Lisa is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, depathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for 34 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, and UK and Ireland. Lisa has been an Adjunct Faculty member at University of Maryland School of Social Work, University of Baltimore at Maryland, University of Maryland Department of Family Medicine, and is the Founder of The Ferentz Institute -- formerly known as The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training and Education -- now in its 17th year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,400 clinicians from her two Certificate Programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment. In 2009, she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of: Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition,Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing, andFinding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch. In This Episode Lisa’s website--- If you’d like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast. Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.