Happy New Year, group! I have finally come back online after a few weeks off for break. I hope everyone here had a fantastic and rejuvenating holiday, free from trauma and drama! If not, let me know how I can help you and/or your clients deal with...

Hi everyone, I would like to draw you attention to a discussion I've been having with Jeff Friedman (see link to our conversation below). He's in a PhD program in marriage in family counseling and is looking for grants that might help fund his...

I am majoring in social work and will be starting my practicum in the fall. My placement is at a community action center. Once I graduate though I hope to work with homeless and unaccompanied youth. ACEs are important for this because many youth who are homeless leave their homes because of a traumatic experience and frequently experience further trauma as a homeless minor.

Hi Joanna! I am a graduate student at Philadelphia University in the Community & Trauma Counseling Program. I am apart of the inaugural cohort of the university and we currently in our summer semester with one year left :-) Our foundation is in trauma and on the first weekend of classes we were introduced to the ACEs study and the impact of behavioral/mental health that follows. The study is discussed almost every weekend we're in class. I am currently interning in a program in...

I am 27 years old. I am a survivor, a writer and a mental health advocate in my home town of Frederick MD. I am becoming more involved in the municipal and county-level politics. Occasionally I speak at the meetings and I applied to join the mental health advisory board for the Frederick County. I read about history of trauma psychology, religion, social theory, history, mysticism and psychoanalysis. I listen to the lectures of trauma psychologists on youtube. I am writing a psychoanalytical...