The Trauma and Grief of Life with Dr. Cristi Bundukamara
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Combining decades of clinical expertise with her deeply personal experience, Dr. B helps people navigate grief, trauma, and loss through her innovative Mentally Strong Method, a practical framework for building resilience and reclaiming purpose after life’s hardest moments.
Dr. B’s professional work is rooted in unimaginable personal loss. Over several years, she lost a child to an accidental drowning, two more children to a rare genetic disorder, and in 2024, her husband — who also had the disorder. Instead of allowing grief to define her, Dr. B turned her pain into purpose, creating both her clinic and a new approach to processing loss and trauma, where she blends her clinical knowledge with the raw reality of lived experience.
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| 0:47.8 | Welcome to the Traumathirous podcast. My name is Guy McPherson. I interview incredible people who've |
| 0:53.4 | dedicated their lives to helping those who have been impacted by trauma. |
| 0:56.9 | Here we go. Five, four, three, two, and one. Our folks, welcome back to the podcast. Very excited to have as my guest today, Dr. Christy Bundukamara. Christy, welcome. |
| 1:09.9 | Thank you so much. So, Christy, welcome. Thank you so much. |
| 1:11.9 | So, Christy, known to her patients as Dr. B, is a psychiatric nurse practitioner |
| 1:16.8 | and founder of Mentally Strong, a behavioral health clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| 1:22.7 | Combining decades of clinical expertise with her deeply personal experience. Dr. B helps people navigate grief, |
| 1:29.1 | trauma, and loss through her innovative, mentally strong method, practical framework for building |
| 1:34.7 | resilience and reclaiming purpose after life's hardest moments. All right, Dr. B, Christy, |
| 1:41.5 | before we get going here, share with the listen to where you're from originally and where you are currently. I'm originally from Miami, Florida, been a psychiatric nurse practitioner |
| 1:49.4 | for 25 years, have seven children. Damn! I am a go-getter for sure. An expert in trauma by default, |
| 2:00.4 | right? Like I, you know, you know, how the industry is. Most psychiatric |
| 2:04.5 | nurse practitioners are focused on, you know, medication management, psychiatric evaluation, |
| 2:09.6 | some do some counseling. But when I was going through my own grief and trauma. So the first event happened in 2005. |
| 2:19.9 | All right. Wait, hang on. Hang on. I got to stop you. We're going to get into that. But I want to just find out where you're from originally and where you are currently. |
| 2:27.9 | Yeah. I am from Miami, Florida, and I'm currently in Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
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