| Dr.
Mary Beth Williams
- Trauma
Recovery Education and Counseling Center
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Director, Equine Post-Trauma Recovery, LLC: Horses
helping Humans
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Dr. Mary Beth Williams is
in private practice in Warrenton, Virginia.
She is an instructor for ICISF and teaches Ethics
for Traumatologists. She is also a trained trainer
dealing with school crisis. A former school
social worker, Dr. Williams developed and managed
a crisis team for many years. Dr. Williams has
written/co-written/edited numerous books and
chapters relating to trauma including K-12 school
crisis team (not crisis team alone), The
PTSD Workbook (New Harbinger 2002) and
Life after Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
(Rosenbloom & Williams, 1999, GUilford Press),
among others. Dr. Williams also is a forensic
practitioner and has worked at all levels of
local, state, and federal courts including mitigation
in death row cases in Virginia. She has trained
both nationally and internationally including
Kazakhstan where she was the first American
to present trauma-oriented training to various
organizations while she was in-country to adopt
her daughters. Dr. Williams is also the mental
health consultant for the EPA's Peer Support
CISM team.
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Workshops, Presentations
and Seminar Topics
Ethics for Traumatologists:
This is a one or two day program that deals with major
trauma-related issues including competence, doing harm,
values, cultural issues, and ethical dilemma resolution
protocols.
Introduction to Trauma and
Trauma Treatment: This program can be designed
to fit the needs of the audience and the treatment components
can be designed to utilize The PTSD Workbook approach
to trauma healing and the CSDT approach of the Life
After Trauma workbook.
The Way of the Horse in Trauma
Treatment: Once Dr. Williams has completed
her training programs, she will offer her own programs
utilizing equine assisted treatment. At this point in
time, she will assist other trained EPONA trainers to
facilitate their presentations.
Trauma in the International
Adopted Child: Issues and Interventions. Persons
working with internationally adopted children, particularly
those from Eastern Block countries, need to know ways
to help those children both individually and within
the systems of family and school. This workshop looks
at the roots of trauma and methods for intervention.
Dr. Williams is the parent of two children adopted from
Kazakhstan.
Following
is a list of organizations with whom Dr. Mary Beth Williams
has interviewed, consulted or trained:
| Association for Traumatic
Stress Specialists
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
International Cristical Incident Stress Foundation
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