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Felicia Rosario, MD (she/her/hers)

Principal Recovery Consultant
Felicia Rosario Consulting LLC
Santa Monica, California, United States

Felicia Rosario, MD, is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator and the founder of Felicia Rosario Consulting. She holds a Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College. Her background includes postgraduate clinical training in adult psychiatry at the University of Southern California. Her work is informed by medical training, interdisciplinary scholarship, and lived experience of coercive harm.

Felicia’s professional focus centers on trauma, dissociation, coercive control, and ethical questions of agency, responsibility, and behavioral interpretation under high-constraint conditions. Her work examines how coercive dynamics shape identity, judgment, credibility, and decision-making across clinical, legal, and institutional contexts, particularly in situations where behavior is frequently misunderstood, misattributed, or pathologized. She is especially interested in how internalized shame and survival-based adaptations affect autonomy and self-trust long after external control has ended.

Her work spans education, analysis, and advisory roles with clinicians, legal professionals, and organizations engaging with complex trauma and high-control experiences. She is a member of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School and participates in scholarly and educational activities related to trauma, coercion, and ethics in legal and forensic settings.

Felicia’s current scholarly interests include professional ethics in forensic psychiatry, racial bias in jury perceptions of expert witnesses, and historical analysis of the misuse of psychiatric diagnosis in authoritarian regimes. She regularly presents internationally on complex trauma, dissociation, shame, and ethics-informed approaches to understanding survivor behavior that emphasize autonomy, clarity, and non-retraumatizing engagement. She serves on the Board of Empowered Network and the Advisory Board of The Life Story Initiative, both of which support survivor-centered systems change.

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