The Trauma Recovery Group: A Guide for Practitioners

About Diya KallivayalilEmily SchatzowJocelyn LevitanJudith Lewis HermanMelissa CocoMichaela Mendelsohn

Michaela Mendelsohn PhD is a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge and Wellesley Massachusetts. She is also a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mendelsohn completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Victims of Violence (VOV) Program at the Cambridge Health Alliance where she subsequently worked as a clinician and researcher and continues to provide supervision and consultation.Judith Lewis Herman MD is Professor of Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. For 30 years until she retired she was Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her books include Group Trauma Treatment in Early Recovery The Trauma Recovery Group FatherDaughter Incest and Trauma and Recovery. Dr. Herman is a recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and from the Division of Trauma Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has also received the Woman in Science Award from the American Medical Women's Association and has been named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Emily Schatzow MEd is a psychotherapist in private practice in Cambridge Massachusetts and a trainer and senior consultant for VISIONS Inc. a nonprofit organization advising public and private institutions on workplace diversity. She is also a Research Associate in Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School. Melissa Coco LICSW is a senior clinician and supervisor at the VOV Program and the Outpatient Psychiatry Department at the Cambridge Health Alliance and a faculty member in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Diya Kallivayalil PhD is a staff psychologist in the Outpatient Psychiatry Department at the Cambridge Health Alliance and a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Jocelyn Levitan MA is a doctoral student in the Counseling Clinical and School Psychology program at the University of California Santa Barbara and a former Research Coordinator at the VOV Program.