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Gina’s recent book, Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction and Trauma to Rewrite Our Stories Through Faith and Therapy, takes an unparalleled approach to personal and familial transformation and healing. Readers are invited to challenge what they think about family, trauma, faith, and therapy as they read through Gina’s personal and professional experience, while exploring their own stories through thoughtful writing prompts, questionnaires, and assessments found in the book.

Gina speaks on the topics of:

  • Generational Dysfunction and Trauma: We Repeat What We Don’t Repair

  • Releasing False Narratives to Write Our Healing Story

  • Attachment: The Impact of Mothers and Fathers

  • Generational Inheritance: How Trauma Moves Through Families and How We Can Miss It

  • Emotionally Corrective Experiences: How the Present Can Help Heal the Past

  • The Holistic Impact of Trauma

  • Closing the Gap Between Faith and Science

For Therapists:

  • Generational Dysfunction and Trauma: Expanding Your Perspective and Awareness to Promote Healing

  • Generational Inheritance: How Trauma Moves Through Families and How We Can Miss It

  • Best Practices For Incorporating Generational Work With Clients

  • Hormones, Inflammation and Mental Health

Gina Birkemeier is licensed professional counselor, award-winning author and speaker. She holds a master’s degree in psychology and theology and has advanced training in trauma and evidence-based therapies to help people heal. Fueled by a passion derived from being a survivor of generational dysfunction and trauma, Gina has walked with the hurting to help them find hope and healing for nearly two decades. Her teaching and writing are rooted in a combination of faith–defined as a healthy relationship with God–and the sciences of psychology, biology and epigenetics.