feb 11, 2025

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Jamie Marich, PhD (she/they) speaks internationally on EMDR therapy, trauma, addiction, dissociation, expressive arts, yoga, and mindfulness, and runs a private practice and online training network in her home base of Akron, OH.
Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has been a consultant to educational, mental health, business, media, and legal professionals, as well as having worked with current members, former members, and families of members of controversial groups.
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You’re On Fire It’s Fine with Katie K. May, LPC Feb 10, 2025

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Katie K. May, LPC, is the owner and executive director of Creative Healing. She is a national speaker and trainer specializing in therapy for teens experiencing depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts.
As one of only eleven Linehan board-certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) clinicians in Pennsylvania, Katie’s an expert in this gold-standard treatment for life-threatening behaviors. She is committed to helping teens feel accepted for who they are while teaching them skills to build a life they love.
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From the archives: Gunny Sodhi. Ayurveda & A Journey of Healing Feb 06, 2025

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Gunny Sodhi’s family roots in Ayurvedic medicine stretch across generations, but he didn’t personally understand the power of Ayurveda until tragedy struck. The sudden death of his 16-year-old brother completely changed the course of his life, setting him on an unexpected path of self-discovery.
Following his brother’s passing, Gunny was consumed by debilitating panic attacks and bouts of deep depression. Diagnosed with PTSD and desperate for relief, he found no comfort in traditional Western therapy. He was lost.
It was at that point that Gunny would rediscover his roots. On the advice of his family, he began supplementing his diet with Ashwagandha and other time-tested Ayurvedic remedies. Meditation and yoga became daily practices. Within six weeks, his anxiety faded and his depression lifted.
Gunny had experienced the healing potential of Mother Nature first-hand and, in doing so, found a new purpose. Out of a desire to help change people’s lives the way his life had been changed, YouVeda was born.
Its mission is simple: produce the best Ayurvedic products on the planet. By tapping into the intelligence of Mother Nature, Gunny has found a way to honor the memory of his brother while helping others on their own journeys toward healing and happiness.
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Guest Host: Dr. Leslie Ellis interviews Dr. Ailey Jolie Feb 05, 2025

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Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in the use of somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) and offers many training opportunities in embodied, experiential dreamwork based on her book.
Dr. Ailey Jolie holds a Master of Counselling Psychology and a Master of Arts in Depth Psychology with an Emphasis in Somatic Studies, and is a graduate of Harvard Medical School’s Global Mental Health: Trauma Recovery Masters certificate program. Ailey also possesses two Honours Bachelor Degrees in Women’s Studies, Communication and Psychology from the University of Ottawa (Université d’Ottawa). She has completed postgraduate training in Sex Therapy from Guelph University, a certificate in Sex Therapy from the Modern Sex Therapy Institute (online), Perinatal Psychology from Postpartum Support International and training in the Clinical Science of Eating Disorders from the University College London Faculty of Medicine.
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