A Masterclass in Self-Awareness Adena Bank Lees, LCSW: from the archives
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
"There is a God and I’m not it."
-Twelve-step saying.
Adena Bank Lees, LCSW, LISAC, BCETS, CP is an internationally recognized speaker, author, trainer and consultant, providing a fresh and important look at addiction treatment, traumatic stress and recovery. She has provided more than 1000 workshops for professionals around the world on topics related to childhood abuse, PTSD, eating and substance use disorders, other addictions and related mental health issues. Her specialty is childhood sexual abuse, in particular, covert emotional incest.
Adena’s lectures, workshops and presentations are lively, informative, engaging and current.
Participants say they are moved by the integration of information that makes sense to them, sometimes for the very first time. Being introduced to covert emotional incest is often the most powerful and life changing piece participants claim to walk away with.
In This Episode
Adena’s Go-To Books
- War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Edward Tick
- Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners, Kenneth M. Adams PhD
- Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy with Incest Survivors, Laurie Anne Pearlman and Karen W. Saakvitne
- The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors, Regina A. Goulding and Richard C. Schwartz
- The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
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| 1:24.9 | Today we have another episode from the archives with one of my incredible guests. |
| 1:29.8 | Enjoy. |
| 1:40.8 | Our welcome back to the trauma therapist podcast. |
| 1:43.3 | My name is Guy McPherson. My mission is to help |
| 1:46.2 | trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be human, to be real, not just a clinician. |
| 1:52.8 | I'm a big believer in who we are is more important than what we know. And this requires |
| 1:57.1 | cultivating authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability, and that requires intention. |
| 2:02.9 | You can learn more about my courses and workshops by going to the Traumathotherapistproject.com. |
| 2:08.1 | That's the Traumathotherapist project.com. Let's get started. |
| 2:13.2 | All right, guys, welcome back to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy Mc McPherson and very excited to introduce my guest today, Adina Bank Lees. |
| 2:21.9 | Adina, welcome. |
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