Katie Amatruda

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Katie Amatruda, MFT, EMT, BCETS, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an Emergency Medical Technician and a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. She's been to Haiti, the Southeast Asia and American Samoa tsunamis, Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav and Ike, Florida Tornadoes, the San Diego wildfires, and many local disasters. She specializes in pediatric populations during disasters, and the Force Protection – how to assist responders in self-care and prevention of secondary trauma in disasters where large numbers of children are impacted.

She is a member of the Marin Medical Reserve Corps, of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Trauma Response Network, and of Disaster Medical Assistance Team DMAT CA-6. With the American Red Cross, she is a Disaster Service Mental Health volunteer and the former Mental Health Lead for the Marin County Chapter. She is a Military Family and Life Consultant and has a private practice in Sausalito CA.

Blog Entries by Katie Amatruda

Splat

(29) Comments | Posted May 16, 2012 | 2:00 PM

Well, so much for my wisdom and clarity, my hopes and faith. I'm deep in depression, because after my soon-to-be-ex-husband and I reached a fair-ish settlement, by a fluke I found out that he'd been lying to me the whole time regarding his pension. The amount of his pension that...

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Limbo, A Musical Interlude

(15) Comments | Posted March 12, 2012 | 5:53 PM

Sitting here in limbo, but I know it won't be long.
Sitting here in limbo, like a bird without a song.

The soft Reggae tones of Jimmy Cliff weave through my thoughts, a lovely interlude in the otherwise angst-ridden landscape of my brain. I'm pierced with quills from the...

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Occupy Valentine's Day

(5) Comments | Posted February 13, 2012 | 10:10 PM

I feel assaulted whenever I encounter clichéd images of romance -- advertisements to buy flowers, candy, diamonds, sexy underwear, even cell phones -- all to show love. Buy, buy, buy! Love, love, love! I say Bah Humbug!

News flash: a lot of us are single and are not going to...

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Four Stages Of Divorce: Break-up, Breakdown, Breakthrough and Breakover

(37) Comments | Posted December 29, 2011 | 4:20 PM

From my professional and personal experience, I have observed four phases to a divorce or the ending of an intimate relationship. Mine started with the:

n break-up
1. a separation or disintegration

I can't forget that Tuesday night call, even though we spoke every night. I was in Hawaii,...

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