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Jun 2022
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How to Cure PTSD : The Trauma Toolkit fo...

Sara Davison
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Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW, is a social worker and psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of severe trauma and PTSD. 

She has worked in the field of mental health for more than four decades in diverse settings and teaches classes on healing from trauma in Portland, Oregon. She loves to meditate, is a Kripalu-trained yoga teacher, trained in Celtic shamanism and a Karuna Reiki Master. Susan is passionate about elevating the human mind and reducing suffering on this beautiful planet. When she is not seeing clients, or writing a book, Susan loves to perform improvisational comedy and get out into the abundant wilderness of the Pacific Northwest with her human and animal friends.

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