Judith Lewis Herman M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry (part time) at Harvard Medical School. For thirty years, until she retired, she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA.

She is the author of the award-winning books Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard University Press, 1981) and Trauma and Recovery (Basic Books, 1992).

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984 and the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2007 she was named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Her new book, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice, was published in March, 2023.

Dr. Rick Hohfeler is a clinical psychologist graduating from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in 1986. He has maintained a private practice in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area for the past 30 years, specializing in psychological trauma since 1986 as co-manager of an inpatient program treating survivors of abuse at Rogers Memorial Hospital where he also co-managed an inpatient program treating children and adolescents until 1995. He continues to treat adults, children, and adolescents suffering from disorders associated with severe developmental trauma including a special emphasis on dissociative disorders in private practice. This specialty was also applied within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections from 2008-2020. He has provided supervision and consultation to therapists and case managers from a variety of agencies in the Milwaukee area for the past 20 years with consultation affiliations having expanded internationally.

Rick is a faculty member of the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he teaches courses in trauma and dissociation. He is a member of ISSTD and was elected to their Board of Directors in 2016. Since 2014 he has acted as moderator for the Virtual Book Club sponsored by ISSTD. He has presented professionally on topics related to trauma and dissociation locally, nationally, and internationally. He has published papers related to working with trauma/dissociation in forensic settings and is in process of releasing a paper regarding the regulatory aspects of shame in dissociative disorders.

Katherine (Katie) Lee Wood is a queer, plural, genderfluid, white, neurodivergent counselor intern, artist and musician. Katie is in their third and final year of graduate school at Lewis and Clark College, and will graduate in June 2023 with a degree in art therapy and a certificate in eating disorders counseling. They have an undergraduate degree in psychology from Western Washington University. Currently, they are completing their graduate internship at a queer- and trans-owned therapy practice that serves queer and trans youth, adults, and families. Katie lives with their partner and two fur-friends in Portland, OR, and enjoys playing piano, drawing and sculpting, stained glass work, rockhounding, practicing yoga, playing board games, watching animated series, and gardening.

Dr. Shelly Itzkowitz is an adjunct associate professor of psychology and clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Guest Faculty, the Eating Disorders, Compulsions, and Addictions Program, the William Alanson White Institute. He is on the teaching and supervisory faculty of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the Trauma Studies Program of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, he is an honorary member of the William Alanson White Society, a Fellow and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD).

Dr. Itzkowitz has published several articles on the topics of trauma, dissociation and DID and has presented his work on dissociation and dissociative identity disorder both nationally and internationally.

He, and Elizabeth Howell have a Chapter, “The Unconscionable In The Unconscious: The Evolution of Relationality In The Treatment of Trauma”, appearing in the recently published volume, “Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: Past, present, future (2nd Edition)”. They are co-editors of their recently published book, “Psychoanalysts, Psychologists and Psychiatrists Discuss Psychopathy & Human Evil” which received the 2021 Media Award-Written and the Sandor Ferenczi Award by ISSTD. They have also co-edited, “The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma” which received the 2016 Media Award-Written by ISSTD and was nominated for the 2017 Gradiva Award.

Dr. Itzkowitz received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the ISSTD. He is in full time private practice in Manhattan working with both individuals and couples and provides clinical consultation individually and in groups.

D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, (he/they) is a clinical social worker and maintains a private practice in Bremerton, Washington, USA, where he serves emerging adults, adults, and older adults.

Psychodynamically grounded, Michael integrates EMDR therapy with additional training in clinical hypnosis, Ego State Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. He offers clinical consultation on diagnostic evaluation and clinical practice with persons with complex trauma and dissociative symptoms/disorders.

Michael is an EMDR Certified Approved Consultant and Trainer through the EMDR International Association and served on EMDRIA's Standards & Training committee from 2014 to 2017. From 2017-2020, Michael co-chaired the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation’s EMDR Therapy Training Task Group, which created ISSTD's EMDR therapy basic training. He now co-chairs ISSTD’s EMDR Therapy Training Committee and co-teaches the training. During 2020-2021, Michael was a member of the Clinical Practice Working Group of the EMDR Council of Scholars and currently serves a three-year term (2022-2025) on the EMDRIA Training Council.

Since 2016, Michael has collaborated with colleague Jennifer Madere and Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation developer Paul F. Dell to make the MID more accessible. He co-authored the MID Interpretive Manual, 3rd Edition, and manages the MID Analysis and MID website. Since 2017, Jennifer and Michael have taught and consulted for hundreds of clinicians on how to employ the MID for diagnosis, conceptualization, and treatment, both in the US and internationally.

Michael has presented original material, as well, in the form of the EMDR Introject Decathexis (Id) Protocol, as well as a framework for recognizing, contextualizing, and resolving clients’ dissociated memory material communicated non-verbally through mirror neuronal communication, the integration of Ego State Therapy and EMDR, and the creative employment of trance in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. He has also co-authored both an article and a book chapter on screening and diagnostic assessment of dissociative disorders.

Michael has served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation since 2017, and became Treasurer in 2018, a role in which he continues to serve.

Joanne H. Twombly, MSW, LICSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington, Massachusetts. She has over 30 years of experience working with Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders and provides trainings and consultation.

She has written chapters on EMDR and Dissociative Disorders, EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and on working with Perpetrator Introjects. Her book “Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat Complex PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders” (2023) is the first book to integrate Internal Family Systems with knowledge from the trauma and dissociation field.

Her commitment to providing clients with healing and has resulted in her becoming an EMDR Consultant and a Trauma and Recovery HAP Facilitator, Internal Family Systems Certified, and an American Society for Clinical Hypnosis Consultant.

She is a past president of the New England Society of Trauma and Dissociation, served on various ISSTD committees and on the board. She received ISSTD's Distinguished Achievement Award and is an ISSTD Fellow.

Steven N Gold, PhD is Professor Emeritus, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) College of Psychology, and was Founding Director of NSU’s Trauma Resolution & Integration Program (TRIP). He has served as President of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Trauma Psychology (56), inaugural editor of the Division’s scientific journal, Psychological Trauma from 2008 through 2014, recipient of the Division’s Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology in 2014, the Division’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, and was a Div56 delegate to the APA Council of Representatives. In 2004 Dr. Gold served as President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD); he received ISSTD’s 2020 Cornelia B Wilbur Award for outstanding clinical contributions to the treatment of dissociative disorders and ISSTD’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of ISSTD and of APA. Dr. Gold has published and presented on abuse, trauma, dissociation, hypnotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy, and has been an invited speaker throughout the United States and in Canada, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria. He is Editor in Chief of the APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology, a Co-Editor of the second edition of the book Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders, and author of the books Contextual Trauma Therapy for Complex Traumatization and Not Trauma Alone. Dr. Gold was founding co-editor of the Journal of Trauma Practice, and guest edited a special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy on the treatment of trauma-related disorders. He is a Certified Traumatologist with the Traumatology Institute, a Certified Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and sits on the Board of Directors of the Sidran Institute for Traumatic Stress Education and Advocacy and on the Advisory Board of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence. Dr. Gold maintains an independent psychology practice in Plantation, Florida and is regularly retained as an expert witness in legal cases in which trauma and dissociation appear to be relevant issues.

Daniel Shaw, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and in Nyack, New York. Originally trained as an actor at Northwestern University and with the renowned teacher Uta Hagen in New York City, Shaw later worked as a missionary for an Indian guru. His eventual recognition of cultic aspects of this organization led him to become an outspoken activist in support of individuals and families traumatically abused in cults. Simultaneous with leaving this group, Shaw began his training in the mental health profession, becoming a faculty member and supervisor at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. In addition to his numerous published journal articles and book chapters, Shaw's book, Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, was published in 2014 for the Relational Perspectives Series by Routledge. The book was a runner-up for the distinguished Gradiva Award. In 2018, the International Cultic Studies Association awarded him the Margaret Thaler Singer Award for advancing the understanding of coercive persuasion and undue influence. Shaw's second book, Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery: Leaving the Prison of Shame and Fear, was published by Routledge in 2021.

Website: www.danielshawlcsw.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/DanielShawlCSW

From the show notes this week…

Here are some other supportive podcasts for those exploring the intersection of their queerness and their faith, heritage, and/or culture:

Jewish:

Kosher Queers
The Queer Jew


Muslim:

Queer Muslim Stories
The Queer Arabs


Hindu:

Queer Kahani
Queering Desi


Catholic:

Queer Catholic Talk
Queer Theology


Evangelical:

How Gay Thou Art
The New Evangelicals Podcast


LDS:

Called to Queer
Questions from the Closet


General/Other:

Queer Religion Podcast
Queer Christianity
Queerology: A Podcast on Belief and Being
That's What She Said
Living Out Podcast
Our Loud: GLBT Stories of Faith


For LGBT help:

www.LGBTHotline.org

www.TheTrevorProject.org

Tamara Baker is a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist in California and Idaho. She specializes in complex trauma, dissociation, and couples and family therapy. Tamara spent five years (2004-2009) serving in the United States Navy where she traveled the Pacific Ocean and optained her Associates degree out at sea. Her undergraduate studies are in child and family development, which have proven beneficial in her work with complex trauma and dissociative amnesia. Tamara obtained a graduate degree in counseling psychology (2015) from National University, California. She integrates many modalities together to best meet her client’s where they are, including, but not limited to Art, Attachment Theory, Experiential, Existential, and trauma therapies. Tamara was trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in 2015 but found Brainspotting in 2016 and has since never looked back! She began assisting in Brainspotting Phase One and Phase Two trainings for Lisa Larson, M.A., LMFT in California in 2017. She has since assisted Dr. Melanie Young, Psy.D., Dr. David Grand, PhD, and others in the training of hundreds of therapists who are seeking to become Brainspotting therapists. Tamara began the process of becoming a Brainspotting consultant in 2020 and over a year-long intensive training course, she is now helping other therapist strengthen and enhance their understanding and application of the Brainspotting theories and set ups. She enjoys the flexibility that the Brainspotting model allows for her to encourage them to integrate their personal strengths and backgrounds into their Brainspotting practice. Tamara currently has a private practice in Ketchum, Idaho, where she lives with her family and dog Odin.

Jessica Endres, LPC, MA, NCC is a Licensed Professional Counselor in her private practice in Texas called Red Oak Therapy, PLLC. In her practice, she provides individual counseling, virtual DBT group counseling, consultation for working with trauma and dissociative disorders, and training or speaking engagements. She works with adults who have experienced neglect and sexual, physical, or emotional abuse. Most of her clients are working to manage attachment issues, personality disorder symptoms, PTSD, complex PTSD, and dissociative disorders. Jessica has previous clinical experience in various settings including a psychiatric hospital, local mental health authority, rape crisis center, and domestic violence shelter. Her clinical training includes Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (Basic, PRECI, ASSYT, Group). Additionally, she is a trained yoga instructor and integrates mindfulness and the various limbs of yoga into her practice. Presently she is also a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision at Sam Houston State University. In her research, she focuses on the identification and treatment of dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID). Personally, she is an extroverted, social person who enjoys playing sports and spending time with her dogs and loved ones.

Dr. Raja Selvam, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist from the US, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) (a complementary therapeutic approach based on affective neuroscience and the emerging paradigm of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior in cognitive neuroscience and psychology) to improve cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical, energetic, relational, and spiritual outcomes in all therapy modalities. Dr. Selvam is also a senior trainer in Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) Professional Trauma Training Program. He has taught for twenty-five years in nearly as many countries in North and South Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and the Far East. His work is informed by older body psychotherapy systems of Reichian Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis, newer body psychotherapy systems of Bodynamic Analysis and Somatic Experiencing, and bodywork systems of Postural Integration and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. His work is also inspired by Jungian and archetypal psychologies, Kleinian and intersubjective schools of psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, quantum physics, yoga, Polarity Therapy, and Advaita Vedanta (a spiritual psychology from India). His book The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Method for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes was published on March 22, 2022.

Dr. Selvam's work also draws upon his clinical psychology PhD dissertation on Advaita Vedanta and Jungian psychology, based on which he has published  an article  titled “Jung and Consciousness,”  in the international analytical psychology journal Spring in 2013. He did trauma outreach work in India in 2005–2006 with survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, based on which he has published an outcome study  titled “Somatic Therapy Treatment Effects with Tsunami Survivors,”  in the journal Traumatology in 2008. Dr. Selvam’s  work is also inspired by the work he did in Sri Lanka in 2011–2013 with survivors of war, violence, loss, and displacement, and with mental health professionals engaged in treating them, after Sri Lanka's thirty-year civil war ended in 2009.

His website is HERE.

Rachel Walker, MA, MFT is a licensed therapist and EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant specializing in the treatment of trauma and dissociation. In addition to seeing clients out of her office in Oakland, CA, Rachel teaches, consults, and provides mentorship at colleges and non-profits, as well as within the mental health community at large. She has created an in-depth training for mental health professionals on the fundamentals of treating trauma and dissociation called, 'At the Crossroads of Trauma Therapy', which integrates theories, interventions, and information from many of today’s most effective trauma models and research sources: EMDR, Structural Dissociation, Parts Work, Comprehensive Research Model (CRM), Attachment Research/Theory, Developmental Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychobiology. 

Rachel is also the founder of the online platform, TraumaRecoveryStore.com which provides simple, hands-on tools for improving trauma treatment and promoting the self-healing process. She has created numerous tools for therapists and survivors alike, including the Trauma Recovery Guidebook for Therapists (in English, Spanish, and Icelandic), the Trauma Recovery Handbook for Survivors (in English, Spanish, and Icelandic), and NeuroPeeps, instinctive defense ‘parts’ dolls (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Submit, Attachment Cry), designed to facilitate psychoeducation and parts work. The primary mission of the Trauma Recovery Store is to demystify and destigmatize trauma and dissociation. To this end, the store offers products that provide concrete information, practical tools, and simple maps for making treatment and recovery more transparent, approachable, and navigable. Her books, tools, and trainings are infused with simple every-day language, step-by-step guidance, and hope!

Rachel is passionate about integrative and flexible approaches to treating trauma. She understands how well such approaches resolve symptoms across a wide spectrum of trauma-related suffering. Through this way of working, many more people are being helped, which is enormously heartening! 

Trauma Recovery Store:

https://traumarecoverystore.com

NeuroPeeps: 

https://traumarecoverystore.com/collections/neuropeep-dolls

Trauma Recovery Guidebook for Therapists: https://traumarecoverystore.com/collections/books/products/trauma-recovery-guidebook-for-therapists

Trauma Recovery Handbook for Survivors:
https://traumarecoverystore.com/collections/books/products/trauma-recovery-handbook-for-survivors-new-larger-size-11-x-8-5

Search for “Transactional Analysis” for more information.

Kathleen Adams has been practicing as a clinical psychologist since 1977. She works with children, adolescents and adults. Her current focus is developmental trauma. She has worked extensively with all forms of trauma and dissociation. She has a book coming out with Routledge called ”Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: High-functioning, Non-abused people Living Outside of Time.

She recently presented two workshops on shame and on abject states at the ISSTD conference in Seattle. The material she is covering today on abject states, OSDD and dead states is available to you on her website: kathleenadamsphd.com.

Dr. Maves is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, practicing in Longmont, Colorado since 1982, specializing in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders.  He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the former Assistant Director of the Emergency Psychiatric Service of Boulder.  He was the Clinical Director of Adams Community Mental Health Center and developed and was the Clinical Director of Centennial Peak’s Hospital’s Trauma and Dissociative Disorders Treatment Program.  He was the Clinical Director of Columbine Hospital’s National Trauma Center.  Dr. Maves has served as a Practice Monitor for the Grievance Board, State of Colorado and was an oral licensing examiner for the Colorado State Board of Psychologist Examiners, Department of Regulatory Agencies.  Dr. Maves is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences on the treatment of complex trauma, dissociative disorders, traumatic brain injuries and military trauma.  He was a Clinical Instructor for 20 years, supervising Ph.D. students in the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder.  He is a Fellow and former Board member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, where he is currently Co-Chair of the Regional and Virtual Conference Committee, and the Chair-Elect of ISSTD’s Professional Training Program.  He is a Diplomate in Clinical Forensic Counseling and a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation.

Eli Somer, Ph.D., is a full clinical professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Haifa School of Social Work. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and hypnotist and an Israel Ministry of Health certified supervisor of psychopathology and psychodiagnostics training. Prof. Somer has been treating survivors of trauma since the mid-1980's, himself a son of Holocaust survivors and a combat veteran of 2 major middle-east wars. Somer has also served as reservist mental health officer (captain) and commander of a front-line combat stress treatment unit of the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.

As an academic, Somer has written over 150 scientific publications in the field. He has identified a phenomenon he termed Maladaptive Daydreaming and his current research focuses on this excessive and distressful form of fantasizing.

 Eli Somer was founder and scientific advisor of Trauma and Dissociation Israel (TDIL). He is co-founder and past president of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). Eli is currently involved in the establishment of the International Society for Maladaptive Daydreaming.

Somer is the ISSTD recipient of the Cornelia Wilbur Award (2000) for his outstanding clinical contributions to the treatment of dissociative disorders and the recipient of ISSTD's Fellow status (2001) for his excellent contributions to the field of dissociative disorders. Eli Somer also received the President's Award for outstanding leadership twice: from the ISSTD (2006) and from the ESTD (2012) and in 2014 the ISSTD awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been listed twice as one of the 10 best clinical psychologists in Israel.

Joan A. Turkus, M.D. maintains a consulting and clinical practice in psychiatry and traumatology in McLean, Virginia.

She is the Medical Director, TraumaSci: Complex Trauma Disorders Program at Dominion/HCA Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia and Co-Founder/past Medical Director of The Center: Posttraumatic Disorders Program at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington, D.C. 

Dr. Turkus has years of experience in the trauma field and maintains a national profile with teaching and consultation. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in pharmacy and graduated from The George Washington University School of Medicine with honors. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, of which she is a Past President.

She has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award, the Cornelia Wilbur Award for clinical contributions, and a Distinguished Achievement Award by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is a Diplomate of both the American Board of Psychiatry and the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry. She is trained in psychiatry, traumatology, clinical hypnosis and EMDR. She maintains a keen interest in neurobiology and psychopharmacology, particularly in their application to the complexity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.