Karin Dremel
mts, hp
systemic trauma mending
- Unlicensed Psychotherapist
(registered as NLC #6709 in Colorado) - Healing Arts Practitioner (HP, Licensed in Germany)
- Humanist Chaplain (endorsed by AHA, USA)
- Systemic Traumatology Conversations
My path as a systemic fabric mender —something I’ll elaborate on elsewhere—began in 1990. For 34 years prior to that, I navigated some highs and many (at times debilitating) lows; a hallmark of complex trauma.The confluence of lived experience, decades of interdisciplinary study, and trainings in numerous multimodal approaches, not only provided me with invaluable insights into our shared humanity, it also eased my nervous systems not-so-merry-go-round, honed my expertise and skills, and granted what I now share with change-seekers.. After all, a most beloved treasure!
Throughout, I found trauma wisdom keepers and blended their graciously shared skills into my own. As mentioned, the voyage mended and sustained me. I gradually grew from experiencing personal trauma into (also) seeing and sensing its nestedness into systemic wounding, my own, and that of people around me. By now, I have supported those who found my work –– in person and remote –– in Germany, Romania, France, Colorado, Utah, Washington State, Canada, Ute Mountain Ute Nation, California, Kuwait, and Australia.
Three decades with clients, in Germany, Romania, France, Colorado, Utah, Washington State, Canada, Ute Mountain Ute Nation, California, Kuwait, and Australia, mingled and merged. Being in a professional field that offered more and more commodified ‘healing’ nourished a longing for a commons where the effects of trauma are de-pathologized, engaged with kindness, usefully c0-suffered, and graciously withnessed. My work, therefore, invites a way of being with another, unbounded by psychiatric categories, politicised turf wars, commodification of human suffering, and the lure of spiritual coopting. Annie G. Rogers, a child psychiatrist and professor of clinical psychology at Hampshire College, says it well:
"Trauma is bigger than expertise of any sort —it's in our midst, in our language, our wars, even the ways we try to love, repeating, repeating. No one is an expert on trauma.
Rogers, Annie G., 2006. The Unsayable. The Hidden Language of Trauma Random House. Kindle Edition.
In sessions with individuals, partners, experiential groups, and during professional team consultations, I remember these words. Decades of faithfully apprenticing with trauma/neglect, however, gave me both, deeply embodied knowledge of its presence, and capacity for skilful integration of the varied transdisciplinary education I gathered over 35 years.
While I am with change-seekers, I can lean into that education gatheredwith utter confidence. Although, the painful “too much & too little” during my early life experience, takes the helm when fluid withnessing is asked for.
