The Trauma Therapist

Doug Smith, MSSW, is the managing partner of D-Degree, a leadership development and coaching practice focused on trauma-informed leadership and personal transformation.

A certified trauma-informed coach and author of The Path of Rocks and Thorns: Leadership Lessons from a Prison Cell, Doug draws on his lived experience with mental illness, substance use recovery, and incarceration to help individuals and organizations lead with accountability, self-awareness, and integrity.

His work blends solution-focused coaching with trauma-informed principles to support leaders in creating cultures that acknowledge the whole person and cultivate resilience, purpose, and meaningful impact.
 
Doug’s website
https://www.d-degree.com/

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David Russell Shamszad is an author, entrepreneur, and mental health advocate whose memoir, I Am Someone You Know, chronicles his descent into untreated bipolar disorder and alcoholism and his long road back. 

In his early twenties, mood swings, addiction, psychiatric hospitalizations, and incarceration unraveled what once looked like a promising life, culminating in profound loss and near surrender. With the support of loved ones and his own relentless resolve, David confronted the darkness he had kept hidden and rebuilt his life. 

Today, he is a husband, father, and successful entrepreneur and founder of SG real estate, who speaks openly about mental illness, addiction, and recovery, reminding others that healing begins when truth is brought into the light.

David’s website
I Am Someone You Know
David in the media
David on IG
  

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Lauren Auer is a Trauma Therapist who has built a community of nearly 200,000 followers by sharing what she's learned from seeing trauma from every possible angle.
Lauren's path into trauma work was unintentional. What started as a graduate school internship at an agency working with both juvenile offenders and abuse victims turned into a career-defining passion. She discovered she loved the complexity of seeing trauma from multiple perspectives - working with victims, offenders, and their families gave her a unique understanding of how trauma ripples through every layer of experience.

From there, Lauren worked at a women's domestic violence shelter and eventually became director of a rape crisis center, where she provided therapy to people of all ages while also training police and medical staff. She's been in emergency rooms doing immediate crisis intervention and in therapy rooms with people processing childhood trauma decades later. This breadth of experience - from the immediate aftermath of trauma to long-term healing - shaped her understanding that trauma isn't one-size-fits-all.

Lauren is trained in EMDR, certified in Brainspotting, and holds certifications in Somatic Trauma Healing and Compassion Fatigue. Her approach reflects what she learned in those early years: every person's trauma looks different, so every person's healing needs to look different too.

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Inna Segal is an internationally acclaimed healer, author, and creator of the The Secret Language of Your Body method, a psychosomatic healing system that connects emotional and psychological patterns to physical symptoms. 

With over 25 years of clinical experience, she blends intuitive insight with evidence-informed practice to help people transform chronic illness, emotional blocks, and life patterns into lasting well-being. 

Inna has taught and presented worldwide, empowering individuals to understand the deeper meanings behind their health and embrace a more conscious path to healing.
The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Health and Wellness

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• Inna's website
• Inna’s books
• Inna on IG
• Inna’s trainings

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Dr. William Kalatsky is the creator of The Intuition Method, a framework designed to help individuals access their inner guidance, manifest desired outcomes, and heal at deep levels—especially from recurring migraines and other challenging patterns.

With his Headaches Heal Method and supporting courses and book, Dr. Kalatsky combines intuitive wisdom with practical strategies to steer life from autopilot into purposeful flow.

In This Episode

• Dr. Kalatsky’s website
• Dr. Kalatsky’s book: The Intuition Method
• Instagram: @William.kalatsky
• Fieldofconsciousness.com
• Learn more about healing Migraines and other headaches 

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Angie is a U.S. Army veteran and trauma-informed coach whose work is shaped by firsthand experience with psychiatric injury and recovery. After serving seven years as a signal specialist, including a deployment to Iraq, she was medically discharged due to severe illness and PTSD and became dangerously overmedicated. 

Her withdrawal and recovery journey was documented in the film Medicating Normal, for which she later led a nationwide grassroots outreach effort engaging more than 180 audiences. Today, she supports individuals navigating medication withdrawal and trauma related to overmedication, working with those harmed by the very system they turned to for help, and advocating for meaningful change in mental health care.

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• Angie's website
• Angie’s coaching
• Angie on IG

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Dr. Laney Knowlton is a licensed marriage and family therapist supervisor licensed in multiple states, a certified sex therapist, and the President of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH). 

She is the creator of the Connected Recovery™ model, which combines the treatment of Problematic Sexual Behaviors, infidelity, and betrayal recovery with relational counseling and sex therapy through an attachment-focused lens. 

She has authored multiple books, most recently Healing from Betrayal, Infidelity, and Problematic Sexual Behaviors: A guide to Individual and Relational Recovery (published by Routledge, 2025). 
Dr. Knowlton directs the Connected Recovery™ certification program, co-owns NorthStar Relational Consultants, and maintains a private practice in the Dallas, TX area.

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• Laney’s website
• Laney’s books
• Laney’s linktree

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Adam Nisenson, LMFT, CSAT — known as The Betrayal Shrink — is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist who specializes in helping men heal from partner betrayal trauma.

Drawing on both his clinical training and his own experience of infidelity and betrayal, Adam created a male-focused framework for recovery that blends empathy with practical understanding of the emotional, psychological, and identity challenges men face after betrayal. 

He is the author of A Man’s Guide to Partner Betrayal: Overcoming the Pain & Repercussions of a Cheating Partner, and he offers coaching, courses, support groups, and educational resources tailored to men navigating shame, loss, and rebuilding. Adam’s mission is to ensure that no man has to process betrayal alone and to support profound growth and resilience beyond the pain

In This Episode

• Adam’s website
• Adam’s podcast
• Men’s betrayal partner group

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