Terri Pease

Terri Pease, PhD, is an educator, clinician, and consultant who has devoted much of her career to addressing sexual assault and domestic violence trauma and abuse of people with disabilities and in communities of color. She has been especially interested in enabling and broadening collaborations between victim service providers and providers who support people who have mental health, cognitive and learning disabilities. Dr. Pease is an accomplished trainer with more than 25 years of experience crafting and delivering tailored trainings, workshops and keynote presentations on working with victims of violent crimes who live with trauma and/or mental illness . Dr. Pease is a former board member of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and has long-standing ties to the domestic violence movement.



She was formerly the Clinical Director of the Mental Retardation Residential and Support Division of ServiceNet, Inc., a residential program serving adults with psychiatric and developmental disabilities and was also Program Director at Safe Horizon's Partnership to Prevent Domestic Violence, a project designed to engage primary care physicians and HMOs in addressing domestic violence. In addition to holding these positions, she was also a tenured professor in the Division of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University in Illinois.



Her exceptional work to better the safety and health status of battered women was recognized by the Family Violence Prevention Fund with the first Health Care and Domestic Violence Advocate Leadership Award. Dr. Pease was a national consultant for the Zero to Three Early Head Start National Resource Center's Infant Mental Health program. She was also appointed to the faculty of the National Academy for Equal Justice for Persons with Disabilities at Temple University.



Dr. Pease holds a B.A. in biology from Reed College, a Ph.D. in developmental psychopathology from the Division of Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University. After earning the Ph.D., she went on to post-doctoral study of clinical neuropsychology at the Fielding Institute. Dr. Pease is the author of a forthcoming book from Sidran Institute Press (Spring 2009) that will offer self-help skills to trauma survivors who have cognitive or developmental disabilities, and a companion volume for families and staff who are supporting survivors who face these challenges. In her spare time, Dr. Pease finds time to pursue her gift of acting as well as help others as a Certified Laughter Yoga Instructor.



Sample of Topics:

-Life and Love Lessons from our Ancestors

-"Strength Based" Employee Discipline