The Trauma Therapist

Mary Beth Fox is a Licensed Professional Counselor, writer, speaker, and founder of Soulshine Counseling and Wellness. Known as The Inner Child Therapist, she helps people heal childhood wounds, negative self-beliefs, and relationship patterns rooted in what she calls “Not Good Enough Stuff.” 

Through her counseling practice, widely read blog, and growing online platform, she combines clinical insight and relatable storytelling to guide individuals toward lasting emotional healing and a stronger sense of self. She is also the author of a forthcoming book focused on overcoming feelings of not being good enough and reconnecting with one’s True Soul Ide...

Dr. Tony Nader is a medical doctor, neuroscientist, and internationally recognized expert in consciousness and human development. He is the successor to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the global leader of the Transcendental Meditation® organization. 

Dr. Nader has conducted research exploring the relationship between consciousness, physiology, and human potential, and is the author of several books on these subjects, including The Power of Caring.Through his teaching, writing, and speaking, he works to advance a deeper understanding of consciousness and its role in individual and societal well-being.

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Seema Sharma, SEP, LMFT, PhD, is a trauma therapist, researcher, and founder of Holistic Trauma Therapy who spent more than 25 years in senior leadership roles across Fortune 500 companies, global organizations, and startups before entering clinical practice. 

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, and Gottman Level 3-trained couples therapist, with a doctorate in Psychology. Seema specializes in complex PTSD, developmental and childhood trauma, attachment wounds, sexual trauma, corporate burnout, and the mental health of high-achieving professionals, integrating somatic and trauma-focused approaches into her work.

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Claudia Johnson, MA, LMFT, CST, ABS, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and the Owner and Clinical Director of the PNW Sex Therapy Collective in Seattle. 

A thought leader on sexuality, modern relationships, and mental health, her work explores the intersection of sex, identity, power, and psychological well-being. Claudia examines how cultural narratives, social expectations, and systemic inequities influence desire, attachment, burnout, and relational satisfaction, particularly within multicultural, multiracial, and consensually non-monogamous relationships.

In addition to her clinical and research work, she serves as President-Elect of the Washington Association for Marriage a...

John Ulsh is an author, speaker, and former healthcare executive whose work focuses on resilience, grief, purpose, and personal transformation. After the sudden loss of his wife to cancer, he embarked on a journey of healing that ultimately inspired his writing and public speaking.

Through his work, John shares insights on navigating adversity, finding meaning after loss, and living with greater intention and gratitude. He is the author of The Upside of Down: A Survivor's Guide to Turning Setbacks into Success is part memoir and part resilience guide. In the book, John Ulsh recounts a catastrophic head-on collision t...

Clayten Stedmann has worked in the education, training, and coaching business since 1995. From 1995 to 2020, he focused on business as a spiritual path in his coaching practice.

Jeffrey Stegman’s focus has been on creating a high-consciousness culture in his businesses, which parallels his own personal spiritual path. Focused Life-Force Energy (FLFE) began in 2008 when Clayten and Jeffrey connected through a shared interest in high-consciousness fields. Combining Jeffrey’s engineering background with Clayten’s expertise in Consciousness Kinesiology and the Hawkins Scale of Consciousness, they developed FLFE—a technology designed to direct life-force energy to support higher states of awareness...

Michael Rangel is the founder of Novo, the banking platform built for small and independent businesses. He launched Novo in 2016 after seven years in the financial industry, where he saw firsthand how underserved small business owners were by traditional banks.

Under his leadership, Novo raised more than $170 million, grew to 150 employees, and began serving more than 250,000 small businesses across all 50 states and has won awards from Forbes and Inc. Today, Michael is a small business and personal finance expert focused on entrepreneurship, fintech, and the evolving opportunities created by AI.

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Helena Crockford is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with more than 30 years of experience in NHS adult mental health services. She is a Mentalisation-Based Therapy Supervisor, an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, and a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation. 

Throughout her career, Helena has specialized in complex mental health and has championed the development of services and professional skills to better support people with dissociative difficulties. Alongside Melanie Goodwin, she co-led the development of Working with Dissociation in Clinical Practice: Guidance for Mental Health Professionals and Multidisciplinary Teams, published by Routledge in 2026.

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Doreen G. Hills, is the founder and director of the Center for Healing Trauma and Attachment (CHTA) and a mental health professional with more than two decades of experience. Her work focuses on complex trauma and attachment, integrating mind-body approaches including EMDR, EMDR-Sandtray, and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics. 

Doreen’s early work included serving as a caseworker, residential manager, and hotline worker, as well as working with fishermen, orphans, and the Muslim community in the Philippines, experiences that helped shape her understanding of trauma, resilience, and community. She has also served as Vice Chair of the Colorado Boar...

Faith Ashenden is a therapist, speaker, and educator whose work focuses on trauma recovery, emotional healing, and personal transformation. Drawing from both professional experience and her own healing journey, she helps individuals better understand the impact of trauma, attachment wounds, and nervous system dysregulation on their lives and relationships. 

Faith’s approach integrates trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and compassionate self-inquiry to support deeper healing and resilience. Through her writing, teaching, and clinical work, she encourages people to reconnect with themselves with greater authenticity, self-compassion, and hope.
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Dr. Irena O’Brien is a cognitive neuroscientist and founder of The Neuroscience School. A former CPA, she brings a practical, science-based approach to teaching coaches, leaders, and helping professionals learn how to apply neuroscience in real-world settings.

Her work focuses on behavior change, human performance, decision-making, and the mechanisms that drive lasting transformation. She leads the ICF-accredited Certificate Program in Applied Neuroscience, helping practitioners integrate neuroscience into their work with clarity, rigor, and confidence.

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Dr. Kim Taylor is a physician, author, and endurance athlete whose memoir, Dear Parts, chronicles her journey of healing from the effects of lifelong emotional neglect. 

After a serious health diagnosis led her to explore the connection between emotional trauma and physical illness, she discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and began a profound process of self-discovery and healing. 

Through therapeutic work, letter writing, and deep inner exploration, Kim uncovered the impact of unresolved childhood experiences and learned to reconnect with herself in new ways. Her work offers an honest and deeply personal account of moving fr...

Mas Ati is a teacher, speaker, and founder of Xponential Intelligence (XI), whose work grew out of three near-death experiences that profoundly changed his understanding of consciousness and human potential. 

His first occurred at age 22, his second during a 2006 whitewater rafting accident in which he was trapped underwater for more than eight minutes, and his third in 2022, when his heart stopped after he was hospitalized in Peru. These experiences led Masati to develop Xponential Intelligence, an approach centered on consciousness, frequency, and identifying the deeper patterns he believes shape human behavior and experience.

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Jason Lyle is a men’s resilience coach, retreat leader, and host of the Sacred Grit Podcast. A former pastor with experience in wilderness therapy, he draws on his own recovery from addiction and faith reconstruction to help men rebuild self-respect and emotional strength. 

He is the founder of Adventures in Recovery, a nonprofit offering free wilderness-based programs that support men in regulating their nervous systems and finding belonging. Through Sacred Grit coaching and retreats, Jason teaches practical, embodied tools rooted in honesty, responsibility, and lived faith.
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Kelly Daugherty is a licensed clinical social worker, Fellow in Thanatology, and grief specialist with more than 25 years of experience supporting people through loss. She runs a private practice in upstate New York focused on acute and traumatic grief, and founded the Center for Informed Grief, where she trains clinicians, schools, and communities to respond to loss with skill and compassion.

Kelly is co-creator and co-host of the GRIEF Ladies podcast and co-author of The GRIEF Ladies Guide: How to Grieve with Love Instead of Pain. She was lead editor of the award-winning Amazon #1 bestseller The Grief Experience...

JoAnn Lagace is an author, advocate, nonprofit founder, and woman in long-term recovery whose life has been shaped by trauma, resilience, and the decision to turn pain into purpose. In her memoir, Seeds in Shattered Soil, she shares an unfiltered journey through childhood trauma, addiction, mental health challenges, survival, recovery, and ultimately healing and self-acceptance.

After more than 20 years in real estate, JoAnn changed the direction of her life and entered nonprofit work, eventually founding the National Animal Foster Network, a 501(c)(3) organization working to build infrastructure that helps keep people and their companion animals together during temporary...

Dr. Lisa Strohman is an attorney, licensed clinical psychologist, author, and advocate whose work focuses on mental wellness and the impact of technology on children and families. She is the founder and director of Digital Citizen Academy, a nonprofit program created to educate students, parents, and educators about technology addiction and overuse. 

In her clinical work, Dr. Strohman has spent more than a decade working with individuals, families, and adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, addiction, and technology overuse. She is also the co-author of Unplug: Raising Kids in a Technology Addicted World and Digital Distress: Growing Up Online.  

Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, professional speaker, and bestselling author who has written numerous books on psychology, spirituality, and personal growth, including Ecstasy as Medicine. For more than three decades, he has explored practical approaches to emotional healing, meditation, and expanded states of consciousness. 

His work focuses on helping people access greater well-being, connection, and inner peace through both traditional therapeutic methods and transformative experiences. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Jonathan continues to explore the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and human potential.

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Yunetta S. Smith , LPC-MHSP, NCC, is a mental health counselor with Spring Forth Counseling in Clarksville, Tennessee. Her practice specializes in helping leaders navigate the pressures and expectations that can accompany being highly visible, including difficulty saying no and feeling that their problems are magnified by their leadership roles.

Spring Forth Counseling emphasizes providing a warm, peaceful, nonjudgmental therapeutic environment that promotes resilience, growth, and lasting change. Yunetta also offers EMDR Intensives through her practice. Yunetta is also an EMDR training and offers consulting and training for therapists at Groundgreakers coaching. 

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Meghan Phelan is a senior care leader with nearly two decades of experience supporting families navigating aging, dementia, and in-home care. She is part of the leadership team at Granny Nannies Miami, where she focuses on helping families access personalized care that allows loved ones to remain safely at home. Meghan is especially passionate about Alzheimer’s and memory care education, working to ensure caregivers are properly trained while providing guidance and support to families during difficult transitions.

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Granny Nannies Miami website: https://grannynannies.com/Miami/

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Lisa Lacy is a writer, trauma educator, and speaker whose work explores trauma, identity, nervous system adaptation, and the psychological patterns people develop to survive.After nearly three decades in corporate consulting and high-stress environments, she transitioned into trauma-informed education, recovery advocacy, and storytelling. 

Now, drawing from her own recovery from addiction and psychosis, Lisa explores emotional masking, perfectionism, hyper-independence, and survival responses as adaptations that once served a purpose. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Notes From a Certified Madwoman and its companion field guide, The Psychology of Becoming™

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Esin Pinarli is a licensed professional counselor and the founder of Eternal Wellness Counseling, where she specializes in helping individuals heal from trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. 

Drawing from both clinical expertise and a holistic perspective, she integrates evidence-based therapy with mindfulness and wellness-oriented approaches to support emotional healing and personal growth.

Esin is passionate about creating a compassionate, culturally sensitive environment where clients feel safe exploring their experiences and reconnecting with themselves. Through her work, she helps clients build resilience, strengthen relationships, and move toward a greater sense of balance and fulfillment.

“Jai” Jennifer Greenwald is a yogi, educator, filmmaker, and founder of Quundalini™, a healing modality that brings together ancient wisdom and modern science. A longtime Kundalini yoga instructor, Jai developed Quantum Healing Yoga, an approach incorporating breathwork, movement, mantra, conscious awareness, and trauma-informed practices.

Jai is also the writer and producer of Quundalini: Quantum Healing Yoga – The Bridge from Victim to Victory, a documentary exploring her response to the revelations surrounding Yogi Bhajan and her search for a more ethical, trauma-informed approach to yoga. The film follows her exploration of sacred feminine wisdom, neuroscience, embodied practice, and personal and colle...

Ruby Jo Walker, LCSW, SEP, CHT, is an author, trainer, trauma therapist, and Course Partner for the Polyvagal Institute, specializing in the neurobiology of trauma and resilience. With more than 35 years of experience in trauma treatment, she is certified in Somatic Experiencing® and Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy.

Ruby Jo is the founder of SW Trauma Training Services and developer of Post-Traumatic Growth Somatic Therapy™ (PTGST), which integrates somatic therapy, neurobiology, resilience, trauma healing, attachment theory, and Polyvagal Theory. For more than 15 years, she has provided Polyvagal Theory-based training to psychotherapists, healthcare providers, behavioral health organizations, and other professionals, with...

Rupi Moussanza is the co-founder of Iboga Medicine, where she serves as a provider and integration guide. 

Iboga is a powerful and sacred plant traditionally used by the Bwiti people of Gabon, where it has been honored for generations as a source of wisdom, clarity, and spiritual awakening. Rupi’s work is informed by her own healing experience with Iboga, as well as training within the Bwiti tradition, and combines traditional practice with trauma-informed awareness and modern integration support. 

She works with guests before, during, and after ceremonies, with a particular focus on helping them integrate thei...

Maria Szandrach is the co-founder and CEO of Mentalyc, an AI-powered platform that helps therapists automate clinical documentation and streamline administrative tasks. Maria created Mentalyc to make therapy more efficient and effective.

Her mission is deeply personal: as a teenager, she struggled with an eating disorder and worked with multiple therapists before recovering, an experience that inspired her lifelong commitment to improving mental health care. Today, she works closely with clinicians, mental health organizations, and technology leaders to explore how AI and emerging technologies can enhance clinical practice while preserving the therapeutic relationship.

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Dr. Shan Shan Jing is a Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon working in a Major Trauma Centre in London, where she has spent years treating patients with devastating injuries, restoring nerves, vessels, and soft tissues after life-altering trauma. 

In 2022, while working abroad during the pandemic, she experienced trauma from the other side when she survived a high-speed collision that killed her partner and left her hospitalized with multiple injuries. Her recovery involved navigating profound grief, neurological healing, and the identity shift of becoming a trauma patient within the very healthcare system she had dedicated her career to serving.

Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, author, speaker, podcast host, spiritual counselor, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide. She specializes in treating addictions and trauma and has directed a number of treatment programs in the Bay Area, including Firebird Healing, where she is the Founder and CEO, and Avery Lane, where she works as Chief Clinical Officer. 

She hosts the popular podcast Kaleidoscope of Possibilities – Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health, is the author of the book What If You’re Not As F***ed Up As You Think You Are? and co...

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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