
The Trauma Therapist
The Trauma Therapist | Podcast is a podcast about the human spirit.Join Guy Macpherson, PhD at thetraumatherapistproject.com as he interviews thought-leaders in the fields of trauma, mindfulness, addiction and yoga and we learn about the journeys of these passionate mental health therapists who dedicate their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.
Latest episodes

May 27, 2024 • 30min
Episode 830: What Would Dr. Meyers Do with Amy Meyers, PhD, LCSW
Amy Meyers, PhD, LCSW is a social work professor at Molloy University and a clinician in NYC where she has maintained a private practice for 30 years. She is an advisory board member to the Sibling Abuse and Aggression Research Advocacy Initiative at the University of New Hampshire and has published and presented nationally about sibling abuse. She has also conducted numerous trainings and workshops on diversity, locally and nationally, and transformed a Long Island School District’s approach to culturally responsive and inclusive teaching.Dr. Meyers is the host of a podcast titled “What Would Dr. Meyers Do?” focused on countertransference and “getting into the mind of a therapist” where there is dedicated series to the issue of sibling abuse.In This EpisodeAmy Meyers' WebsitePodcast: What Would Dr. Meyer's Do?Socials: @drmeyerspodTikTokInstagramFacebook---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 23, 2024 • 23min
Episode 829: Healing Happens in Relationship with Claudia Goetzelmann
Claudia was called to become a Compassionate Inquiry facilitator and offers an abiding safe presence, deep listening, and curiosity as gifts for others. Her work is held in the containers & modalities of Compassionate Inquiry, IFS and Focusing, FSPM, End of Life, relational PAT with Integration.Claudia explains that “These are my strengths when supporting healing, because healing happens in relationship—with one another and specifically, with the SELF and body.” In This EpisodeClaudia's WebsiteClaudia's InstagramClaudia's photographySoundcloud 'Take a Moment' recordings---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 20, 2024 • 42min
Episode 828: Remember Your Life is Now with Audrey White
Audrey White is the CEO of the Grief Coach Academy and holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan. She understands grief both professionally and personally. In 2020, Audrey lost eight family members, including her mother. In 2022, her brother was tragically killed by his wife, who subsequently took her own life. Through her own journey of healing, Audrey has developed a deep compassion for those suffering from loss, setbacks, and grief.In This EpisodeAudrey White’s Website---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 16, 2024 • 40min
Episode 827: Misogyny And Trauma with Christine Forner
Christine Forner (BA, BSW, MSW, RSW) has over 30 years of clinical experience offering effective and distinctive counseling. For the past 20 years, Christine has specialized in working with individuals with Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Dissociation, Developmental Trauma, Dissociative Disorders, and the effects of stress on the physical, emotional, mental, and imaginative aspects of our being us.In This EpisodeChristine Forner's WebsiteSocials:FB: @christine.fornerIG: @christinefornerX: @assoc1counsell---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 13, 2024 • 38min
Episode 826: Chasing Normal with Beck Thompson
Despite her early life being dominated by childhood trauma and parental neglect, you will not hear Beck use the terms ‘survivor’ or ‘thriver’. Trauma would not be the hero nor the legacy of her life. Beck has made it her mission to change the way her childhood trauma tainted her view of the world.Her approach to trauma recovery is determined and unabashedly honest, getting real with the girl within to repair and renew her sense of worth and value. Beck is the author of the memoir 'Chasing Normal,' and as a primary teacher, speaker and presenter, she brings a unique perspective inspiring others with her unwavering belief in change and the human capacity for healing.In This EpisodeBeck Thompson's Website Socials:FB - beckthompsonchasingnormalIG - @beck.thompsonX - @ibeckthompson---A giant thank-you to our sponsor, NordVPN. Secure your online data with Nord VPN. Go to nordvpn.com/thetraumatherapist for an exclusive deal. Plus, it's risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee.--If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 9, 2024 • 28min
Episode 825: Choosing Joy with Dr. Martha Beck
Dr. Martha Beck has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining advice that helps people improve every aspect of their lives. Her written work includes several New York Times and international bestsellers, as well as over 150 magazine articles. For the past 18 years, Dr. Beck has been a monthly columnist at O, The Oprah Magazine.She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, all in social sciences. For over two decades she has been, in the words of USA Today, “one of the best-known life coaches in America.” She has trained over 3,000 other coaches. She is a popular speaker to groups ranging from intimate seminars to audiences numbering in the thousands.In This EpisodeMartha Beck's Website Socials: FB: https://www.facebook.com/themarthabeck/IG: https://www.instagram.com/themarthabeck/---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 6, 2024 • 25min
Episode 824: Women Therapists on Healing with Susan Pease Banitt
Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW is celebrating her 49th anniversary in the field of mental health, where she has been a leader in integrating spiritual modalities with traditional practice. She is the award-winning author of The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD From the Inside Out (Quest, 2012) and Wisdom, Attachment and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice (Routledge, 2018). Her newest book Women Therapists on Healing will be released in the Fall of 2024 from North Atlantic Books.In This EpisodeSusan's WebsiteSusan's FacebookSusan's Twitter---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast. Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

May 2, 2024 • 31min
Episode 823: Drama Therapy and Trauma with Myriam D. Savage, Ph.D
Myriam D. Savage (Mimi) Ph.D., RDT/BCT, is a registered drama therapist, board-certified trainer, and associate professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco in the Master of Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts program. She is a core faculty member teaching courses such as Human Development and Family, Group Dynamics, Arts in Therapy and Professional Development.Dr. Savage is also founding faculty for the Arts and Healing Initiative (formerly UCLArts and Healing) in the Social Emotional Arts (SEA) program, where she collaborated with a team of creative art therapists, creating curricula and manualized professional development programs that use various modalities for therapists, artists, and educators. Conference topics and publications include narrative, arts-based research, and drama therapy interventions using digital art apps, exploring self-identity with young women adopted from foster care and facilitating unhoused women on skid row, LA. Dr. Savage has published in peer review journals and books. She recently penned a chapter -- called "Bricolage: On Being Enough, Healing Through Narrative Co-Construction" -- for a new book edited by social worker/author Susan Pease Banitt: a collection of essays called Behind the Curtain: Eleven Women Therapists Get Real about Healing Trauma.Dr. Savage's previous clinical work consists of mainly acute settings such as inpatient psychiatric units for adults and children, residential treatment facilities where she created expressive arts programs, neurodiverse populations and the unhoused. She has served as the North American Drama Therapy education chair and directs SoCal Drama Therapy Center (http://www.socaldramatherapycenter.com/) where she mentors an international student body of professionals and students who want to become registered drama therapists.In This EpisodeMyriam's LinkedInMyriam's websiteMyriam's email---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast. Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

Apr 29, 2024 • 29min
Episode 822: Trauma-Informed Assessments with Kids wth Doreen Hills
Doreen Hills, MS, NCC, LPC, is the Founder, Director at the Center for Healing Trauma & Attachment. Their mission is to provide cutting-edge treatment approaches in healing traumatic distress and they’re committed to finding ways to provide quality and affordable therapy and to be the pioneer in healing trauma in NE region.Doreen has been a mental health provider for over 20 years and has worked in various mental health settings in New York, Philippines, and Colorado. Doreen's background includes intense and immersed experiences working with poverty stricken fishermen in the Philippines, orphans that were severely neglected and abandoned, as well as Muslims in Manila. These experiences gave her immense insight to trauma, resiliency and healing.Doreen has conducted and facilitated trainings, workshops, and presentations in Morgan County and neighboring Northeast Counties in Colorado on topics of Attachment, Trauma, Neuroscience, Vicarious Trauma and Self Care, Trauma Informed Interventions and Care, Human Trafficking, Building Better Communication and Resiliency in Agency Settings. Before becoming a mental health provider, Doreen worked at the Salvation Army Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program as Residential Manager, Case Manager, and Rape Crisis Advocate. She worked as a Residential Manager at the Federal Funded Job Corps and was a Crisis Hotline Worker for New York State Crisis Hotline.In This Episodewww.chtainc.orgDoreen's email---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast. Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

Apr 25, 2024 • 29min
Episode 821: The Complex Trauma Training Center with Brad Kammer, LMFT
Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC, is a California Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor. He’s trained as a Somatic Psychotherapist and has worked in the field of trauma for over 20 years, specializing in working with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).Brad began his career as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Asia which introduced him to personal and collective trauma. He is now the director of the Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC) that provides training, consultation and community for mental health professionals working with complex trauma. Brad is also a Senior Trainer in the NeuroAffective Relational Model® (NARM®) and provides NARM® Trainings through CTTC.Brad is the co-author of The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma and also the executive producer of the podcast: Transforming Trauma™.In This EpisodeBrad's websiteComplex Trauma Training Center (CTTC)FB: complextraumatrainingcenter IG: cttc_trainingTransforming Trauma Podcast---If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.