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 focus...
May 18, 2023•31 min
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...
May 17, 2023•41 min
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 mindfulne...
May 15, 2023•46 min
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 o...
May 13, 2023•35 min
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 o...
May 11, 2023•28 min
I first met Indira when she enrolled in a podcast workshop I was hosting. I was struck by her passion for helping others as well as her passion for life. When I meet people like her I invite them on the podcast. I was ecstatic when I heard that she had her podcast up and running. And now I'm thrilled to share this conversation with you. Indira is a daughter, sister, wife, mamá, friend, tica, and human... but you may call her Indi. She lives in sunny Florida and grew up in NW Georgia in the Unite...
May 08, 2023•31 min
Today I'm republishing an episode with the incredible Jennifer Kindera. As I say during our interview, "This is why I do this podcast." It's because I get to interview people like her. Jennifer says, "As a complex trauma survivor who has been traveling the path of recovery for over 30 years, I was diagnosed with PTSD, depression and anxiety at the age of twenty due to abuse in childhood. I deeply understands the pain of living with traumas that aren't integrated, and how codependency (toxic love...
May 04, 2023•30 min
Esther Goldstein is a licensed clinical social worker in the Five Towns and surrounding areas. As a Trauma Specialist, Trauma Educator and Founder of Integrative Psychotherapy her goal is to make sure that her clients are set up with just the right customized therapeutic experience to help them along their healing journey. Esther comes to this field, first, as a fellow human who appreciates human struggles, unknowns and challenges and her approach to therapy is highly collaborative and interacti...
May 04, 2023•34 min
This is a special episode to honor the late Cissy White. Cissy was a bright light in our world and in the field of healing. She inspired me with her words, her energy, and her strength. Cissy was a trauma-mama writer and joy-stalking survivor. She believed it was possible - but difficult - to live, love, and parent well while post-traumatically stressed. Her goal, as she explained it, was to make talk about trauma and healing less clinical and more conversational, less abstract and more accessib...
May 03, 2023•38 min
Donna Lyon, PhD, is one of the amazing people! She's the founder and CEO of Left Write Hook – an evidence based boxing and creative writing program for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and trauma. She is the editor of the book Left/Write//Hook: Survivor Stories from a Creative Arts Boxing and Writing Project and producer of a documentary film that is in post production about the program. In This Episode Donna’s website Left, Write, Hook book Donna’s documentary --- What’s new with The T...
May 01, 2023•35 min
Jonathan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Journey Clinical, the leading telehealth platform expanding access to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. A serial entrepreneur, Jonathan built his career in finance, spending over two decades working for hedge funds and building businesses in Switzerland and NYC. After receiving a difficult diagnosis of PTSD and extreme burnout, Jonathan left the world of finance to focus on his mental health, during which he personally experienced the transformative benefi...
Apr 27, 2023•29 min
Sarah Peyton is Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. Sarah works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.Her special interest is the way that difficult events impact our automatic brain patterning, and how to transform our tendencies toward self-criticism into self-warmth. Her...
Apr 26, 2023•37 min
John Henry is a former peacetime Marine whose father was a Marine, Korean War Veteran, and Air Force reconnaissance photographer in Vietnam. John authored and published the book Transitioning Veterans: How We Get In Our Own Way... And What To Do About It! The book is based on his personal experiences with transitioning, “at risk” Veterans, their Families and his son Danny, a Purple Heart Recipient and Combat Veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan with the Army 10th Mountain Division. He was k...
Apr 24, 2023•34 min
Jessica serves as Senior Program Manager within the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. She is a native of Detroit, Michigan and holds a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management from Ferris State University and Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Her expertise lies in Black Church studies, a religious movement born out of persistent “othering” within white spaces. Jessica’s work endeavors to create the mental and environmental conditions for people to be fully seen, loudly he...
Apr 20, 2023•36 min
This is a republishing of an archived episode with Sarah Peyton. "Resonance not reassurance." -Sarah Peyton Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and teaches people how language changes relationships and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us. Her special interest is the way that difficult events impact o...
Apr 19, 2023•34 min
Mary Beth O’Connor has been sober since 1994. She has also been in recovery from abuse, trauma, and anxiety. Six years into her recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014, she was appointed a federal administrative law judge, a position she held until 2020. Mary Beth is a director, secretary, and founding investor for She Recovers Foundation and a director for LifeRing Secular Recovery. She regularly spe...
Apr 17, 2023•28 min
Rebecca Kase founded her training and consultation practice in 2017.A longtime practitioner of EMDR Therapy and a professional educator, Rebecca recognized there was room to improve on training and continuing education for therapists. Through her business, she set out to create thorough and thoughtfully designed educational experiences and a welcoming, inclusive community for EMDR learners and trainers. In This Episode Rebecca’s website EMDR Training Polyvagal-Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed A...
Apr 13, 2023•27 min
This is a republishing of an archived episode with Lisanne and Jane of Gould Farm. " Gould Farm is a unique and pioneering refuge for people with mental disorders…a place where respect and relationship, work and friends, are central to the healing process. We need many more such places in the world.” — Dr. Oliver Sacks Founded in 1913, Gould Farm is the first residential community in the nation dedicated to helping adults with mental health challenges move toward recovery, health, and greater in...
Apr 12, 2023•43 min
Holly Bertone says she’s been given the gift of being a breast cancer and Hashimoto’s survivor. Her super-power is sharing how gratitude builds fortitude... and knowing every lyric to every 80's song ever made ("Duran Duran and Culture Club are my FAVES"). After spending 25 years rising through the ranks of consulting and federal government service, her failing health shattered her corporate dreams . Thankfully, she’s honoring these changes as a gift and has found renewed purpose as a Certified ...
Apr 10, 2023•32 min
Lisa Danylchuk, LMFT, E-RYT is back. And for a great reason: She's pretty amazing. She's super smart, compassionate and has an incredible energy about her. She's one of those people that as you're talking to her you can't help but think to yourself, "This person must be an amazing healer." Lisa is an author, licensed psychotherapist, and founder of the Center for Yoga and Trauma Recovery and creator of the Yoga for Trauma program. A graduate of UCLA and Harvard University, her work has pioneered...
Apr 06, 2023•43 min
Doug Dane is survivor who has risen above a past filled with kidnapping, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and violence to experience a life of freedom, gratitude, thriving relationships, and abundance. Now acting as an international keynote speaker and mindset mentor, he has turned his personal experience into a duplicable system to help people discover their true identity and live a life free of guilt or shame, outlined extensively in his debut novel, Mistaken Identity: A Guide To Letting ...
Apr 03, 2023•41 min
Gregory is gay Christian man who was divorced from his ex-wife in 2019 and subsequently lost his children. Before that he had gone through fifteen years of aversion and reparative “ex-gay” therapy, such as sniffing dog feces, “defeating issues of masculinity” by playing sports with other gay men, completing ex-gay courses, and being placed into two mental hospitals. Gregory talks to people about coming out later in life and dealing with the trauma of religious reparative therapy and the entire e...
Mar 30, 2023•34 min
To say that I’m excited and honored to have Dr. Judith L. Herman join me on the podcast is an understatement. Judith is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. 'Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror,' Judith’s second book, is revered as the sem...
Mar 27, 2023•40 min
Stacey Freedenthal, PhD is a suicidologist. Her work focuses on all things suicide – helping people stay alive and want to stay alive, guiding loved ones through grief and healing if the worst happens, and teaching students and professionals how to do all of that, too. In This Episode Stacey’s website Speakingofsuicide.com The Lifeline 988 Crisis Text Hotline Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and Do Helping the Suicidal Person: Tips and Techniques ...
Mar 23, 2023•40 min
This is a very interesting interview. It’s a personal story of how one individual, Jim Stewart, was impacted by trauma and how he continued to be impacted by trauma throughout his life. Jim shares his journey of being traumatized and what it was like for him to live with his symptoms and then what it was like to begin his healing journey. Jim is a trauma survivor, having experienced two near death events as well other traumas early in life. Having had a lifelong struggle with the impact of traum...
Mar 20, 2023•37 min
Christie Pearl is a Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant in private practice in Massachusetts and Virginia who specializes in providing EMDR Intensives for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families (ACOAs) who are dealing with work stress and performance anxiety to create a healthier relationship with their work so they can be who they want to be today, instead of who they had to be as children. In This Episode Christie’s website --- What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project! The...
Mar 16, 2023•30 min
Randall Bell, PhD is a socio-economist and the CEO of Landmark Research Group, LLC. His work and research have taken him to all 50 states and all seven continents, consulting on major disasters like the World Trade Center, the Flight 93 Crash Sites, the BP Oil Spill, and Hurricane Katrina, among others. Dr. Bell’s podcast is called Post-Traumatic Thriving: "When trauma hits, your most significant decision will be to dive, survive or thrive. If you choose to thrive, the Post-Traumatic Thriving po...
Mar 13, 2023•25 min
"The Bossy Educator," Tara Seals, is a 3X best-selling self-published international author, educator, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and so much more! She creates education solutions for K-12 schools, students, and families via consulting, workshops, keynotes, etc. Her latest book, Divorce: The Unspoken Childhood Trauma, landed her on the 20 Black Women Authors you should know list, along with Nikki Giovanni and former first lady Michelle Obama. In This Episode Tara’s Website The Boss Nation Podc...
Mar 09, 2023•35 min
Linda Donovan has been leading grief support groups for Hospice of Santa Cruz County for more than a decade. After experiencing how their hospice team provided so much assistance to her family before and after her husband died from cancer, she became very involved as a volunteer with the organization. She is the author of Beyond Loss in a Pandemic: Find Hope and Move Through Grief After Someone Close to You Dies; After Loss: Hope for Widows, Widowers and Partners; and co-author of Tech Grief: Su...
Mar 06, 2023•36 min
Growing up with an incarcerated father and a mother who struggled with mental illness and substance abuse, Deran gained knowledge and experience of discrimination, poverty, and social services at a very early age. It was no shock that she later decided to pursue a career as a helping professional. While obtaining her Master's in Social Work at the University of Texas, Deran was blessed with an amazing opportunity to visit Ghana West Africa. During her six-month stay in Ghana, Deran created a Gui...
Mar 02, 2023•35 min
