The 2018 Be The Change Interview Series
Week 1 – Featuring: Karla Thut, Trauma Specialist and Immigrant Advocate
Here’s the direct link to the recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PNc4LFLItBM
About
Karla Thut was born and grew up in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She graduated from Goshen College with a BA in Social Work and Temple University with a Masters in Social Work. She has worked as a family therapist in the city of Philadelphia for 15 years primarily with co-victims of homicide and survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes. During this time Karla trained at the Philadelphia Child and Family Training Center as a family therapist and at the Philadelphia Family and Children’s Play Therapy Training Center where she trained in Contextual and Structural Family therapy and play therapy. In addition to working as a therapist Karla teaches part time at Chestnut Hill College in the Masters in Counseling Psychology department in their trauma studies concentration and is on the board at La Puerta Abierta. La Puerta Abierta is a non-profit in Philadelphia that provides mental health services to immigrant youth and their families. Karla lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three children.
How You Can Help
Support La Puerta Abierta whose mission is “To improve access to quality, culturally and trauma-informed mental health support in the immigrant and refugee community through collaboration, training and service”.
Contact Karla to learn more about her private practice mental health care services, or healing trauma training services at: karlathut@gmail.com
Resources mentioned
The movie I was referencing was called Inside Out
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Until Next Time…Peace!
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