Jillian Hosey, MSW RSW, is a Clinical Social Worker and Trauma Therapist in a collaborative Private Practice in Toronto Canada, providing trauma therapy to children, youth, and adults who are struggling with experiences of trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD, attachment and developmental trauma, and dissociative disorders.

She is an integrative EMDR Therapist, incorporating various treatment modalities into Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Havening, Deep Brain Reorienting, Polyvagal Theory, and various theories of dissociation and parts work and ego-state modalities.

Jillian is a Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant and places value on the mind-body connection and an holistic approach to healing, tailoring therapeutic work to the client and their unique needs and experiences. 

In addition to her clinical work, Jillian is a facilitator with the AGATE Institute (Ana Gomez Attachment Trauma Education Institute) and Faculty with the Professional Training Program with the ISSTD (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation).

She has presented on integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) into EMDR Therapy at the Child and Adolescent Complex Trauma Conference 2019 and the SSP Gathering with Dr. Stephen Porges 2019. 

She is a founding partner of the Healing Therapy Alliance (HTA) and the PsychoSomatic Trauma Initiative in Toronto, which are collectives of integrative Psychotherapists, Wellness Therapists, and Addiction Counselors that provides a collaborative, team-based approach to healing and is grounded in neuroscience and trauma-specific, evidence informed practices.

You can see her WEBSITE HERE.

Our guest this week is Dr. Lou Himes.

Dr. Lou Himes is a licensed clinical psychologist and gender specialist in New York.

They identify as gender non-binary and use they/them/theirs pronouns. 

Lou maintains a strong commitment to social justice and aspires to play an active role in eliminating mental health disparities for members of queer communities. Lou has more than 10 years experience working with the LGBTQIA+ community. They are a WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) certified specialist in mental health and provides consultation regarding the current WPATH Standards of Care (7) guidelines for the appropriate treatment of transgender individuals. 

In addition to their work in full time private practice, Lou also offers a variety of educational opportunities for organizations or individual practitioners seeking to provide competent care to queer individuals. This includes basic practices for helping queer and transgender individuals feel safe and welcomed into one’s office, holy space, community, and/or business.

 You can see their website HERE.

Richard P. Kluft, M.D., Ph.D., practices psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and medical hypnosis in Bala Cynwyd, PA.  He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine.  He serves on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where he is a Waiver Training Analyst, and on the faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance.

He has published over 260 scientific papers and book chapters. Most of these papers concerned trauma, dissociation, dissociative disorders, therapeutic impasses, boundary violations, hypnosis, and psychoanalysis. His recent book, Shelter from the Storm (2013), explorating a compassionate approach to the abreaction of trauma, won the 2013 Written Media Award of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. His edited books are Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality, Treating Victims of Sexual Abuse, and Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology.  He and Catherine G. Fine, Ph.D., co-edited Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder.  Dr. Kluft was Editor-in-Chief of the journal DISSOCIATION for ten years. He is currently Clinical Forum Editor of the International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis and Advisory Editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.  He has presented over 1,000 scientific papers and workshops. 

He was a co-founder and an early President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He has been President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and International Conference Chair of the International Society of Hypnosis. He has received numerous awards for his published research and his clinical and teaching contributions. These include four Erickson Awards for the best scientific paper of the year in hypnosis, and the 2019 Ernest R. Hilgard Award for the best paper addressing the history of hypnosis. The Journal of Trauma and Dissociation has established the Richard P. Kluft, M.D. Award to honor its best scientific paper of the year. He has held several visiting professorships.

He was the Director of the Dissociative Disorders Program at The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital for 8 years. He has extensive experience in treating victims of sexual exploitation by psychotherapists and has served as an expert witness in several malpractice cases involving boundary violations. He also has served as an expert witness in cases in which the diagnosis of dissociative disorders or matters of memory were major issues, including those involving murder and serial murder charges. Dr. Kluft served as a consultant to the Dreamworks and Showtime series, “The United States of Tara.” He was featured in the Showtime documentary, “What Is DID? With Richard P. Kluft, M.D,” which won the 2009 Media Award of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

He has a second career as a writer of novels and short stories. He is the author of three novels Good Shrink/Bad Shrink (2014), An Obituary to Die For (2016) and A Sinister Subtraction (2019), and a novella, How Fievel Stole the Moon: A Tale for Sweet Children and Sour Scholars (2014).

Dr. Teri Pokrajac is a licensed Psychologist in California who received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University in 1994, a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Loyola Marymount University in 1989, and BA in Psychology and Speech Communication from Pepperdine University in 1984. 

Dr. Pokrajac completed her internship at Tufts Medical School and the Boston V.A. Medical Center.  She also completed an advanced fellowship in Behavioral Medicine with emphasis in trauma at Harvard Medical School’s Cambridge Hospital.  Dr. Pokrajac completed her dissertation research on “Dissociation and Childhood Abuse in Multiple Personality and Borderline Personality”.  Dr. Pokrajac previously directed Trauma and Dissociative Disorders Programs inpatient and PHP programs. 

For over 20 years, Dr. Pokrajac has been in private practice where she has specialized in the assessment and psychotherapy treatment of trauma-based disorders and serves as an expert witness for civil and criminal cases related to PTSD, sexual trauma, sexual harassment, traumatic loss, auto accidents, and dissociative disorders. 

Dr. Pokrajac is also an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology where she currently teaches Trauma in Diverse Populations to graduate psychology students.  She is a frequent presenter at local, national and international conferences on trauma related topics.

You can see her WEBSITE HERE.

This week we welcome to the podcast nutritionist Annie Goldsmith:

Annie Goldsmith, RD, LDN holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and attended Winthrop University for her graduate coursework in human nutrition.

She has worked in eating disorder treatment at the Partial Hospitalization Program, Intensive Outpatient Program, and outpatient levels of care.

She founded her group practice, Second Breakfast Nutrition, in 2015; her practice is rooted in the Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating philosophies.

She has presented on weight-inclusive care at the NCAND regional meeting and at the annual AHEC diabetes symposium in Charlotte, NC.

Annie became interested in somatically-oriented and trauma-informed approaches to nutrition therapy in eating disorder treatment in 2018, when she began training with the Embodied Recovery Institute.

She realized that an understanding of how nervous system state impacts eating is missing from many traditional approaches to ED treatment.

She is passionate about bringing the body into the conversation and providing education to colleagues about trauma-informed approaches to nutrition therapy.

You can see her website HERE and her Instagram is @second_breakfast_nutritionclt

Our guest this podcast is Fran Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT.

Fran S. Waters, DCSW, LMSW, LMFT, is an internationally recognized trainer and consultant in the field of childhood trauma, abuse, and dissociation. As an invited presenter, she has conducted extensive training programs nationally and internationally ranging from a day to 5 days in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, and North America on a variety of related topics.

She is the author of Healing the Fractured Child: Diagnosing and Treating Youth with Dissociation, and past
president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSTD). She is a Fellow of the ISSTD, and received ISSTD's Presidential Award and Cornelia Wilbert Award, the Media Award from American Professional Society on Abuse of Children for her 3 Part DVD on Trauma and Dissociation of Children, and the William Friedrich Memorial Child Sexual Abuse Research, Assessment and/or Treatment Award from Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma.  She maintains a private practice in Marquette, MI.

You can visit her website for more information HERE.