Amber
Elizabeth Lynn Gray is a longtime advocate of human rights and
has worked internationally and nationally as an activist, an
artist, a mental health professional, a program director and
a trainer/consultant on behalf of victims of human rights abuses
such as torture, war, and organized violence.
She
has twenty years experience in human services and work with
displaced people, refugees, and survivors of human rights abuses,
and over six years experience working with survivors of torture.
Her expertise is in the development of culturally congruent
treatment models for trauma recovery that reinforce individual
and communal resilience. She has presented nationally and internationally
and provided training for health and mental health professionals
and paraprofessionals on such topics as working with traumatized
refugee children; models for the cross-cultural application
of psychotherapy; innovative approaches to trauma recovery that
integrate local, individual and community resources, rituals
and traditions; treatment strategies for working with victims
of violence; and the application of somatic psychology and creative
arts psychotherapies to torture and war trauma recovery. Her
passion is in training paraprofessionals globally who work on
the edge, and in the field, to work creatively through the body
and the arts to assist survivors of human rights abuses and
mass atrocities. Amber is also an initiate in the Guinea tradition
of Vaudu. She continues to work and study with a ĪManbo' in
Haiti who is the last living practitioner with direct linage
to this tradition.
Currently,
she is Director of Restorative Resources Consulting and Training.
Her work has taken her to Indonesia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Central
America, New Zealand, Croatia, Norway, Sweden, and India and
she travels regularly to Haiti and Norway to teach and to dance.
