Gretchen Schmelzer, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, trained as a Harvard Medical School Fellow. She is a trauma survivor who has worked for twenty-five years with the complex issues of trauma, integration, and behavior change across every level, from individuals to groups to large systems and countries. She has worked with individuals and groups in large clinics and clinics in housing projects, in residential treatment facilities, in psychiatric units and medical hospital units, and in private practice. She has more than a decade of experience working with traumatized children and adolescents in residential treatment and psychiatric units. She is the founder and editor of The Trail Guide, a web-mag featured on www.gretchenschmelzer.com dedicated to healing repeated trauma.
“This Harvard-trained psychologist has some shrewd observations,
including the reminder that “repeated trauma is about both what did
happen and what didn’t happen” (in other words, “the normal
developmental growth that would have taken place during the years
that the trauma was occurring.”)”
—The New York Times
“With vast personal and professional experience, Gretchen
Schmeltzer provides a thoughtful, compassionate trail guide for
trauma survivors in recovery. A keen scholar and talented clinician
with broad individual and systems "know-how", she gives us a book
unique in helping health workers, survivors and families to
understand not only the different types of trauma, but, more
importantly, the diversity in experiences and ways of coping. Must
reading!”
—Barbara F. Okun, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Northeastern
University
“This is a one of the most helpful and hopeful books I have read
during my own journey of healing trauma. Gretchen Schmelzer gives
us a clear road map and gentle encouragement to stay on path and do
the hard, but necessary, work to integrate the past so we can
embrace the future.”
—Lea Waters, Ph.D., Psychologist and President of the
International Positive Psychology Association and author of
The Strength Switch
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