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Raja Selvam, Ph.D., is a senior faculty member of
Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing professional training programs and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
He lectures and teaches internationally. |
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After obtaining graduate degrees in business and statistics, and a doctoral degree in marketing, he is at present writing a dissertation towards a Ph.D. in clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Raja’s increasingly eclectic approach draws from bodywork systems of Postural Integration and Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy, body-psychotherapy systems of Somatic Experiencing and Bodynamic Analysis, Jungian and Archetypal psychologies, psychoanalytic schools of Object Relations and Inter-Subjectivity, affective neuroscience, and Advaita Vadanta, a spiritual tradition from India. His current interests are trauma and attachment on one and hand trauma and spirituality on the other. Raja co-led the first Trauma Vidya team that went to Tamil Nadu, India, in June 2005 to treat tsunami survivors for trauma symptoms. |
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Lisa LaDue, MSW, LISW, is the co-founder and Senior Advisor of the National Mass Fatalities Institute in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She holds a Master of Social Work degree and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker, providing clinical social work and mental health services for over 25 years. |
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Lisa integrates Somatic Experiencing with cognitive-behavioral therapy in her clinical practice where she focuses on the treatment of traumatic stress. She lectures and trains internationally on topics related to mass fatalities, trauma, and disaster-response planning. Lisa has extensive hospital-based and cross-cultural experience and has been an active disaster response volunteer
since 1996, assisting the American Red Cross following disasters including hurricanes, typhoons, flooding, tornadoes, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. She has co-authored articles and a book chapter on disaster-related topics such as coordination of community mental health services, and establishment of family assistance centers following mass fatalities events. Lisa was a member of the Foundation for Human Enrichment’s first trauma outreach team to respond to the Asian tsunami, traveling to Thailand in January, 2005 to treat survivors. Lisa co-led the first Trauma Vidya team that went to Tamil Nadu, India, in June 2005 to treat tsunami survivors for trauma symptoms. |
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| Elisabeth (Beth) Nielsen, LMFT, SEP, is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Newport Beach, California. |
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Beth has completed trainings in Somatic Experiencing, Bioenergetics, Eye Movement De-sensitization and Re-programming (EMDR), domestic violence and Object Relations Therapy. She has worked extensively with children, adolescents and families in the school system, group homes, and treatment centers. Her current work, enhanced by years of yoga and meditation practices, utilizes SE, appropriate touch, mindfulness, and body awareness/movement practices to help her clients heal trauma. Deeply moved by the Tsunami, Beth started and helped organize a team for the Foundation for Human Enrichment that traveled to Thailand to help survivors. Beth is very passionate about helping therapists understand trauma and assists in SE trainings throughout Southern California. Beth was a member of the first Trauma Vidya team that went to Tamil Nadu, India, in June 2005 to treat tsunami survivors for trauma symptoms. |
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