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Lee Beckstead, Ph.D., is a
psychologist with a private practice in Salt Lake City. He was
privileged to join the MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery Team in 2005.
He specializes in relationship issues, such as self-esteem,
assertiveness, intimacy, identity, sexuality, and gender. Focusing on
relationship dynamics, he provides individual, couples, and group
therapy for adults who have concerns related to depression, anxiety,
trauma, substance abuse, body image, eating disorders, HIV/AIDS, and
grieving. He has been a member of the International Academy of Sex
Research since 2004. Understanding how to resolve sexual, social, and
religious conflicts has been his primary research and counseling focus.
His personal passions and self-care involve theatre and music.
Bill Burmester, M.A., M.F.T. has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in California since 1994, with training and experience in the treatment of sexual abuse and other relational trauma. He has worked with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of sexual abuse, adolescent and adult perpetrators, and abusive family systems. He facilitates a Group for Men Healing from Sexual Abuse in conjunction with The Men's Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy in Berkeley, Ca, and treats issues of trauma, Dissociative Disorders, and PTSD in work with both men and women. He also works with couples. Approaches include EMDR, Imago Relationship Therapy, Focusing, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Bill has provided training in therapy with male abuse survivors, is Adjunct Clinical Faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been on the weekends of recovery staff with Male Survivor since 2001. With a keen interest in film, he has presented on the representation of the sexual abuse of boys and men in film at the 2001 NOMSV Conference in NYC and runs a monthly film group for therapists.
Joanna Colrain, LPC, CGP is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in working with persons who are healing from abuse, neglect, and alcohol and drug addiction, with particular attention to attachment and dissociative issues. For 20 years, she has been providing clinical supervision for psychotherapists who want to bring mindfulness, collaboration, and use of self to their work. Joanna enjoys helping clinicians and clients to integrate their work into the rest of their lives in a way that feeds the soul, validates the authentic self, and builds community. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia and is a Certified Group Psychotherapist with the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is also trained in NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique). For 13 years, she was a trainer, supervisor and Advisory Board member for the Survivor Support Program of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Inc. She has presented workshops on mindful presence, self-care, ethics, and the treatment of PTSD and dissociative disorders. Joanna was involved with NOMSV from 1988 to 1992, and is excited to return for her first year as a member of the Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery Team. She is looking forward to learning from the men who attend the weekends.
Sandi Forti, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Columbus, Ohio. She divides her time between a thriving private practice in Columbus, consultation with the Columbus AIDS Task force, and providing community based services for Central Ohio Mental Health Center in Delaware, Ohio. Her dual interests in archetypal psychology and body awareness have added breadth and depth to her work with individuals who are seeking to heal from past traumas and who desire new ground for a relationship with the present. She sees herself as providing context within which trauma can be understood as part of the landscape of soul, and healing can lay the foundation for the development and expression of the authentic self. She has worked for many years with victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, and with families who struggle to love and heal both. She is also versed in working with the patterns of thinking and behavior that grow out of the effort to cope with abuse, such as depression, dissociation, use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs, etc.
Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., LICDC has worked as a Psychologist in private practice in Columbus, OH, for the past 23 years, and has specialized in providing affirmative psychotherapy to male and female survivors during that time. Howard serves as the Chairperson of the MaleSurvivor Weekends of Recovery Program. He is on the Advisory Board of MaleSurvivor, and is a past President and Board Member of MaleSurvivor. Howard has provided supervision and training of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Counselors at many national conventions on providing psychotherapy for male survivors of sexual abuse. Howard loves to sing and prepare gourmet meals in his spare time.
Donald E. Laufersweiler M.S. L.I.C.D.C., L.P.C.C., N.B.C.C.H. has worked with male and female survivors of sexual abuse since 1979. He has worked in private practice for the past 16 years in Columbus, Ohio, and specializes in helping clients with trauma, chemical dependency, sexual addiction, dual diagnosis, depression and anxiety. Don is certified in clinical hypnotherapy. Although Don is new to the MaleSurvivor facilitator team, he has facilitated over 30 weekends of recovery for people with HIV/AIDS throughout Ohio. Don is very attuned to many types of spiritual traditions, and has a special affinity for native traditions. He has a special interest in working with male survivors of clergy abuse. In his spare time, he loves to backpack, watch college sports, and spend quality time with family and friends.
Paul Linden, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College and his Ph.D. in Physical Education from the Ohio State University. He is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method® of body awareness education. He began Aikido practice in 1969, and he currently holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido as well a first degree black belt in Karate. He is the developer of Being In Movement® mindbody training, the inventor of SpineLine® Bicycle Handlebars (patent #5,024,119), and the author of Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use and Winning is Healing: Body Awareness and Empowerment for Abuse Survivors. Paul Linden and his wife Peggy Berger are specialists in body and movement awareness education, and their work focuses on the interplay between self-exploration and effective action. They are co-founders of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies and Aikido of Columbus, and their work covers such specific topics as stress management, postural efficiency, performance enhancement, assertiveness, conflict resolution, and trauma recovery. They have had extensive experience teaching people such as musicians, athletes, pregnant women, adult survivors of child abuse, computer users, business people, physical therapists, and psychotherapists. For fun, Paul swims and rides his bike, runs, practices Aikido, reads, practices organic gardening, and writes.
Lynne MacDonell, BA, CADC, CHt is a psychotherapist working in private practice in Toronto, Canada for over 20 years. Using a client centred approach; Lynne has training in Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and other modalities of therapy. Lynne works with clients who bring to the work a wide variety of issues, including trauma and relationship dysfunction as one of the results of the trauma, addiction and addiction recovery; self-esteem and life style enrichment. She currently conducts a group for men recovering from childhood sexual abuse; works specifically with survivors of that abuse and their partners; consults and does training for agencies around the trauma/relationship issues. For more information go to www.lynnemacdonell.ca.
Ernesto Mujica, Ph.D. is an Instructor in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is an Associate Editor of the institute's journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica maintains a full-time private practice in individual and couples therapy on the upper west side in Manhattan.
Mikele Rauch, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist working in a group practice in Brookline Massachusetts. Since 1983, she has worked with individuals and groups specializing in the area of sexual and physical trauma, and with persons with HIV, AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis, and with the homeless community in Boston and Cambridge. She has been a facilitator for the Male Survivor International Retreat Team since 2001. In 2004, at the request of clergy sexual abuse victims, she was part of the Internal Review Board, a Victims' Rights Committee composed of psychologists, advocates, and legal experts who independently monitored the Boston Catholic Archdiocese's response, and adherence of their own policies and procedures for survivors. In the fall, she wrote Dissecting the Lamb of God, for Cross Currents Magazine on the impact of clergy sexual abuse on the soul.
Hildie Rempel -Jacyk B.S.W. M.A. in Psycho/Spiritual Studies comes to Male Survivor with a background in Social Work and Transpersonal Studies, combining her education and training along with 20 years experience as a counsellor, mentor and spiritual guide. Much of this experience has been gained in the recovery from Addictions and Trauma field, both with women and men, individually and in groups.In addition to her private counselling practice, Hildie presently acts as a consultant to the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, contracted to co facilitate groups and weekends of recovery as well as assisting in organizing and planning workshops and conferences in the Abuse field. Hildie's quiet style has been shaped by a lifestyle in the country, living, as well as practicing her work, in a peaceful retreat like nature setting which she shares with her husband and partner Bill.
Jim Struve, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Salt Lake City. With special attention to mindful presence in the healing relationship, Jim works with a wide range of client issues, including trauma and sexual victimization, relationship enhancement, healthy life choices, parenting, and addiction recovery. He has considerable experience working with the full spectrum of dissociative disorders and he is trained in NET (Neuroemotional Technique, a mind-body approach to enhance therapeutic healing). Prior to re-locating to Salt Lake City in 2003, Jim was in private practice in Atlanta since 1981. He was the Chairperson of the 2nd National Conference on Male Sexual Victimization and he was a member of the founding Board for Male Survivor: NOMSV. He regularly conducts workshops and groups and he has several publications about topics related to male sexual abuse. In addition to his mental health activities, Jim maintains a commitment to physical health thru active participation in a variety of recreational pursuits, including running, skiing, biking, and backpacking.
Rob Hawkings, MA, CACCF, is a semi-retired counselor and psychotherapist and consultant based in Deep River, Ontario. For five years, from 2000 to 2005, Rob was a Program Development Specialist at Bellwood Health Services, an in-patient addiction treatment facility in Toronto, where his principal responsibilities were development of sexual addiction treatment programs and concurrent addiction and PTSD treatment programs for military members and veterans. Prior to joining Bellwood, Rob was in private practice for many years with specialties in addictions and adult resolution of childhood trauma. Rob's principal sub-specialty through most of these years was individual and group therapy with adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. He has designed, led and supervised several agency-sponsored group treatment programs for adult male sexual abuse survivors, and has served as Clinical Consultant in the preparation of Opening the Door: A Treatment Model for Therapy With Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse (by Adrienne Crowder, MSW; published by the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence and by Brunner/Mazel). Rob has also recently served as Clinical Consultant to the Fireweed Project (for the Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre of Nipissing, Ontario) in preparing and presenting a group therapy model, manual and training workshop designed for front-line service providers who work with male survivors in remote Northern Ontario communities. Part of Rob's practice currently includes part-time work in Mental Health Services at a large military base (CFB Petawawa) near Deep River.
Our newest addition to the facilitator team, Andy Dishman, MA, M.Div, LPC from Marietta, Georgia. His bio will be added to the site shortly.
Bill Burmester, M.A., M.F.T. has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in California since 1994, with training and experience in the treatment of sexual abuse and other relational trauma. He has worked with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of sexual abuse, adolescent and adult perpetrators, and abusive family systems. He facilitates a Group for Men Healing from Sexual Abuse in conjunction with The Men's Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy in Berkeley, Ca, and treats issues of trauma, Dissociative Disorders, and PTSD in work with both men and women. He also works with couples. Approaches include EMDR, Imago Relationship Therapy, Focusing, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Bill has provided training in therapy with male abuse survivors, is Adjunct Clinical Faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been on the weekends of recovery staff with Male Survivor since 2001. With a keen interest in film, he has presented on the representation of the sexual abuse of boys and men in film at the 2001 NOMSV Conference in NYC and runs a monthly film group for therapists.
Joanna Colrain, LPC, CGP is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in working with persons who are healing from abuse, neglect, and alcohol and drug addiction, with particular attention to attachment and dissociative issues. For 20 years, she has been providing clinical supervision for psychotherapists who want to bring mindfulness, collaboration, and use of self to their work. Joanna enjoys helping clinicians and clients to integrate their work into the rest of their lives in a way that feeds the soul, validates the authentic self, and builds community. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia and is a Certified Group Psychotherapist with the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is also trained in NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique). For 13 years, she was a trainer, supervisor and Advisory Board member for the Survivor Support Program of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Inc. She has presented workshops on mindful presence, self-care, ethics, and the treatment of PTSD and dissociative disorders. Joanna was involved with NOMSV from 1988 to 1992, and is excited to return for her first year as a member of the Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery Team. She is looking forward to learning from the men who attend the weekends.
Sandi Forti, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Columbus, Ohio. She divides her time between a thriving private practice in Columbus, consultation with the Columbus AIDS Task force, and providing community based services for Central Ohio Mental Health Center in Delaware, Ohio. Her dual interests in archetypal psychology and body awareness have added breadth and depth to her work with individuals who are seeking to heal from past traumas and who desire new ground for a relationship with the present. She sees herself as providing context within which trauma can be understood as part of the landscape of soul, and healing can lay the foundation for the development and expression of the authentic self. She has worked for many years with victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, and with families who struggle to love and heal both. She is also versed in working with the patterns of thinking and behavior that grow out of the effort to cope with abuse, such as depression, dissociation, use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs, etc.
Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., LICDC has worked as a Psychologist in private practice in Columbus, OH, for the past 23 years, and has specialized in providing affirmative psychotherapy to male and female survivors during that time. Howard serves as the Chairperson of the MaleSurvivor Weekends of Recovery Program. He is on the Advisory Board of MaleSurvivor, and is a past President and Board Member of MaleSurvivor. Howard has provided supervision and training of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Counselors at many national conventions on providing psychotherapy for male survivors of sexual abuse. Howard loves to sing and prepare gourmet meals in his spare time.
Donald E. Laufersweiler M.S. L.I.C.D.C., L.P.C.C., N.B.C.C.H. has worked with male and female survivors of sexual abuse since 1979. He has worked in private practice for the past 16 years in Columbus, Ohio, and specializes in helping clients with trauma, chemical dependency, sexual addiction, dual diagnosis, depression and anxiety. Don is certified in clinical hypnotherapy. Although Don is new to the MaleSurvivor facilitator team, he has facilitated over 30 weekends of recovery for people with HIV/AIDS throughout Ohio. Don is very attuned to many types of spiritual traditions, and has a special affinity for native traditions. He has a special interest in working with male survivors of clergy abuse. In his spare time, he loves to backpack, watch college sports, and spend quality time with family and friends.
Paul Linden, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College and his Ph.D. in Physical Education from the Ohio State University. He is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method® of body awareness education. He began Aikido practice in 1969, and he currently holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido as well a first degree black belt in Karate. He is the developer of Being In Movement® mindbody training, the inventor of SpineLine® Bicycle Handlebars (patent #5,024,119), and the author of Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use and Winning is Healing: Body Awareness and Empowerment for Abuse Survivors. Paul Linden and his wife Peggy Berger are specialists in body and movement awareness education, and their work focuses on the interplay between self-exploration and effective action. They are co-founders of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies and Aikido of Columbus, and their work covers such specific topics as stress management, postural efficiency, performance enhancement, assertiveness, conflict resolution, and trauma recovery. They have had extensive experience teaching people such as musicians, athletes, pregnant women, adult survivors of child abuse, computer users, business people, physical therapists, and psychotherapists. For fun, Paul swims and rides his bike, runs, practices Aikido, reads, practices organic gardening, and writes.
Lynne MacDonell, BA, CADC, CHt is a psychotherapist working in private practice in Toronto, Canada for over 20 years. Using a client centred approach; Lynne has training in Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and other modalities of therapy. Lynne works with clients who bring to the work a wide variety of issues, including trauma and relationship dysfunction as one of the results of the trauma, addiction and addiction recovery; self-esteem and life style enrichment. She currently conducts a group for men recovering from childhood sexual abuse; works specifically with survivors of that abuse and their partners; consults and does training for agencies around the trauma/relationship issues. For more information go to www.lynnemacdonell.ca.
Ernesto Mujica, Ph.D. is an Instructor in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is an Associate Editor of the institute's journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica maintains a full-time private practice in individual and couples therapy on the upper west side in Manhattan.
Mikele Rauch, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist working in a group practice in Brookline Massachusetts. Since 1983, she has worked with individuals and groups specializing in the area of sexual and physical trauma, and with persons with HIV, AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis, and with the homeless community in Boston and Cambridge. She has been a facilitator for the Male Survivor International Retreat Team since 2001. In 2004, at the request of clergy sexual abuse victims, she was part of the Internal Review Board, a Victims' Rights Committee composed of psychologists, advocates, and legal experts who independently monitored the Boston Catholic Archdiocese's response, and adherence of their own policies and procedures for survivors. In the fall, she wrote Dissecting the Lamb of God, for Cross Currents Magazine on the impact of clergy sexual abuse on the soul.
Hildie Rempel -Jacyk B.S.W. M.A. in Psycho/Spiritual Studies comes to Male Survivor with a background in Social Work and Transpersonal Studies, combining her education and training along with 20 years experience as a counsellor, mentor and spiritual guide. Much of this experience has been gained in the recovery from Addictions and Trauma field, both with women and men, individually and in groups.In addition to her private counselling practice, Hildie presently acts as a consultant to the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, contracted to co facilitate groups and weekends of recovery as well as assisting in organizing and planning workshops and conferences in the Abuse field. Hildie's quiet style has been shaped by a lifestyle in the country, living, as well as practicing her work, in a peaceful retreat like nature setting which she shares with her husband and partner Bill.
Jim Struve, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Salt Lake City. With special attention to mindful presence in the healing relationship, Jim works with a wide range of client issues, including trauma and sexual victimization, relationship enhancement, healthy life choices, parenting, and addiction recovery. He has considerable experience working with the full spectrum of dissociative disorders and he is trained in NET (Neuroemotional Technique, a mind-body approach to enhance therapeutic healing). Prior to re-locating to Salt Lake City in 2003, Jim was in private practice in Atlanta since 1981. He was the Chairperson of the 2nd National Conference on Male Sexual Victimization and he was a member of the founding Board for Male Survivor: NOMSV. He regularly conducts workshops and groups and he has several publications about topics related to male sexual abuse. In addition to his mental health activities, Jim maintains a commitment to physical health thru active participation in a variety of recreational pursuits, including running, skiing, biking, and backpacking.
Rob Hawkings, MA, CACCF, is a semi-retired counselor and psychotherapist and consultant based in Deep River, Ontario. For five years, from 2000 to 2005, Rob was a Program Development Specialist at Bellwood Health Services, an in-patient addiction treatment facility in Toronto, where his principal responsibilities were development of sexual addiction treatment programs and concurrent addiction and PTSD treatment programs for military members and veterans. Prior to joining Bellwood, Rob was in private practice for many years with specialties in addictions and adult resolution of childhood trauma. Rob's principal sub-specialty through most of these years was individual and group therapy with adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. He has designed, led and supervised several agency-sponsored group treatment programs for adult male sexual abuse survivors, and has served as Clinical Consultant in the preparation of Opening the Door: A Treatment Model for Therapy With Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse (by Adrienne Crowder, MSW; published by the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence and by Brunner/Mazel). Rob has also recently served as Clinical Consultant to the Fireweed Project (for the Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre of Nipissing, Ontario) in preparing and presenting a group therapy model, manual and training workshop designed for front-line service providers who work with male survivors in remote Northern Ontario communities. Part of Rob's practice currently includes part-time work in Mental Health Services at a large military base (CFB Petawawa) near Deep River.
Our newest addition to the facilitator team, Andy Dishman, MA, M.Div, LPC from Marietta, Georgia. His bio will be added to the site shortly.
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