Joanna Vergoth has been a practicing psychotherapist in private practice and contracting with agencies in the community for over 18 years. She has advanced training in psychoanalysis, Jungian dream exploration, and creative visualization coupled with gentle body awareness methods. Her areas of expertise include individuals traumatized by a variety of personal and cultural experiences: sexual and physical abuse, the events of 9/11 in New York, mutilation practices ritually preformed in other countries, childhood traumas produced by poverty and racism, as well as serious mental illness created by genetic environments. At RefugeeOne, Joanna will be using her expertise in culturally sensitive treatment to support our Somali, Ethiopian, and Eritrean women through individual and group therapy.