Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW is celebrating her 49th anniversary in the field of mental health, where she has been a leader in integrating spiritual modalities with traditional practice. She is the award-winning author of The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD From the Inside Out (Quest, 2012) and Wisdom, Attachment and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice (Routledge, 2018). Her newest book Women Therapists on Healing will be released in the Fall of 2024 from North Atlantic Books. In Th...
May 06, 2024•25 min
Myriam D. Savage (Mimi) Ph.D., RDT/BCT, is a registered drama therapist, board-certified trainer, and associate professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco in the Master of Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts program. She is a core faculty member teaching courses such as Human Development and Family, Group Dynamics, Arts in Therapy and Professional Development. Dr. Savage is also founding faculty for the Arts and Healing Initiative (formerly UCLArts and Healing) ...
May 02, 2024•31 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 i...
Apr 29, 2024•29 min
Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC, is a California Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor. He’s trained as a Somatic Psychotherapist and has worked in the field of trauma for over 20 years, specializing in working with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Brad began his career as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Asia which introduced him to personal and collective trauma. He is now the director of the Complex Trauma Tra...
Apr 25, 2024•29 min
Dr. Qwynn Galloway-Salazar, is an Army Veteran and End-of-Life Doula, Educator, and Founder of In Their Honor, LLC . Throughout more than two decades of dedication to enhancing the quality of life and well-being of Military and Veteran communities, Qwynn has acquired a deep understanding of how military experiences can have long-term impacts on one's life and the lives of loved ones. Qwynn's passion for serving those who have served their country is reflected in her work. She deeply understands ...
Apr 22, 2024•34 min
Daniel Packard is a U.C. Berkeley Mechanical Engineer, and CEO of Permanent Anxiety Solutions, who turned his painful battle with severe anxiety into a mission to develop an actual permanent solution for anxiety. After 8 years - working with 3000 people on 5 continents - and over a million dollars of research and testing - Daniel and his team succeeded in reverse engineering an innovative process - that solves any type of anxiety permanently - with an astounding 90% success rate. Daniel is here ...
Apr 18, 2024•47 min
Yuri Elkaim is a New York Times bestselling author, former professional athlete, and the founder and CEO of Healthpreneur. Yuri’s journey into health and business was inevitable. After dealing with a host of health issues as a teenager, he eventually lost all of his hair at 17 years old to an autoimmune condition. This, along with his passion for sports (which led him down the path of playing professional soccer in his early 20s), propelled him into the health and fitness field. Yuri’s authentic...
Apr 15, 2024•29 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 G...
Apr 11, 2024•35 min
Allan J. Katz is The Healthy Intimacy Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor and certified Sex Addiction Therapist in the Mid-South. He has counseled over 1000 clients with relationship and intimacy issues, out of control sexual behavior, and trauma. He is the co-author of Ambushed by Betrayal: The Survival Guide for Betrayed Partners on their Heroes’ Journey to Healthy Intimacy . In This Episode Allan J. Katz's Website Allan’s tools for therapists Allan’s Facebook --- If you’d like to support T...
Apr 08, 2024•30 min
Dr. Galit Atlas is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Manhattan. She is a clinical assistant professor on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and faculty at the National Training and Four-Year Adult training programs at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York City. As an essayist and author, Galit has published numerous articles and book chapters that focus primarily on gender and sexuality. She i...
Apr 04, 2024•30 min
Rosie McMahan currently works at MASS Mentoring Partnership as the Training & Special Projects Manager and owns & operates Optimistic Options, a private practice rooted in trauma informed care and restorative justice principles. Her book, Fortunate Daughter, A Memoir of Reconciliation was published in 2021 and was awarded first place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards in 2023. In this story, Rosie offers the reader a portrait of childhood sexual abuse, followed by the difficult...
Apr 01, 2024•34 min
Tomilyn has a Master’s in Professional Counseling from Carlow University and is also an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner. She works with clients who have experienced traumatic births, adoption issues, PTSD, grief and loss, and voluntary and involuntary termination of parental rights. Tomilyn is also the founder of the MAYA Organization , a nonprofit focused on supporting people both during and after pregnancy. In This Episode Tomilyn Ward's Website --- If you’d l...
Mar 28, 2024•31 min
Mónica Guzmán is Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels , a nonprofit working to depolarize America. She is host of A Braver Way , a podcast that equips people with the tools they need to bridge the political divide in their everyday lives, and founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a more curious world. Mónica is also the author of I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. Mónica is the ...
Mar 25, 2024•33 min
Justin B. Long is an author, business owner of a successful veterinary practice, and the host of the hit podcast, Straight from the Horse Doctor’s Mouth , which he produces with his wife, Dr. Erica Lacher. Justin’s mission is to make the world a better place for people by helping men learn to understand themselves and grow into their full potential. His current book, The Rage of a Ten-Year-Old Boy , is a raw, intense examination of his childhood, the traumatic events that formed his negative sel...
Mar 21, 2024•31 min
Esther Goldstein LCSW is a psychotherapist and trauma specialist with a private practice in Cedarhurst, in Long Island NY. Esther specializes in treating anxiety, trauma, complex ptsd, and dissociative disorders. Esther provides trauma informed consultation to therapists committed to improving their trauma-informed practice and attachment focused EMDR consultation to therapists attaining hours towards EMDRIA certification. In This Episode Esther Goldstein's Website --- What’s new with The Trauma...
Mar 18, 2024•34 min
Haylin is a seasoned sex educator and health promotion professional with a focus in reproductive justice and intersectional, trauma-informed strategies for healing and care. With over a decade of hands-on experience developing award-winning health education programming and providing professional development for clinicians, educators, and activists, Haylin has dedicated her life to teaching people of all ages practical skills for a healthier, more pleasurable life. She's the creator of Sex Ed For...
Mar 14, 2024•32 min
Dr. Nina Burrowes is a psychologist, author, and activist specializing in the psychology of sexual violence and relationship abuse. She is the author of The courage to be me , an illustrated book about recovery from sexual abuse, Eyes open to sexual abuse. What every parent needs to know, and the creator of the online course How do people heal from trauma? As an educator, Nina is keen to bring the trauma literature to a wider audience using illustration, video, events, and even a game show to he...
Mar 11, 2024•30 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...
Mar 07, 2024•32 min
John Clarke’s mission is to accelerate recovery from trauma, anxiety, depression and addiction so that together people can create a more peaceful and connected world. As a trauma therapist, he creates a custom, integrative therapy using a blend of evidence-based therapies including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Somatic Experiencing (SE). Not only has he committed his professional life over the past 10+ years to helping others, he’s perso...
Mar 04, 2024•32 min
Candice M. Monson, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, ON. She is one of the foremost experts on traumatic stress and the use of individual and conjoint therapies to treat PTSD. Dr. Monson has published over 150 peer-reviewed publications, 7 books, and 40 book chapters on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of PTSD treatments more generally. In This Episode Dr. Candice M. Monsoon’s Website Candice’s books 'Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Th...
Feb 29, 2024•37 min
I’m honored to have Deb Del Vecchio-Scully back. Deb is a wealth of information for new and seasoned trauma therapists, alike. In this interview Deb shares about her experience delivering trauma treatment in the wake of school shootings and then goes into depth about what that treatment actually looks like. Deb has focused her career on helping clients heal from trauma and educating therapists about all aspects of trauma, particularly the impact of communal trauma such as school shootings. Becau...
Feb 26, 2024•32 min
Sara Schulting-Kranz was raped at 17 years of age, became pregnant, and chose to keep her child. 23 years later, she found out her husband of 17 years was gay, having affairs with men for most of her marriage and was an addict. To heal, Sara summited mountains, ran ultramarathons, and stand-up paddled deep into the ocean. Today, she helps other women find the courage to do the same. Her recovery journey has become a documentary in production, titled, Walk Through This - A Story of Starting Over ...
Feb 22, 2024•35 min
Tracy has been qualified as a therapist since 2005, and practicing continuously in the NHS ever since. After 12 years in community treatment of early psychosis, she is now a clinical lead mental health liaison practitioner working out of acute hospital ER departments. Tracy is a trauma coach and solution-focused hypnotherapist, and committed to the foundations of Milton Erickson in that therapy is about the relationship, not necessarily the dogma of any specific modality. "I continue to work in ...
Feb 19, 2024•44 min
Vernon Baumrind, is the father of two adult children and grandfather of four, living in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the author of the book, Deceit . Deceit is a story of a loving father facing formidable legal odds to secure custody of his two small children, using wiretap technology. He turns the tide in his favor in the case of a cheating wife and a manipulative gynecologist, a lifelong sexual predator with power and authority whose vile exploits have devastating effects on everyone in hi...
Feb 15, 2024•34 min
Dr. Hillary McBride is a registered psychologist, a researcher, and podcaster, with expertise that includes working with trauma, trauma therapies, and embodiment, at the intersection of spirituality and mental health. She has been recognized by the American Psychological Association, and the Canadian Psychological Association for her research and clinical work. In addition to being a teaching faculty at the University of British Columbia, she is an ambassador for Sanctuary Mental Health, and the...
Feb 12, 2024•32 min
Lorry is a renowned leader in the field of mental health, with over 30 years of experience serving children and their families. As a licensed psychologist, Ph. D, and leader in the nonprofit sector addressing mental health and wellness for children, youth and their families Dr. Lorry has been a driving force behind the implementation of various evidence-based practices and strategies for buffering the impact of trauma and the effects of the toxic stress response, as well as building resilience. ...
Feb 08, 2024•35 min
Andrew Daniel is an award-winning author, spiritual teacher, and director at the Center for Cinesomatic Development . He is the founder of Cinesomatics®—a feeling-based therapy utilizing video feedback and movement to assess and resolve stuck somatic, psychological, and emotional patterns. This work is held online and in-person internationally, from NY to London, Tuscany to Switzerland. His latest book, Awaken to Your True Self (MetaHeal), is a recipient of the 2022 gold Nautilus Book Awards. Th...
Feb 05, 2024•38 min
J.C. Hall, LCSW, EXAT is a Hip Hop artist and therapist who runs the Hip Hop Therapy Studio program at Mott Haven Community High School , a “second-chance” school in the South Bronx. In 2013, J.C. assembled a professional recording studio in one of the school’s old storage rooms to provide youth the opportunity to engage in the therapeutic process through writing, recording, producing and performing their own music. The origins of the program are chronicled in the award-winning short documentary...
Feb 01, 2024•42 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...
Jan 29, 2024•34 min
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy helped Rotem change so many lives that it ended up changing his own life. By treating his clients with this transformative therapy, he’s realized the limitless power of healing therapists have. When he started providing consultation to newly trained EMDR therapists, he discovered that many therapists needed help and support on their own journey. Many therapists find it hard to navigate the endless flow of information from books, articles, stu...
Jan 25, 2024•25 min
