TL:dr
As a partially healed wounded healer with cPTSD myself, I am deeply committed to helping people heal from insidious "no sticks or stones" type traumas (naCCT: non-physically-assaultive, attachment-based, Chronic Covert Trauma). ChatGPT can help.
long version: ABOUT RICIA FLEMING
Ricia Fleming (officially Patricia J. Fleming, Ph.D. English Literature, triple-licensed as mental health counselor, certified social worker, and massage therapist) says “If you’ve been drawn to this book, I especially want you to know that I’m a partially healed wounded healer with cPTSD from naCCT myself. In this book, I share with you what I’ve learned personally and professionally about how to heal.
“Trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Psychomotor therapy with Al and Diane PesABOUT RICIA FLEMING
Ricia Fleming (officially Patricia J. Fleming, Ph.D. English Literature, triple-licensed as mental health counselor, certified social worker, and massage therapist) says “If you’ve been drawn to this book, I especially want you to know that I’m a partially healed wounded healer with cPTSD from naCCT myself. In this book, I share with you what I’ve learned personally and professionally about how to heal.
“Trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Psychomotor therapy with Al and Diane Pesso, and Psychodrama with Jacob and Zerka Moreno, for twenty years I provided mind-body based psychotherapy to help over 3,000 people hospitalized with chronic physical pain, depression, and PTSD reclaim their lives. Gradually I began to educate myself about myself, applying to my own challenges the language, concepts, and treatment techniques that helped victims of atrocities and disasters. To my amazed delight, I started getting better.”

TL:dr
As a partially healed wounded healer with cPTSD myself, I am deeply committed to helping people heal from insidious "no sticks or stones" type traumas (naCCT: non-physically-assaultive, attachment-based, Chronic Covert Trauma). ChatGPT can help.
long version: ABOUT RICIA FLEMING
Ricia Fleming (officially Patricia J. Fleming, Ph.D. English Literature, triple-licensed as mental health counselor, certified social worker, and massage therapist) says “If you’ve been drawn to this book, I especially want you to know that I’m a partially healed wounded healer with cPTSD from naCCT myself. In this book, I share with you what I’ve learned personally and professionally about how to heal.
“Trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Psychomotor therapy with Al and Diane PesABOUT RICIA FLEMING
Ricia Fleming (officially Patricia J. Fleming, Ph.D. English Literature, triple-licensed as mental health counselor, certified social worker, and massage therapist) says “If you’ve been drawn to this book, I especially want you to know that I’m a partially healed wounded healer with cPTSD from naCCT myself. In this book, I share with you what I’ve learned personally and professionally about how to heal.
“Trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Psychomotor therapy with Al and Diane Pesso, and Psychodrama with Jacob and Zerka Moreno, for twenty years I provided mind-body based psychotherapy to help over 3,000 people hospitalized with chronic physical pain, depression, and PTSD reclaim their lives. Gradually I began to educate myself about myself, applying to my own challenges the language, concepts, and treatment techniques that helped victims of atrocities and disasters. To my amazed delight, I started getting better.”

Ricia now brings together psychology, the arts, and bodywork, drawing on four-plus decades of professional service as a therapist, educator, and hands-on healer promoting human well-being, with a special focus on healing trauma.

She began with a Ph.D in English Language and Literature at Boston University, where she learned to pay close attention to the meanings people communicate through their speech and written words. While there, she also researched and wrote “The Integrated Self” and taught several hundred university students to observe, think, and express themselves.

Then on to an M.Ed. in Counselor Training and becoming a consultant and clinician in private practice, a co-director of a college counseling center, and a program developer.
She developed and delivered the “Beyond Coping” Vocational Achievement Program and wrote the group manual, which sold in women’s bookstores and was used by self-led women’s groups throughout the US.
In conjunction with the American Cancer Society and the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health, Ricia provided telephone consultations to people seeking freedom from nicotine addiction at the pioneering “Smokers’ Quitline” telehealth program.

Ricia is a long-time member of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation (NESTTD), where she served on the Outreach Committee and wrote the extended review and summary of “Understanding the Neuroscience of PTSD: Clinically Useful Applications” by Amy Banks, MD, for the NESTTD newsletter, available online at https://www.nesttd-online.org/resources/documents/review-banks.pdf.
She also served on the Executive Council of the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Assn. (MaMHCA).

Hands-on body work, with a license to directly touch, massage, and release tensions people have stored in their bodies, is the most recent addition to Ricia’s healing repertoire. For more than ten years at Rolling Ridge Retreat and Conference Center, she taught wellness and provided therapeutic talk and touch using Somato-Emotional Release, massage, energy healing, and other somatic modalities.
Integrating direct body work, psychotherapeutic concepts and techniques, and personal narrative, Ricia also developed the BodyStory method. She offered BodyStory consultations to individuals and presented workshops in such venues as the Arlington Health Professionals Alliance.
Throughout, she has been fortunate to have expanded her skills and awareness via such ground-breaking in-person workshops and trainings as Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Richard Schwartz, Somatic Experiencing with Peter Levine, Sensorimotor with Pat Ogden, Polyvagal Therapy with Steven Porges and Deb Dana, Focusing with Gene Gendlin, and Dance and Movement Therapy with Norma Canner. She studied Improv for Clinicians and Counselors with the Improv Therapy Group. She also learned directly from talks by such pioneers as Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, Allan Schore, and Janina Fisher.

Believing it’s important to set aside time for reflection, in her personal life she attends organized retreats at meditation centers, personal self-structured retreats, Kripalu’s legendary “Inner Quest Intensive,” and talks and workshops with such devoted practitioners as Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Jack Kornfield.
Balancing the playful and profound, she co-founded the Funsters Singalong group, facilitates SoulCollage® workshops, tap-dances, drums, and leads the community creation of large scale labyrinths for walking meditations on public beaches.