Speakers / Conferenciantes
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, has worked directly with trauma survivors for more than three decades. Much of her work is being invited to assist in the aftermath of community catastrophes - whether they are fatal storms or mass shootings. Simultaneously, she has long been active in community organizing and movements for social and environmental justice and has taught on issues surrounding systematic oppression, structural supremacy, and liberation theory.
Rick Goodwin
Rick Goodwin, MSW, RSW is a clinician, manager and trainer on issues concerning men’s mental health. Much of his work over the past 25 years has focused on male sexual trauma – managing both regional and national initiatives in Canada. Along with managing the Online Support Group programming and principal trainer at 1in6, Inc., he also serves as the Managing Director of Men & Healing: Psychotherapy for Men.
Katrina Brown
Katrina is a Registered Nurse with nearly 14 years of experience in emergency nursing and over five years of experience in forensic nursing and nursing administration. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from the University of Nebraska and her Master’s Degree in Nursing Administration from the University of Colorado – Denver.
Denise Alexander
Ms. Alexander, MSSW has worked at the Our Kids Center as a Forensic Social Worker since 2011. During her career at Our Kids, she has worked with over 2500 children/families. She has testified in criminal and civil proceedings across middle Tennessee and South Korea. Ms. Alexander led the development of a nationally based curriculum used to train medical providers across the country in pediatric medical forensic exams.
Leanna Dugan
Leanna Dugan has been a pediatric nurse practitioner since 2009. She spent many years practicing in pediatric primary care before further specializing in the field of child sexual abuse. She joined Our Kids in 2017. Since that time, she has performed over 1,000 pediatric forensic medical examinations.
Kate Boston Melby
Bio coming soon!
Heather Meshell
Bio coming soon!
Katherine Manners
Katherine Manners, M.Ed., LMFT (she, her, hers) is co-Director/Founder of Resilience Works, providing training, technical assistance, and consultation to victim service, law enforcement, medical, legal and crisis responder programs. She has more than 30 years of direct service, supervision, and program development in victim & survivor services.
Lisa Tieszen
Spent over 35 years in health care developing and directing trauma-response programs. As a consultant, Lisa actively engages with organizations and teams, working across disciplines, to enhance overall health and well-being, with an emphasis on trauma-informed practice. She also works clinically with survivors of childhood and adult trauma in her private psychotherapy practice in Brookline, MA.
Juliet L. King
Juliet L. King (PhDc), ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC is an Associate Professor of Art Therapy at The George Washington University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Juliet has over two decades as a clinician, administrator, and educator. Professor King’s research explores the systematic integration of art therapy and neuroscience with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and imaging capacities to explore and test the psychological mechanisms of change in the creative arts therapies.
Gabriela Aguirre-Iriarte
Gabriela is a Licensed Professional Counselor with Mental Health Service Provider designation (LPC-MHSP) in the state of Tennessee and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor (RPT-S). She received a Master of science in Clinical Psychology from the Universidad de Tarapacá, and a Master of Arts in Social-Community Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Dr. Yulinda Rahman
Dr. Yulinda Renee Rahman (Rock-man), PhD., is a Clinical Sexologist, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Board Certified Sex Therapist, and founder of the nonprofit Heal On Purpose Inc. She is also an author, thought leader, speaker, and educator on the impact of sexual trauma on and in the Black community.