Historical Trauma

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.

Travis Wright (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sawyer Salameh (They/Them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Since beginning my career, I have specialized in working with PTSD and historical trauma. My focus has been on helping individuals move past their trauma and prevent it from dominating their present experiences. By addressing and processing these painful histories, we can reclaim control over our lives and mitigate the impact of past events. This process allows us to heal and build a more empowered and resilient future.

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.

Inness Pryor (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

I am recently trained in Eye Movement & Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR helps people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress of traumatic memories. It uses bilateral stimulation - such as tapping, eye movement, or sound - to enhance information processing and transform the meaning of painful events.

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.

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.

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

Justin Little (he/him/his)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT, INHC

The effects of trauma can reverberate down the generations. Additionally, secondary trauma can have similar effects as first-hand trauma or chronic stress. As the son of a combat veteran, I am passionate about helping clients identify ways in which their own traumatic experiences (or those of their loved ones) are impacting their mental health. As we learn to heal from trauma, our relationships and personal wellbeing will be positively impacted as well.

Katie Palumbo (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA. Practicing Counselor Associate #R8395

My training and lived experience have taught me powerful practices to bring healing and hope to the parts of you that may hold memories and wounds from absent or neglectful caregivers, peers that taunted and teased, family that abused, or any of the other myriad forms historical trauma could have been experienced as. My approach is trauma-informed and compassion-focused and is tailored to the unique needs of your nervous system and internal world.

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.

Day Hancock Murphy (they/them)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MS, MFTA

I find that many of my clients come to the work with a history of trauma that may even go back generationally to impact them.

Amanda Lowrey (she/her/hers)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

It's important to take time in recognizing and understanding how traumatic experience have impacted one's mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being! I often work with clients in exploring the connection between a trauma experience and associated emotional and behavioral responses. As well, I often incorporate mindfulness-based interventions to aid in healing trauma stored in the body.

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.

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.

David Hayden (He/Him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Developmental trauma can cause deep wounds within us, or even lead us to have a sense of fragmentation when it comes to our sense of self. Normal talk therapy often can't get at these wounds and requires a deeper understanding, that can come out in the therapy room through deep attachment-oriented work. Religious trauma also fits within this, i.e. trauma that comes from our development being controlled and hijacked by a religious system.

Dr. Sarah Kendrick (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

PMH-C, CCTS-f, c-CBE

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.

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.

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.

Adam Benjamin

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, CHT

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.

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.

Lavinia Magliocco (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

CRC

I'm first generation Italian-American, my Jewish grandmother was part of an extensive diaspora, & I'm also Sicilian. 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.

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.

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.