Therapist
Harvard / System Speak
Burlington, Washington, United States
Dr. Emma Sunshaw earned her BS in Human Development, her MS in Professional Counseling, her MDiv in Pastoral Counseling, and her PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy, and works as licensed clinical counselor and as a community chaplain. She is on faculty with the International Society of the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Dr. Sunshaw is the 25/26 Fall Semester Clinical Honorarium for Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Women & Public Policy Program.
Dr. Sunshaw integrated clinical and lived experience to start the non-profit S3C Foundation supporting advocacy, education, and community so that survivors can live. She lectures internationally about trauma and resiliency, and for the last decade, she has been the voice behind the System Speak Podcast about Complex Trauma and Dissociation, which airs in 103 countries around the world.
Dr. Sunshaw previously served as the international clinical coordinator for humanitarian aid organizations offering counseling and trauma resiliency training to government leaders, humanitarian aid workers, and first responders in war zones, refugee camps, and natural disaster sites.
Besides numerous syndicated articles online about mental health issues, she is the author of the 2019 EJTD article about DID and the Online Community. She is also the author of four books: The Problem with Complex Trauma Therapy, Clinical Perspectives on Dissociative Identity Response, “Me, Not-Me, and We: A Lived Experience Workbook for Phased Recovery from Complex and Relational Trauma with Dissociative Identity Response”, and the memoir “If Tear Were Prayers: A Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder”.
Her newest book is "Mapping Mirrors: Attachment, Deprivation, Complex Trauma, & Dissocation".
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