Learn with Dr. Sunshaw

Meet Your Instructor

Emma Sunshaw, PhD, LCPC, is a psychotherapist in private practice since 2003, specializing in complex trauma, dissociation, religious trauma, adoption trauma, and LGBTQAA2S+ care. She is ISSTD faculty and an ISSTD Fellow, received the ISSTD President's Award of Distinction, and helped build ISSTD's Professional Training Program, which she has administered since 2019. In fall 2025 and 2026, she held a semester clinical honorarium appointment with the Women & Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. She hosts the System Speak podcast, heard in more than 150 countries, and is the founder and Executive Director of S3C Foundation. Her work has received two ISSTD Media Awards, one for her workbook and one for the podcast. Emma brings lived experience into the room alongside her clinical training, and she teaches the way she wishes she had been taught: honestly, relationally, and centering survivors.

Trainings

We provide approved continuing education for mental health professionals, with courses focused on trauma and dissociation.

Consults

Dr. Sunshaw offers a clinical training group, as well as individual consults for mental health professionals.

Classes

We’re thrilled to offer courses for clinicians, as well as peer support and recovery coaches.

If you’re looking for the China course, please click here.