by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
Two weeks before her wedding in 1988, Diane Poole Heller suffered a terrible car accident that left her with a traumatic brain injury and overwhelming trauma symptoms. What could have been simply a devastating personal tragedy instead became the catalyst for a...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
For over forty years in private practice, Laurence Heller, PhD, observed a pattern that traditional trauma therapy failed to address. Clients who had experienced early childhood trauma—neglect, abuse, emotional unavailability, or chaotic caregiving—didn’t just...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 28, 2025 | Psychotherapy Biographies: Historical Figures in the History of Psychology
When federal agents stormed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in April 1993, twenty-one children emerged from the burning building traumatized by months of isolation, religious indoctrination, physical abuse, and the terror of a fifty-one day siege that...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles, Recovering from Abuse, Self Help and Personal Development, Somatic Experiencing In Alabama
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss Childhood trauma casts a long shadow. Even if we can’t remember the specifics of what happened to us,...
