Amber Elizabeth Gray

I am a licensed mental health professional and psychotherapist, board certified dance movement therapist, authorized Continuum Movement teacher and public health professional with extensive experience in clinical service provision, program development and management (including evaluation) and training. I have worked clinically with survivors of organized violence, torture, war and combat related trauma, ritual abuse, domestic violence, and community violence for over twenty years. I have worked in program development and management with survivors of human rights abuses for almost thirty years. I am trained in Somatic Psychology, Dance Movement Therapy, Contemplative Practice and Authentic Movement. I also have training in Ecopsychology, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Trauma-Focused CBT, Parent-Child Psychotherapy, Mindfulness-based Therapies, Yoga, Life Impressions Bodywork, Cranial-Sacral Therapy, and I am an Authorized Continuum teacher. I teach and provide training to professionals and paraprofessionals who work with survivors of extreme interpersonal and social trauma worldwide who wish to integrate somatic, movement, mindfulness and creative arts based therapies into their work. I also work with governmental and non governmental organizations responding to disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies to develop and sustain staff care programs for their teams. Beginning in October 2013, Amber became the ADTA’s Western Region Member-at-Large, for a two year term. http://www.adta.org/