Alex Abraham has spent years researching, exploring, and experiencing firsthand the therapeutic treatment options for healing from childhood sexual abuse. Alex’s book, Trauma and Ecstasy takes a long, hard look at pain, from the sudden unexplained pelvic floor discomfort that afflicted Alex at the end of a trip abroad to the deeply rooted anxiety and shame of a childhood robbed of innocence. In this powerful and courageous memoir, Alex takes you on his journey of healing from sexual abuse while ...
Apr 07, 2025•31 min
Dr. Kelli Palfy began her professional career working in adult and youth corrections. Here she noticed a disproportionate number of males in the system. In 1996, she became an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer. She took an interest in investigating sex crimes and went on to specialize in sex crimes committed against children internationally. Here, as she combed through video evidence, she witnessed first-hand the grooming tactics commonly used by sophisticated pedophiles.After retirin...
Apr 03, 2025•34 min
Jon Labman is a 69-year-old man who's discovered the truth about spiritual awakening, enlightenment and liberation and is able to teach it to everyone who comes to him for transpersonal therapy and liberation guidance. He's a survivor of childhood abuse, life in religious cults, and other of life's troubles who's found simple ways to solve the problem of human suffering and to wake up. Jonathon is a graduate of international high school, has a B.A. in English, an M.A. with a concentration in Cou...
Mar 31, 2025•31 min
Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and internationally-recognized expert on anxiety and trauma, and the neuroscience of mental health. Trauma Treatment Toolbox: 165 Brain-Changing Tips, Tools & Handouts to Move Therapy Forward Jennifer completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master's degree in affective neuro...
Mar 27, 2025•29 min
Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship 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. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in ...
Mar 25, 2025•20 min
Tamika Christy is an insightful author whose stories delve into complicated relationships and family dynamics. Her fiction captures the essence of personal growth amidst life's challenges, resonating deeply with readers. Tamika infuses her stories with authenticity and a sense of place, making her characters come alive and her readers feel seen. More than just a writer, Tamika is a dedicated advocate for women's empowerment. She firmly believes in the transformative power of storytelling and act...
Mar 24, 2025•32 min
Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is an author, a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation. He is the founder of the non-profit, Effortless Mindfulness Institute , and has worked in community mental health, established homeless shelters and counseled family members of 9/11 victims. Loch has studied in Sri Lanka, India and at Columbia University. Loch collaborates with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and ...
Mar 20, 2025•32 min
In this episode, Veronique Mead, MD, MA, SEP, founder/consultant at Chronic Illness Trauma Studies interviews Psychologist Tony Madrid, PhD of Russian River Counselors on his work reversing asthma in children by helping their mothers heal from bonding disruptions. Childhood asthma can be cured if the child is not bonded with their mother. That occurs when babies are removed too soon from their mother or when the mother has suffered some terrible thing in her life, like divorce or death in the fa...
Mar 18, 2025•20 min
Nate Peereboom is the CEO of JotPsych. JotPsych is a best-in-class AI-scribe for behavioral health clinicians. The software reduces documentation time by ~90% for psychiatrists, PMHNPs, psychologists, counselors, and therapists. Since its commercial launch 16 months ago, JotPsych has scribed for over 700,000 patient encounters across the US, Canada, EU, Australia, and New Zealand. In This Episode JotPsych.com --- If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do ...
Mar 17, 2025•26 min
Tracy Morgan is a breath of fresh air. Tracy is an occupational therapist with 15 years experience, practicing for the last 10 in early intervention in psychosis in the UK Midlands. In this interview you can hear the passion Tracy has for her work and the clients she helps who are experiencing early symptoms of psychosis. Tracy has experienced fairly significant trauma herself and now she works with young people experiencing first episode psychosis. In This Episode Tracy’s Facebook Group Unshame...
Mar 13, 2025•31 min
Pam Buchanan founded Quantum Sense in May of 2023 with the goal of pioneering Soul Health innovations. She has 40 years of self-optimization experience along with a career that includes introducing mutual funds to banking and serving 15 years as Managing Director at Nasdaq. Pam has elevated her own energy to excel in the new paradigm, leading with positivity, and letting go of the shame associated with the old ways of thinking. By recognizing that Soul Health encompasses more than just mental an...
Mar 10, 2025•31 min
Kerry Heckman is a freelance writer and clinical social worker in private practice in Seattle. After ten years as a high school social worker in the Chicago area, she followed her intuition to the Pacific Northwest in 2018. There she was introduced to a therapeutic modality called Somatic Transformation created by Dr. Sharon Stanley. This life-changing lens through which to understand trauma and the nervous system taught Kerry how to manage her own complex health issues, as well as, help clients...
Mar 06, 2025•30 min
Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship 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. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in ...
Mar 04, 2025•20 min
Stefanie Klein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) Master Therapist. She is the Assistant Training Director and Faculty for the Complex Trauma Training Center, and is very passionate about the need for helping professionals to be trauma informed and for mental health providers to be trained in effective approaches for working with Complex Trauma. Stefanie has found NARM to be a game changing approach to working with D...
Mar 03, 2025•29 min
Silvia M. Dutchevici, MA, LCSW is the Critical Therapy Institute (CTI) founder and president. With more than 20 years of experience in social services and a passion for psychotherapy, Dutchevici (pronounced “doot-KAY-vitch”) created CTI when she perceived the need to expand psychoanalytic praxis to reflect how race, class, gender, and religion intersect with psychological conflicts. Silvia has an intensive background in psychoanalytic theory and trauma, with a particular focus on torture. Howeve...
Feb 27, 2025•31 min
Ali Capurro is a licensed professional counselor in Boise, Idaho and has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. She discovered Somatic Experiencing and fell in love immediately as it provided her with a structure to befriend her own nervous system. Ali is also the host of the Sneaky Powerful Podcast which is dedicated to Somatic Experiencing©, or SE™. She created it as an offering to anyone interested in the ways stress and trauma impact us, specifically through the Somatic Experienci...
Feb 24, 2025•30 min
Annie is a Somatic Author, educator, and therapist. She has over 35 years of professional experience helping infants through adults resolve trauma. She teaches courses online, the difference between shock and trauma, and she’s launching a 10-week Healing Complex Trauma course April 7th. Annie has worked at Children’s Hospital in the child trauma centers, in public schools with gang youth, with sexually abused foster children, and has seen families and adults in private practice since 1978. I was...
Feb 20, 2025•36 min
Dafna is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Karen Doyle Buckwalter has worked in many roles in chi...
Feb 18, 2025•24 min
For the past 17 years, Mallorie Buoy has studied psychology, education (specialized Waldorf education), yoga, mysticism + philosophy and movement education amongst other subjects. She has spent more than 1000 hours studying in the Himalayas, and many more in study of the Quantum and the direct application of this knowledge within her daily life. Yet it took a journey of single + adoptive parenting alongside much experience of and with trauma that catalyzed her deep desire to put all facets of he...
Feb 17, 2025•31 min
Anjuli Sherin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in trauma recovery, resilience-building and cultivating joy. Since 2003 her practice has been working primarily with Immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Muslim & LGBTQI populations. In addition to over 30000 hours of individual and group work, she is the creator of three programs: five-day, 12-week and 10-month-long Cultivating Resilience, including a five-day residential retreat in Hawaii on Embodying Joy. Anjuli ha...
Feb 13, 2025•31 min
Erika Shershun, MA, LMFT, is a somatic psychotherapist who specializes in helping sexual trauma survivors reclaim the life they were meant to live. She’s the author of the Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook, the Healing Sexual Trauma Guided Journal (March 2025 release), and teaches the PESI Sexual Trauma Clinical Training. Her approach is trauma-informed, rooted in somatic principles, drawing on neuroscience and integrative modalities like EMDR, energy psychology, parts work, and mindfulness. Erika ...
Feb 12, 2025•36 min
Jamie Marich, PhD (she/they) speaks internationally on EMDR therapy, trauma, addiction, dissociation, expressive arts, yoga, and mindfulness, and runs a private practice and online training network in her home base of Akron, OH. Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has been...
Feb 11, 2025•22 min
Katie K. May, LPC, is the owner and executive director of Creative Healing. She is a national speaker and trainer specializing in therapy for teens experiencing depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. As one of only eleven Linehan board-certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) clinicians in Pennsylvania, Katie’s an expert in this gold-standard treatment for life-threatening behaviors. She is committed to helping teens feel accepted for who they are while teaching them skills to build a...
Feb 10, 2025•31 min
Gunny Sodhi’s family roots in Ayurvedic medicine stretch across generations, but he didn’t personally understand the power of Ayurveda until tragedy struck. The sudden death of his 16-year-old brother completely changed the course of his life, setting him on an unexpected path of self-discovery. Following his brother’s passing, Gunny was consumed by debilitating panic attacks and bouts of deep depression. Diagnosed with PTSD and desperate for relief, he found no comfort in traditional Western th...
Feb 06, 2025•36 min
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. Dr. Ailey Jolie holds a Master of Counselling Psychology and a Master of Arts in Depth Psychology with an Emphasis in Somatic Studies, and is a graduate of Harvard M...
Feb 05, 2025•24 min
Heidi Crockett is a licensed psychotherapist, interpersonal neurobiology professor, and clinical supervisor specializing in trauma and the relational nature of the brain. She has certifications in Somatic Experiencing for trauma treatment and from the American Association of Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), for sexual health expertise. In This Episode Heidi’s website Heidi on Facebook Heidi on Instagram Heidi on Youtube Heidi on Vimeo Heidi on LinkedIn --- If you’d like to support...
Feb 04, 2025•30 min
Samantha is the Behavioral Health Account Executive at The Receptionist, helping their Behavioral Health customers specifically. She lives in St. Pete, Florida, with her husband, their black lab Rosa, and a baby due in February! In This Episode sam@thereceptionist.com Success in Session --- If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast. Click here to join my email list...
Feb 03, 2025•33 min
Jeanna Gomez is the owner of Gomez Counseling and Consulting Services (GCCS), and Trauma Healing and Recovery Center. She comes with 22+ years of clinical and trauma recovery experience. Jeanna is a Complex Trauma specialist and Relational therapist who utilizes Somatic Experiencing including SE Touch work, Integral Somatic Psychology, Brain Spotting, EMDR, and Post Induction Therapy Model (PIT) in her work with clients. Jeanna spearheaded bringing the Somatic Experiencing Professional Trainings...
Jan 29, 2025•37 min
Dr. Graham Taylor is a clinical psychologist, Chief Learning Officer at Triad, and founder of The Taylor Study Method, one of the Triad family’s EPPP preparation programs. He has over 25 years of experience working in both hospital and private practice settings working with individuals, couples, and families. Graham resides in Honolulu, Hawaii where he maintains a private practice. Dr. Lawrie Ignacio is a licensed clinical psychologist and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in English Lit...
Jan 28, 2025•24 min
Gayle Long and Barbara Dehart are the co-authors of A Year Without a Man: A Transformational Journey which follows two women’s explorations, failures, and lessons learned through moments of clarity and confidence, relapses and lows, joys and heartbreak, and ultimately, healing. It’s the discovery that only through intentional commitment to live authentically can one begin to find themselves and see their life change forever. Gayle Long is a licensed marriage and family therapist and runs The Emp...
Jan 27, 2025•30 min
