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Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW is celebrating her 49th anniversary in the field of mental health, where she has been a leader in integrating spiritual modalities with traditional practice. She is the award-winning author of The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD From the Inside Out (Quest, 2012) and Wisdom, Attachment and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice (Routledge, 2018). 

Her newest book Women Therapists on Healing will be released in the Fall of 2024 from North Atlantic Books.

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Myriam D. Savage (Mimi) Ph.D., RDT/BCT, is a registered drama therapist, board-certified trainer, and associate professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco in the Master of Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts program. She is a core faculty member teaching courses such as Human Development and Family, Group Dynamics, Arts in Therapy and Professional Development.

Dr. Savage is also founding faculty for the Arts and Healing Initiative (formerly UCLArts and Healing) in the Social Emotional Arts (SEA) program, where she collaborated with a team of creative art therapists, creating curricula and manualized professional development programs that use various modalities for therapists, artists, and educators. Conference topics and publications include narrative, arts-based research, and drama therapy interventions using digital art apps, exploring self-identity with young women adopted from foster care and facilitating unhoused women on skid row, LA. 

Dr. Savage has published in peer review journals and books. She recently penned a chapter -- called "Bricolage: On Being Enough, Healing Through Narrative Co-Construction" -- for a new book edited by social worker/author Susan Pease Banitt: a collection of essays called Behind the Curtain: Eleven Women Therapists Get Real about Healing Trauma.

Dr. Savage's previous clinical work consists of mainly acute settings such as inpatient psychiatric units for adults and children, residential treatment facilities where she created expressive arts programs, neurodiverse populations and the unhoused. She has served as the North American Drama Therapy education chair and directs SoCal Drama Therapy Center (http://www.socaldramatherapycenter.com/) where she mentors an international student body of professionals and students who want to become registered drama therapists.

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Doreen Hills, MS, NCC, LPC, is the Founder, Director at the Center for Healing Trauma & Attachment. Their mission is to provide cutting-edge treatment approaches in healing traumatic distress and they’re committed to finding ways to provide quality and affordable therapy and to be the pioneer in healing trauma in NE region.

Doreen has been a mental health provider for over 20 years and has worked in various mental health settings in New York, Philippines, and Colorado. Doreen's background includes intense and immersed experiences working with poverty stricken fishermen in the Philippines, orphans that were severely neglected and abandoned, as well as Muslims in Manila. These experiences gave her immense insight to trauma, resiliency and healing.

Doreen has conducted and facilitated trainings, workshops, and presentations in Morgan County and neighboring Northeast Counties in Colorado on topics of Attachment, Trauma, Neuroscience, Vicarious Trauma and Self Care, Trauma Informed Interventions and Care, Human Trafficking, Building Better Communication and Resiliency in Agency Settings. Before becoming a mental health provider, Doreen worked at the Salvation Army Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program as Residential Manager, Case Manager, and Rape Crisis Advocate. She worked as a Residential Manager at the Federal Funded Job Corps and was a Crisis Hotline Worker for New York State Crisis Hotline.

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