The Trauma Therapist

Rupi Moussanza is the co-founder of Iboga Medicine, where she serves as a provider and integration guide. 

Iboga is a powerful and sacred plant traditionally used by the Bwiti people of Gabon, where it has been honored for generations as a source of wisdom, clarity, and spiritual awakening. Rupi’s work is informed by her own healing experience with Iboga, as well as training within the Bwiti tradition, and combines traditional practice with trauma-informed awareness and modern integration support. 

She works with guests before, during, and after ceremonies, with a particular focus on helping them integrate their experiences into meaningful and sustainable changes in their lives.

In This Episode
Rupi Moussanza at Iboga Medicine
Iboga Medicine
Learn About Iboga

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Maria Szandrach is the co-founder and CEO of Mentalyc, an AI-powered platform that helps therapists automate clinical documentation and streamline administrative tasks. Maria created Mentalyc to make therapy more efficient and effective.

Her mission is deeply personal: as a teenager, she struggled with an eating disorder and worked with multiple therapists before recovering, an experience that inspired her lifelong commitment to improving mental health care. Today, she works closely with clinicians, mental health organizations, and technology leaders to explore how AI and emerging technologies can enhance clinical practice while preserving the therapeutic relationship.

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Dr. Shan Shan Jing is a Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon working in a Major Trauma Centre in London, where she has spent years treating patients with devastating injuries, restoring nerves, vessels, and soft tissues after life-altering trauma. 

In 2022, while working abroad during the pandemic, she experienced trauma from the other side when she survived a high-speed collision that killed her partner and left her hospitalized with multiple injuries. Her recovery involved navigating profound grief, neurological healing, and the identity shift of becoming a trauma patient within the very healthcare system she had dedicated her career to serving.

This experience transformed her understanding of post-traumatic growth, the nervous system’s response to catastrophic loss, and the hidden burdens carried by healthcare professionals, deepening her belief in what she calls the “Holy Trinity” of health: the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of healing.

In this episode: 
Dr. Shan Shan’s website
Dr. Shan Shan on IG
Critical: Between Life and Death (Netflix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k83a5EkFwbM (episode 4)
SameYou — brain injury advocacy https://www.sameyou.org/portrait_shan_shan

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Dr. Adriana Popescu is a clinical psychologist, author, speaker, podcast host, spiritual counselor, and empowerment coach who is based in San Francisco, California and practices worldwide. She specializes in treating addictions and trauma and has directed a number of treatment programs in the Bay Area, including Firebird Healing, where she is the Founder and CEO, and Avery Lane, where she works as Chief Clinical Officer. 

She hosts the popular podcast Kaleidoscope of Possibilities – Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health, is the author of the book What If You’re Not As F***ed Up As You Think You Are? and co-author of 4 workbooks with TJ Woodward, including Conscious Recovery for Addiction. Her newest book, EFT for Addiction (published by Dawson Church, Ph.D./Energy Psychology Press), will be coming out in Sept. 2026.

With her work, Adriana loves to empower people to release their self-judgments, overcome their imagined limitations, and create a life of infinite possibilities.

In This Episode
Dr. Adriana Popescu's Website
Firebird Healing
Dr. Adriana Popescu's Books
What if you're not as F***ed Up As You Think

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Dr. Monique M. Chouraeshkenazi is a clinical neuropsychometrician, psychology resident, researcher, professor, forensic neuropsychopathology expert, and two-time international bestselling author. 
She is the founder of The Chouraeshkenazi Group, a multidisciplinary practice focused on mental healthcare, medical services, research, consulting, and education. 

A U.S. Air Force Global War on Terrorism combat veteran, she served for 13 years in roles related to cybersecurity, intelligence, antiterrorism, and national security operations. Dr. Chouraeshkenazi is the author of the bestselling three-volume series, Forensic Neuropsychopathology: Clinical and Medical Insights into Brain-Behavior, Mental Disorders, and the Legal System.

Dr. Chouraeshkenazi is credited with developing and formally defining the field of forensic neuropsychopathology, an interdisciplinary discipline that integrates neuroscience, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, psychology, psychiatry, and the legal system to better understand the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of criminal behavior.

In this episode:
The Chouraeshkenazi Group
Forensic Neuropsychopathology: Clinical and Medical Insights into Brain-Behavior, Mental Disorders, and the Legal System.

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