GINA ROSS, MFCC, is founder and president of International Trauma-Healing Institute in the United States and in Israel.  She is the co-founder of the Israeli Trauma Center in Jerusalem and has specialized in trauma and the understanding and treatment of trauma since 1990. She is trained in cognitive, behavioral, and somatic treatment approaches and is certified in the more innovative techniques of Somatic Experiencing (SE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Thought Field Therapy (TFT), and Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR).

For more than seven years she chaired the Cross-Cultural Committee of the Los Angeles, California Association of Marriage, Family, and Child Therapists (MFCT) and continues to serve a multi-cultural clientele in her cross-cultural private practice.

Gina Ross is a faculty member and teacher/trainer for the Foundation for Human Enrichment.  She has presented at international conferences as well as appeared on many radio and television programs. An expert on the impact of trauma on individuals, communities, groups, and nations, she and her institute work to put and keep the issue of trauma on the global agenda, developing resources and collaborating with organizations to further the healing of trauma at the community, national, and international levels.

Currently, she is working with Israeli and Palestinian societies and other groups to bring an understanding of the role of trauma and politics in the Middle East. She has developed “The Ross Model,” a method for working at national and international levels that can be applied to healing the collective trauma vortex.