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Denver location: 190 E. 9th Ave., Suite 140, Denver, CO, 80203.

Boulder location: 737 29th Street, Boulder, CO 80303 (The Tree House)

Saj Razvi, MA, LPC

Saj Razvi is the executive and clinical director of the Love and Trauma Center. He is a national CAR trainer and supervises graduate psychology students in the LTC graduate internship program. Saj maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Denver. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, Saj worked as a consultant for IBM. He has graduate degrees in both counseling psychology from Naropa University and Eastern Civilization studies from St. John’s College.

Contact information: 
720.299.2599 (saj.razvi@loveandtrauma.com)

Dr. Will Van Derveer

Dr. Will Van Derveer is a psychiatrist who practices an integrative approach to medicine. He regards people as inherently healthy and whole — in contrast to the conventional and widespread belief that people with psychiatric symptoms must be in long-term or permanent treatment. Chronic maladaptive thoughts and behaviors cause chemical changes in the body, leading to psychiatric illness. Psychological health can truly be achieved by learning new techniques of managing stress, releasing traumatic charge stored in the autonomic nervous system and overcoming f ear-based habits. He prescribes medications as a temporary tool for softening intense symptoms and works in close coordination with staff psychotherapists so that deeper healing can occur.
Low doses and brief medication treatments are often used. Alternative treatments uch as vitamins and supplements are encouraged when appropriate.

Dr. Van Derveer consideres the whole person: body, mind, spirit and social context. He practices deep listening with his patients in order to understand their experience and symptoms. He is trained in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and Containment and Resolution. He is a long time meditator and part of the teaching faculty at the Love and Trauma Center.

Contact information: (303) 900-7450

Christina Oshier, MA

Christina Oshier is a trainer with the Love and Trauma Center and a private practice psychotherapist. Christina worked in advertising account management for 6 years before changing careers and attending Naropa University’s Transpersonal Counseling Psychology program. She spent her initial year after graduate school working with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health as the program assistant in the International Trauma Consultants department, focusing her interest and knowledge of trauma disaster response, and vicarious or secondary trauma. Christina teaches about trauma treatment, vicarious trauma, and stress resolution to graduate level students in psychology, mental health workers, and the lay public.

Contact information: 720.209.2609 (christina.oshier@loveandtrauma.com

Dr. Eric Wolterstorff

Dr. Eric Wolterstorff’s specialty is social trauma, meaning the impacts of disasters, deprivation and violent conflict on the capacity of societies to adapt to the world, nourish themselves, and develop. His work is based in the intersection of psychology, trauma, culture and group behavior. His dissertation, A Speculative Model of How Groups Respond to Threats, addresses the unconscious behaviors of groups in response to stress or traumatic shock.

In the 1990s, Wolterstorff developed protocols to heal individuals from the effects of trauma. He studied body-based approaches to psychotherapy and added to Peter Levine’s body of work. He practiced structural integration, and spent years exploring meditation techniques and how they could be applied to healing trauma. He studied large group conflict resolution under Arnold Mindell, and Murray Bowen’s family therapy work. Since then, he has structured new approaches to healing attachment wounds, and to interrupting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through families. Over the past fifteen years, he has led trainings for psychotherapists and group facilitators in the United States and Europe.

Professional associations:

• The American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)
• The International Psychohistorical Association (IPA)
• The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS)
• The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)

Wolterstorff will present on “Memory, Trauma and Transference” at the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (EABP) in Cambridge in September, 2012.

Contact information: 
303.638.2451 (eric.wolterstorff@loveandtrauma.com)