The Trauma Therapist

Dr. Monique M. Chouraeshkenazi is a clinical neuropsychometrician, psychology resident, researcher, professor, forensic neuropsychopathology expert, and two-time international bestselling author. 
She is the founder of The Chouraeshkenazi Group, a multidisciplinary practice focused on mental healthcare, medical services, research, consulting, and education. 

A U.S. Air Force Global War on Terrorism combat veteran, she served for 13 years in roles related to cybersecurity, intelligence, antiterrorism, and national security operations. Dr. Chouraeshkenazi is the author of the bestselling three-volume series, Forensic Neuropsychopathology: Clinical and Medical Insights into Brain-Behavior, Mental Disorders, and the Legal System.

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Pauline Chiarizia is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who specializes in trauma, dissociation, attachment wounds, and the long-term impact of relational harm. Through her private practice, she works with individuals seeking deeper emotional understanding, healing, and greater connection to themselves and others.

Dr. Chiarizia’s approach integrates psychodynamic psychotherapy, relational psychoanalysis, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care to help clients explore unconscious patterns and foster lasting change. She is especially interested in the ways early relationships shape identity, emotional regulation, and the capacity for intimacy and authenticity.

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Veronique Mead, MD, MA was a Dartmouth-affiliated assistant professor of family medicine and obstetrics. She retrained with a Master’s degree in somatic psychotherapy from Naropa University and additional specialty training in pre and perinatal and other forms of trauma. For the past 25 years she has explored the scientific literature on how effects of trauma from the prenatal and other periods in a person’s life can influence risk for autoimmune and other chronic illnesses. She shares the research on her blog Chronic Illness Trauma Studies.com

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Shirley Dvir, PhD, is the founder and lead teacher of Relational Somatic Healing and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She earned her PhD in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where her dissertation explored relational touch in psychotherapy for healing relational developmental trauma. 

Shirley has practiced psychotherapy since 1997, working with families, children, couples, and individuals, and spent more than 10 years teaching as a Certified Hakomi Teacher. Her training includes attachment, EMDR, Sensorimotor Trauma Therapy, Hakomi, family therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, and Body-Mind Centering.

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Deanna Chrones is the founder of Tholage and the creator of the Tholage approach, a modality designed to help individuals access and process trauma through body-based awareness and healing. 

Her work emphasizes the connection between physical sensations, emotions, and unresolved traumatic experiences, offering an alternative pathway to recovery that extends beyond traditional talk therapy. Through training programs and workshops, she teaches therapists and helping professionals how to recognize and work with the body's innate capacity for healing.

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• https://tholage.com/message-for-therapists-from-deanna-chrones/
• Deanna's website • https://tholage.com/what-is-tholage/
• https://www.instagram.com/tholage/

Dr. Adrienne Fletcher is a psychologist, author, speaker, and survivor whose life and work sit at the intersection of trauma, healing, identity, and transformation. 
After more than two decades in the mental health field, she now speaks and writes about the realities of complex trauma, Dissociative Identity Disorder, post-traumatic growth, and what it means to build a meaningful life beyond survival.

Her unique perspective comes from both sides of the therapy room as a clinician who spent years helping others heal and as a survivor who has navigated her own journey of integration, loss, resilience, a...

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Sarah Dionne is a consultant and trainer with 18 years of experience in clinical mental health. Her work focuses on complex trauma and dissociative disorders, providing clinicians and mental health practices with consultation, supervision, training, and trauma-informed education. 

Sarah brings both clinical expertise and lived experience as a survivor of severe trauma to her work. She is also an interfaith seminarian and integrates spiritual awareness into her approach to trauma and healing.  

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Austin Rampt is the author of One Last Hit: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Finding Purpose, a candid account of his journey from addiction to recovery. 

Austin began struggling with substance abuse at age 12, a battle that eventually led him to flee to Mexico and lose nearly everything before finding redemption. Through his memoir, Austin shares the lessons he learned about addiction, recovery, and purpose, offering hope to others facing similar challenges.

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Sunshine Grace is an Austin-based public speaker, filmmaker, and clairaudient spiritual medium whose work explores the intersection of mental health and contemporary spiritual awakenings. Her path was shaped by profound non-ordinary experiences with psychedelics, which led her to advocate for greater understanding and normalization of spiritual emergencies, including voice hearing, shamanic-style awakenings, and psychic experiences.

Her work emphasizes trauma-informed healing practices such as meditation, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Through speaking, film, and writing, Sunshine promotes religious tolerance, compassion, and deeper conversations around experiences that are often misunderstood or stigmatized.

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Dr. Hindie M. Klein is a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst who serves as Senior Clinical Consultant at OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services. She is the Editor of Voices of Strength and was Clinical Project Manager of the acclaimed film Rising From Divorce. Formerly Director of Tikvah, OHEL’s licensed outpatient mental health clinic, Dr. Klein holds a postdoctoral degree from NYU and runs a private practice for adolescents, adults, and couples. She also offers clinical supervision and integrates Sensory Motor Psychotherapy into her work.

Dr. Klein serves on multiple advisory boards, including Amudim, Nefesh, and COJO Flatbush, and...

Jarrod Hoffman, LPC-MHSP, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider who works with teens and adults experiencing ongoing challenges with depression and anxiety. His path to becoming a therapist was shaped by his own experiences with grief, anxiety, depression, addiction, job loss, purposelessness, and isolation, as well as finding healing through counseling. 

Jarrod has worked more than 10,000 hours with children and families across settings including churches, universities, prison contracts, and schools. His training includes Integrated Behavioral Health, the Memphis Opioid Paraprofessional Training Program, and Play Therapy.  

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Romy Limenes is a trauma-informed coach, breathwork facilitator, and author of Broken to Breathful. With more than two decades of experience as a registered nurse, along with her lived experience as a mother and survivor, her work explores nervous system healing, embodiment, and self-connection. 

Romy supports women navigating hardship and identity disruption through breathwork, grounding practices, workshops, and coaching. Her work is rooted in safety, authenticity, embodiment, and helping people develop a more sustainable relationship with themselves. (Breathworksimple)

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Ruth Wilkey is the author of Sociable Bunny, a children’s book and character-based brand that focuses on helping children develop emotional health, friendship skills, kindness, trust, and positive character traits through stories, activities, songs, and animated-style bunny characters.

Ruth says the idea emerged during a healing journey after depression and unresolved childhood trauma, while attending a writing school in Hawaii. She describes The Sociable Bunny as an expression of bringing “light and love to the hearts of children.”

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Maayan Aviv is a nonprofit executive and the CEO of American Friends of NATAL (AFN), the U.S. partner of NATAL: The Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center. Established in 1998, NATAL is an apolitical, internationally recognized organization specializing in war- and terror-related trauma, having served over 450,000 individuals. Under Aviv’s leadership, AFN has mobilized critical funding and strategic partnerships to address the unprecedented mental health crisis stemming from recent conflicts, with a specific focus on scaling up crisis operations, workplace reintegration, and helping the surged demographic of traumatized young adults and first responders.

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