Narrative Reflections: How Witnpb

Narrative Reflections presents a series of poignant personal reflections by mental health professionals, triggered by reading interviews of Holocaust survivors and their families. Inspired by the practice of narrative therapy, these essays bear witness to the experience of survivors and facilitate deeper levels of self-awareness by each of the contributors.

Lucy S. Raizman, MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is a licensed clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist, AAMFT-approved supervisor, AASECT-approved sex therapist, EMDR-trained therapist, and EFT-certified couple therapist. Since 2001, she has been a senior staff clinician at the Council for Relationships, a not-for-profit educational, counseling, and research center and postgraduate training program in couple and family therapy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raizman has been a research associate and interviewer for the Transcending Trauma Project since 1992. She received her MSW from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her postgraduate training at the Council for Relationships. Bea Hollander-Goldfein, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist. Since 1991, she has been the director of the Transcending Trauma Project at the Council for Relationships. Hollander-Goldfein is the director of the Post Graduate Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy accredited by the AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy), the director of research, and the director of supervision at the Council for Relationships. She is an instructor and supervisor in the Postgraduate Training Program and a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College. Hollander-Goldfein received her doctorate in psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.