Resources
Treatment
Dawn McCalla
Individual, Couples and Family Therapy, Specializing in treatment for childhood sexual abuse, family of origin issues and addictions.
website: McCalla-Counseling.com
email: dawnmccalla@att.net
phone: 734-426-1494
Anita Ruben-Meiller, LMSW
Individual, Couples and Family Therapy, specializing in chemical dependency, aging & life transitions, trauma related disorders, GLBT issues.
email: anita1018@sbcglobal.net
phone: 734-332-0669
Karen Zokas, MA, LMSW & Hillary Baldwin, MA, LMSW
Transitions, A Treatment Group for Women Survivors of Sexual Trauma.
Karen: 734 748-0950 Kzokas@umich.edu
Hillary: 917 332-7141 hmb1020@gmail.com
Books:
Bass, Ellen and Davis, Laura. The Courage to Heal.
(a classic manual for survivors)
Davis, Laura. Allies in Healing.
(a similar manual for partners of survivors)
Levine, Peter. Waking the Tiger.
(a great description of the traumatic stress response, for survivors of any type of trauma)
Miller, Dusty and Guidry, Laurie. Addictions and Trauma Recovery.
(a manual and workbook for survivors used to provide some of the foundation and material used in Tapestries)
Stout, Martha. The Myth of Sanity.
( a very readable and understandable description of the dissociative spectrum)
Whitfield, Charles. Healing the Child Within.
( a classic of the self-help books, for anyone who grew up in any kind of dysfunctional family)
Websites:
( a website for sidran press, with a page specifically for “survivors and loved ones”)
(a very informative and easy to navigate website, providing all sorts of information on sexual trauma and other trauma)
(describes EMDR, a therapy technique proven to be especially effective for healing trauma, and lists EMDRIA approved therapists, by location)