Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast.

My name is Guy McPherson.

I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma.

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Very excited to have us my guest today. Ruth Cohn. Ruth,

welcome. Thank you. Awesome. Finally here. Ruth is a psychotherapist based in the San Francisco

Bay Area who is specialized in working with survivors of trauma, neglect, and their partners

and families since 1988. Since that time, she's focused on childhood neglect trauma and developed neglect and their partners and families since 1988 since that time she's focused on childhood

neglect to trauma and developed neglect-informed psychotherapy an approach that integrates

attachment theory with clinical practice she's the author of working with the developmental

trauma of childhood neglect and coming home to passion, along with numerous articles, podcast,

and educational resources on trauma and neglect.

All right, Ruth, obviously, just a little bit about you.

Before we get going, share with our listeners where you're from originally and where you are

currently.

Okay.

I was born in Carmel, California, way back when it was an artist colony, not like the fancy town

it is now, it was Steinbeck Country. And when I was two years old, we moved to New York City.

So I went from Carmel, which was a little small artist town, to the big city in New York.

And we lived there until I was seven.

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