WHO ...
... are WE

Dr. Danie Meyer is a Clinical Psychologist specialized in experienced trauma and perpetrated violence in communities of flight, i.e., those fleeing war, organized violence, systemic oppression, hunger, extreme poverty, homophobia, transphobia, racism and misogyny.

She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology with a focus on the development of appetitive aggression in traumatized individuals and communities and a M.S. in Professional Counseling.

She is the founder of Cologne Counseling (www.cologne-counseling.com), offering individual and group mental health and organizational support to LGBTQ & BIPOC migrants and asylum-seekers in Germany.

Danie is a member of vivo international (www.vivo.org), an NGO that aims at research, prevention and therapy of the consequences of traumatic stress on violence and conflict-affected individuals and communities.

From 2013-2018, she served as the Project Coordinator for the European Research Council (ERC) funded Advanced Grant Project “MemoTV- Memories of Traumatic Stress and Violence,” which investigated the epigenetic, psychological and physiological underpinnings of transgenerational trauma in South Africa, Burundi, Brazil and Germany.

She currently serves as Project Coordinator for MemoTV’s ERC Proof of Concept Project: POPP- Putting Offence Prevention into Practice.

Danie is a co-founder of the Narrative Exposure Therapy Collective (NET.Collect).

Dr. Nicole Kremer is a Clinical Psychologist who earned her doctorate from Wright State University in 2001.

She studied health psychology and worked in various health care settings as part of her training and professional experience, with a focus on the mind-body connection.

Additionally, she received training in trauma treatment serving Veterans with PTSD both at the Dayton Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) and at the Phoenix VAMC. She continued her work in trauma at the Philadelphia VA, continuing to serve the Veteran population on the PTSD Clinical Team (PCT). She also taught graduate courses from 2003 to 2022, teaching Ethics and Psychopathology.

She continues to work on the PCT team at the Philadelphia VA where she is trained in Evidence Based Practice, including Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET).

She has become the point person for the clinical teams at the Philadelphia VA for NET and is a member of Vivo international.

Her goal is to assist in rolling NET out as a treatment option throughout the VA system.

Dr. Michelle L. Miller is a clinical psychologist specializing in clinical research at the intersection of women’s health and traumatic stress.

She is an Assistant Professor at the IU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and developed the Perinatal Traumatic Stress Lab.

The lab recruits pregnant and postpartum women with a history of trauma and PTSD symptoms to participate in individual and small group interventions, including those who are rarely included in perinatal traumatic stress interventions, such as racially and ethnically minoritized individuals, women in recovery from substance use, and rural patients.

Importantly, she has implemented a PTSD screening protocol in a high-risk obstetrics clinic that serves a large proportion of Medicaid recipients and racially and ethnically minoritized women.

Dr. Miller is currently grant-funded to implement screening for trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms in both rural and urban perinatal populations.

She has also established the IUSM Traumatic Stress Clinic, which provides clinical services to anyone in the IU Health system struggling with mental health sequelae following a traumatic event. Further, she created a training curriculum alongside the Traumatic Stress Clinic for clinical psychology trainees to learn assessment of and evidence-based treatments for PTSD.

She is also currently grant-funded to create a training curriculum for IUSM students on how to identify and discuss mental health and experiences of discrimination with perinatal patients.

Dr. Jonathan Orr is an Associate Clinical Professor and the former Program Coordinator and the Clinical Training Coordinator for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Georgia State University, Atlanta, US.

In these roles they have trained and supervised psychologists and counselors for over 15 years in the fields of counseling psychology, school psychology, mental health counseling, school counseling, and rehabilitation counseling.

Over their career they have been responsible for training and/or supervising over 400 mental health professionals. They are a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor. They hold a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision with a focus in group psychotherapy, clinical skill development, and clinical supervision.

Jonathan also owns Breathing Space Counseling and Wellness (Georgia, US) a private practice dedicated to working with a wide range of clients and to training, consulting, and supervising psychologists and other professionals in the practice of group psychotherapy and counseling interventions such as Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Focusing, and mindfulness-based interventions.

Jonathan is a member of vivo international (www.vivo.org), an NGO that aims at research, prevention and therapy of the consequences of traumatic stress on violence and conflict-affected individuals and communities.

Jonathan facilitates in-person and virtual training and supervision in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) worldwide. They serve as a consultant on NET projects to train community-based lay counselors and are Project Director for multiple mental health initiatives within refugee and asylee communities. Jonathan is a co-founder of the NET Collect, LLC.