Kari Gleiser, Ph.D., is a Senior Faculty member at the AEDP Institute, and has been a supervisor/trainer at the Trauma Center in Boston, MA. She specializes in applying Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy to the treatment of complex trauma, dissociative disorders and personality disorders in her private practice in Hanover, NH, with a focus on attachment, emotion, and somatic treatment approaches. Dr. Gleiser served for one term on the board of directors of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation (NESTTD), where she chaired a committee on education and outreach. She has written several clinical papers and book chapters and has presented widely on applying AEDP to treat dissociative disorders at various international conferences.

Erica Zinter, LICSW: is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who received her master’s degree from the Smith College School for Social Work, where she currently holds a position as an Adjunct Faculty member. She has a private practice in Hanover and Keene, New Hampshire. Erica is grounded in a psychodynamic tradition and practices from an experiential, collaborative, and strengths-based stance to help clients unburden past hurt and move toward transformation and growth. She specializes in the treatment of complex trauma, and is trained in AEDP and Sensorimotor Psychotherapies. Additionally, she has a particular interest in the role of creativity in healing and recovery. She works with adults, adolescents, individuals, couples, families and groups.

Paul Caver, LCSW graduated from the UCLA School of Social Welfare in 1987. He has worked in outpatient clinics, emergency rooms, homeless shelters, hospitals, and residential treatment, providing services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and groups. He comes to the Center for Integrative Health most recently from the child and adolescent program in upstate NY, where he continues to provide supervision and training to other therapists. His training includes certification in hypnosis, EMDR, and advanced training in Collaborative Problem Solving. He has training as a trainer in Motivational Interviewing, and is currently receiving instruction in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. His most recent learning venture has been in conducting and scoring the Adult Attachment Interview. Paul can be reached at (603) 643-4005.

Annie K. Ross BA, LE discovered Svaroopa ® yoga in 2008 and has since been studying with Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, the founder of Svaroopa ® yoga, and her key teachers in India and at the main campus in Malvern, PA. Annie is a qualified Svaroopa ® yoga therapist, offering both Embodyment ® Yoga Therapy and Yoga Therapy for Pain, two modalities using hands-on touch that offer profound spinal release to the individual, which effects the whole body. These gentle, powerful treatments are healing on all levels: addressing pain, stress, and disharmony within the body-mind. Annie can be reached at (802) 649-3544.

Tracy Penfield founded SafeArt in 2000 after 20 years as an Artist Educator in Fiber Arts and Dance. Her experience in an abusive relationship from the age of 14 to 29 gave her a distinct perspective on how her students’ were responding to making art in any form, and at any age. Wanting to work across the spectrum of prevention and recovery from traumatic abuse gave rise to the concept of SafeArt. For a decade SafeArt has been providing group and individual sessions, original performances, creative workshops, and leader training, all designed to educate, inspire and heal people and their communities. In 2008, Altus Healing Arts was opened as SafeArt’s home in Chelsea, Vermont. Tracy offers individual therapeutic sessions that combine energy and body work, movement, and voice in a process she developed, called Tracing. Tracy also teaches Dance, Yoga, Weaving, Mindful Eating and Summer Arts Camps for Youth. Tracy can be reached at (802) 685-3138 or tpenfield@safeart.org.

Steve Gordon, Licensed Massage Therapist, offers a range of massage techniques from light to deep tissue, for relaxation as well as pain relief and injury rehab. Heated stone massage is also available. Steve has been practicing massage for more than a decade. He is the founder and executive director of The Hand to Heart Project, a nonprofit that offers free, in-home massage and compassionate touch to people with advanced cancer. His work at CIH will be a general practice, and he looks forward to working with people with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, somatoform complaints or chronic physical aftermath of trauma.
Steve is now taking appointments for Tuesdays beginning in June. He can be reached at (603) 477-4700 (cell); or gordons.cornish@gmail.com. The costs are: 60-minute massage, $80; 90-minute massage, $115. Heated stone massage, an additional $10.

Ray Howard, LICSW, has worked as a psychotherapist since 1997. He has provided clinical services on inpatient units in Boston at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Mt Auburn Hospital and in the Massachusetts state prison system. He has completed advanced trainings in group psychotherapy, the Advanced Diagnosis and Treatment of the Addictions, and Internal Family Systems level 1&2. He has spent the last five years providing DBT and IFS to clients through local community mental health systems. He currently has private practices in Keene and Hanover where his primary treatment modality is IFS, which he applies to individual, couples, and group therapy. He currently runs an IFS group for patients with dissociative identity disorder and DID NOS. He is serving as a program assistant for the Center for Self Leadership in the level one training for IFS therapy currently underway in Boston. Ray can be reached at (603) 313-1856.