~ About Dr Ullman ~
In addition to her academic and clinical work in neuropsychological assessment and complex trauma, Dr Ullman holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology, two Master's degrees in Clinical Psychology and Counseling and a professional counseling license to practice in the state of Pennsylvania. She has had the privilege to train under world-renown neuroscientists, academicians, psychiatrists, and clinical and counseling psychologists, and for the past 30 years has been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in the assessment and treatment of complex (developmental) trauma and addictive disorders with children, teens, adults, and those in their senior years. She has been the invited guest speaker for public, private, and global organizations, as well as the Georgia Bar Association, multiple hospitals and universities, and charity function, on issues concerning crisis intervention and preparedness, sexual addiction, PTSD in the military, and and disorders of arousal dysregulation.
Dr Ullman's clinical and academic focus is specific to disorders of arousal dysregulation and complex trauma (with increasing attention paid to refugee trauma) and the peritraumatic dissociative disorders related to childhood maltreatment and PTSD in adulthood. This population includes children and adults that have experienced predominantly early childhood trauma such as sexual abuse, neglect, and/or violence, as well as war and refugee trauma. Unfortunately and through no fault of their own, a great many of these children are unable to self-regulate their feelings secondary to to their maltreatment and resultant developmental impairment. When unable to recognize and manage what would otherwise be a normal range of emotion and levels of daily stress, these mild to moderate stressors are experienced as catastrophic. Consequently, these children develop significant inter-and intra-personal issues that without intervention, persist throughout the lifespan. As they approach their adolescence and early adulthood, these disturbances generally coalesce around issues pertaining to pathological shame and fear of abandonment and betrayal, intimacy and attachment, uncontrollable anger, explosive rage reactions, and personality and dissociative disorders. These are such problematic and painful issues of daily living that more often then not and dependent upon the type, duration, and intensity of the traumatic event or events and the resilience of the child, the need to tamp down and self medicate these emotions can easily lead to alcohol and drug abuse, and the process addictions such as sex addiction, gambling, eating, cutting, and gaming.
Currently, Dr Ullman is completing a series of video productions, works of non-fiction, e-courses, webinar series, and seminars related to the myriad difficulties associated with complex trauma and the process addictions. And please be on the look-out for her new podcast series, The Traumatized Brain Podcast.
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