The Trauma Therapist | Podcast With Guy Macpherson, Phd | Inspiring Interviews With Thought-leaders In The Field Of Trauma.

Geri Lynn Weinstein-Mathews has been providing therapy for more than 20 years. Within that time she played a significant role delivering care to the Firefighters of New York City in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Recently Geri Lynn has turned her efforts to documentary filmmaking with her film Justice Denied (http://www.justicedeniedmovie.com/) to advocate and educate on the subject of rape in the military, and specifically male survivors of sexual assault in the military.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Nina Thomas has worked clinically with individuals and groups since 1981. Her primary area of expertise is in working with people who have endured traumas in their lives whether these are the challenges of divorce or the traumas caused by uprooting through natural devastation, or through immigration, war and refugee status or the like.She has written and presented nationally and internationally on these issues in a variety of contexts.Nina is Co-Chair and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis as well as Chair, in the Advanced Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (http://postdocpsychoanalytic.as.nyu.edu/object/pd.advspecial.trauma).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interest

Anna B. Baranowsky, Ph.D., C. Psych, is the CEO of the Traumatology Institute (http://psychink.com/) (Canada) and is a psychologist who works with trauma survivors. Her guiding principle has been the development of service to meet the needs of trauma survivors, their families, friends and organizations, and professionals seeking personal care and training to advance their knowledge in the field.Dr. Baranowsky received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa. She is a Green Cross Scholar, Registered Traumatologist and Trainer. She serves on the board of directors of the Academy of Traumatology (http://www.greencross.org/) and is a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress (http://www.aaets.org/index.htm) and is recognized by The National Center for Crisis Management (http://www.nc-cm.org/index.htm).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-th

Dr. Heller is the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (http://www.drlaurenceheller.com/)™ or (NARM), a unified systemic approach for working with developmental issues and shock trauma.Dr. Heller has been on the faculty of several major universities and has taught courses and seminars at medical schools, hospitals and pain clinics in the U.S. and Europe.He co-founded the Gestalt Institute of Denver and later the Rocky Mountain Psychotherapy Institute where he trained hundreds of mental health professionals.Finally Dr. Heller is the co-author of Crash Course, A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery published in English, German, Danish, and Italian.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/adv

Linda Gantt has a Master of Arts in Art Therapy and a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies.She is the owner and executive director of Intensive Trauma Therapy in Morgantown, West Virginia, an outpatient clinic for trauma-related disorders where art therapy is the primary means of treatment.Linda is also the co-developer along with Carmello Tabone of the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale, an instrument designed for measuring diagnostic information in drawings.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Ghislaine Boulanger is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and a member of the Relational faculty at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.Since the publication of her book Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006ORYULS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B006ORYULS&linkCode=as2&tag=wescoatrapro-20&linkId=MEN5QDTQXL3CLNP3) (The Analytic Press, 2007), she has taught and published extensively on the psychodynamic dilemmas facing adults who have survived violent and life threatening events.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/573

Lt. Eric Strom spent 5 years active duty in the US Marine Corps from 1999-2004. In 2009, he received his Masters in Social Work and then in 2010 began serving with the Minnesota Army National Guard as a behavioral health officer. Today, Eric works in private practice in Northern Minnesota, specializing in trauma with veterans.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Kathy Steele has been offering consultation and training for the past 30 years in the areas of complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment.She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer and trainer.Kathy is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), and has served on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), as well as served on the International Task Force that developed treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders.Currently Kathy is on a Joint Task Force that is developing treatment guidelines for Complex PTSD.Kathy has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, journal articles, and two award winning books on trauma and dissociation with Dutch colleagues: The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation of the Personality and Treatment of Chronic Traumatization [Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology], and Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation: Skills Training for Pat

Don is a Licensed Social Worker and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who retired from the US Army after more than 21 years of service, having served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, as well as 3 Tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division as a Platoon Sergeant.In 2010 Don co-founded Soldiers And Families Embraced (http://soldiersandfamiliesembraced.org/) whose mission is to to ease the readjustment and reintegration of all veterans, along with their families, as they return from war.In addition, Don is a PTSD survivor, and he brings that experience as well as the insights he’s gained, to his clients struggling with PTSD and other forms of trauma.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Becky Thompson is an award-winning writer, professor, yoga instructor, and activist. She has spent the last twenty years travelling across the world researching, teaching, and writing on issues of social and racial inequality. Becky has published eight books including the forthcoming Survivors on the Mat: Yoga Stories for those Healing from Trauma (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583948260/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1583948260&linkCode=as2&tag=wescoatrapro-20&linkId=VU47OY65TK6J5WUZ).Becky's work has also been featured in multiple journals such as Harvard Review, Feminist Studies, and Gender & Society.Becky is a senior level yoga teacher and teaches yoga at conferences, workshops, in college classes, and community centers internationally and nationally. She sees her yoga practice as the foundation upon which her writing, teaching, poetry, and activism can flourish.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-pod

The Trauma Therapist Live! podcasts are shorter segments in which I reflect on the themes and topics coming up on the podcast and discuss the nuts and bolts of how these themes pertain to the trauma therapist, what we can learn from them, and how we can apply them in the work we do.In this episode I spend some time elaborating on a post and PDF I put together on Ten Things for trauma therapists to do and remember when in session with a client. Check it out!BioMy name is Guy Macpherson. I am a husband, father, brother, and a psychologist. I specialize in the treatment of trauma and early psychosis. My passion is helping trauma therapists thrive.I do this by helping trauma clinicians engage more effectively and deeply with their clients by:Sharing trauma information and materialsBuilding communityThe Trauma Therapist PodcastCoaching therapists to (re)discover their own why for this workFor the last six years I have dedicated myself to the study of trauma psychology, trauma therapy, post-traumatic growth, and mo

Dr. Ellen Lacter, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a Registered Play Therapist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, as well as past President of the California Association for Play Therapy (http://www.calplaytherapy.org/). Dr. Lacter has 30 years of clinical experience and specializes in the treatment of abused children, adolescents, and adults abused as children. She is currently Academic Coordinator of the Play Therapy Certificate Program at the University of California (http://extension.ucsd.edu/programs/index.cfm?vAction=certDetail&vCertificateID=107&vStudyAreaID=12), San Diego-Extension, where she is also a continuing education instructor, training psychotherapists in play and art therapy techniques and the treatment of trauma.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing (http://www.traumahealing.com/somatic-experiencing/)® and the Director of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.Peter holds doctorate degrees in Medical Biophysics and in Psychology and during his thirty five-year study of stress and trauma, has contributed to a variety of scientific and popular publications.Among his many accomplishments…Peter has been stress consultant for NASA in the development of the first Space Shuttle; he's been a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force with Psychologists for Social Responsibility (http://www.psysr.org/) and has also served on the APA initiative for response to large scale disaster and Ethno-political warfare.He is on the ‘distinguished faculty’ of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona.Peter is the author of the best selling book Waking the Tiger - Healing Trauma (http://www.amazon.c

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing (http://www.traumahealing.com/somatic-experiencing/)® and the Director of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.Peter holds doctorate degrees in Medical Biophysics and in Psychology and during his thirty five-year study of stress and trauma, has contributed to a variety of scientific and popular publications.Among his many accomplishments…Peter has been stress consultant for NASA in the development of the first Space Shuttle; he's been a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force with Psychologists for Social Responsibility (http://www.psysr.org/) and has also served on the APA initiative for response to large scale disaster and Ethno-political warfare.He is on the ‘distinguished faculty’ of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona.Peter is the author of the best selling book Waking the Tiger - Healing Trauma (http://www.amazon.c

Staci K. Haines is the developer of generative somatics and the Somatics and Trauma courses. Her work emerges from the Somatics tradition of Richard Strozzi Heckler (http://www.strozziinstitute.com/) integrating Polarity Therapy (http://www.polaritytherapy.org/), Gestalt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology), Vipassana meditation (https://www.dhamma.org/) and Aikido.She is a senior teacher in the field of Somatics and leads courses in Somatics and Leadership, Somatics and Trauma, and Somatics and Social Justice.In addition she is the founder of generationFIVE (http://www.generationfive.org/), a social justice organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children, and the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HTJP43S/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00HTJP43S&linkCode=as2&tag=wescoatrapro-20&linkId=CZCADFAPHZWIQSZL).Support this podcast at — https://redcirc

Dr. Larry Decker has been has been a student of universal Sufism for over 40 years and has been treating combat veterans for over 30 years first in the VA and now in private practice as a contract/provider.He has published numerous articles in several technical/scholarly journals on the treatment of combat PTSD.Dr. Decker’s book, The Alchemy of Combat (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941810063/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1941810063&linkCode=as2&tag=wescoatrapro-20&linkId=5CHCN572OWI7RRLW), published by Omega Publications has just been released. In this book Larry presents the process of transforming a traumatic disorder into emotional and psychological growth.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast,

Dr. George Rhoades is a clinical psychologist based in Hawaii and the founder and director of Ola Hou Clinic (http://www.olahouclinic.com/), as well as the Chair of the Education and Training Committee and the Continuing Education Committee for the APA's Division 56, Trauma Psychology (http://www.apatraumadivision.org/).In addition, Dr. Rhoades is the Executive Director for Roads To Hope (http://www.roadstohope.org/), a non-profit humanitarian organization devoted to helping those traumatized around the world by addressing the spiritual, emotional and physical aftereffects of trauma.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Lisa Danylchuk is a LMFT who discovered her passion for healing work while volunteering in housing projects in Watts, CA, and she’s been working in the field of resilience, wellness and mental health ever since.She went on to study trauma and resilience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she completed a  master's degree and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS).She has presented at conferences at Harvard University, the American Counseling Association, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement

Mrs Parks is the creator of Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT) (http://www.pennyparks.eu/). She is a pioneer and expert in the field of childhood abuse (recognition, treatment and training) - having developed the first inner child method of therapy in the UK. She began teaching this complete ‘stand alone’ therapy model in 1988. It was originally created from her successful self-help efforts in resolving her own personal childhood abuse experiences and has evolved into a structured, rapid, thorough and gentle therapeutic model.Mrs. Parks is an American who has lived in the UK since 1982. Her work with survivors in England evolved into two books - Rescuing the ‘Inner Child’ (1990, Souvenir Press) (http://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Inner-Child-Sexually-Children/dp/0285650890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414343669&sr=1-1&keywords=penny+parks) - a self-help publication and The Counsellor’s Guide to Parks Inner Child therapy (1994, Souvenir Press) (http://www.amazon.com/Counsellors-Guide-Therapy-Horiz

Steven Gold, Ph.D. is a Professor at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Center for Psychological Studies in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.He founded and serves as Director of the Trauma Resolution Integration Program (TRIP)  (http://www.nova.edu/healthcare/psychology/trip.html)at NSU's Psychology Services Center which treats individuals age 18 and above who have been exposed to a traumatic situation and are currently experiencing problems in functioning as a result.In addition, Dr. Gold is co-editor, along with Jan Faust, Ph.D., of the Journal of Trauma Practice (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wztp20/current#.VEfNiZPF_q0). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-trauma-therapist-podcast-with-guy-macpherson-phd-inspiring-interviews-with-thought-leaders-in-the-field-of-trauma/exclusive-contentThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5739761/advertisement