Trauma & PTSD therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-MH, QMHP, RPT

Vanessa Hoogendoorn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a Registered Play Therapist and an EMDR clinician. She works with young children through young adults, with specialties in adoption and foster care, medical and preverbal trauma, anxiety, ADHD and life transitions. Trained in adoption-competent care, she also partners with parents on strategies suited to their child's needs. Because play is how children communicate most naturally, she combines play therapy and sandplay with EMDR, along with attachment-based, art therapy, Internal Family Systems and family systems approaches. She sees clients in person in Sioux Falls and online.

Psychologist, PsyD

Dr. Joe Rustum is a licensed psychologist in Nashville, Tennessee. He works with adults, many of them high-achieving professionals and business owners who function well outwardly but feel anxious, worn down, disconnected or unable to switch off. He helps with overthinking, boundaries, burnout, career questions, relationships and depression, and also with OCD, addiction, eating disorders, insomnia and couples and family concerns. His therapy is active, direct and practical, aimed at spotting the patterns that keep problems going and making real-life changes. He draws on ACT, CBT, exposure and response prevention, the Gottman Method, emotionally focused therapy and IFS. He sees clients in person in Nashville and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, DSW

Mary Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate in social work, based in Franklin, Tennessee, with 11 years in practice. She works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on ADHD, anxiety, trauma, relationships, life transitions and self-esteem, as well as OCD, substance use, neurodivergence, PMDD and emotional regulation. She spent nearly a decade working with veterans. Smith offers a shame-free space where clients decide what they want to change; she asks questions, offers fresh perspectives and sometimes challenges thinking, with humor and practical skills. Her methods include ACT, CBT, DBT, cognitive processing therapy and the Gottman Method. She sees clients online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW

Mariah Rouse Mahoney is a licensed clinical social worker in Salt Lake City, Utah, with five years in practice. She works with teens, adults, older adults and couples on trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, ADHD and life transitions, as well as eating disorders, body image, people-pleasing and substance use, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Mahoney describes a supportive but honest style, offering encouragement alongside gentle challenge. She helps clients explore patterns that once protected them but now hold them back, using EMDR, Internal Family Systems, somatic work, emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman Method, DBT and neurofeedback. She sees clients in person in Salt Lake City and online.

Family Therapist, LMFT

Sharon Walls is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, also licensed in Wyoming and registered for telehealth in Florida, with 24 years in practice. She works with preteens, teens, adults, couples and families who feel stuck in relationship, work or family patterns or are facing hard life transitions. Her areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction and substance use, eating disorders and codependency, and she welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Walls focuses on deep emotional connection and believes clients hold their own answers. Her methods include emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman Method, Imago, IFS, ACT and family systems work. She sees clients online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, CSAC

John Stacy is a Licensed Professional Counselor and certified substance abuse counselor in Norfolk, Virginia, with 14 years in practice, and he owns a group practice. He works with adults on trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, ADHD and self-esteem, as well as addiction and alcohol use, dual diagnosis, bipolar disorder, perinatal and postpartum concerns and men's issues, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Stacy takes a holistic view of mental, emotional and physical health and treats clients as the experts on their own lives. His methods include CBT, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, motivational interviewing, solution-focused and somatic approaches. He also provides clinical supervision and sees clients in person in Norfolk.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Kim Foreman is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with more than 20 years of experience across private practice and other settings. She specializes in complex trauma and dissociative disorders, and also works with anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, self-esteem, sexual abuse, self-harm, personality disorders and women's issues, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Foreman focuses on creating a safe setting for healing. She is trained in EMDR and clinical hypnosis and in conducting a structured diagnostic interview for dissociative disorders, and she runs a 31-week closed group that teaches stabilization skills to people with dissociation. She sees adults and older adults in person in Virginia Beach and online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Jacob Rusczek is a licensed psychologist in Montpelier, Vermont, also licensed in Massachusetts. He works with adults, older adults and couples on relationship concerns, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions and self-esteem, and also with OCD, eating disorders, personality disorders, dissociation, chronic illness and chronic pain, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Rusczek sees each course of therapy as different and treats it as a way to build self-awareness, since people often repeat painful patterns without knowing why. He listens closely, asks deepening questions and offers observations and connections, working from psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, existential and relational traditions. He sees clients in person in Montpelier.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MSW, APSW

John Troast is a licensed clinical social worker in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, also licensed in North Carolina and Nevada, with 10 years in practice. He works with children, teens, adults and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, self-esteem, identity and relationship concerns, and also with ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, addiction, anger, personality disorders and family conflict, and welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Troast sets specific, goal-oriented objectives with each client and revisits them regularly to keep therapy focused. His approach is trauma-informed and nonjudgmental, using CBT, family systems, the Gottman Method and mindfulness-based methods. He sees clients in person in Wauwatosa and online.