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PROGRAM DIRECTORS/SENIOR
INSTRUCTORS
 Geneie
Everett, PhD, RN, is the Founder and Director of Trauma First Aide
Associates with thirty-five years experience as an Integrative
Practitioner incorporating multiple Body/Mind techniques from western
medicine and native cultures. In addition to her integrative
healing practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she worked on staff at a full
integrative medical clinic in Santa Monica, California, served on the
Subcommittee on Integrative Practice to the New Mexico Board of Nursing,
and sponsored the “Hundred Medicines: Honoring Many Paths" conferences
on integrative practice. Dr. Everett’s hospital nursing
experience included: multi-systems critical care, renal transplant, and
emergency medicine. From 2005-2006, she served as the Director of the
Foundation for Human Enrichment’s Trauma Outreach Program (TOP) leading
a team to Thailand to assist tsunami survivors and deploying multiple
outreach teams to Louisiana in response to hurricanes Katrina and
Rita. Currently, Dr. Everett travels extensively throughout the
country lecturing and teaching Trauma First Aide™. Her
message spotlights ‘Prevent More and Treat Less’ and the possibility
of reducing and preventing PTSD through education and using simple
techniques that ‘Restore Resilience’ to the nervous system. Her
personal focus is working with the military, first responders and
healthcare professionals. Dr. Everett's coauthored book, Trauma
First Aide©, will be published in 2010.
“Whether working
with complex PTSD from child sexual abuse or teaching a soldier how to
take care of himself or a buddy in the field, Trauma First Aide is the
backbone of all interventions in my practice and is the way I take care of
myself so I can continue to help others.”
Contact: GEverett@TraumaFirstAide.com
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 Pam Burnham, PhD, LISW, SEP,
Program Director, TFA for Youth & Families
has been in clinical practice for 30 years with a focus on
developmental and shock trauma in infants and children. She is certified
in EMDR and Somatic Experiencing. Dr. Burnham conducted research in
parent-infant attachment, and teaches a somatic-based psychotherapy. From
2005-2006, Pam served on the Trauma Outreach Team traveling to Thailand
post Tsunami to collect follow-up research data and worked with survivors
in New Orleans post-Katrina/Rita where she provided sessions, collected
data and helped with Trauma First Aide research. Pam is a senior
TFA instructor teaching in Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico,
California, Maine, Virginia and Texas. In 2008, Dr. Burnham
developed a new TFA program with special focus on youth and family and is
the Director of that program. She is currently managing the Santa
Fe Public Schools Project to train all social workers, school counselors,
school nurses, and teachers in TFA system-wide.
"Trauma First
Aide™ is integrated into every aspect of my work with children,
adolescents, and adults. I use it with clients to quickly settle
anxiety, calm agitation and restlessness, dissipate fear, and ground the
impulse to fight and or take flight. I teach the principles of TFA
to my clients, my students, and my family to use as a way to stay
connected to themselves and present to what is happening especially in
highly emotionally charged situations. TFA is user friendly, efficient,
and it works."
Contact: PBurnham@TraumaFirstAide.com
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INSTRUCTORS
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 Holly G. Burnes, RN, MS,
is a Clinical Nurse
Specialist in Mental Health and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®.
Holly, a seasoned psychotherapist in private practice, has been
using mind/body approaches to help people with trauma-based physical and
emotional issues for thirty years. Her training as a nurse allows her to
be comfortable in dealing with physical disease, disfigurement and being
with people fearing death, recovering from loss, and reeling from life
threatening news. She helps those with physical illness to grow personally
as they recuperate physically. From the late '80s until 2001, Holly led
mind/body therapeutic groups at a large outpatient medical practice. She
created specialized groups for irritable bowel syndrome, infertility,
heart disease, and fibromyalgia and has trained other clinicians to lead
these groups. Holly was a member of the Trauma Outreach team post-Katrina
where she provided sessions, collected data, and helped with Trauma First
Aide research. She is a member of the Trauma First Aide teaching
staff in Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts and Louisiana and is a member of
our military training team.
“Trauma
First Aide is the first action I take with clients, friends, or anyone I
encounter in acute distress. As a psychotherapist, there are endless
opportunities for me to help my clients with TFA as they face current and
past horrible moments in their lives. It helps them regain a sense of
grounding, and puts the memories more peacefully in the past. Just
yesterday I used it on the phone with a friend who was in a roll-over car
accident. TFA applications are endless!”
Contact: HBurnes@TraumaFirstAide.com |
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 Theresa L. Cangelosi, MA, LMFT, SEP is a Somatic Psychotherapist with a
Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology. She has been in private
practice for seventeen years in San Francisco, California working with
individuals, families, and couples. Following a psycho-dynamic and
body-based approach, her work has expanded to include Attachment Theory,
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, Bodywork, Somatic Experiencing,
and Trauma First Aide. Theresa specializes in early developmental shock
and trauma therapy utilizing a neuro-biological foundation. Transformation
and spirituality are respectfully held in her practice. Theresa has a
strong passion to prevent and treat trauma by educating her local
community whenever the need arises. Theresa is currently active in the
Coming Home Project, which provides psychotherapy for veterans and their
families, and she teaches Physical and Occupational therapists at San
Francisco General Hospital how somatic psychotherapy can heal and prevent
PTSD. Theresa served as a member of the Trauma Outreach team
post-Katrina and is a member of the teaching staff in Louisiana, New
Mexico and California.
“I use
Trauma First Aide regularly in my personal and professional interactions
as well as at the scene of accidents with strangers. When Trauma First
Aide is utilized to stabilize the system, individuals and communities
become more resilient after traumatic events.”
Contact:
TCangelosi@TraumaFirstAide.com
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 Jeanne
Du Rivage, MA, OTR/L, SEP is a pediatric occupational therapist who has worked
extensively with young children and their families, as well as in the
public schools. She specializes in developmental disabilities, trauma, and
self regulation. Jeanne believes that understanding the brain, the nervous
system, and the impact of traumatic events on the nervous system is not
only critical for personal self awareness and healing, but is also vital
for assisting others in this healing process as well. Jeanne served on the
Trauma Outreach team and assisted in the post-Katrina Trauma First Aide
trainings. She also worked in India with tsunami survivors.
Jeanne has assisted trainings since 2007 in Louisiana, Maine and New
Mexico and works with Dr. Burnham in the TFA for Youth & Families.
“Trauma
First Aide is extremely effective and easy to learn and is an essential
tool for anyone to add to their tool box.”
Contact:
JRivage@TraumaFirstAide.com
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 Giselle Genillard, Licensed Midwife,
SEP is a
member of the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI)
and is a TIPS Instructor. She has been working in the field of human
endeavor for thirty years. In the early 80's, Giselle was deeply involved
with the politics of childbirth in England and she studied with Sheila
Kitzinger and Michel Odent. Later, Giselle became an Advanced Rolfer
practicing internationally, and a Licensed Midwife practicing in New
Mexico. Since 1999, Giselle has been healing by combining her training as
a somatic therapist with her diverse knowledge and skills in the art of
midwifery, the core principles of Somatic Experiencing, and her widespread
cross-cultural experiences. She travels extensively for her work,
massacres five languages with humorous fluency, and was a member of Trauma
Outreach teams going to South-East India post-tsunami and to New Orleans
post-Katrina. Giselle is the organizer of the SE trainings in both England
and France and she is the director of "Sense of Self UK", a London-based
organization designed to bring excellence in Eastern and Western
approaches to somatic therapy for trauma resolution worldwide. Giselle
specializes in working with PTSD, prenatal, perinatal, and sexual trauma,
infertility, early attachment disorders, addictions, and international
disasters. She is a member of the Trauma First Aide teaching staff
in Maryland, Maine, and New Mexico.
"TFA forms the mainstay of my professional practice but far
transcends the bounds of my profession. TFA is a philosophy for living; I
use it in my personal relationships, I teach it to my daughter to use with
her college students in distress, I used it at my father's death, and I
use it with pregnant and birthing women and with mothers caring for young
children. It is pristine, simple and essential to maintaining healthy
relationships of all denominations."
Contact:
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 Lorin Hager,
LMT, SEP is a somatic practitioner in Santa Fe , New Mexico , and a consultant to
students in the SE training program. He served as Chairman of the Board
for Foundation for Human Enrichment (FHE) for eight years and helped Dr.
Peter Levine to write Waking the
Tiger, Healing Trauma. Lorin is the co-author of the Healing Trauma Guide Book, and It Won't Hurt Forever, also with
Dr. Levine. He studied with Dr. Milton Trager and has taught somatic-based
trauma therapy. He is the co-developer, along with Bhanu Harrison, of
Trauma First Aide for Body Workers module (TFA-BW). Lorin served on the
Trauma Outreach Program team in Baton Rouge
and New Orleans post-Katrina and is a
member of the Trauma First Aide teaching staff in Washington , New
Mexico , and Louisiana and
is a member of our military training team.
“Trauma First Aide training provides the essential tools
needed to help yourself and/or others begin to calm down in the wake of
extreme experiences. I use these tools everyday with myself as well as
with my clients.”
Contact:
lorinhager@gmail.com |
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Cyndi
Harris, MS, OD is a
group and organizational development consultant, trainer and coach. Her
work includes individual, group, and organizational change and transition,
diversity and inclusion, organizational resilience, leadership
development, interpersonal relations, organizational design and culture,
strategic direction, navigating organizational dynamics for individual
success and well-being, and managing individual and group dynamics in
support of organizational effectiveness. She conducts highly
experiential workshops including Dealing with Covert Processes and Human
Interaction Laboratory. Cyndi is a member of the Trauma First Aide
teaching staff in New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Hawaii. She is
also a member of the TFA training team for the US State Department and
heads up TFA research.
“As a coach and consultant, I use Trauma First Aide to help
individuals and groups ground and settle to promote resilience in highly
charged situations and activities. In addition, Trauma First Aide
principles guide my training design and coaching and consulting
interventions allowing me to interact at individual and systems levels in
a way that better supports learning and fosters resilience and sustainable
action.”
Contact:
CHarris@TraumaFirstAide.com |
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 Bhanu Joy Harrison, LISW, LMT, SEP
is a
body-centered clinical social worker, massage therapy instructor, and
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in private practice in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Her private practice is focused on trauma resolution and she
regularly uses Trauma First Aide and Somatic Experiencing approaches with
clients. Bhanu has been an instructor at the New Mexico School of Natural
Therapeutics since 1985 and has taught classes in polarity therapy,
physiology, body-centered emotional support skills, business practices,
and ethics. She is approved by the National Certification Board for
Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education
Approved Provider. She is the co-developer, along with Lorin Hager,
of Trauma First Aide for Body Workers module (TFA-BW).
“As a social worker, I use TFA skills to help my clients
stay connected and grounded as they are processing difficult material. As
they begin to understand what is happening in their body as emotions are
discussed and processed, there is less anxiety or fear about the process.
I also use TFA with my children as they deal with falls or other accidents
and also to help them understand their teenage peers as they navigate this
challenging time in their lives.”
Contact:
BHarrison@TraumaFirstAide.com |
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 Brad Kammer, MA, MFTI, SEP holds a Master’s Degree
emphasizing Somatic Psychology and is a California Marriage and Family
Therapist Intern. He is also a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
and assistant trainer for the Foundation for Human Enrichment. Brad served
on a Trauma Outreach Program team to New Orleans, post-Katrina, and is
currently working with a Northern California trauma outreach group. Brad
has traveled, lived and worked around the world, and spent one year
working with Burmese refugees in Asia. Brad and his family live in Ukiah,
California where he practices and teaches Somatic Experiencing and Trauma
First Aide, and works with at-risk children and their families through
Redwood Children Services. He is also an adjunct psychology instructor at
Mendocino College. Brad is a member of the Trauma First Aide©
teaching staff in Louisiana, California and New
Mexico.
“I use TFA effectively in many different situations –
from stopping at an accident scene on the side of the road to a child
getting hurt at a baseball game. In my work as a therapist, I use TFA
skills in teaching clients how to use their bodies as allies in moving
through difficult life experiences. I am grateful to have TFA as a skill
set to offer people who wish to strengthen their resources and build
resiliency.”
Contact:
BKammer@TraumaFirstAide.com |
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 Kristi Kennen, LISW has conducted a private practice for
over twenty-five years specializing in working with
clients, including adults and children, suffering from traumatic
events, PTSD, and DID. In the 90’s, Kristi studied the effects of trauma
in China, India, and Thailand, and most recently, Kristi was a member of a
trauma team led by Bessel Van der Kolk studying the impact of Apartheid in
South Africa. She currently acts as a team member and consultant for an
inter-disciplinary treatment team of physicians, doctors of Oriental
Medicine, body workers, herbalists, and psychotherapists who treat people
with auto-immune disorders, and trauma-related syndromes. She incorporates
Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Eriksonian Hypnosis, Ego-State Therapy, Play
Therapy, and Equine Therapy in her clinical practice offering
individual and group therapy. Kristi has presented at major
conferences studying PTSD and DID disorders. She was a member of
the Trauma Outreach team in Louisiana post-Katrina/Rita where she provided
sessions, collected data, and helped with TFA research and is a member of
the Trauma First Aide teaching staff.
“As a psychotherapist who is a certified trauma specialist,
I specialize in working with children, adolescents and adults who have
been diagnosed with PTSD. I find the user-friendly skills of TFA
invaluable in my sessions and also to use as recovery skills for my
clients to use in their everyday life to help stabilize and calm and help
restore the nervous system due to the traumatic events they have
experienced.”
Contact:
KKennen@TraumaFirstAide.com |
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 Patrick McCarthy, PhD, LICSW, SEP is
a clinical social worker in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Trained
originally in psychodynamic therapy, he weaves family systems theory,
cognitive behavioral principals, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and Trauma
First Aide into his therapeutic practice. He is an Adjunct Assistant
Professor for the Boston University Graduate School of Social Work for the
past 25 years. Dr. McCarthy served on the Trauma Outreach Program
post-Katrina/Rita and helped organize and set-up the data collection for
the research that has been published and been on the Trauma First Aide
teaching team since 2006 in Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, and New
Mexico
“Increasingly, I have come to rely on Trauma First Aide to
help my private clients manage and settle their own emotions both in and
out of the clinical sessions.”
Contact:
PMcCarthy@TraumaFirstAide.com
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 Starr Potts, MA, MSW, LICSW is a clinical social worker and
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® who has blended numerous
mind/body/spirit approaches throughout her twenty-nine years as a
clinician, community and life skills educator. She has participated in and
organized community-based trauma response teams and prevention networks
through her earlier involvement in local disaster response, diversity
training initiatives, as former director of the Massachusetts Child
Assault Prevention training center, and as a consultant/trainer in her
company, Dreamweavers. As a body-oriented psychotherapist, EMDR and
integrative therapy consultant, and psycho-spiritual practitioner, Starr
currently works in private practice with individuals, couples, and groups
coping with trauma, health challenges, grief, life transition, and
lifestyle issues. Starr was a member of the Trauma Outreach teams in
post-tsunami Thailand and post-Katrina/Rita in Louisiana.
She is a member of the Trauma First Aide teaching staff in
Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
“I frequently use Trauma First Aide with my clients to
teach its simple strategies to help them reconnect to their own ability to
reset during major upsets and everyday stressors.”
Contact:
SPotts@TraumaFirstAide.com
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 Kristin Sagert, PhD, LISW,
SEP is a psychotherapist in private practice. In her work,
Kristin uses a mind/body approach and focuses on adults with all types of
trauma including unresolved life transitions, emotional distress, acute
and chronic health issues, and grief. Her integrative approach
incorporates an understanding of the diverse methods of Eastern and
Western healing modalities informed, in part, by her extensive healthcare
experience as a Medical Social Worker and her completion of a PhD in
Preventive Medicine. Dr. Sagert‘s broad range of
experience has included research, teaching, and numerous presentations on
physical and emotional health issues, including trauma, to audiences in
Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico and Louisiana. Kristin was a member of the
Trauma Outreach team post-Katrina/Rita and is a member of the Trauma First
Aide teaching staff in Louisiana, New Mexico, California and
Minnesota.
"As a psychotherapist, TFA is the foundational work with all
clients. I use Trauma First Aide daily as a vital aspect of therapeutic
interventions because it provides my clients with essential ‘take
away’ skills to use between sessions as they work toward improved
self-regulation and resiliency”.
Contact:
KSagert@TraumaFirstAide.com
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