Historical Trauma

The trauma of experiences such as war, slavery, or genocide are shared by entire communities and can have lasting and damaging effects that effect entire families and generations. Practitioners call this concept historical trauma. A mental health professional specializing in historical trauma will specifically focus on facilitating your journey to understanding your historical trauma and its influence on your life.

Local experts in Historical Trauma

Lawrence VENASKA (He/Him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I keep on the lookout for repetitive patterns of behavior clients have dealt with in life that are providing short term benefits and long term or heavy consequences. I help clients float back and discover earlier memories where similar feelings or dilemmas were involved. When identified we can use mindfulness & insight to effect change or do EMDR to clear old stored emotions and limiting beliefs.

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Kitty Kloud (She/They)

Clinical Social Work Associate

MSW, CSWA

I utilize Accelerated Resolution Therapy to help bring fast relief to those experiencing difficult symptoms related to complex/developmental trauma. Clients can expect a handful of sessions to build the safety of our therapeutic relationship and then a dive into the process of ART to bring about quick change.

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Sawyer Salameh

Licensed Professional Counselor

I have worked with PTSD and historical trauma since starting in the field. Working to put our trauma in the past and stopping it from controlling our present moments, can help us gain control of horrible things that have happened to us.

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Kendra Smith (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

We all have experiences we carry with us that shape the way we interact with the world around us. Sometimes, those experiences weigh heavier and impact us more deeply. Using trauma-informed care, I view all clients as people impacted by their individual history, as well as social-cultural and intergenerational histories. I incorporate that awareness into my work with clients as they examine how past strategies for staying safe and getting needs met either are or are not currently serving them.

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Rani Gupta (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

You’ve had a sinking feeling for a long time that something happened somewhere in your lineage - whether it was your parents, your grandparents, or beyond - that has become a repetitive pattern. Maybe you’re typically a flexible or adaptable person, but you notice you feel sudden fear when you have to go somewhere that, for most other people, would be an “everyday” place to go. Maybe you’re typically a patient person who notices that you suddenly turn impatient and irritated with certain tasks.

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Christopher Boothby (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Initially working with Trauma is best served by cultivating resources that allow the individual to remain within a window of tolerance, neither hyper-aroused as in fight/flight state, nor hypo-aroused as in freeze, or dissociative states. This work enhances the awareness of the subtle shifts that lead to adrenal responses to triggering stimuli. By cultivating somatic awareness, it becomes easier to recognize when actual danger exists v/s an unconscious fear due to stimulus of traumatic memory.

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Alexa Adams (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

I have extensive training and experience in working with historic and complex trauma through my time providing mental health services for NARA, NW and Wolf Pack Consulting and Therapeutic Services. As a relationship therapist, I understand how impactful historical trauma can be on a relationship system.

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Del Likins (he/they)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

◦ Body-based and liberatory perspectives ◦ Exploration of intergenerational legacies ◦ Roles of power-over systems passed through families: white supremacy culture, imperialism, ableism, classism, homo- and transphobia, misogyny/misogynoir, etc

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Travis Wright (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

Over the last two decades I have worked with combat veterans, veterans who experienced sexual trauma, and family members whose loved ones died in service. Much of this work was in and around trauma and traumatic loss/grief. I have found that most people experience trauma at one point or another in their lives. In fact, people often experience much more trauma than is ever revealed and yet seem to be able to function.

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Courtney Watson (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Trauma sticks with us and seeps into every part of our lives. Working with trauma is a difficult and delicate process, so you need to feel safe with your therapist. IFS has a gentle and slow approach to trauma that will never ask you to re-experience the memories or event. Instead, IFS uses a trauma-informed, evidence based approach which accesses the trauma through a different method. You are with it, not in it. This is an important distinction when we work to heal trauma. Reach out to start.

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Alli Santa (she/her/hers)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A, LPCI

Having experienced several traumatic events throughout my life and having watched family and friends experience trauma, I have learned what trauma can do to our minds and bodies. I have worked with many adolescents and adults who have experienced trauma and I have completed clinical trauma certification programs.

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Trellis Counseling

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

This can also be identified as “complex trauma” which is my primary focus of work and the area where I have the most training in and success with.

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Stuart Malkin (he/him/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

I help clients heal from adverse past emotional, physical, and sexual experiences using lifespan integration, trauma resourcing and mindfulness-based, somatic counseling. Working slowly to create collaboration, safety, and resiliency, past traumatic events are processed in mindfulness, reworking the past experience in safety.

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Julia Chapman (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT T1622

I work with trauma survivors to help change the way they feel about themselves by processing shame, rediscovering a sense of power and safety and rewriting their life narratives. I have done training in the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) which helps address the impact of stress on the body.

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Amanda Ichihashi Jagerman (She/her/hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

As a mixed race Jewish/Japanese American, I am the adult child & grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to the US as war refugees as well as the niece and granddaughter of Japanese-American Internees who were imprisoned without charge & forced to give up their possessions and citizenship. I dedicated years of my life researching & creating visual art narratives to heal and honor those who could not. If you go back far enough, there is trauma in everyone's bloodline.

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Melinda Norman (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

I specialize in helping others recognize the impact of generational experiences that lead to us experiencing traumatic situations.

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Erika Nelson (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Most of my experience as a therapist has been supporting people in active trauma, complex trauma, PTSD, and confronting historical, generational, and cultural trauma. I am experienced in supporting adults and adolescents on their journey to heal. I have many hours of continuing education in trauma specific treatment, and always practice with a trauma responsive lens.

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Larissa Kaul

Somatic Practitioner

I am the child of an immigrant and have lineage from colonized lands, and have personally experienced the manifestations of historical trauma. Historical trauma was also a topic frequently explored during my Masters program, and within many of my community organizing engagements. As a spirit worker, the legacy of historical trauma comes up often with clients as we work toward energetic healing.

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"Paisley" Jen Burrell (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LPC, LMFT

Trauma gets stored in our bodies and can resurface in symptoms that are distressing which can effect many areas of our lives. Research has shown that EMDR Therapy is a gentle approach and one of the most affective therapies for trauma recovery. I am an EMDR Therapist who works with patience and compassion. We will build resources and resilience and collaborate on your pacing before approaching or reprocessing any trauma material. Relief from the past is possible.

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Coleen Moreno (she/ her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

I have worked with adults to help reduce symptoms of trauma related to health, social environments, self-esteem and relationships of all kinds.

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Celine Redfield

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

MA, LMFT, Certified Havening Practitioner, EFT Master, Practitioner

If you have historical trauma that continues to haunt you and you would like to work through it. Art therapy and energy medicine can be very helpful in addressing and releasing historical trauma. I work with my clients to create a safe space and give them tools so that we can address old traumas in a kind and gentle way that respects your body, mind and spirit.

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Jenn Garlock (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, NCC

I use Internal Family Systems therapy, attachment therapy, EMDR, and psychodynamic therapy to help my clients identify what happened to them, explore how this has impacted their lives, their relationships, and their self esteem, and make steps to create the lives and relationships that they want for themselves.

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Naomi Painter (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

It’s tempting to believe that we can leave our past behind, isn’t it? But our childhoods dictate so much about our adulthoods - who we choose as partners, the jobs we take, the places we go, and where we feel safe. The body holds on to it all. Perhaps it was the way you were parented, or living through multiple moves or displacement, being bullied or isolated, caretaking for a parent or sibling as a child, significant loss, or living in poverty.

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Sonja Crisosto (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Historical and Generational trauma is another area that I have been impacted myself. Supporting people process this trauma that is also wrapped up in grief and so many additional barriers can make people feel isolated or hopeless. Please allow me, or someone else, to offer a space dedicated to only you while you.......................................

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Erica Kopf (she/her/ella)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC

Healing looks different for everyone. If we work together, I can help you process in a way that is healing and meaningful for you. I utilize a trauma-informed approach, and have specific experience providing therapy to survivors of intimate partner violence.

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Adam Benjamin

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

I can provide help understanding the impact of historical or complex trauma, including the vagal and brain systems it often affects, and help you develop ways to manage its effects on your nervous system.

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Lavinia Magliocco (she/they)

Professional Counselor Associate

CRC

Our ancestors' lives inform us through patterns that live in our very cells. Whether through war, genocide, dispossession, abuse, violence, loss, and (im)migration, having a place to uncover stories, explore family dynamics, and make choices based on your preferences rather than constraints is crucial for personal recovery as well as healthy relationships.

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Jason Durtschi

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

I have extensive experience working with various traumas (from sexual assault, military-related, to mental and other forms of abuse), and have completed related trainings. I will soon be certified in EMDR for treating complicated trauma.

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Dr. Sarah Kendrick (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

PMH-C, CCTS

I'm a wounded-healer in the business of inter-generational healing. Folx talk about post-traumatic stress without recognizing the powerful potential of post-traumatic growth within families. Affective neuroscience offers an invaluable picture of how trauma was embedded in ourselves & our loved ones and ALSO of how to integrate & heal it rather than pass it on to our children. I help clients rewire how they show up in world to forge a safer path for raising healthy whole-hearted children.

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