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Dec 2014
48m 25s

Episode 49: Nina K. Thomas, PhD

GUY MACPHERSON, PHD
About this episode

Nina Thomas has worked clinically with individuals and groups since 1981. Her primary area of expertise is in working with people who have endured traumas in their lives whether these are the challenges of divorce or the traumas caused by uprooting through natural devastation, or through immigration, war and refugee status or the like.

She has written and presented nationally and internationally on these issues in a variety of contexts.

Nina is Co-Chair and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis as well as Chair, in the Advanced Specialization in Trauma and Disaster Studies, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

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