The Trauma Therapist

Julie is a passionate learner and teacher, focusing on empowering clients with deeper understanding to live a vibrant and fulfilling life with meaningful interpersonal relationships. As an adoptive parent who is familiar with adoption trauma, grief, and loss, Julie is able to empathically come alongside adoptive families and adoptees with steadfast support and compassionate care. Her heart was mov...

Christina Kantzavelos is a neurodivergent, and first-generation (third culture) Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), life coach, writer and chronic illness warrior. She received both her BA and MSW from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her MLIS from San Jose State University (SJSU). She specializes in treating clients with chronic health conditions (aka spoonies and medical r...

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of I...

Dr. Orna Guralnik is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is on faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in NYC, where she teaches courses on the trans-generational transmission of trauma, socio-politics/ideology and psychoanalysis, and on dissociation. Currently Dr. Guralnik lectures and publishes on the topics of couples treatment and cultur...

Brooke Bralove, LCSW-C is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Advanced Accelerated Resolution Therapy Practitioner, and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. Brooke specializes in treating adults, couples, and groups with depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship challenges. Through her facilitation of Brené Brown’s shame resilience curriculum, she helps women let go of perfection...

Hilary began her career at Owl Practice 5 years ago working to help support Therapists navigate the platform. She is a passionate advocate for mental health both professionally and in her personal life and has grown in her career with the organization where is currently the Director of Sales and Client Services. As a lifelong volunteer, Hilary is thrilled to continue her career with Owl Practice,...

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...

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 spe...

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 reduc...

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 wor...

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...

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 Australia...

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...

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’...

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 ha...

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 curre...

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...

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....

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 R...

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...

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 fire...

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...

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...

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...

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 Residen...