You Are Not Your Trauma with Robyn D. Walser, PhD and Darrah Westrup, PhD

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.5 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Robyn D. Walser, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, educator, and internationally recognized expert in trauma and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), serving as Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley, Director of Research at Bay Area Trauma Recovery, and staff member at the National Center for PTSD.

Darrah Westrup, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and ACT expert based in Durango, Colorado, known for her work with complex trauma, international training workshops, and leadership roles at the VA Palo Alto’s women’s mental health and trauma programs.
Today we’re going to be talking about their new book You Are Not Your Trauma: An ACT Guide for Healing from Within, Robyn D. Walser, Ph, and Darrah Westrup, PhD.

In This Episode

Robyn’s website
Darrah’s website
@walser.robyn (IG)
@The Heart of ACT (FB)
@Robyn D. Walser (LinkedIn)
‪@robynwalser.bsky.social‬
@Darrah Westrup (FB)
@Darrah Westrup, Ph.D. (LinkedIn)
@drdarrah.bsky.social‬

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0:00.0	I want to thank our sponsor today. Arizona Trauma Institute therapists, are you ready to transform the way you help trauma clients?
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1:16.7	Download the app or learn more at incummental.com.
1:20.1	That's I-N-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.com.
1:24.9	Welcome to the Traum-T-Virist podcast.
1:27.1	My name is Guy McPherson.
1:28.3	I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma.
1:34.1	Here we go.
1:36.2	So five, four, three, two, and one.
1:40.3	Our folks, welcome back to the podcast.
1:42.2	Very excited to have as my guests today, Robin Walzer and Dara
1:46.8	Westrup. Welcome, ladies. Thank you for having us. Yeah. You all right. So Dr. Walzer is a clinical
1:54.6	psychologist, educator, and internationally recognized expert in trauma and acceptance commitment
1:59.7	therapy. Serving as Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley, Director of Research and recognized expert in trauma and acceptance commitment therapy, serving as assistant clinical
2:02.0	professor at UC Berkeley, Director of Research at Bay Area Trauma Recovery and staff member at the
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