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Nancy Elbasel is a clinical psychologist currently based in Toronto, Canada. Having grown up in a region affected by conflict, she has extensive experience working with communities in high-stress areas. Specializing in trauma, she is passionate about designing personalized therapeutic interventions for individuals and groups. Nancy offers clinical and training services in Arabic and English, and is curious about contextual, cultural, and intersectional factors, building awareness of them to foster resilience. In her leisure, she enjoys cooking, board games, and discovering new places.
Nancy Elbasel
Dr. Scott Grover is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides training, counseling, and consulting services. With a background in training mental health professionals specializing in trauma treatments, he is particularly interested in research related to training humanitarian aid workers for high risk environments and the psychological aspects of security training. Scott enjoys backpacking, snow skiing, teaching, and playing soccer with peers and his children.
Dr. Scott Grover​
Heather Hoffman is a licensed clinical social worker and trauma specialist, dedicated to helping people cope with the effects of chronic stress or trauma exposure. With over 20 years of experience providing mental health care to individuals in high-risk settings, Heather is passionate about staff wellbeing and supporting workplaces to be more trauma-informed and resilient. Heather speaks English and Spanish. In her downtime, she loves growing flowers, hiking, live music, and exploring new places.
Heather Hoffman
Dr. Monique Mendoza is a licensed counseling psychologist with a background in supporting individuals exposed to stressful environments. She specializes in transformational growth, resilience development and value-centered goal attainment. She brings a unique perspective to supporting global aid workers and offers a holistic view of trauma. She enjoys gardening, quality family time, and outdoor adventures.
Dr. Monique Mendoza
Dr. Jacquelyn Millham is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than a decade of experience in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, with a special focus on team dynamics in cross-cultural environments. She is a former aid worker, with experience in refugee support (Somalia and Thailand) and co-founded a nonprofit addressing children at risk in Kenya. She enjoys outdoor recreation, travel, gardening and hiking.
Dr. Jacquelyn Millham
Dr. Sheila Konyu Muchemi is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Nairobi, Kenya. She works in private practice. She has taught various courses at undergraduate universities in Kenya, and continues to provide trainings to different audiences on mental-health related topics. Dr. Muchemi has experience working in various inpatient and outpatient settings in the US where she obtained her doctorate degree. She enjoys traveling, a good novel, and spending time with friends and family.
Dr. Sheila Konyu Muchemi
Tala Noweisser is a licensed psychologist currently residing in Beirut, Lebanon. Having completed her Master's degree in Counseling Psychology in Canada, Tala had the opportunity to work with individuals coming from diverse educational, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Upon her return to Beirut in 2012, Tala offered counseling services in school, university, and private clinical settings. Tala is passionate about delivering webinars on topics like Trauma, Parenting, and Anxiety, among others. Tala offers clinical and training services in Arabic, French, and English.
Tala Noweisser
Ieva Prapuolenyte-Nizaraly is a licensed psychologist based in Paris, France. In addition to operating a private practice, she works at a psychotrauma center for asylum seekers, providing training, group analysis sessions, and individual psycho-social support for social and humanitarian workers. With extensive experience in the humanitarian field, including twelve missions with various international NGOs, she continues her research in compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Ieva enjoys traveling, diving, trekking, and playing music.
Ieva Prapuolenyte
Dr. Esther Rapoport is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Tel Aviv. In addition to private practice in psychotherapy and university teaching, she co-directs a Psychological Support Service for managers and staff of human rights NGOs, and has worked with many Israeli, binational (Palestinian/Israeli) and international organizations to foster team cohesion and resilience in the face of cumulative stress and ongoing exposure to violence. She is trilingual in Russian, English and Hebrew. In her spare time, she enjoys exercise, theater and drumming.
Dr. Esther Rapoport
Dr. Aaron Rosales is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in supporting people striving for a better world. He co-founded a nonprofit that partners with community leaders to design and launch wellbeing initiatives globally. In both therapy and training, Aaron uses this personal experience and insights to impart the key psychological skills for resilience in the face of adversity. He enjoys all things coffee, cooking, and travel.
Dr. Aaron Rosales
Dr. Alice Schruba is a licensed clinical psychologist with a background in serving individuals and groups experiencing acute and chronic stressors, burnout, substance abuse, and grief and loss. Her clinical interests surround values clarification, meaning-making, resilience, assessment, and spiritual and psychological well-being following disasters. She enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, and exploring nature preserves with her dog.
Dr. Alice Schruba
Dr. Annika Sridharan is a licensed clinical psychologist in Berkeley, California. She has supported survivors of severe trauma in US and international contexts for the past 30 years. She provides psychological care for asylum seekers and refugees with a relational and humanistic approach, along with training, supervision, and professional wellbeing support for staff working with traumatized communities. Annika speaks English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and enjoys nature, reading, world music and dancing.
Dr. Annika Sridharan
Dr. Brent Stenberg is a licensed clinical psychologist with 35 years of experience providing training, counseling, and consulting services with a special focus on leadership development. Over the years, Brent has traveled to places like Haiti, South Sudan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to support regional staff welfare initiatives. Brent enjoys international travel, mountaineering, and photography.
Dr. Brent Stenberg
Stephen Thompson holds an MA in Clinical Forensic Psychology and is currently in the dissertation stage of completing his EdD in Organizational Leadership & Development with a research focus on fostering humanitarian aid worker well-being through developing contextualized leadership development programs. He is a Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist and a Certified Healthcare Reform specialist with a passion for workplace mental health and well-being. Stephen enjoys aerial videography, traveling, and trying new cultural dishes.
Stephen Thompson
Muriel Tyan is a trilingual licensed clinical psychologist based in Paris, France with over 20 years experience. She has a background in treating patients with trauma from high risk environments. She gives training, webinars and is a lecturer and guest speaker on conferences in the Arab world. She is passionate about clinical work as a psychotherapist supporting patients suffering from PTSD, depression, bereavement, chronic illness, anxiety and burnout. She enjoys sports, reading, theater and dancing.
Muriel Tyan
Dr. Shelle Welty is a licensed psychologist who has been deeply influenced by her work with Central American refugees. Her clinical interests include trauma treatment, group psychotherapy, spirituality, and building resilience in those who live and/or work in chronically stressful environments. Shelle enjoys mountain biking, live music, and new adventures.
