Lisa Ferentz. Humor, Faith & Self-Compassion In The Time of COVID: from the archives

This is a republishing of an archived episode with Lisa Ferentz.<br /><br />Lisa is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, depathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for 34 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, and UK and Ireland.<br /><br />LISA has been an Adjunct Faculty member at University of Maryland School of Social Work, University of Baltimore at Maryland, University of Maryland Department of Family Medicine, and is the Founder of The Ferentz Institute, formerly known as The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training and Education, now in its twelfth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,400 clinicians from her two Certificate Programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.<br /><br />In 2009, she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Treating-Self-Destructive-Behaviors-Trauma-Survivors/dp/1138800759/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lisa+ferentz&amp;qid=1551138356&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide</a>, now in its second edition, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Self-Destructive-Behaviors-Lisa-Ferentz/dp/1138800775/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=lisa+ferentz&amp;qid=1551138395&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Your-Ruby-Slippers-Transformative/dp/1683730429/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=lisa+ferentz&amp;qid=1551138395&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch</a>. <br /><br /><br />In This Episode<br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.thefere