Complex Trauma Recovery
By Kina Penelope
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Complex Trauma RecoveryApr 15, 2024
Religious Trauma and Deconstruction with guest therapist Miami Zarauskas
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Polyvagal Theory and Practical Applications with guest Deb Dana
Today I am interviewing the one and only Deb Dana, one of the major contributors to the theories of the nervous system and somatic healing in therapy.
Her website is linked below for those who want to check out more of her work.
https://www.rhythmofregulation.com
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Sibling Abuse with guest therapist Dr. Amy Meyers
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. www.amymeyersphd.org
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People pleasing as an attachment adaptation
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How We Make Sense of Trauma
In this episode I discuss how we make sense of trauma when it is happening, and how these meanings impact us long term. I discuss what it means to reprocess trauma by focusing on meanings and learnings instead of specific incidents and autobiographical memories.
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Interpersonal Neurobiology: How Relationships can change our brains with guest Therapist Julianne Taylor Schore
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy & the Cycle of Disconnection with Melissa Parks
Melissa is a licensed therapist in private practice in South Carolina. She has been in practice for 19 years and she specializes in working with couples and with adults with complex trauma.
She is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Consultant and Clinician and she's in her Advanced Year in becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
She can be found on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok
@melissaparkssays
www.melissaparkstherapy.com
You can access Kinas workshops, support her work via Patreon and view her practice website
here: https://linktr.ee/cptsdtherapist
Untangling Inner Knots using Memory Reconsolidation with guest Therapist Tori Olds
Tori Olds is a psychotherapist who specializes in experiential therapeutic modalities. She is an educator who provides training to other therapists in experiential models of healing including coherence therapy, IFS and AEDP.
Below are her website and YouTube channel:
toriolds.com
youtube.com/@DrToriOlds
You can access Kina’s workshops, practice website and Patreon here:
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Trauma & Healthcare from a Macro Lens with guest Dr. Christy Gibson
Her writing creates the woven narrative between her interests – wellbeing, trauma recovery, and the power of story. She is a skilled trauma therapist, understanding that stress lives in human and community bodies and the author of the book Modern Trauma Toolkit as well as co-founder of Safer Spaces Training.
ModernTrauma.com
www.christinegibson.net
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Strong Roots Psychotherapy: www.strongrootspsychotherapy.com
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In Between Identities, Racial Trauma & Relationships with guest Therapist Raina LaGrand
Rainas website: www.roottorisesomatics.com/
Raina’s instagram/TikTok: @roottorisesomatics
Kinas linktree: linktr.ee/cptsdtherapist
Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents through Reparenting with Guest Therapist Jessica Frick
Jessica Frick is a counselor in Erie, Pennsylvania who specializes in working with the adult children of emotionally immature parents. Jessica uses acceptance and commitment therapy (or ACT, for short) to help her clients connect with their emotional selves, allow judgment to fade to the background, and to live a valuable, fulfilling life, whether or not that includes their parents. Jessica provides therapy in person in Erie, and telehealth across the state. Jessica also provides telehealth services to Florida residents. If you're interested in working with Jessica, go to www.metamorphosiscounseling.net and click "get started"
tiktok handle: @therapy_with_jess
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Eating Disorders, Body Image & Complex Trauma with guest Ashantis Jones
Website: www.ashantisjones.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamashantis/
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@iamashantis
Ashantis Jones (she/they) is a trained Master’s level Counselor and NASM Certified Personal Trainer that focuses their work on the mind and body - both of which are equally important to one’s health. As a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMPH), she practices as a Mental Health + Recovery Coach and Fitness Professional. Her specialties include body image/body respect, weight-inclusive care, and career-based trauma. She utilizes an intersectional, person-centered, and trauma-informed approach.
Services:
Coaching: We may be a good fit if you are focused on navigating body respect, eating concerns, career-based trauma, or how to navigate systems of oppression.
Personal Training: We may be a good fit if you are focused on navigating movement without weight-based or aesthetic-based goals.
Mind + Body: We may be a good fit if you are focused on navigating body respect or eating concerns and would like support navigating movement without weight-based or aesthetic-based goals.
View Kinas linktree here: linktr.ee/cptsdtherapist
Strong roots psychotherapy: www.strongrootspsychotherapy.com/
Parts and Memory Therapy with guest therapist Preston Walker
Safe and Sound Protocol, Accelerated Resolution and Psychodrama Therapy with Guest Therapist Jennifer Scully
Jennifer Scully is a trauma therapist running a humble private practice, who does this work because she's passionate about supporting human beings through the human experience. In this interview we discuss Stephen Porges Safe and Sound protocol, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and Psychodrama.
You can read her bio here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/jennifer-scully-winchester-tn/768354
You can view Kinas linktree and resources here:
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Complex Trauma with guest Robin Wolvek
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Robin Wolvek is an associate marriage and family therapist based in Los Angeles, California. She completed a master’s program at Pepperdine University and received clinical training in psychodynamic therapy. Robin specializes in complex trauma, depression and anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Throughout her education, training, and extra certification programs, Robin has learned to incorporate tools from psychodynamic therapy, DBT, attachment focused therapy, internal family systems, exposure and response prevention therapy, culturally sensitive therapy, EFT, and Gestalt techniques to tailor treatment to each individual client and best meet their needs.
Robins IG and tik tok: @therapy_with_Robin
Robins psychology today link:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/robin-wolvek-agoura-hills-ca/784922
To learn more about OCD and OCD treatment check out the following resources: Dr. Piniciotti, who is an OCD + PTSD specialist. Her work focuses on the crossover: www.cmpinciotti.com/
The International OCD Foundation is an incredible resource on all things OCD: www.iocdf.org
Here's an article on ineffective treatments for OCD and why: iocdf.org/expert-opinions/ineffective-and-potentially-harmful-psychological-interventions-for-obsessive-compulsive-disorder/
Sandtray Therapy with guest Therapist Megan Cinnamon
Megan is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor-Supervisor practicing in Somerset, KY. She is an Internationally Credentialed Sandtray Therapist-Provider and founder of Sandscapes: The Kentucky Sandtray Institute. Megan is also the Director of Communications for the International Association for Sandtray Therapy. Megan owns a group private practice in Kentucky serving children, teens and adults primarily using Sandtray Therapy, EMDR and Play Therapy techniques. Megan provides workshops and consultation to clinicians hoping to grow their knowledge and skills in Sandtray Therapy. To learn more about Megan and upcoming trainings, visit sandscapesofky.com, find us on Facebook or e-mail megan@sandscapesofky.com
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Overlapping Experiences of Neurodivergence & Complex Trauma with guest Shelby Williams
Shelby is a licensed social worker in the state of Michigan who specializes in complex trauma. Shelby graduated with her master of social work degree in 2020 from Grand Valley State University and has since worked as a children's homebased therapist in community mental health, and as an outpatient therapist in private practice with adults. She has experience working with children, families, perinatal mothers, and adults. Just like Kina, her favorite clients to work with are young adults who have struggled to gain deeper healing in therapy.
As a trauma therapist, Shelby uses a variety of modalities and interventions, including Internal Family Systems/parts work, Polyvagal Theory, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness, and Somatic Experiencing to attempt deeper healing and meaning. IFS is one of her favorite modalities because she has seen so many clients resonate with it (including herself), and has also seen such powerful shifts in how clients relate to themselves, the people in their lives, and to the world.
IFS is an approach to complex trauma treatment, as well as various other treatments, that aims to integrate all "parts" or personalities of a person into a more functional and accepting whole system that is led by the self. The goal is to heal "wounded" parts and restore mental balance. She has found this modality especially effective for clients who tend to have dissociative symptoms and/or attachment/relational trauma.
Shelby is currently based in Muskegon Michigan; for more information on her or how to work with her, you can find her information on Tiktok (@Shelby_thetherapist)."
Complex Trauma, Inner-Child Work & All Things Experiential with Kendyl Leasure
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Kendyl is mental health therapist who specialized in complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She graduated from Naropa University with a degree in Transpersonal counseling psychology. She utilizes a variety of therapeutic approaches including EMDR, Brainspotting, comprehensive resource model, IFS, coherence therapy and inner child/teen work. Kendyl currently owns her own private practice Mind+Full Therapy in Salt Lake City, Utah which offers a variety of bottom-up therapy approaches. She is also the owner of Lithesome, which offers mental health resources for individuals and therapists including: online masterclasses, trainings, consultation and mental health related merchandise.
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www.lithesome.net/
mind-fulltherapy.com/
Coherence Therapy & Memory Reconsolidation with guest Therapist Sam Robinson
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Sam is an LSCW- supervisor and founder of Strong Roots Psychotherapy in Austin Texas. He was born and raised in the UK and trained as a Social worker at the University of Sussex in Brighton.
He crossed the pond in 2016 and began his career in child welfare in Kansas City before moving to Austin, TX in 2018 to work in a group practice and pursue his passion for music, specifically playing the drums :)
Sam started Strong Roots Psychotherapy in March 2021, and during that time he worked with Robin Ticic towards his Coherence Therapy certification. CT and the reconsolidation process have become the focus of Sam’s work with clients and he seeks to deepen this work with continued training and consultation. Sam works with a range of clients but finds joy in helping folks find deeper meaning in their past, and how adaptive ways of coping in childhood are in full force in the present day! Helping clients unlock this an update emotional learnings has become a passion for Sam.
You can check out Strong Roots here:
www.strongrootspsychotherapy.com
Somatic & Attachment based EMDR/Religious Trauma with guest Therapist Adele Martelle
Comprehensive Resource Model & Complex Trauma with guest Therapist Marley Cote
Building a Coping Toolbox
In this episode I talk about different kinds of self regulation and grounding techniques that can help you navigate emotional flashbacks and triggers, and how to find the right tools for you.
Navigating Suicide from a Trauma Informed Lens: with Janel Cubbage
**This episode has a content warning for discussions of suicide**
In this episode I interview my guest Janel Cubbage, a suicidologist and trauma informed therapist. We talk about what it means to work with suicidal clients in a trauma informed way, strategies to prevent suicide, and how the mental health field can improve in the treatment of patients with suicidality.
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Boundaries and Compassion; Navigating Relationships with People that have CPTSD
In this episode I talk about the complexity of being in close relationships with people that have CPTSD, and the role of boundaries in learning secure attachment patterns.
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CPTSD 101
In this episode I cover the basics of CPTSD: what it is, how it differs from PTSD, and a few other commonly asked questions.
Attachment, Dissociation, Complex Trauma and EMDR with guest Melissa Parks
Melissa is a licensed therapist in private practice in the state of South Carolina. She has been practicing for 17 years this year and she specializes in working with adults with complex trauma and couples. She is certified in EMDR and can provide consultation for therapists pursuing EMDR certification. She has had several advanced trainings that inform her work and some of her favorites include Attachment Focused EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, to name a few. She can be found on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @melissaparkssays
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Can you self heal?
In this episode I talk about the topic of self healing, the barriers people face accessing mental health care, and the risks and resources to be aware of when working on healing without therapy
Practical Applications for Polyvagal Theory in CPTSD Recovery
In this episode I talk about some of the ways learning about polyvagal theory changed my perspective on mental health, and share some of the most useful tools and practices I’ve gathered from somatic trauma informed theories.
Trauma, Polyvagal Theory & Somatic Healing with Justin Sunseri
On this episode I talk with my guest Justin Sunseri about polyvagal theory and how it applies to healing in and out of therapy. You can find more of Justin's work on his website https://www.justinlmft.com/
Systemic Complex Trauma and Anti-Oppressive Therapy with Dr. Han Ren
In this episode I talk with Dr Han Ren about the complex trauma that stems from social systems of oppression, and what justice-oriented and anti-oppression work looks like in the context of mental health and therapy.
You can find more of Dr Hans work at @DrHanRen on TikTok or check out her other social media on http://linktr.ee/drhanren
These are the book recommendations that Dr. Han provided:
-The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor
-Crazy Like Us, the Globalization of the American Psyche - Ethan Watters
-Me and White Supremacy - Layla Saad
-My Grandmothers Hands, racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies - Resmaa Menakem
How to be an anti racist - Ibram x Kendi
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Inner Child Healing and Re-parenting
In this episode I break down what re-parenting yourself means as well as explore the practical application and impact of inner child healing.
Learned Helplessness and Learned Empowerment
In this episode I talk about what learned helplessness is, how it shows up in adulthood, and the role that empowerment plays in CPTSD recovery.
Complex Trauma, Complex Recovery
This episode is about the multidimensional ways trauma impacts development, and my thoughts about integrative, effective and holistic approaches to recovery!
Relational healing in CPTSD & earning secure attachment
In this episode I talk about the concept of relational healing and what it means to heal your attachment patterns and create secure attachment in adulthood. If you're interested in more of my content you can subscribe to my patreon linked here. https://www.patreon.com/complextraumarecovery
Emotional flashbacks and CPTSD
This is an episode talking about the concept of Emotional Flashbacks, and sharing my thoughts about how to use awareness of emotional flashbacks to foster self-compassion and interrupt shame cycles. I also talk about how triggers can be a helpful aid to recovery. Here is the article by Pete Walker I reference in this episode! http://pete-walker.com/13StepsManageFlashbacks.htm