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Episode 754: Disembodied Eating with Michelle Cleary Sep 11, 2023

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Michelle Cleary (she/her) is a licensed psychotherapist who is trained in EMDR, holds a certificate in Somatic Experiencing™ (SE), assists at SE trainings throughout the year, is a former adjunct professor for SUNY Stony Brook, School of Social Welfare, and maintains a full time private practice that focuses on treating trauma and eating disorders. Why? Why so much learning and work?
Well, because after decades of her own life saving, nurturing therapy, Michelle still struggled with strong eating disorder behaviors, regular bouts of depression, mood shifts, anxiety, and overwhelm. These challenging experiences were interspersed during a time when she was also succeeding, building healthy relationships, learning, and creating. Michelle was happier and healthier than ever but was STILL living with a lot of challenging experiences.
Michelle is now dedicated to discovering, understanding, and teaching others the way our nervous system and brain-body development contributes to our moods, behaviors, relationships, mental health, and productivity.
In This Episode

Michelle’s website

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What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!

The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviews
The Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.

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Global Trauma. How To Change A Culture. Edward Tick, Ph.D: from the archives Sep 06, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Edward Tick, Ph.D.
Edward Tick is an internationally recognized transformational healer, psychotherapist, writer and educator. Ed has worked internationally on the psychospiritual and cross-cultural healing of military and war trauma and on holistic and psycho-spiritual healing.
Edward 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.
In This Episode

Ed on episode #209
Ed’s website: Soldier’s Heart
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars, David Wood
Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War, Robert Emmet Meagher
Other books by Robert Emmet Meagher

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What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!

The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviews
The Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.

Episode 753: The Way is Through The Wound with K.J. Ramsey Sep 04, 2023

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K.J. Ramsey is a trauma-informed licensed professional counselor and author whose work offers space to see every part of our souls and stories as sacred. She holds degrees from Covenant College and Denver Seminary and is the author of 'The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love' and 'This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers.'
K.J. writes at the intersection of theology, psychology, and spiritual formation to guide readers in recovering the rhythm of resilience through nervous system regulation and the wonder of communion with God. She and her husband, Ryan, along with their two exceptionally cuddly dogs, Merton and Resa, live near Denver, Colorado, where K.J. listens for the liturgy of life in wildflowers, sunsets, sorrow, and church.
In This Episode

K.J.’s website
The Book of Common Courage: Prayers and Poems to Find Strength in Small Moments, K.J. Ramsey
Connect with her across social media @kjramseywrites

Dr. Nancy Morgan. This Work Is Spiritual: from the archives Aug 30, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Dr. Nancy Morgan.
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.
In This Episode

Nancy’s email: nlmorgan@gmail.com
LifeMoves
Nancy’s website
Mad In America

Episode 752: Mentaya. Empowering Therapists & Clients with Christine Li Aug 28, 2023

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Christine Li is a strong advocate for mental health, and her reasons are personal.
Her experience as a young highschool student and seeing many around her struggling impacted her to such a degree that it changed the trajectory of her life.
Now, Christine is the founder and CEO of Mentaya – a company that helps private practice therapists grow their revenue and private-pay client base by leveraging out of network benefits to bring client costs down closer to a copay. They instantly check clients’ benefits and automatically file out of network claims to help your clients get reimbursed.
It’s a win-win with Mentaya: Collect the full fee you deserve while significantly lowering costs for your clients.
In This Episode

Mentaya Website

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What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!

The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviews
The Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.

Episode 751: Project 2 Heal with Charlie Petrizzo Aug 24, 2023

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Charlie was born and raised in Staten Island, New York and as a young adult he moved to Old Bridge and later Millstone, New Jersey. His success in the financial services industry allowed him to rise through the ranks of First Union/Wachovia, ultimately leading him and his wife, Sandy, of 30 years, and their two daughters, Melissa and Kristen, to Charlotte. He assumed the role of the director of sales, marketing and product development for the Wachovia Insurance Group, a legacy Wells Fargo company; he left the company in 2003.
His story of surviving two tragic accidents, including the major brain trauma of a car accident and an “electrocution” in which he burned over two thirds of his body, became the focus of the 2012 award winning docu-drama called Charlie’s Scars.
The inspiration for the founding of Project 2 Heal came in part from Charlie’s recognition of the care he needed and received from his parents during, and after, his two trials from the accidents, but also from the recognition of how many friends offered to help his family during that time.
In This Episode

Charlie’s website

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What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!

The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviews
The Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.

The Body Keeps The Score. Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D: from the archives Aug 23, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Bessel A. van der Kolk.
Bessel A. van der Kolk M.D. is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of posttraumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater and EMDR.
He is founder of the Trauma Center in Boston; past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at universities and hospitals around the world.
His most recent 2014 New York Times Science best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies.
I remember I first encountered Dr. van der Kolk’s work in graduate school. I came across his article, The Body Keeps The Score, and thought to myself, "Oh my God, this is it. This makes perfect sense. This is what I want to do."
I went on to read his other book, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, and was equally inspired by that.
Now, of course, his most recent work, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, has been informing and inspiring not just trauma workers, but individuals who’ve been impacted by trauma, as well.
In This Episode

Bessel van der Kolk’s site
The Body Keeps The Score site
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk M.D
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan

Something Special: MEDIA+ Aug 21, 2023

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I’m excited to announce—MEDIA+
MEDIA+ is the new division of our company through which we’re going to be helping mental health practitioners of all kinds promote their incredible work and brands, and share it with the people who want and need to hear it.
I’ve been fortunate over the course of the past several years to create a sizable social presence. The Trauma Therapist Podcast receives hundreds of thousands of downloads per month and we have thousands of followers across our social media channels.
I’d like to offer you the opportunity to utilize this platform to promote your work, whether it’s a book you have launching, or a course, or even your private practice.
Here’s how we’ll promote your work and brand:

Social Media PLUS Advertising: we’ll work closely with you to create an eye-catching graphic (consisting of an image, text and link to your service/offering, as well as to your episode on the podcast) and we we’ll post this out across our social channels.
Video Clips: I’ll do a short (15-minute) interview with you in which you’ll share about you and your offer (your course, workshop, book, event, program etc.) and we’ll use this to create dynamic video clips that will go out across our social channels including Tik Tok and Youtube!
Your Own Sponsor Spot: The sponsor spot is exactly what we offer our regular sponsors. This includes text created by you and then recorded by Guy that will then be played in the mid-roll spot across our catalogue of 700+ interviews!

Who is this for?
We’re looking to help promote anyone in the mental health field who’s passionate about what they’re doing and who want to reach more people. This means therapists and/or coaches of any kind.
You do not have to be licensed to take advantage of this opportunity.*
How does it work?
Once you make your purchase, you’ll receive a receipt with information and I will then be in touch with you about next steps such as images you’d like to use for social posts, information about scheduling your interview, and the text/copy for your sponsor spot!
I look forward to working with you!
Click here to learn more about MEDIA+
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A Masterclass in Self-Awareness Adena Bank Lees, LCSW: from the archives Aug 16, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Adena Bank Lees.
"There is a God and I’m not it."
-Twelve-step saying.
Adena Bank Lees, LCSW, LISAC, BCETS, CP is an internationally recognized speaker, author, trainer and consultant, providing a fresh and important look at addiction treatment, traumatic stress and recovery. She has provided more than 1000 workshops for professionals around the world on topics related to childhood abuse, PTSD, eating and substance use disorders, other addictions and related mental health issues. Her specialty is childhood sexual abuse, in particular, covert emotional incest.
Adena’s lectures, workshops and presentations are lively, informative, engaging and current.
Participants say they are moved by the integration of information that makes sense to them, sometimes for the very first time. Being introduced to covert emotional incest is often the most powerful and life changing piece participants claim to walk away with.
In This Episode

Adena’s Go-To Books

War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Edward Tick
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners, Kenneth M. Adams PhD
Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy with Incest Survivors, Laurie Anne Pearlman and Karen W. Saakvitne
The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors, Regina A. Goulding and Richard C. Schwartz
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Episode 750: Grief and The Dance of Self-Discovery with Edy Nathan Aug 14, 2023

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Edy Nathan is a Certified Sex Therapist and thought leader specializing in grief, trauma, and sexuality. She works with businesses, universities, and long-term care homes to help people understand how these areas filter through their lives and affect everything from creativity to productivity. Working together, she offers creative ways to deal with grief, trauma, and sexuality.
In her NEW book, It’s Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss, Edy examines the emotional and devastating impact of loss and trauma. It identifies the intricacies of the dark and unfamiliar effects on the self. The book illuminates how the brain holds the complex circuitry of grief.
In This Episode

Edy's website
Edy’s book: It’s Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss

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What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project!

The Trauma 5: gold nuggets from my 700+ interviews
The Trauma Therapist Newsletter: a monthly resource of information and inspiration dedicated to trauma therapists.

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