TraumaAid Germany is a non-profit organisation founded in 2000. We provide professional traumatherapy training in crisis areas, and connect people and institutions worldwide with psycho-traumatology and EMDR. Our members include Trauma- and EMDR-therapists, psychologists and psycho-therapists, as well as medical doctors and other interested parties.
TraumaAid Germany is part of the worldwide network of humanitarian EMDR organisations and a member of TraumaAid Europe. Our projects are supported and implemented in cooperation with terre des hommes Germany (tdh), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), local relief organisations, the University of Worcester, UK and the EMDR-Institut Deutschland in Bergisch-Gladbach.
We are a small, non-bureaucratic, smart, professional and committed group of people, networked around the world, who develop trauma projects in countries where psychotherapy and trauma therapy are not yet or only insufficiently available.
We want to grow and achieve more, as the crises in the world are growing and only stable and healthy people can cope with them. We want to remain smart and professional, creative and non-bureaucratic but efficient.
Vision
Our vision is to be the most experienced professional organization in the trauma related training of frontline workers and psychotherapists, actively shaping the development of care networks.
Mission
To conduct specialized seminars in those countries and regions where …
… directly after a crisis situation mental health work is needed urgently …
… people and especially children are recently saved and their living conditions are stable enough to start focussing on their psychic needs …
To create an education for psychologists, social workers and similar professions that enables them …
… to help traumatized people of every age in the best possible way to overcome their experiences …
… to provide therapeutic support for traumatized children as early as possible to prevent future impacts…
We are working on building regional networks to care for traumatized people and their family members. In doing so, referral systems from primary care to specialized trauma therapy are to be developed.
Values
Responsibility towards those who suffer from Trauma
Confidentiality to our participants to care for an open atmosphere in our seminars
Collaboration with other mental health professionals
Cooperation within the Mental Health Pyramid with all mental health professionals
Respect towards cultural differences
Innovation regarding psychotherapeutic methods
TraumaAid Germany provides trauma projects in countries where psychotherapy and trauma therapy are not yet, or are only inadequately available. In these projects, training and therapeutic treatment are always closely linked and combined.
All of us live in a situation where the number of survivors of natural disasters, victims of human violence, war, torture and displacement, as well as the number of refugees has increased dramatically and continues to grow. TraumaAid Germany initiates and supports efforts to give psychologically affected people access to professional trauma therapy.
Our goal:
Frank Hofmann
Chairperson
(Dipl.-Psychologist, EMDR Supervisor)
Ute Sodemann
Vice Chairperson
(Social Scientist)
Mirjam Goihl
Secretary
(Children and Adolescent Psychotherapist)
Arne Hofmann
Board member
(Facharzt für Psychotherapeutische und Innere Medizin, Leiter des EMDR-Instituts Deutschland)
Wolfgang Wöller
Board member
(Facharzt für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie sowie für Neurologie und Psychiatrie)
Derek Farrell
Scientific board advisor
(Senior Lecturer in Psychology Worcester University UK)
Rolf Carriere
Scientific board advisor
(Economist and Former UNICEF Rep in Asia, now senior adviser Nonviolent Peaceforce)
Germany
Klaus Barre, Dipl. Psychologe, Hamburg<br / Peter Bumke, Südostasienwissenschaftler, Berlin
Petra Dröge, Dipl. Motologin, Bielefeld
Franz Ebner, FA für Psychiatrie & Psychotherapie, Oberursel
Esther Ebner, KBT, EMDR-Supervisorin, Oberursel
Dagmar Eckers, Dipl. Psychologin, Berlin
Michael Hase, Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Hamburg
Mirjam Goihl, Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeutin
Arne Hofmann, Facharzt für innere und psychotherapeutische Medizin, Bergisch-Gladbach
Frank Hofmann, Dipl.-Psychologe, EMDR Supervisor
Annette Kissenbeck, Fachärztin für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Essen
Peter Liebermann, Psychiater, Köln
Irmgard Leiber-Haberstroh, Psychiaterin, Aachen
Helga Mattheß, Fachärztin für Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Duisburg
Silke Mehler, Dipl. Psychologin, Bielefeld
Hans-Henning Melbeck, Facharzt für Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Berlin
Andrea Möllering, Fachärztin für Psychotherapeutische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Bielefeld
Elfrun Magloire, Dipl. Psychologin, Köln
Christine Rost, Fachärztin für Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Frankfurt
Ute Sodemann, Soziologin, Berlin
Karla Schmidt-Riese, Fachärztin für Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Offenbach
Rahel Schueepp, Dipl. Psychologin, Bremen
Helga Ströhle, Fachärztin für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Gerstetten
Petra Weirauch-Schmachtenberg, Pädagogin, Kinder- und Jugendpsychotherapeutin, Aachen
Wolfgang Wöller, Priv. Doz., Bad Honnef
Austria
Eva Münker-Kramer, Dipl. Psychologin, Wien
Silvia Wintersperger, Fachärztin für Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Wien
Slowakia
Daniel Ralaus, Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Trencin
Andrea Ševcíková, Fachärztin für Psychiatrie, Trencin
Hana Vojtová, Dipl. Psychologin, Trencin
Belgium
Ludwig Cornil, Dipl. Psychologe, Eeklo
France
Hélène Delucci, Dipl. Psychologin, Lyon
Dietmar Heller, Psychologe, Montpellier
Switzerland
Hanna Egli, Dipl. Psychologin, Zürich
Netherlands
Joany Spierings, Dipl. Psychologin, Nijmegen
England
Derek Farrell, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, EMDR Trainer and Consultant, University of Worcester
Southeast Asia
Shinto Adelar, Dipl. Psychologin, Jakarta, Indonesien
Triswadani, Dipl. Psychologin, Jarkarta, Indonesien
Parichawan Chandarasiri, Fachärztin für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Bangkok, Thailand
Sombat Tapanya, Dipl. Psychologe, Chieng Mai, Thailand
India
Dyshant Bhadlikar, Psychiater, Mumbai
Sushma Mehrotra, Psychologin, Mumbai
Parul Tank, Psychiaterin, Mumbai
N. Shalini, Psychiaterin, Chennai
China
Lawrence Chen, Dipl. Psychologe, Hongkong
Yuchuan Yang, Dipl. Psychologin, Bejing
Weili Wu, Dipl.Psychologin, Chengdu
Li Fang, MD for psychiatry, Shenzen
Xin Fang, clinical psychologist, Beijing
Usa
Andrew Leeds, Dipl. Psychologe, Kalifornien
Gerry Puk, Dipl. Psychologe, Kalifornien
Kenya
Gisela Roth, Psychiaterin und Psychotherapeutin, Nairobi
The Statutes of TraumaAid had been approved during the founding assembly on 27th October 2000.
The full text of the statutes is only available in German. download PDF.
