The Trauma Therapist

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Episode 743: Decluttering & Trauma with Valerie Huard Jul 17, 2023

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From trauma to triumph, Valerie Huard has seen it all. She is a published author, speaker and expert who works with people all over the world on the topic of decluttering, and decluttering more than one's environment.
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Episode 742: Sound Vibration, Movement & Trauma with Paula Scatolini Jul 13, 2023

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Paula Scatolini (SHE/HERS) is a writer, educator, and thought-leader in somatics, movement, and embodied consciousness. As a mentor, guide, and facilitator of experiential and transformative processes. Paula brings over 30 years of training in human behavior that she interweaves with her experience in the nervous system, the therapeutic use of sound, movement, and bioenergetic principles to support individuals in aligning the psyche, soma, and heart.
Paula has worked in the field of embodiment since 1997. Paula co-founded and is an online faculty member of The Embodied Recovery Institute and has provided leadership at institutions such as Duke University. Her somatically oriented lens is featured in the book, Trauma-Informed Approaches To Eating Disorders.
Paula’s creative offerings bring together her intuitive wisdom and a grounded perspective on the art and science of conscious embodiment.Paula has an LCSW. She currently offers individual services and workshops through her Healing Arts Practice in Durham NC. She is the lead author of the Safe and Sound Protocol-SE Guidelines. Her workshops are designed for professionals who are engaged in somatic or body-based methods, parts work, or psychedelic methods who are seeking their own expanded healing and embodiment through sound, movement, and vibration.
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.

Courtney Armstrong. Attachment Styles & Complex Trauma: from the archives Jul 12, 2023

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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

Episode 741: Trauma Treatment International with Dr. Brock Chisolm Jul 10, 2023

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Brock is founder of Trauma Treatment International & a consultant Clinical Psychologist. He has over 15 years experience in the psychological assessment and treatment of trauma survivors.and has assisted in the development and implementation of comprehensive services for trauma survivors internationally. In addition he is also an advisory to several NGOs on self-care and prevention of burnout strategies for staff who work with traumatized populations.
Brock has provided expert witness in several high profile human rights violation cases in the UK and International courts. He is an approved expert for the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative hosted by the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and an elected board member of the U.K. Psychological Trauma Society.
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Trauma Treatment International

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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 740: Understanding Suicide with Paula Fontenelle Jul 06, 2023

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For more than 20 years, Paula worked as a Brazilian journalist, but that all changed after the suicide of her father in 2005. After experiencing this trauma, she decided to dedicate time to preventing suicide. Since then, She’s trained in Psychoanalysis and just finished her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health. For 12 years now, she’s been helping families deal with this kind of loss and those who are at risk for self-inflicted death.
She has completely transformed her trajectory after losing her dad and she would love to inspire others to reframe their loss and find other ways to deal with their pain.
Paula’s book is titled: Understanding Suicide: Living with loss. Paths to prevention.
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Paula’s website
Paula’s Book
Paula’s Facebook

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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.

Moving Out of Survival Mode. Irene Lyon: from the archives Jul 05, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Irene Lyon.
"Pray, read, re-read, work, and you shall find."
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.
In This Episode

Irene’s Website
Irene’s Programs
Irene’s Workshops
Irene on Facebook: Healthy Nervous System Revolution
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge
When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, Gabor Mate
Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, Robin Karr-Morse, and Meredith S. Wiley

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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 739: Can We Play With That with Nina Garcia Jul 03, 2023

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Nina L. Garcia is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Drama Therapist, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
Nina is passionate about creatively supporting people to redefine their relationship to trauma, emotional drama, and intersectional identity.
While specializing in trauma, Nina has a unique interest in empowering people with mixed identities and diverse narratives to heal from traumatic invalidation. As a private practice owner, empowerment consultant, and host of the podcast “Triggered: Can we play with that?”: Nina is proud to empower people from all walks of life to own their truth - without oppressing themselves and without oppressing others.
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Nina’s website
Nina’s podcast: Triggered. Can We Play With That?

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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 738: We Are All Just Shaky Beings with Jan Winhall, MSW Jun 29, 2023

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Jan began her career as a social worker and psychotherapist 40 years ago. She began listening with non-pathologizing ears and heard shocking stories of sexual torture, and responses that confused her.
As she continued to listen she learned that somehow these self-harming behaviors were “helping” individuals to escape intolerable emotional states. They were shifting their mood from flooding anxiety to numbing deadness, or vice versa. Because these behaviors were so helpful they were compulsively repeated and often became addictions.
Jan’s book Treating Trauma and Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom Up Approach is the result of rethinking the Felt Sense Experience Model that she wrote about in her book, Emerging Practice in Focusing- Oriented Psychotherapy, 2014. Jan’s integrated the Polyvagal lens Theory to create a more sophisticated way of understanding emotional regulation, where addictive behavior is an embodied response to emotional dysregulation.
In This Episode

Jan’s website
Jan’s courses
Jan’s upcoming Polyvagal course
The Primacy of Human Presence, by Eugene Gendlin. A PDF download.
The Courage to Heal, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

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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 Creative Process & Trauma. Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC: from the archives Jun 28, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Lisa Mitchell.
"When we stay closely and non-judgmentally with someone exploring pain we find beauty in the midst of the ruins."
-Saki Santorelli, Heal Thyself
Lisa Mitchell LMFT, ATR, LPC is the author of Creativity as Co-Therapist: The Practitioner’s Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy (Routledge 2016). An art therapist, she has specialized in helping teens and adults use art and creative expression to overcome anxiety, depression, and trauma for 20+ years.
Lisa’s online and in-person workshops are popular for the in-depth, hands-on creative experiences she facilitates to help therapists find unique ways of approaching the therapeutic process as a creative one. Lisa is also the organizer and host of Create Fest, an annual online creativity festival that provides inspiration and education for therapists to "Get out the box and into their right mind."
Lisa partners with her own creativity through writing, knitting, and painting. Her blog features reflections on all creative endeavors (including therapy) at www.innercanvas.com.
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Lisa’s Go-To Books

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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 737: When The Trauma Comes Knocking with Dean Yates Jun 26, 2023

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Dean Yates led the Reuters teams that covered the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia’s Aceh province. He was Reuters deputy bureau chief for Israel and Palestine in 2006 – during the Lebanon War – and bureau chief in Iraq – responsible for 100 people – from 2007-2008. It was during this time that a U.S. Apache gunship killed two Reuters journalists in Baghdad on July 12, 2007. Julian Assange published footage of that attack in 2010, shocking millions.
Dean's new book, Line in The Sand, is a "raw, gritty account of my seven-year odyssey to find the best ways to treat my PTSD and moral injury and reconnect with my family. I take you inside the Ward 17 psych unit in Melbourne, where I spent 77 days and nights over a two-year period with scores of veterans and first responders. I show how moral injury fits into the broader narrative of PTSD."
"My book contains messages for anyone living with trauma and mental illness and their loved ones. I believe my story is a powerful testament to having a strong support network. It might be tough to read. It’s also uplifting. I hope it will inspire and bring about change. What worked for me was approaching my trauma with curiosity. Total honesty with my partner Mary. Never giving up. Understanding the nature of my identity wound, my anger, and seeking meaning from life. I show how employers are brutalizing and abandoning a cohort of workers — veterans, first responders and journalists."
In This Episode

Dean’s website
Dean's book: Line in The Sand
Dean’s podcast: Mindarmor.

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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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