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Mooli Lahad Ph.D. Forging Community Resiliency in Shmona Israel: from the archives May 31, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Mooli Lahad.
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).
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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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Episode 729: Healing Developmental Trauma using NARM with Laurence Heller, PhD May 29, 2023

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Laurence Heller, PhD, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He was in private practice for 40 years. He developed the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM©).
His book Healing Developmental Trauma has been published in 14 languages and his model is taught throughout the world. He is the Founder/Director of the NARM Training Institute and teaches regularly in the US and Europe.
His new book, written with Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC called The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma, presents the clinical model for NARM.
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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 728: A Ruthless Commitment To Healing with Dr. Mark M. McNear May 25, 2023

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Dr. Mark M. McNear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and maintains a private practice in New Jersey. With over thirty years of experience in clinical practice, Dr. McNear now focuses on helping those who have had trauma, abuse, and addictions in their lives, sharing the hope of healing that he has realized in his own life.
He graduated from Northeastern Bible College, New York University, and Oxford Graduate School. In addition to his private practice, Dr. McNear has been a speaker to general audiences nationwide. He has also been a frequent guest on nationally syndicated radio broadcasts and podcasts. He has written for magazines and co-hosted panelists in videos dealing with Christianity and mental health. His new book, Finding My Words, A Ruthless Commitment To Healing Gently After Trauma, is available on Amazon.
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Mark's website
Mark’s book: Finding My Words, A ruthless Commitment To Healing Gently After Trauma

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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 Epstein, MD. Buddhism, Psychotherapy and Trauma: from the archives May 24, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Mark Epstein.
Mark Epstein, M.D. 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, including 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.
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Mark's website
Contact Mark
Mark’s books:
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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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 727: Healing Trauma with TRIP with Monique Hoving-Smeets May 22, 2023

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Monique Hoving-Smeets is a trauma therapist (MAMFT), of Dutch origin, based on Vancouver Island, whose private practice is called RelationshipWorx.
Professionally over the last 3-4 years she has been developing an integrative trauma treatment, The Trauma Regulation Integration Process, or TRIP, that has now fully actualized and is now offering training in this modality.
Monique’s private practice focuses on trauma therapy to the general public as well as therapists, and she also offers training to therapists in this approach.
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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 726: Working with Dreams & Nightmares with Leslie Ellis May 18, 2023

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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.
She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, with a specialization in somatic approaches. Her dissertation on using focusing-oriented therapy to treat PTSD for refugees with recurrent nightmares won the Ernest Hartmann award from the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
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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.

Abi Blakeslee, Ph.D. The Way of Somatic Experiencing: from the archives May 17, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Abi Blakeslee.
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.
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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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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 725: Anti-Racist Psychotherapy with David Archer May 15, 2023

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David Archer is an EMDRIA approved EMDR Consultant and course provider. He maintains a full time private practice and he is often recruited to provide consulting services to other therapists and organizations throughout North America. He is a Master of Social Work graduate from McGill University, where he also subsequently graduated from their Couple and Family Therapy program. He is also a registered Marriage and Family Therapist.
His expertise has been influenced by the principles of mindfulness, intersectional feminism, and critical race theory. He is one of the few mental health professionals in Canada who can provide EMDR, Brainspotting, EFT, and other mind-body strategies utilizing memory reconsolidation and working memory taxation methods.
Additional areas of clinical interest include working with individuals who have suffered from PTSD, racial trauma, minority stress, addictions, relational conflict, and eating disorders.
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David’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.

Lisa Ferentz. Humor, Faith & Self-Compassion In The Time of COVID: from the archives May 13, 2023

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This is a republishing of an archived episode with Lisa Ferentz.
Lisa is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, depathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for 34 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, and UK and Ireland.
LISA has been an Adjunct Faculty member at University of Maryland School of Social Work, University of Baltimore at Maryland, University of Maryland Department of Family Medicine, and is the Founder of The Ferentz Institute, formerly known as The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training and Education, now in its twelfth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,400 clinicians from her two Certificate Programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.
In 2009, she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing, and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.
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Lisa's website

Episode 724: Strong Like Water with Aundi Kolber May 11, 2023

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Aundi Kolber is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), speaker, and author of the groundbreaking book Try Softer and its companion, The Try Softer Guided Journey. Aundi is the owner of Kolber Counseling, LLC, established in 2009. In addition to her MA in community counseling, she has received additional training in her specialization of trauma- and body-centered therapies, including the highly researched and regarded eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
As a survivor of trauma and a lifelong learner, Aundi brings hard-won knowledge around the work of change, the power of redemption, and the beauty of experiencing God with us in our pain.
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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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