Speakers

Keith Armstrong, LCSW

Director of the Family Therapy Clinic and member of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team at the VA in San Francisco; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; the co-author of Courage After Fire, a self-help book for returning Iraq and...

Dr. Joseph Bobrow, Roshi

Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, former Chief Psychologist and Director of Training, Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Medical Center, South San Francisco, CA. Community organizer. Zen master, Deep Streams Institute. Founder and President, Coming Home Project.

John Briere, PhD

Associate Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Southern California, and Director of the Psychological Trauma Program at LAC-USC Medical Center.  He is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Designated as...

Erika Curran

Erika Ann Curran was a clinical social worker since 1969. From 1987 she was the Family Treatment Specialist for the Trauma Recovery Program at the Palo Alto VA, working with over 1500 families whose lives were impacted by trauma and PTSD of a family member. This included families of veterans who...

Mai-Ling Garcia

Mai-Ling Garcia is a Specialist at the U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS).  Mai-Ling was previously a Senior Policy Associate for Swords to Plowshares, a non profit service organization for military veterans. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology...

Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.

Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health
Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
UCSF Department of Psychiatry
Director, Child Trauma Research Program
San Francisco General Hospital

Dr. Lieberman is currently the Director of the Early Trauma...

Richard C. Miller, Ph.D.

Richard, author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, is a contemporary spiritual teacher of nondualism. He is the founding president and CEO of the Center of Timeless Being, founding board member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and co-founder...

Steven Torgerson

Chaplin, Lt Col Steven M. Torgerson is the former Chair of the Air Force Integrated Delivery System, which serves as a forum for cross-organizational review and resolution of individual, family and installation community issues.  Suicide prevention is at the forum's heart.  From May...

Robyn Walser

Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D, is a psychologist for the National Center for PTSD at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and is also a consultant and workshop presenter through TL Consultation Services. During her graduate studies she developed expertise in, traumatic stress, substance...

Darrah Westrup

Darrah Westrup, Ph.D. is clinical psychologist providing counseling, consulting and training services. She has a private practice in Menlo Park, CA, and has been an active proponent of enhanced mental healthcare for women veterans, serving eight years as Program Director of the Women’s Mental...

Stephen Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General (Ret)

Dr. Xenakis is the Senior Adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs for Wounded Warriors and Survivors.  Retiring at the rank of brigadier general, he served 28 years in the United States Army as a medical corps officer in a variety of assignments as a clinical psychiatrist, staff officer...