~ About Dr Ullman ~
In addition to her academic and clinical work in neuropsychological assessment and complex trauma (C-PTSD), Dr Ullman holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with specialty in neuropsychology, 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-class neuroscientists, academicians, psychiatrists, and clinical and counseling psychologists, and for the past 30-plus years has been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in the assessment and treatment of complex and developmental trauma and addictive disorders with children, teens, adults, and those in their senior years. Dr Ullman has been the invited guest speaker for public, private, and global organizations, as well as state Bar Associations, hosptials, and universities, and charity functions, on issues concerning crisis intervention and preparedness, sexual addiction, PTSD in the military, and disorders of arousal dysregulation secondary to early childhood trauma.
Through a neuropsychological lens, Dr Ullman's clinical and academic focus is specific to the processes in which the brain processes trauma and the disorders of arousal dysregulation that result. 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-related and catastrophic trauma that occurs later in life. Unfortunately and through no fault of their own, a great many of these individuals are consequentially unable to self-regulate their emotions and behavior secondary to their traumatic experiences. 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 early targeted intervention, persist throughout the lifespan. As they approach their adolescence and early adulthood, these disturbances generally coalesce around issues pertaning 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 or traumatic addictions such as sex addiction, gambling, eating, cutting, and gaming.
Dr Ullman is currently completing a series of video productions, works of non-fiction, e-courses, ongoing webinar series and seminars related to the myriad difficulties associated with how the brain processes trauma and the unwelcome developmental and functional difficulties that arise.
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