Marie Rushforth Nuttall holds a Master of Arts in Education
and Counseling, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, a
Diplomate/Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress with the American Academy
of Experts in Traumatic Stress, a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling with advanced training in bereavement facilitation. 

She
also had the opportunity to certify under a one time federal grant issued to a
local police department to train, educate and promote domestic violence
prevention and advocate for domestic violence victims.

Marie has been working in the field of trauma for 30 years. Her first
experience with trauma survivors was as an undergraduate intern in psychology
at the Utah State Hospital on Unit 56-B; a forensic unit for convicted sex
offenders. The effect of this experience was profound, and since then Marie has
explored many facets of trauma, including its effects on the professionals who
are immersed in working with traumatized clients, sparking her interest in
secondary traumatic stress.

From her initial experience as an intern, Marie has branched out and accepted
many opportunities ranging from provision of extensive individual, group and
family therapy for both in patient and out patient clients to provision of
supervision of 15-17 independently licensed clinicians in a 153 bed, co-ed, RPTC
setting for severely traumatized adolescents whose trauma reactions led to
behavioral challenges so severe they were unable to remain in un-secured
settings.

During the time Marie spent in the mental health field she also served as a
forensic sex abuse investigator where she was partnered with a law enforcement
officer with whom she made many presentations at local schools, both K-12 and
universities, on prevention of and effective ways to handle trauma. Currently
Marie is in private practice and is employed by a behavioral health company to
provide live and direct care management intervention and de-escalation in
crisis situations.

WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINAR TOPICS AND DESCRIPTIONS

Managing Damage, Remaining Resilient: Identifying and
Reducing the Effects of Secondary Traumatic St
This workshop was initially presented at the 11th Annual Association of
Traumatic Stress Specialists in April of 2004. The presentation identified,
defined, provided self assessment tools for and recommended intervetions for
symptoms of traumatic stress that appear in the lives of care providers, also
known as Secondary Trauma. This workshop is an interactive workshop designed to
utilize sensory information as well as verbal physical expressions to connect
with our own feelings, needs and level of stability so that we can resposibly
care for ourselves and therefore remain in a position to care for others under
extreme and traumatic circumstances. It has since been presented at local
universities, treatment centers and professional seminars.

Form to Feeling: Art and Sand as Experiential Means to Transformation
The proposal for this workshop has been accetpted by ADED and it will be
presented April 15, 2007 at their 29th annual conference. This workshop/seminar
is experiential and interactive in nature as it explores death as loss and
investigates the critical role creativity, sensory and experiential events play
in a person's ability to live a meaningful vs. an empty existence after having
suffered a significant loss.

PAST ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTATIONS, TRAINING AND INTERVIEWS

American Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists

Utah Valley State College, Department of Health and Integrated Studies

Heritage Schools, Inc., Clinical Director

Trained Domestic Violence Advocate