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Lee Beckstead, Ph.D., is a
psychologist with a private practice in Salt Lake City. He was
privileged to join the MaleSurvivor Weekend of Recovery Team in 2005.
He specializes in relationship issues, such as self-esteem,
assertiveness, intimacy, identity, sexuality, and gender. Focusing on
relationship dynamics, he provides individual, couples, and group
therapy for adults who have concerns related to depression, anxiety,
trauma, substance abuse, body image, eating disorders, HIV/AIDS, and
grieving. He has been a member of the International Academy of Sex
Research since 2004. Understanding how to resolve sexual, social, and
religious conflicts has been his primary research and counseling focus.
His personal passions and self-care involve theatre and music.
Bill Burmester, M.A., M.F.T. has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in California since 1994, with training and experience in the treatment of sexual abuse and other relational trauma. He has worked with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of sexual abuse, adolescent and adult perpetrators, and abusive family systems. He facilitates a Group for Men Healing from Sexual Abuse in conjunction with The Men's Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy in Berkeley, Ca, and treats issues of trauma, Dissociative Disorders, and PTSD in work with both men and women. He also works with couples. Approaches include EMDR, Imago Relationship Therapy, Focusing, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Bill has provided training in therapy with male abuse survivors, is Adjunct Clinical Faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been on the weekends of recovery staff with Male Survivor since 2001. With a keen interest in film, he has presented on the representation of the sexual abuse of boys and men in film at the 2001 NOMSV Conference in NYC and runs a monthly film group for therapists.
Joanna Colrain, LPC, CGP is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in working with persons who are healing from abuse, neglect, and alcohol and drug addiction, with particular attention to attachment and dissociative issues. For 20 years, she has been providing clinical supervision for psychotherapists who want to bring mindfulness, collaboration, and use of self to their work. Joanna enjoys helping clinicians and clients to integrate their work into the rest of their lives in a way that feeds the soul, validates the authentic self, and builds community. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia and is a Certified Group Psychotherapist with the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is also trained in NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique). For 13 years, she was a trainer, supervisor and Advisory Board member for the Survivor Support Program of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Inc. She has presented workshops on mindful presence, self-care, ethics, and the treatment of PTSD and dissociative disorders. Joanna was involved with NOMSV from 1988 to 1992, and is excited to return for her first year as a member of the Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery Team. She is looking forward to learning from the men who attend the weekends.
John Crowe, LMHC, CRC, BCSA is a certified rehabilitation counselor and board certified sexual abuse therapist with more than 27 years of experience providing therapeutic services to individuals who have experienced trauma in their lives. He began his career working with people living with physical challenges and with people with histories of psychiatric hospitalization. It was when he became a certified alcoholism counselor and began working in the addictions field that John shifted the focus of his work to people who have experienced sexual assault and PTSD. His particular specialization is in working with male survivors of sexual abuse, incest, and rape. John currently maintains a private clinical practice in Albany. NY and has presented on trauma and its implications at conferences and workshops throughout the United States and Canada.
Dale English MS CAS has worked as a psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor for the past 22 years in a correctional facility, a rural mental health clinic, an Acute Partial Hospital program and now in his private practices in northeast PA and northwest NJ where abuse/trauma, battered persons, LGBT issues, men's issues and the use of body movement to access buried feelings are among his specialty areas. Dale is a member of MaleSurvivor and has been a volunteer facilitator on its Week-end of Recovery Team since its inception in 2001. You can learn more about Dale's work by visiting his website www.YouDeserveSupport.com.
Sandi Forti, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Columbus, Ohio. She divides her time between a thriving private practice in Columbus, consultation with the Columbus AIDS Task force, and providing community based services for Central Ohio Mental Health Center in Delaware, Ohio. Her dual interests in archetypal psychology and body awareness have added breadth and depth to her work with individuals who are seeking to heal from past traumas and who desire new ground for a relationship with the present. She sees herself as providing context within which trauma can be understood as part of the landscape of soul, and healing can lay the foundation for the development and expression of the authentic self. She has worked for many years with victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, and with families who struggle to love and heal both. She is also versed in working with the patterns of thinking and behavior that grow out of the effort to cope with abuse, such as depression, dissociation, use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs, etc.
Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., LICDC has worked as a Psychologist in private practice in Columbus, OH, for the past 23 years, and has specialized in providing affirmative psychotherapy to male and female survivors during that time. Howard serves as the Chairperson of the MaleSurvivor Weekends of Recovery Program. He is on the Advisory Board of MaleSurvivor, and is a past President and Board Member of MaleSurvivor. Howard has provided supervision and training of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Counselors at many national conventions on providing psychotherapy for male survivors of sexual abuse. Howard loves to sing and prepare gourmet meals in his spare time.
Bill Jacyk M.D. FRCP(Canada) is a Canadian and a recent addition to the Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery team. He brings his skills as a Physician /Psychotherapist in the field of Addiction and Trauma to the team. Bill is an elder in the field of Addiction Medicine, seasoned as a researcher, teacher, presenter, group facilitator and counsellor. His deep compassion and commitment along with his never ending quest for new pertinent information in this field has kept him doing this work for 25 years. Bill is presently employed as a physician in Special Psychiatry , specifically the Addiction and Trauma inpatient program at Homewood Addictions and Mental Health facility in Ontario Canada. Bill balances the passion for this work with a country lifestyle in a nature setting with his wife and partner Hildie Rempel Jacyk who is also a Male Survivor team member.
Donald E. Laufersweiler M.S. L.I.C.D.C., L.P.C.C., N.B.C.C.H. has worked with male and female survivors of sexual abuse since 1979. He has worked in private practice for the past 16 years in Columbus, Ohio, and specializes in helping clients with trauma, chemical dependency, sexual addiction, dual diagnosis, depression and anxiety. Don is certified in clinical hypnotherapy. Although Don is new to the MaleSurvivor facilitator team, he has facilitated over 30 weekends of recovery for people with HIV/AIDS throughout Ohio. Don is very attuned to many types of spiritual traditions, and has a special affinity for native traditions. He has a special interest in working with male survivors of clergy abuse. In his spare time, he loves to backpack, watch college sports, and spend quality time with family and friends.
Paul Linden, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College and his Ph.D. in Physical Education from the Ohio State University. He is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method® of body awareness education. He began Aikido practice in 1969, and he currently holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido as well a first degree black belt in Karate. He is the developer of Being In Movement® mindbody training, the inventor of SpineLine® Bicycle Handlebars (patent #5,024,119), and the author of Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use and Winning is Healing: Body Awareness and Empowerment for Abuse Survivors. Paul Linden and his wife Peggy Berger are specialists in body and movement awareness education, and their work focuses on the interplay between self-exploration and effective action. They are co-founders of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies and Aikido of Columbus, and their work covers such specific topics as stress management, postural efficiency, performance enhancement, assertiveness, conflict resolution, and trauma recovery. They have had extensive experience teaching people such as musicians, athletes, pregnant women, adult survivors of child abuse, computer users, business people, physical therapists, and psychotherapists. For fun, Paul swims and rides his bike, runs, practices Aikido, reads, practices organic gardening, and writes.
Lynne MacDonell, BA, CADC, CHt is a psychotherapist working in private practice in Toronto, Canada for over 20 years. Using a client centred approach; Lynne has training in Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and other modalities of therapy. Lynne works with clients who bring to the work a wide variety of issues, including trauma and relationship dysfunction as one of the results of the trauma, addiction and addiction recovery; self-esteem and life style enrichment. She currently conducts a group for men recovering from childhood sexual abuse; works specifically with survivors of that abuse and their partners; consults and does training for agencies around the trauma/relationship issues. For more information go to www.lynnemacdonell.ca.
Ernesto Mujica, Ph.D. is an Instructor in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is an Associate Editor of the institute's journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica maintains a full-time private practice in individual and couples therapy on the upper west side in Manhattan.
Mikele Rauch, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist working in a group practice in Brookline Massachusetts. Since 1983, she has worked with individuals and groups specializing in the area of sexual and physical trauma, and with persons with HIV, AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis, and with the homeless community in Boston and Cambridge. She has been a facilitator for the Male Survivor International Retreat Team since 2001. In 2004, at the request of clergy sexual abuse victims, she was part of the Internal Review Board, a Victims' Rights Committee composed of psychologists, advocates, and legal experts who independently monitored the Boston Catholic Archdiocese's response, and adherence of their own policies and procedures for survivors. In the fall, she wrote Dissecting the Lamb of God, for Cross Currents Magazine on the impact of clergy sexual abuse on the soul.
Hildie Rempel -Jacyk B.S.W. M.A. in Psycho/Spiritual Studies comes to Male Survivor with a background in Social Work and Transpersonal Studies, combining her education and training along with 20years experience as a counsellor, mentor and spiritual guide. Much of this experience has been gained in the recovery from Addictions and Trauma field, both with women and men, individually and in groups.In addition to her private counselling practice, Hildie presently acts as a consultant to the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, contracted to co facilitate groups and weekends of recovery as well as assisting in organizing and planning workshops and conferences in the Abuse field. Hildie's quiet style has been shaped by a lifestyle in the country, living, as well as practicing her work, in a peaceful retreat like nature setting which she shares with her husband and partner Bill.
Anthony D. Rodriguez, MSW, LISW, BCSA is the founder and Clinical Director of The Men’s Center - a private practice in the Quad Cities. He specializes in working with adult male survivors of sexual violence. He is Board Certified in treating sexual abuse by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. He is also trained in family and divorce mediation, as well as in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Tony is a Fellow with the Wisconsin Sex Offender Treatment Network and is a professional clinical member with the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He has interned at the Loyola University Sexual Dysfunction Clinic and is also a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health. Tony is currently a member of the Board of Directors for MaleSurvivor and chairs their Program Committee for the 2007 MaleSurvivor International Conference. Tony is clinically licensed in Iowa (LISW) and Illinois (LCSW).
Jim Struve, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Salt Lake City. With special attention to mindful presence in the healing relationship, Jim works with a wide range of client issues, including trauma and sexual victimization, relationship enhancement, healthy life choices, parenting, and addiction recovery. He has considerable experience working with the full spectrum of dissociative disorders and he is trained in NET (Neuroemotional Technique, a mind-body approach to enhance therapeutic healing). Prior to re-locating to Salt Lake City in 2003, Jim was in private practice in Atlanta since 1981. He was the Chairperson of the 2nd National Conference on Male Sexual Victimization and he was a member of the founding Board for Male Survivor: NOMSV. He regularly conducts workshops and groups and he has several publications about topics related to male sexual abuse. In addition to his mental health activities, Jim maintains a commitment to physical health thru active participation in a variety of recreational pursuits, including running, skiing, biking, and backpacking
Tony has worked in both agency and hospital settings in London, UK; Chicago, IL; Madison and Milwaukee, WI; and the Iowa and Illinois Quad Cities. He provided critical incidents stress debriefing to companies who experienced trauma and violence at their facilities. Tony has also worked in collaboration with community and government organizations by presenting training forums on the issues concerning anger management, grief, sexual/domestic violence, and men’s issues.
Bill Burmester, M.A., M.F.T. has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in California since 1994, with training and experience in the treatment of sexual abuse and other relational trauma. He has worked with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of sexual abuse, adolescent and adult perpetrators, and abusive family systems. He facilitates a Group for Men Healing from Sexual Abuse in conjunction with The Men's Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy in Berkeley, Ca, and treats issues of trauma, Dissociative Disorders, and PTSD in work with both men and women. He also works with couples. Approaches include EMDR, Imago Relationship Therapy, Focusing, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Bill has provided training in therapy with male abuse survivors, is Adjunct Clinical Faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been on the weekends of recovery staff with Male Survivor since 2001. With a keen interest in film, he has presented on the representation of the sexual abuse of boys and men in film at the 2001 NOMSV Conference in NYC and runs a monthly film group for therapists.
Joanna Colrain, LPC, CGP is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in working with persons who are healing from abuse, neglect, and alcohol and drug addiction, with particular attention to attachment and dissociative issues. For 20 years, she has been providing clinical supervision for psychotherapists who want to bring mindfulness, collaboration, and use of self to their work. Joanna enjoys helping clinicians and clients to integrate their work into the rest of their lives in a way that feeds the soul, validates the authentic self, and builds community. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia and is a Certified Group Psychotherapist with the American Group Psychotherapy Association. She is also trained in NET (Neuro-Emotional Technique). For 13 years, she was a trainer, supervisor and Advisory Board member for the Survivor Support Program of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, Inc. She has presented workshops on mindful presence, self-care, ethics, and the treatment of PTSD and dissociative disorders. Joanna was involved with NOMSV from 1988 to 1992, and is excited to return for her first year as a member of the Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery Team. She is looking forward to learning from the men who attend the weekends.
John Crowe, LMHC, CRC, BCSA is a certified rehabilitation counselor and board certified sexual abuse therapist with more than 27 years of experience providing therapeutic services to individuals who have experienced trauma in their lives. He began his career working with people living with physical challenges and with people with histories of psychiatric hospitalization. It was when he became a certified alcoholism counselor and began working in the addictions field that John shifted the focus of his work to people who have experienced sexual assault and PTSD. His particular specialization is in working with male survivors of sexual abuse, incest, and rape. John currently maintains a private clinical practice in Albany. NY and has presented on trauma and its implications at conferences and workshops throughout the United States and Canada.
Dale English MS CAS has worked as a psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor for the past 22 years in a correctional facility, a rural mental health clinic, an Acute Partial Hospital program and now in his private practices in northeast PA and northwest NJ where abuse/trauma, battered persons, LGBT issues, men's issues and the use of body movement to access buried feelings are among his specialty areas. Dale is a member of MaleSurvivor and has been a volunteer facilitator on its Week-end of Recovery Team since its inception in 2001. You can learn more about Dale's work by visiting his website www.YouDeserveSupport.com.
Sandi Forti, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Columbus, Ohio. She divides her time between a thriving private practice in Columbus, consultation with the Columbus AIDS Task force, and providing community based services for Central Ohio Mental Health Center in Delaware, Ohio. Her dual interests in archetypal psychology and body awareness have added breadth and depth to her work with individuals who are seeking to heal from past traumas and who desire new ground for a relationship with the present. She sees herself as providing context within which trauma can be understood as part of the landscape of soul, and healing can lay the foundation for the development and expression of the authentic self. She has worked for many years with victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse, and with families who struggle to love and heal both. She is also versed in working with the patterns of thinking and behavior that grow out of the effort to cope with abuse, such as depression, dissociation, use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs, etc.
Howard Fradkin, Ph.D., LICDC has worked as a Psychologist in private practice in Columbus, OH, for the past 23 years, and has specialized in providing affirmative psychotherapy to male and female survivors during that time. Howard serves as the Chairperson of the MaleSurvivor Weekends of Recovery Program. He is on the Advisory Board of MaleSurvivor, and is a past President and Board Member of MaleSurvivor. Howard has provided supervision and training of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers and Counselors at many national conventions on providing psychotherapy for male survivors of sexual abuse. Howard loves to sing and prepare gourmet meals in his spare time.
Bill Jacyk M.D. FRCP(Canada) is a Canadian and a recent addition to the Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery team. He brings his skills as a Physician /Psychotherapist in the field of Addiction and Trauma to the team. Bill is an elder in the field of Addiction Medicine, seasoned as a researcher, teacher, presenter, group facilitator and counsellor. His deep compassion and commitment along with his never ending quest for new pertinent information in this field has kept him doing this work for 25 years. Bill is presently employed as a physician in Special Psychiatry , specifically the Addiction and Trauma inpatient program at Homewood Addictions and Mental Health facility in Ontario Canada. Bill balances the passion for this work with a country lifestyle in a nature setting with his wife and partner Hildie Rempel Jacyk who is also a Male Survivor team member.
Donald E. Laufersweiler M.S. L.I.C.D.C., L.P.C.C., N.B.C.C.H. has worked with male and female survivors of sexual abuse since 1979. He has worked in private practice for the past 16 years in Columbus, Ohio, and specializes in helping clients with trauma, chemical dependency, sexual addiction, dual diagnosis, depression and anxiety. Don is certified in clinical hypnotherapy. Although Don is new to the MaleSurvivor facilitator team, he has facilitated over 30 weekends of recovery for people with HIV/AIDS throughout Ohio. Don is very attuned to many types of spiritual traditions, and has a special affinity for native traditions. He has a special interest in working with male survivors of clergy abuse. In his spare time, he loves to backpack, watch college sports, and spend quality time with family and friends.
Paul Linden, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College and his Ph.D. in Physical Education from the Ohio State University. He is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method® of body awareness education. He began Aikido practice in 1969, and he currently holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido as well a first degree black belt in Karate. He is the developer of Being In Movement® mindbody training, the inventor of SpineLine® Bicycle Handlebars (patent #5,024,119), and the author of Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use and Winning is Healing: Body Awareness and Empowerment for Abuse Survivors. Paul Linden and his wife Peggy Berger are specialists in body and movement awareness education, and their work focuses on the interplay between self-exploration and effective action. They are co-founders of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies and Aikido of Columbus, and their work covers such specific topics as stress management, postural efficiency, performance enhancement, assertiveness, conflict resolution, and trauma recovery. They have had extensive experience teaching people such as musicians, athletes, pregnant women, adult survivors of child abuse, computer users, business people, physical therapists, and psychotherapists. For fun, Paul swims and rides his bike, runs, practices Aikido, reads, practices organic gardening, and writes.
Lynne MacDonell, BA, CADC, CHt is a psychotherapist working in private practice in Toronto, Canada for over 20 years. Using a client centred approach; Lynne has training in Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and other modalities of therapy. Lynne works with clients who bring to the work a wide variety of issues, including trauma and relationship dysfunction as one of the results of the trauma, addiction and addiction recovery; self-esteem and life style enrichment. She currently conducts a group for men recovering from childhood sexual abuse; works specifically with survivors of that abuse and their partners; consults and does training for agencies around the trauma/relationship issues. For more information go to www.lynnemacdonell.ca.
Ernesto Mujica, Ph.D. is an Instructor in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is an Associate Editor of the institute's journal, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Mujica maintains a full-time private practice in individual and couples therapy on the upper west side in Manhattan.
Mikele Rauch, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist working in a group practice in Brookline Massachusetts. Since 1983, she has worked with individuals and groups specializing in the area of sexual and physical trauma, and with persons with HIV, AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis, and with the homeless community in Boston and Cambridge. She has been a facilitator for the Male Survivor International Retreat Team since 2001. In 2004, at the request of clergy sexual abuse victims, she was part of the Internal Review Board, a Victims' Rights Committee composed of psychologists, advocates, and legal experts who independently monitored the Boston Catholic Archdiocese's response, and adherence of their own policies and procedures for survivors. In the fall, she wrote Dissecting the Lamb of God, for Cross Currents Magazine on the impact of clergy sexual abuse on the soul.
Hildie Rempel -Jacyk B.S.W. M.A. in Psycho/Spiritual Studies comes to Male Survivor with a background in Social Work and Transpersonal Studies, combining her education and training along with 20years experience as a counsellor, mentor and spiritual guide. Much of this experience has been gained in the recovery from Addictions and Trauma field, both with women and men, individually and in groups.In addition to her private counselling practice, Hildie presently acts as a consultant to the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness, contracted to co facilitate groups and weekends of recovery as well as assisting in organizing and planning workshops and conferences in the Abuse field. Hildie's quiet style has been shaped by a lifestyle in the country, living, as well as practicing her work, in a peaceful retreat like nature setting which she shares with her husband and partner Bill.
Anthony D. Rodriguez, MSW, LISW, BCSA is the founder and Clinical Director of The Men’s Center - a private practice in the Quad Cities. He specializes in working with adult male survivors of sexual violence. He is Board Certified in treating sexual abuse by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. He is also trained in family and divorce mediation, as well as in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Tony is a Fellow with the Wisconsin Sex Offender Treatment Network and is a professional clinical member with the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He has interned at the Loyola University Sexual Dysfunction Clinic and is also a member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health. Tony is currently a member of the Board of Directors for MaleSurvivor and chairs their Program Committee for the 2007 MaleSurvivor International Conference. Tony is clinically licensed in Iowa (LISW) and Illinois (LCSW).
Jim Struve, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Salt Lake City. With special attention to mindful presence in the healing relationship, Jim works with a wide range of client issues, including trauma and sexual victimization, relationship enhancement, healthy life choices, parenting, and addiction recovery. He has considerable experience working with the full spectrum of dissociative disorders and he is trained in NET (Neuroemotional Technique, a mind-body approach to enhance therapeutic healing). Prior to re-locating to Salt Lake City in 2003, Jim was in private practice in Atlanta since 1981. He was the Chairperson of the 2nd National Conference on Male Sexual Victimization and he was a member of the founding Board for Male Survivor: NOMSV. He regularly conducts workshops and groups and he has several publications about topics related to male sexual abuse. In addition to his mental health activities, Jim maintains a commitment to physical health thru active participation in a variety of recreational pursuits, including running, skiing, biking, and backpacking
Tony has worked in both agency and hospital settings in London, UK; Chicago, IL; Madison and Milwaukee, WI; and the Iowa and Illinois Quad Cities. He provided critical incidents stress debriefing to companies who experienced trauma and violence at their facilities. Tony has also worked in collaboration with community and government organizations by presenting training forums on the issues concerning anger management, grief, sexual/domestic violence, and men’s issues.
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