Dr. Janina Fisher

Clinical Psychologist, PhD

Oakland, CA, USA

513 Followers

Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School.  An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Executive Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and a Patron of the John Bowlby Centre. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022), and just released Embracing Our Fragmented Selves: AWorkbook for Survivors Therapists (2026) as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.  She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment. Her treatment model, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), is now being taught around the world.

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Trauma and PTSD

Reviews

Charlie

Aug 28, 2026

Thank you, Dr. Janina. This is starting to make so much sense to me now, after a lifetime of mental health problems and constant overwhelm. 🙏❤️‍🩹

Charlie

Aug 28, 2026

I'm learning that my ability to dissociate/ fragment, is both a miraculous and skillful way to have survived my trauma as a child. Well done me!!! 😁

Charlie

Aug 28, 2026

Thank you so much, Dr. Janina.🙏 I'm autistic and have had lifelong mental health problems. Dr.Mike Lloyd of CTAD Clinic sent me here. X I've been exploring the idea that the devil I used to see 20/25 years ago is not outside of me, but a part of me. I had previously thought it was psychosis. I'm realising that it now might be my inner critic, a composite of all the horrible and worst things ever said and done to me by my parents, bullies, and so on. The moment it becomes me, I see that the devil is a caricature not to be taken seriously or feared. I see it as a part of me in deep loneliness and pain and rejection, and I can start to have empathy for its suffering. I don't need to keep it at a distance. I can have have a caring relationship with it. In other words, I can heal it.❤️‍🩹

Barbara

Aug 14, 2026

Comforting words ☺️

Khurty Ramudu

Aug 13, 2026

Helped me get centered again. 💕

Megan Simmons-Iizuka

Jul 25, 2026

Very calming and the perfect pacing of her speaking.

Sara Moore

Jul 25, 2026

Gently Powerful

Juls

Jul 24, 2026

Thank you dear one 💕

Joe Klein

Jul 5, 2026

Very easy to listen to and follow your voice. Tuning into each thought, feeling and sensation as a piece of communication from a part inside myself. Giving my inner parts attention and welcome. Feels holy.

Alice

Jul 1, 2026

heartfelt- thank you 💙🦋🩵🦋🤍🦋💙

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Adult

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