The Trauma Therapist
by Guy Crawford Macpherson
The Trauma Therapist Podcast is about the human spirit. Join host Guy Macpherson, PhD, as he talks with thought leaders in trauma, mindfulness, addiction, and yoga. Hear the personal stories and insights of passionate professionals who dedicate their lives to helping others heal from trauma. Some guests pay a fee for sponsored appearances, which helps support production of the show. All paid segments are clearly disclosed. --- Thank you, Guy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.
Episodes
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Helena Crockford and Melanie Goodwin: Working With Dissociation
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....
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Creating Safety Within The Therapeutic Relationship with Doreen G. Hills, MS, NCC, LPC
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...
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This Is Chronic Illness with Faith Ashenden
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...
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The Neuroscience School with Dr. Irena O’Brien
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,...
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Dear Parts with Dr. Kim Taylor
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...
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Reprogramming Consciousness with Masati
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…
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A Safe Place To Come Apart with Jason Lyle
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...
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Guest Host Series Christina P. Kantzavelos interviews Karen Sprinkel
Christina Kantzavelos is a neurodivergent, and first-generation (third culture) Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), life coach, writer and chronic illness warrior. She received both her BA and MSW from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her MLIS from San Jose State University...
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Learning How To Connect With Human Beings with JoAnn Lagace
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…
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Fuel Not Fire with Dr. Lisa Strohman
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,...
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Ecstasy in The Treatment of Trauma with Jonathan Robinson
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,...
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One Therapist's Journey Into Private Practice With Yunetta Spring Smith LPC-MHSP, NCC
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...
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Alzheimer’s and memory care with Meghan Phelan
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...
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Notes From a Certified Madwoman with Lisa Lacy
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...
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Finding Balance and Fulfillment with Esin Pinarli
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...
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The Way I Learned To Breathe Again with “Jai” Jennifer Greenwald
“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…
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Where’s The Nervous System Stuck with Ruby Jo Walker, LCSW
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…
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Are You Ready To Face Yourself with Rupi Moussanza
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...
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Making Therapy More Efficient with Maria Szandrach of Mentalyc
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…
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Experiencing Trauma From The Other Side with Dr. Shan Shan Jing
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,...
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What If You’re Not As F***ed Up As You Think You Are? Dr. Adriana Popescu
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...
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Forensic Neuropsychopathology with Dr. Monique M. Chouraeshkenazi
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...
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The Belonging Wound with Dr. Pauline Chiarizia
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...
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Guest Host Veronique Mead interviews Ton Mazzone
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...
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We’re Living In A Touch-Deprived Culture with Shirley Dvir, PhD.
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...
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The Accessing The Deep Unconscious with Deanna Chrones
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...
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DID Is In Your Office with Dr. Adrienne Fletcher
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…
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Guest Host Christina P. Kantzavelos interviews Sarah Stasica
Sarah Stasica is the founder of Medical Trauma Support and host of the Medical Trauma Support Podcast. She is a trauma-informed practitioner, mental health peer specialist, and somatic educator committed to helping both clinicians and individuals recognize medical trauma for what it is and…
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Sarah Choosing To Be Vulnerable with Sarah Dionne, MSW, LICSW
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…
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Just One More Hit with Austin Rampt
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...
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Aligning The Outside And The Inside with Sunshine Grace
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...
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Guest Host Esther Goldstein interviews Dr Hindie Klein
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...
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Does My Teen Need Therapy? with Jarrod Hoffman
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,...
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We’re Talking Radical Self Love with Romy Limenes
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....
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Bee Stings of The Heart with Ruth Wilkey
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...
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War-Related Trauma in Israel with Maayan Aviv
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…
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The Road I Never Meant to Take with Alanna J. Bell
Alanna Bell has spent over two decades as a trauma-informed therapist, school counselor, and healing arts practitioner. But her most powerful credentials weren’t earned in classrooms—they were shaped in the quiet, painful spaces of her own recovery.Like so many helpers, Alanna was trained to...
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The Quiet Defiance of Speaking Up with Shigeko Ito
Shigeko Ito is a Japanese-born educator and mental health advocate with a PhD in Education from Stanford University. She is the author of The Pond Beyond the Forest, a memoir exploring childhood emotional neglect, intergenerational trauma, and the long path toward healing. Drawing on lived...
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Merging Eastern and Western Healing with Romain Daumont
Romain Daumont is an entrepreneur and founder of Luminara, a digital platform designed to make energy healing and biofield therapies more accessible worldwide. He created Luminara to bridge ancient healing practices with modern technology, curating vetted practitioners and delivering one-to-one...
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Guest Host Anna & Kore Interviews Elizabeth Clemants
Dr. Kore Glied and Anna White interview conflict mediation expert Elizabeth Clemants about child sexual abuse. Kore and Anna are co-founders of The Type C Personality Project, which helps people who have difficulty saying no, take responsibility for the emotions of others, carry the weight of the...
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50 Shades of Shit with Zalak Raval
Zalak Raval is a Senior Associate practicing Corporate Securities law in New York., an author, and a TEDx speaker. After experiencing a period of personal and professional upheaval, she began rebuilding her life through self-awareness, gratitude, and meditation. In 2024, she published her first...
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I Was Attacked By A Bear with Amma Thanasanti
Amma Thanasanti first encountered the Dharma in 1979 and was a Buddhist nun for 26 years in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition. She has been teaching intensive meditation retreats internationally since 1995, combining the precision and rigor of the Forest Tradition with compassion, pure awareness...
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Trauma, Somatics and Transference with Dr. Eric Wolterstorff
Dr. Eric Wolterstorff is a psychotherapist and developer of the Trauma Integration Protocol (TIP), with more than three decades of experience studying trauma recovery, memory systems, and group response to threat. He began training with Peter Levine in 1993 and has also studied with Pat Ogden…
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This is Going to Sound Nuts with Ashley Buckner, LCSW
Ashley Buckner, MSW, LCSW, is the Founder and CEO of Anchor & Rise Therapy and Anchor & Rise Academy, providing therapy, supervision, and consulting nationwide with licensure across 45+ states. A Master Certified ART clinician, she integrates trauma-informed, somatic approaches with CBT and...
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Pathways To Prevention Symposium with Dr. Bruce Perry, Michael Remole and Dr. Emily Wang
Episode sponsered by Gateway Family Services. Michael Remole, MA, LCPC, NCC, I/ECHMHC, is a clinician, speaker, author, and consultant with more than 20 years of experience specializing in trauma and the neuroscience of healing. He is the founder and CEO of Gateway Family Services of ois, where…
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How To Speak Without Fear with Adrienne Binder
Adrienne Binder is a researcher devoted to healing at the intersection of identity, dignity, and human experience. As the founder of Restoration Resources, she specializes in helping individuals heal from trauma, abuse, and relational wounds. Drawing from both professional expertise and personal...
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Entering Into The Client’s World with Dr. Stephanie Sacks
Dr. Stephanie Sacks is a licensed clinical psychologist, CPT trainer, and co-founder of MindScience Collective, a continuing education platform delivering practical, evidence-based training for therapists.In private practice, she specializes in cognitive behavioral treatments for PTSD and...
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Guest Host Christina P. Kantzavelos interviews Alanna Brennan
Alanna is a Womb Worker, Vocal Coach, and Somatic Practitioner devoted to helping women reclaim their Divine Feminine power. Through her own deep journey of womb healing, she has studied and integrated multiple modalities to bridge ancient feminine wisdom with modern nervous system science.…
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Love and Healing Addiction with Richard Taite
Richard Taite is the founder and Executive Chairman of Carrara Treatment Wellness & Spa, Executive Chairman of 1 Method Treatment Centers, and the former founder of Cliffside Malibu, which he sold in 2018. A leading figure in the addiction treatment industry for over a decade, Richard has built a...
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Resolving Debilitating Emotions with Cedric Bertelli
Cedric Bertelli is the founder of the Emotional Health Institute and co-developer of Emotional Resolution® (EmRes®), a body-based method designed to resolve debilitating emotional patterns by working with interoception and the brain’s predictive mechanisms. His work bridges clinical practice,...
About this show
The Trauma Therapist Podcast is about the human spirit.
Join host Guy Macpherson, PhD, as he talks with thought leaders in trauma, mindfulness, addiction, and yoga.
Hear the personal stories and insights of passionate professionals who dedicate their lives to helping others heal from trauma.
Some guests pay a fee for sponsored appearances, which helps support production of the show. All paid segments are clearly disclosed.
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Thank you, Guy
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.
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