Training Background

Some of the Professional Training I’ve Completed:

  • Understanding Trauma: Foundations, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • The Nature of Trauma: Developmental Neurobiology, Neuroimaging Research and Effective Intervention, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • Neurobiology of Trauma Treatment: EMDR and New Research Directions, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • The Roles Intersectionality & Cultural Humility Play When Working with Diverse Client Populations, with Gary Bailey, MSW, ACSW

  • Safety as the Treatment: Reframing Trauma, Integrity, and Care in Contexts of Chronic Violence, with Michael Niconchuk, MSc

  • Trauma Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory, with Stephen Porges, PhD

  • Trauma Assessment of Children and Adults, with Alexandra Cook, PhD

  • Childhood Trauma: Impact and Long-Term Consequences, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • The Scope of Trauma Treatment: From Acute Interventions to Restoration of Self-Experience, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • We Do Not Work Alone: Implementing and Sustaining Trauma-informed Systems, with Patricia Wilcox, LCSW

  • SMART: Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment, with Elizabeth Warner, EdM, PsyD, and Alexandra Cook, PhD

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice, with Pat Ogden, PhD

  • Trauma, PTSD and the Mind-Body Relationship, with Matthew Sanford

  • Embodied Awareness, with Licia Sky, BFA

  • Use of Play and Activity to Support Trauma-informed Treatment, with Steve Gross, MSW

  • Trauma Processing with Children, with Michele Henderson, LICSW

  • Making Connections: The Neuropsychology of Sandplay Therapy in the Treatment of Trauma, with Lorraine Freedle, PhD, LCSW, ABPdN, ABSNP, CST-T

  • The Importance of Play in the Treatment of Trauma, with Dafna Lender, LCSW

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: A Model for Accelerated Change, with Deborah Korn, PsyD

  • The DE-CRUIT Monologue Method: Treating Trauma Through Narrative Embodiment, with Stephan Wolfert, LCSW, MSW, MFA, and Dawn Stern

  • Working with Problematic Sexual Behavior in Children & Youth, with Jon Ebert, PsyD, and Tarah Kuhn, PhD

  • Trauma & Altered States of Consciousness, with Ruth Lanius, PhD, MD, FRCPC

  • Internal Family Systems, with Richard Schwartz, PhD

  • The Use of Internal Family Systems Model in Trauma Treatment, with Frank Anderson, MD

  • Implementing Trauma Informed Therapies in Community, with Janina Fisher, PhD

  • Alternative Non-pharmaceutical Treatment Techniques for Development Trauma: Neurofeedback and Biofeedback, with Ainat Rogel, PhD, MSW, LCSW, and Diana Martinez, MD, MSc, PhD, BNC

  • The Future of Trauma Interventions, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • Psychedelics for Trauma Treatment, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Rick Doblin PhD, Phil Wolfson, MD, and Michael Mithoefer, MD

  • Childhood Anxiety: Helping Children Heal

  • The Making of a Resilient Child: Practical Tools and Strategies

  • Compassionate Discipline: Raising Resilient Children

  • Pathways to Permanence 2: Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Loss

  • Childhood Trauma: Finding a Way Through