Trauma & Abuse

We are a private outpatient clinic, featuring over 35 educated and professional therapists of varied specialties and expertise — each graduate level trained, experienced and state licensed. 

In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, self-control, and trust.

Clearview Treatment Programs in Los Angeles has provided expert treatment for a variety of addictions and mental health disorders. With expertise in treating substance abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and duel diagnoses.

In The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, self-control, and trust.

Clearview Treatment Programs in Los Angeles has provided expert treatment for a variety of addictions and mental health disorders. With expertise in treating substance abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and duel diagnoses.

Yellowbrick is a private, physician-owned and-operated psychiatric healthcare organization whose mission is to provide a full-spectrum, specialized approach to the emotional, psychological and developmental challenges of emerging young adults.

Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) is a multi-chapter national 501c3 nonprofit organization that uses education and action to shatter the silence of sexual violence through targeted social, and legislative tactics. 

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization and was named one of “America’s 100 Best Charities” by Worth magazine. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.

YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Do you feel… that your problem is not what you do but who you are? caught in patterns of destructive relationships? that you never get enough affirmation?

Now in paperback, this bestselling classic presents seminal theory and research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice and equality.

Now in paperback, this bestselling classic presents seminal theory and research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice and equality.

My book, The Truth About Rape changes the way you view yourself, your approach to your recovery, and helps you make positive choices for lifelong change. 

The Center aims to help U.S. Veterans and others through research, education, and training on trauma and PTSD.

If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships—or a tragedy like 9/11—all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed.

Break the silence about male victims of incest and sexual abuse! The pseudonymous author of A Man’s Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse: The Insiders had everything a man could want: intelligence, physical strength, financial security, close friends, a loving girlfriend, a home in the most beautiful part of California. 

A long overdue book by a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual abuse of males is rare, or  are less serious than for girls. 

For millions of men on the path to recovery, Victims No Longer is the next step. The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and sexual trauma. 

Providing empowering action steps and written specifically for survivors of male sexual abuse as well as their spouses, partners, and loved ones, Beyond Betrayal is based on Richard Gartner’s decades of experience as a psychologist, and advocate for sexually abused men. 

Abused by father and priest, misdiagnosed by psychologists, provoked by policemen, attacked by hospital security guards and dismissed by psychiatrists, after forty years Chris Logue finds a counselor to guide his recovery.

Our mission is to prevent covert incest from being passed on to successive generations by educating the public and providing services to those who are […]

“The Next Step Counseling and Training is located in Brookline, Massachusetts. Co-directors Mike Lew, M.Ed. and Thom […]

Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC), is a nonprofit, public interest women’s health education, advocacy, and consulting organization.

Between Friends provides a safe, violence-free, supportive, self-help environment for women and children in crisis. Between Friends’ counselors support women in making their […]

Developed under the auspices of the PTSD Treatment Guidelines Task Force of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, this tightly edited work is the definitive best-practice reference for practitioners caring for any trauma population.

Connections for Abused Women and their Children, formerly Chicago Abused Women Coalition, is committed to ending domestic violence. Using a self-help, empowerment approach, we provide a shelter for women and children, and counseling, advocacy, and a 24-hour hotline for people affected […]

Hypnotherapy can be especially effective in treating eating disorders and addictions to smoking, sex or gambling. Using hypnosis, the therapist can go beyond traditional ‘talk therapy’ and focus on the component often missing from traditional treatment […]