Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

Welcome ISSTD’s New Members in December! Professional MembersParul AgarwalDiane BachmanTeresa CannonLily DavisDima DupereKarin EnsinkJoshua FrekerHolly FrenchJoan GolstonAllison Helen GrimesApril HarterMeredith HenryAbby HershlerSherri JacobsAnnette JonesWioleta KoziolJennifer MarchandJessica MattinglyJanet MilliganDorith PrutchiJan RimerJeanne-Marie RimlingerMarta RochaElizabeth Anne WrightLaura Wulff Emerging Professional MembersSamantha AuclairVeronica CecilPatricia LeeWah-CooperMelissa MarshallJane McCauleyKrysteli NeedhamSara PascalElisha Melony SealeAyelet SilberbergHeleen Woest Student MembersLaura CleggSarah GolleyAdrian Masterman-SmithRebecca Moussa […]

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Bookstore Sale Unhooked Books is having a sale on all of their inventory! Do some holiday shopping and take advantage of discounted rates on books on trauma and EMDR! Want to give back this holiday season? Donate to the ISSTD Student Book Giveaway at the Annual Conference by having your order shipped straight to ISSTD. […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

New Book Details Everything We Ever Wanted to Know about Trauma and Dissociation! ISSTD Board Member, Dr Valerie Sinason has written a new book: The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask, which is a little different to her previous books. Valerie explains: “This is my […]

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ISSTD Member Launches New Embodied Antiracism Training ISSTD Member Francesca Maxime is offering a 5-week embodied antiracism online course through www.therapywisdom.com launching in October. This course is the brain-child of Francesca and has been a year in the making. Francesca says, “In my own personal journey as a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American multiethnic woman, it was my […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

Restoring the Shattered Self: Second Edition Now Available Christian Trauma Counsellors find themselves straddling two worlds: they need to be both psychologically informed and trained, while also cognisant of their faith and that of their clients. Many find they need specialist training and literature to support them in this. ISSTD Member, Heather Davediuk Gingrich has […]

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New Books for Dissociative Children Now Available on Kindle ISSTD Member Ana Gomez has produced two books for dissociative children, now available on Kindle. The beautifully colourful books, targeted at children aged 7 years and over, aim to bring empowerment and resources to dissociative children with an emerging personality that shows fragmentation. These books remind […]

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Poetry in the News & the News in Poetry ISSTD Member Phyllis Klein has cleverly constructed her poetry collection to resemble the sections of a newspaper. The content too deals with contemporary issues we read of in the news. As the foreword states: ‘Reading the news is complicated. Sometimes if hurts. It can bring up […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

“A Deep Wound Under my Heart”: New Report Explores Women’s understandings of Complex Trauma and Service Provision ISSTD Board Director, Dr Michael Salter is the lead author of a new report “A deep wound under my heart” which explores women’s understandings of complex trauma and their experiences of service provision in Australia. The report was […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

Elizabeth Howell’s Latest Book: A Focus on Relational Healing ISSTD Fellow, Elizabeth Howell, PhD has just released her sixth book: Trauma and Dissociation-Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and Therapeutic Connection, published this month by Norton. This book proposed a model for therapy in which the client and the practitioner are both traumatized and flawed human beings […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

New Edition of Restoring the Shattered Self The second edition of Restoring the Shattered Self: A Christian Counselor’s Guide to Complex Trauma, has just been released. Written by ISSTD Member Heather Davediuk Gingrich, a professor of counseling at Denver Seminary. This new edition covers the material of the first edition including the impacts of trauma; […]

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