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My latest book is a guide for psychotherapists and other helpers to learn my multidimensional approach to effectively treating the childhood trauma that is commonly at the roots of Complex PTSD. It can deeply aid therapists to mend the damage and arrested development that survivors experienced as traumatized children in the ""care"" of abusive and/or neglectful parents or other caretakers. This damage and developmental delay can be remediated when therapists and/or other supportive people use the guidance and techniques that are fleshed out in this book. Such practice has helped many of them to become highly effective, trauma-informed therapists. The psychoeducational approach herein helps survivors see that their symptoms are normal child reactions to abnormal upbringings that are steeped in abuse and neglect, danger, and lovelessness. With the therapists' help and compassion, this knowledge then aids them to develop self-compassion for their lifelong suffering. When therapists successfully midwife the rebirth of survivors' innate self-compassion, they can then expand it into helping them reclaim their instincts of healthy self-protection.

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Pete Walker is a licensed marriage and family psychotherapist with degrees in social work and counseling psychology. He has been working as a counselor, lecturer, writer, and group leader for thirty-five years; and as a trainer, supervisor and consultant of other therapists for twenty years. Pete lives and luxuriates in family life with his wife and nine year old son in the San Francisco Bay Area. He enjoys his art work, gardening, hiking, and reading to his son. Pete also holds certificates in supervision from The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and from The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley. Pete is a ""general practitioner"" who specializes in helping adults recovering from growing up in traumatizing families, especially those whose repeated exposure to childhood abuse and/or neglect left them with symptoms of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD). He has a great deal of recovery from his own CPTSD, and his professional approach is highly enriched by his own forty-year journey of recovering. Pete's articles on a multi-modal approach to treating CPTSD have been published in a number of therapy magazines and websites. His therapeutic approach is eclectic and Relational (Intersubjective). He guides the therapeutic process with values that include empathy, vulnerability, authenticity, and mutuality. Pete's first book, The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness Out Of Blame, has been acclaimed by many therapists, recovery websites, and clients as a powerful, compassionate, and pragmatic tool for guiding recovery. Jonathan Strait is a veteran SAG-AFTRA actor with decades of experience in the entertainment industry. He has brought his voice to numerous commercials, promos, video games, ADR, industrials, and audiobooks. Away from the mic he has guest/costarred in dozens of television shows, stage plays, and films. Notable credits include Mad Men, Law & Order, and The Blacklist. Mickey in Hurlyburly and Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are among his favorite stage roles. He holds a BA in theater arts from The University of Miami and has trained with Terry Schreiber, Milton Katselas, UCB, Jenn Krater, Richard Lawson, and Austin Pendleton, among many others. Jonathan is most excited by characters, choices, and storylines that are uniquely surprising and unexpected, particularly adventure and survival of adverse scenarios. Jonathan Strait is a veteran SAG-AFTRA actor with decades of experience in the entertainment industry. He has brought his voice to numerous commercials, promos, video games, ADR, industrials, and audiobooks. Away from the mic he has guest/costarred in dozens of television shows, stage plays, and films. Notable credits include Mad Men, Law & Order, and The Blacklist. Mickey in Hurlyburly and Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are among his favorite stage roles. He holds a BA in theater arts from The University of Miami and has trained with Terry Schreiber, Milton Katselas, UCB, Jenn Krater, Richard Lawson, and Austin Pendleton, among many others. Jonathan is most excited by characters, choices, and storylines that are uniquely surprising and unexpected, particularly adventure and survival of adverse scenarios.

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