Resilience and Renewal: Understanding and Healing Women’s Trauma

Presented by:

Marie Selleck, LMSW, CAADC, and Owner of Marie E Selleck Therapy and ME Selleck Coaching
Marie is a licensed therapist in the state of Michigan and specializes in the treatment of PTSD, substance use disorders, anxiety disorders, self-esteem. She helps her clients find confidence, happiness, and security by equipping them with the tools they need to better understand their history, and how it has impacted their conditioning and thinking patterns, so they can better understand themselves and make the change they want.
Marie is also an online empowerment coach for women who want to recover from the impacts of a mother who was/is not emotionally present in their lives. She focuses on empowering women to recognize that their worth is not determined by their mother’s reactions, affection, or approval, but is determined by how they wholeheartedly live out their values. Marie helps women gain a deeper understanding of how the attachment to an unhealthy mother can lead to challenges with self-esteem, boundaries, and relationships; as well as how to re-define themselves the way THEY want to be, connected to their own emotions, so they can live their most sincere life.

Gretchen McCall, BA, Public Health, Supervisor of Braking Traffik
Gretchen is a social activist and leader in the anti-human trafficking field. She has over 4 years-experience mentoring survivors of human trafficking and providing education to the community regarding human trafficking. She has provided education to medical students, high school youth, foster care youth, domestic violence shelters and several social service agencies. Her goal is to equip professionals and community members to identify and fight human trafficking. She is a mother, supervisor, bodybuilding champion, personal trainer and is also a survivor of human trafficking and child sexual assault. She has overcome her past traumas and believes that survivors are so much more than their traumas and the most traumatic experience someone has had doesn’t define who they are and isn’t their identity. Her personal and professional experiences give her the ability to connect and empathize with the survivors she mentors and provide quality education to the community. Her favorite quote when addressing the issue of human trafficking is, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”- Dr. Wayne Dyer.