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Terésa Stern has worked in the trauma survivors' community since 1990, serving as public speaker, outreach educator, emergency room advocate, and support group facilitator. In 2008 she founded Starfish Body&Soul, a holistic movement program for survivors of childhood abuse, and led groups at the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program and the Joyful Heart Foundation.
Terésa worked with children, adolescents and families at Good Shepherds Services in the Bronx and at the Bellevue Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic. She completed a 3-year clinical training in Somatic Experiencing® (SE) through the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute (SETI) and now assists at trainings. She receives ongoing supervision with a senior SETI faculty member.
Terésa is trained in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment), and
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ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency). She is certified as a Rape Crisis Counselor and as an instructor of several therapeutic mind-body modalities including Yoga Dance, Street Yoga, and a children’s play therapy program called Life Is Good Playmakers.
She earned her MSW from the Hunter College School of Social Work, graduating with honors in a trauma-focused concentration created by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). She is writing a text about trauma's impact on child neurobiological development for students in NCTSN's professional training programs.
Terésa is the mother of two young adult daughters. A published writer, she also likes to cook, hike, bike, and dance.
To view Terésa's listing in the SE Directory, click here.
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