EDUCATION

  • M.S.W., Developmental Trauma, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012 - 2014
  • B.A., Cultural Anthropology, Psychology & Photography, University of Vermont, 2001 - 2005. (Training and research conducted with The School of International Training in Durban, South Africa, 2003.  Report completed entitled, Me or We?: The Mental Health Consequences of Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
  • Associate Degree, Photography, Montgomery Community College, Rockville, MD, 1999 - 2001

 

CLINICAL WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Therapist, 6/2014 – Present
  •  Centre Benebnoma (Burkina Faso, West Africa), Community Mental Health Consultant, 9/2010 – 6/2011
  • United States Peace Corps (Burkina Faso, West Africa), Girls Education and Empowerment Specialist, 6/2008 – 9/2010
  • Center for the Study of Assessment Validity and Evaluation, University of Maryland, Research Assistant, 5/2004 – 1/2005 & 10/2006 – 3/2008

 

YOGA WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Program Director & Instructor, 2/2014– Present
  • Seeds of Hope Farm, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor, 6/2015 – Present
  • Oxygen Project, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor, 9/2014 – Present
  • Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor, 10/2013

 

PHOTOGRAPHY WORK EXPERIENCE

  • United States Peace Corps (Burkina Faso, West Africa), Participatory Photography Instructor, 6/2008 – 9/2011
  • Wedding Photographer, Ashley and Yonaba, 2013
  • Wedding Photographer, Meighan and Olivier Tarnagada, 2011
  • Wedding Photographer, Jillian and Abe Zabda, 2010

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • Washington University St. Louis, School of Public Health, Research Assistant, Dr. Jean-Francois Trani, 12/2013 – 5/2014
  • Washington University St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work, Research Assistant, Dr. Tonya Edmond, 9/2012 – 5/2014
  • Washington University St. Louis, Department of Psychiatry, Research Assistant, Dr. John Constantino, 3/2013 – 9/2013
  • EMDR International Association, Research & Data Analyst, 11/2012 – 1/2013
  • Centre Benebnoma, (Burkina Faso, West Africa), Lead Investigator, 9/2010 – 7/2011
  • School of International Training (Durban, South Africa), Lead Investigator, 8/2003-12/2003

 

CLINICAL TRAININGS

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) certification- Levels 1 & 2, St. Louis, MO, 05/2013 – 12/2013.

  • I See You, I Feel You, I Know You: An EMDR Attachment Focused Model to Heal the Parent the Child and Strengthen Their Bond. Presented by: Ana M Gomez, MC, LPC. Online training, 10/2014.

  • The EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol and Recent Incident Treatment Protocol. Presented by: Ignacio Jarero, Ph.D. St. Louis, MO, 12/2015.

  • Healing the Wounds of Attachment & Rebuilding Self. Presented by: Deany Laliotis , LICSW. St. Louis, MO, 05/2015.

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

  • Practice Ground, DBT Track, 09/2014 – 09/2015

  • 11 hour training presented by Rhonda Reitz of the Missouri Department of Mental Health, 09/2014

  • 320 hour class, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, 2013

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) training, 05/2013. Children’s Advocacy Center of St Louis and National Child and Traumatic Stress Network

 

YOGA TRAININGS

  • 85 Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training. Urban Breath Yoga. St. Louis, MO, 05/2016 – 07/2016.

  • Yoga for Youth Teacher Training, Urban Breath Yoga. St. Louis, MO, 09/2015.

  • 200 Level Yoga Teacher Training, Urban Breath Yoga, St. Louis, MO, 06/2013 ­– 06/2014. Yoga Alliance ID- 149308

 

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

  • YWCA St. Louis Regional Sexual Assault Center, Sexual Assault Advocate, 6/2013 – 6/2014
  • Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration, Refugee Resettlement Intern, 9/2011 – 12/2011

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • English (Fluent)               
  • French (Proficient)                      
  • Mooré (Basic)                       
  • Zulu (Basic)

 

CONFERENCES

  • Translating Identity Conference, Presenter and Organizer, 2004.
  • Annual North Eastern Anthropological Association Conference, Presenter, 2004.
  • Validity and Accommodations: Psychometric and Policy Perspectives Conference, Organizer, 2003.

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Trani, J.F. & Kopriva, S. (2015). Measuring participation for persons with mental illness: Assessing relevance of existing scales for Low and Middle Income Countries. BMC Psychology.14;3:36.
  • Summarizing results of tryouts of parent protocol and teacher questionnaire developed to implement taxonomy to link needs and strengths of individual English learners with proper accommodations on large scale K-12 academic content tests. C-SAVE Research Report, number 57, University of Maryland College Park.  With Patricia Walker-Web, project manager, and Jennifer Koran, graduate student, 2005.
  • Evaluation of group cognitive trial responses to items designed to measure English language development in grades 3-12. C-SAVE Research Report, number 35, University of Maryland College Park.  With Phoebe Winter, project manager, and Tia Masters, graduate student, 2004.
  • Analyzing student responses to traditional and innovative item types in elementary school mathematics. C-SAVE Research Report, number 42, University of Maryland College Park.  With Phoebe Winter, project manager, and Chen Su Chen, post-doctoral student, 2004.