Clinical Psychologist and Registered Traumatologist, Dr. Sherrie Raz, authors much of the content for the Stormtips.com site and is frequently cited as an expert source in media articles and on news reports regarding the devastating effects severe storms can have on individuals, families, and others before, during and after landfall.
Dr. Sherrie Raz is a doctor of Clinical Psychology and Registered Traumatologist and is a leading authority in Mental Health Crisis Management with an extensive teaching and practical experience in the field of Mental Health Traumatology in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Raz has been a part of the rescue missions at The World Trade Center 9/11, Florida Hurricanes, and Tsunami Relief, Indonesia. A member of FEMA’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team Fl. -3 of Homeland Security, Dr. Raz developed the Mobil Stress Reduction Unit (MSRU) for the front lines and Applied Neuro-Technology Systems I (ANTS), for stress reduction.
Dr. Raz is also recognized for her work as a Biofeedbacker, specializing in stress related diseases as a licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida, MH#0003078. She has been a practicing Psychotherapist in the U.S. and Europe for over 30 years. While in the U.K., Dr. Raz spent a year integrating a medical psychology program into the Traumatic Medicine department at a teaching hospital in Devon, U.K. During this time, she completed a research project on the effect roles play in maintaining illness behaviors, from which Dr. Raz perfected and published her psychological assessment tool, The Role Transformation Assessment (RTA, ©1997). This assessment tool helps guide psychological evaluation of patient diagnosis in mental health.
Past President of the Green Cross Projects, Dr. Raz helped guide this organization dedicated to developing standards of practice for traumatologists, expanding the understanding of trauma work to other work and disciplines and to deploying traumatologists to areas of need throughout the world.
In addition, Dr. Raz is Founder and past president of the International Association for Psychology and the Performing Arts (IAPPA) an organization dedicated to the alliance of mental health practitioners and performing artists in promoting a healthy society through psychology and performance, and to maintaining a healthy society through progress and research in the social sciences and the arts.
