Graduate Training:
My training is in Clinical Forensic Psychology from the doctorate program at The Chicago School. During that time, I focused on learning and training in the intersections between psychology and law, training within correctional institutions, community mental health centers, a forensic psychiatric hospital, residential school, and outpatient mental health centers. My dissertation research provided insight into complex trauma prevalence and the use of a screening instrument within an adolescent correctional institution.
During graduate school, I studied internationally across three continents concerning socio-political and intergenerational transmission of trauma as well as cultural adaptations to trauma treatment and psychology.
Post-Graduate Training:
- I received expert training through a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Trauma Center in Boston, MA with renowned experts in the trauma field, including a 9-month Trauma Certification course.
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP; Levels 1 & 2)
- Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR; *not provided as a stand-alone service)
- Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism
- Component-Based Psychotherapy
- Attachment Regulation & Competency (ARC)
- Sensorimotor Arousal Regulation Training (SMART)
- Neurofeedback (training in process Spring 2025)
Clinical Interest and Experience:
I have clinical interest and experience with chronic and complex trauma, intergenerational trauma, cultural and sociopolitical trauma, adult attachment trauma, dissociation, and gender and sexuality identity development.
In my personal and professional work, I am committed to challenging the imbedded systems of oppression that impact personal, relational, and cultural illness as well as the practices that foster healing and resilience from these systems.
Michelle Horner, PsyD, PLLC 