Are you ready for the truth?
Most people aren’t and today’s episode with Virginia Cruse is an example of the no-BS truth about PTSD from the view of someone who helps people through it and recovers from it.
This episode is the longest and includes the most profanity in a single episode and I am proud that this is the topic that those two records were broken on.
Virginia is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor specializing in Military Issues and Combat-Related Trauma. She provides crisis intervention and evidence-based treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Moral Injury, Depression, Combat Operational Stress, and other diagnoses.
Virginia is a certified clinician in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy and has 20+ years of experience serving Active Duty Military, Veterans, Military retirees, and family members.
She is a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP) and active American Group Psychotherapy Association member. Virginia is an Army Reserve Officer, Combat Veteran, and published re-searcher.
Topics Covered:
- Moral Injury
- What is PTSD and what is it not
- War Crimes
- Evidence-based treatments
- Trusting ourselves
- Soul damage
- Thinking about suicide
- Abusing drugs
- It happens so fast
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