Our guest this week is Martha Straus, PhD:

Martha B. Straus, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Antioch University New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire. Dr. Straus is an international trainer on topics related to child, adolescent, and family development, attachment, trauma, and therapy. She is the author of numerous articles and five books including, most recently, Treating Trauma in Adolescents: Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship. She lives in Brattleboro, VT where she also maintains a small private practice.

Our guest this week is Ken Benau, PhD.

Ken Benau, Ph.D. has been a licensed psychologist for 30 years, with an independent practice in psychotherapy, consulting and training, currently in Kensington, CA (SF Bay Area).  Dr. Benau has a special interest in working with children, adolescents and adults living with various learning differences, ADHD and High Functioning Autism, as well as depression and anxiety.  Dr. Benau also works with survivors of relational or developmental trauma, all from an integrative approach to psychotherapy.  His theoretical orientations include attachment and emotion-focused, psychodynamic, experiential, somatic and Coherence Therapy.  Dr. Benau has a special interest in understanding and working with shame and pride in survivors of relational trauma, and has written several articles and is currently working on a book with that theme. 

His website is HERE.