Dr. Brian Tierney is a somatic psychologist in private practice in San Jose, California. He is an adjunct professor at California institute of Integral studies, where he teaches Neuroscience to somatic students. Brian has taught the Neuroscience of trauma resolution for a decade now and is working on publishing his first book after his dissertation, which includes his own unique approach to trauma resolution, hands-on therapy, and social artistry that he is calling Visionary Somatics. In This Ep...
Oct 23, 2023•33 min
Gina is a licensed psychotherapist, mental health educator, and media consultant in New York City. In practice for nearly two decades, she has helped thousands of people seeking treatment for trauma, grief, as well as challenging life experiences and transitions. This includes work with Holocaust survivors at 92Y, as well as being a clinical director for a Mt. Sinai Hospital Outpatient Program specializing in addictions. She received her master’s degree in social work with a specialty in trauma ...
Oct 19, 2023•34 min
Jeffrey Rutstein, Psy.D., CHT, is a clinical psychologist, an expert in the treatment of trauma, a certified Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic psychotherapist, and a meditation teacher who has been in private practice for over 37 years. He has practiced meditation for over 55 years and that profoundly impacts every aspect of his work. He has devoted his professional life to helping people reduce their suffering and struggle while empowering them to claim their strengths, their talents, and the...
Oct 16, 2023•34 min
Doreen Hills, MS, NCC, LPC, is the Founder, Director at the Center for Healing Trauma & Attachment. Their mission is to provide cutting-edge treatment approaches in healing traumatic distress and they’re committed to finding ways to provide quality and affordable therapy and to be the pioneer in healing trauma in NE region. Doreen has been a mental health provider for over 20 years and has worked in various mental health settings in New York, Philippines, and Colorado. Doreen's background in...
Oct 12, 2023•25 min
Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH is the CEO and Founder of Fresh Tri, a cutting edge neuroscience-based health behavior change platform developed with and for Walmart associates. She is an award-winning public health physician that specializes in healthcare innovation, technology-enabled behavior change, behavior neuroscience, health disparities, and population health management. With an M.D. from UCSF and an MPH from Harvard, Dr. Bobinet is also an adjunct professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Dr. B...
Oct 09, 2023•31 min
Grace Tame is an Australian activist and advocate for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Her book is titled 'The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A Memoir.' She is the founder of The Grace Tame Foundation (GTF) a not-for-profit organisation established to campaign for and help fund initiatives which work to prevent and respond to sexual abuse of children and others. In 2021 she was named Australian of the year. In This Episode Grace's website --- What’s new with The Trauma Therapist Project! The...
Oct 05, 2023•51 min
Court Vox provides personal guidance and expertise in the unique and often ignored areas of sex. Court is a trained Sex and Intimacy Consultant, Surrogate Partner Intern and Sacred Intimate. His approach is personal and necessary. Founder of his practice, The Body Vox , he brings professional opportunities for his clients to learn about and embrace their bodies and those of others. Sex, the thing the world is now acknowledging as so important for our general wellness, mental health and indeed ou...
Oct 02, 2023•27 min
This is a republishing of an archived episode with Zabie Yamasaki. "Healing comes in waves and maybe today the wave hits the rocks and that’s ok, that’s ok, darling, you are still healing, you are still healing." — Ijeoma umebinyuo Zabie Yamasaki truly believes in the healing power of yoga and has had the opportunity to transform her own trauma through the healing asana practice. For years, Zabie’s unfaltering support for survivors of sexual violence has manifested itself in many forms. She has ...
Sep 27, 2023•33 min
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 over 100K downloads per month and we have thousands of followers across our social media channels. I’d like to offer you the opportunity to...
Sep 26, 2023•12 min
Dr. Christopher S. Taylor utilizes existential psychotherapy to provide treatment for individuals struggling with loss of identity. In 2015, he was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors as a professional member. In 2018, he was unanimously voted as Vice-Chair of the board and was reappointed to a second term in 2019 and is currently serving as a councilman on the Behavioral Health Executive Council. Working with various state ...
Sep 25, 2023•29 min
Multiple award-winning, Dutch multi-hyphenate Dorith Mous (1986), was seemingly born into her art, gaining beautiful knowledge of physical form and capturing depth from a subject through her own nomadic experience as a fashion model for two decades. Having moved fluidly from a storied career in front of the lens to one behind it, as a photographer and filmmaker, Dorith elicits an artful finesse of the soul – one in which her subjects both exude and challenge the archetypes of beauty, while provo...
Sep 21, 2023•43 min
This is a republishing of an archived episode with Karen Treisman. Dr Karen Treisman, MBE, is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist and trauma specialist who has worked in the National Health System and children’s social services for several years. Karen has also worked cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide. She also is the author of 11 books/workbooks, including the bestselling book, “The Therapeutic Trea...
Sep 20, 2023•32 min
Michael has been working with children and families for close to two decades, in a variety of capacities, including as a Multi-Systemic Therapist, Clinical Director, Children’s Pastor, Camp Counselor and speaker. After serving as a Children’s pastor, he went on to obtain his Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary. Following seminary, Michael worked at The Buckeye Ranch in Columbus Ohio as a Multi-Systemic Therapist, working with individuals 12-18 and their famili...
Sep 19, 2023•30 min
As a young therapist, Dr. David Mars went into couples therapy looking for help. Instead, he found that the models offered seemed to make matters worse by unnecessarily drawing out and evoking the vicious cycle of distress. He found that instead of offering help and support, most couples therapy sessions focused on what is wrong in a relationship instead of what is right. This set into motion four decades of dedicating himself to developing a couples treatment model that works in a kind, effecti...
Sep 18, 2023•35 min
This is a republishing of an archived episode with Carl Waggett. There are some people who are able to articulate concepts and feelings in a kind of perfect, let’s-get-to-the-heart-of-the-matter way for a particular group of people, and Carl is that person for the first responder tribe. Carl’s been a full-time firefighter for the past 14 years, and Acting Captain for 4 of them. After a fellow firefighter and close friend of Carl’s ended his own life, Carl removed himself from the front line truc...
Sep 13, 2023•33 min
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 eatin...
Sep 11, 2023•40 min
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...
Sep 06, 2023•41 min
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 ...
Sep 04, 2023•27 min
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, man...
Aug 30, 2023•44 min
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’...
Aug 28, 2023•25 min
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 compan...
Aug 24, 2023•43 min
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-mutilatio...
Aug 23, 2023•41 min
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 cha...
Aug 21, 2023•18 min
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 addiction...
Aug 16, 2023•36 min
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 devas...
Aug 14, 2023•36 min
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 t...
Aug 09, 2023•34 min
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...
Aug 07, 2023•33 min
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 ...
Aug 03, 2023•30 min
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...
Aug 02, 2023•38 min
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 ...
Jul 31, 2023•29 min
