Military Treatment and Educator Resume
Mary Tendall MA,LMFT
110 Boulder St., Suite A
Nevada City, CA 95959
License # MFC30654
Private practice specializing in treatment of combat trauma and adjustment 1993-present
National Panel Participant, “The Unseen Costs of War, Boulder, CO 2005
Contracted with the Sacramento Vet Center to treat combat trauma
Individual and Group Therapy 1993-2009
Combat Trauma presentation Vietnam Veterans Memorial Conference,
New Jersey Vietnam Memorial 2007
Paper presentation, “Combat Trauma and the Brain” European Society
for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Amsterdam 2007
Paper presentation, “Combat Trauma: Healing through Neuro-Somatic
Education, Somatic Awareness, and Self Regulation” ISSTD Chicago 2008
Paper presentation: “Families of Combat Soldiers: Adjustment and
Integration During and after Deployment” ISSTD Washington D.C. 2009
Lecture:” From Combat Dissociation to Civilian Integration” ISSTD
Washington D.C. 2009
Workshop/Lecture “Elimination of Nightmares” ISSTD Atlanta 2010
Lecture presentation “Sexual Issues of Combat Veterans” Society for
the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Houston 2011
“What Causes PTSD?” VietNow national conference, Wisconsin 2011
Lecture presentation and discussion: “When a Soldier Comes Home”
Citizen Soldier Conference, Colorado Springs 2012
Speaker: “Combat Veterans and Adjustment to Civilian Life”
San Francisco City College Forum 2012
Soldier’s Heart Retreat co-leader 2013
Workshop and support group for combat veterans and their families 2004-present
Other presentations:
- The Soldier’s Project - 3 half day workshops
- Minnesota National Guard 2 day workshop with returning OIF soldiers
- Soldier’s Heart Retreat retreat leader, Nevada City, CA
- Consultant for 3 National Public Radio Segments on combat trauma (Amy Baxt)
- Interviewed for Newsweek article on combat adjustment (Trent Gagax)
- Author of quarterly articles for the magazine, Vietnow
- Instructor at Phillips School of Massage “Massage and the treatment of a Combat Veteran”
- Vietnam Veterans of America presentation San Jose, CA