Program Authors
Dr. Johnson is currently the Co-Director of the Post Traumatic Stress Center in New Haven, Connecticut, which evaluates and treats children and adults suffering from the consequences of trauma-related conditions. He is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.
He worked at the VA Medical Center in West Haven for 17 years before moving into clinical practice with Hadar Lubin, MD. In 2015, he and Dr. Lubin published Principles and Techniques of Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy (American Psychiatric Publishing), a clinical text.
Johnson's center conducts the Miss Kendra Program, a trauma-informed, preventive program that has been implemented nationally (www.misskendraprograms.org). He has also published widely in the use of the creative arts therapies, particularly drama therapy, in psychiatric care. He has published over 150 articles and chapters and 8 books, during his career.
Dr. Sommers has a decade of professional experience working at a variety of higher education institutions and within a number of functional areas within student affairs. Her areas of interest include holistic approaches to student wellbeing, the role of mindfulness and self-care in trauma-centered student affairs work, social justice in higher education, and intersectionality in student affairs work.
Dr. Trout has taught in pre-school through graduate-level classrooms in urban, suburban and rural settings. At the University of St. Thomas, she teaches educational psychology, social studies methods and diversity in school contexts. Her areas of interest range from caring relationships in teaching, deliberative reasoning by pre-service and practicing K-12 teachers, and interruptions to the school-to-prison pipeline.