The Trauma Therapist

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Capturing The Present Moment with David Carr: from the archives Aug 09, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Sarah Peyton.
"Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential."
-Winston Churchill
I’m going to let you in on a secret. The Trauma Therapist Podcast isn’t really about trauma. It’s actually a podcast about the human spirit. It’s about the incredible people who’ve experienced trauma and the people who work with those people. This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with David Carr and there is no doubt that David’s story is one of inspiration. Devastation, yes. But resilience, motivation and inspiration, too.
David has written an exposé titled, 'We Can Overcome: An American Trauma.' This is riveting, and at times hard to read, and yet also inspiring and empowering. (And I’m not getting paid to say that.)
As a boy, David heard the stories of what his father endured as a boy: Fists appearing like unexpected rain, kicks in the side, and nails in his skin. But Carr’s father never set a hand on him. The cycle of abuse, however, was not broken: David suffered mental and physical abuse from the people that were supposed to protect him.
As an adult, he realizes that his continuing mental anguish was self-inflicted. In challenging himself to see his life in a new way, David realized that the story of his childhood trauma did not consist of what happened to him, but rather way he responded to what happened. This realization set the stage for him to embark on a transformative journey—one that began as a terrified child—but has since included him as a mixed martial artist, as the vice chairman of The Joyful Child Foundation, and as an advocate for children’s rights nationwide, and he has built two successful international companies.
He lives on a Southern California ranch style home with his wife of twenty years and three children. I loved speaking with David. His strength and courage is pretty palpable, and so too is his recognition and acceptance of his own vulnerability.
In This Episode

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass,‎ Laura Davis
Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive, Jeffrey M. Schwartz
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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Episode 749: Getting Back In The Game with Colleen Ryan-Hensley Aug 07, 2023

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Colleen Ryan-Hensley is a 10-year Navy Veteran, an advocate for mental health and expert in mental toughness who created the online educational resource BingingSober.
Colleen struggled with depression since she was a teenager and instead of expressing her feelings and getting help, she was taught to "rub some dirt on it and get back in the game." To cope with depression, she started drinking and going on long runs to escape the things that hurt.
When she joined the Navy, she brought this mental and physical toughness with her. Sure, it was the perfect combo for being a great sailor, but not so great for relationships, health and overall wellbeing. It wasn't until well after her Navy days that she started focusing more on the feelings she kept bottled up and peeling away the decades of toughness she had built up around her.
Today, Colleen shows others how to avoid making these costly decisions and live a balanced life where escape and reality can live in harmony.
In This Episode:

Collen’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.

Episode 748: Religious Trauma and Purity Culture with Audrey Omenson Aug 03, 2023

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Audrey Omenson is a licensed counselor based in Houston, TX. She has been working in the mental health field since 2009 and is passionate about using Somatic Experiencing and other tools to support clients in reclaiming their body, identity and agency post-trauma, focusing particularly in the areas of religious trauma and purity culture.
In addition to this being a professional specialty of hers, it is deeply related to her personal experience and healing journey. After leaving the conservative religious spaces of her early life, she has found somatic experiencing and other healing supports to be crucial in the reclamation of her own body, agency, sexuality and queerness
In This Episode

Audrey’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.

Teri Barney. Occupational Therapy & Trauma Treatment: from the archives Aug 02, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Sarah Peyton.
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 sub specialty in trauma and attachment. She is passionate about the role of occupational therapy in trauma informed care.
In This Episode

Terry’s email: otemotions@gmail.com
Terry on Facebook: Emotions in Motion, LLC
Trauma Informed Occupational Therapists
Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom, Heather T. Forbes
Interoception: The Eighth Sensory System, Kelly J. Mahler (Author), PhD A.D. "Bud" Craig
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, Matthew Dicks

Episode 747: The Surprising Allure of Vulnerability with Vaishnavi Katta Jul 31, 2023

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Mentality magazine is the first college publication, run by students, nationwide that focuses solely on mental health.
Vaishnavi is a junior from Livonia, Michigan studying biology hoping to one day pursue the study of psychology. She enjoys Mentality because it provides her an outlet to express those wayward thoughts that bounce around in her mind from time to time. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and exploring nature. She also loves the quiet moments between her and a good book. She is excited to be a part of Mentality this year, and hopes to create a safe space for people to be themselves.
In This Episode

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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 746: Complex PTSD Coping Skills with Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD Jul 27, 2023

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Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D., M.S., joins me on the podcast today to talk about her new book, The Complex PTSD Coping Skills Workbook: An Evidence-Based Approach to Manage Fear and Anger, Build Confidence, and Reclaim Your Identity.
Tamara is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, CA, where she specializes in treating adults with depression, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma, and those who are coping with medical illness, either as a patient or affected family member. She also has extensive experience with older adults and their children regarding coping with dementia or other medical illnesses. In addition, Tamara treats couples, as well as families with adult children.
Her therapeutic approach is active and engaging and she uses a variety of evidence-based techniques that focus on reducing symptoms and feeling more connected to others. She has been practicing psychology in San Francisco since 1997. As a Volunteer Full Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, Tamara spent over 12 years seeing medical patients and their families in the UCSF hospitals and clinics and has spent the last 25 years supervising psychiatry residents, psychology interns and students in a number of different training centers.
In This Episode

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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.

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion. Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D: from the archives Jul 26, 2023

Show notes

This is a republishing of an archived episode with Sarah Peyton.
"A human being is a part of a whole"
-Albert Einstein
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles and creator of the 6-month mentorship program A Course in Mindful Living. He is a psychologist, speaker and author who has published numerous articles, chapters, and blogs, including:
-Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion,
-The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life,
-Co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn), and
-MBSR Every Day.
He synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. He has his private practice in West Los Angeles, California.
In This Episode

The Center for Mindful Living
Elisha’s website
Elisha on Facebook
Elisha on Twitter
John O’donaghue, Anam cara, a book of celtic wisdom

Episode 745: Getting Unstuck from PTSD with Patricia Resick, PhD, ABPP Jul 24, 2023

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Patricia A. Resick, PhD, ABPP, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical School. Dr. Resick began developing and testing cognitive processing therapy (CPT) in 1988 at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where she founded the Center for Trauma Recovery and was an Endowed Professor.
CPT is considered a first-line therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in the United States and several other countries; the CPT treatment manual has been translated into 12 languages. Dr. Resick has served as president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
She is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement awards from ISTSS, ABCT, and Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, among other honors.
Dr. Resick is the author of the new book, Getting Unstuck from PTSD: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Guide Your Recovery (April 14, 2023).
In This Episode

Mary Beth’s website

Episode 744: Touch. The Most Fundamental of Human Experiences with Cornelia Elbrecht Jul 20, 2023

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Cornelia studied at the School for Initiatic Therapy in the Black Forest, Germany and holds degrees in fine arts and arts education along with extensive postgraduate training in Jungian and Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics and at the Somatic Experiencing Training Institute (SETI).
She is best known for her cutting edge work with Guided Drawing and Clay Field Therapy, and holds regular workshops around the world and at Claerwen Retreat in Apollo Bay, Australia - an internationally respected arts therapy education facility.
Cornelia is the author of numerous books, and runs accredited online courses for art therapists, educators and mental health professionals looking to understand a body focused art therapy approach to trauma therapy.
In This Episode

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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.

Mark Wolynn: from the archives Jul 19, 2023

Show notes

This is a republishing of an archived episode with Mark Wolynn.
Mark Wolynn is the director of The Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco and is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. A sought-after lecturer, he has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the Western Psychiatric Institute, Kripalu, The Omega Institute, The New York Open Center, and The California Institute of Integral Studies. Mark specializes in working with depression, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, fears, panic disorders, self-injury, chronic pain and persistent symptoms and conditions.
Mark’s book It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle has just been published by Viking/Penguin. His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Elephant Journal and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker.
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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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