Dr. Joshua Kreimeyer is a Professor in the Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Colorado Christian University in Denver, Colorado. I'm also work at faculty at the Міжнародний Інститут Післядипломної Освіти in Kyiv. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and served in the US Army as a Linguist and deployed to Kosovo (1999) and Iraq (2003). I have worked in community-based outpatient clinics, private practice, a residential drug and alcohol program within the US Bureau of Prisons, and several years as a Family Therapist within the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Also have been a part of advocacy efforts in the United States and Ukraine, for effective mental health services and access to care for military veterans and their families.

PhD is Clinical Traumatologist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant, Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Coach and Professional Life Coach who runs her private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her co-therapist golden retriever Nala. Dr. Garbuz specializes in PTSD, Complex Trauma, Attachment and Relational Trauma, Suicide and Traumatic Bereavement, Disaster Trauma and International Trauma.

Founder and director of the Center for Mental Health and Rehabilitation "Lisova Polyana" of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, neurologist Author of the organizational model for establishing mental health recovery centers for war victims in Ukraine. An expert in the study and treatment of post concussion syndrome ("contusion" - the autograph of war). Leader in the organization of mental health rehabilitation for veterans. Trainer, author of manuals and publications on working with war trauma and integration of society and veterans.

Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), partner site Mannheim Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Dr. med. (University of Heidelberg) M.Sc. in Biostatistics Member of Ukrainian Medical Society in Germany

Nataliya Hnatyuk is a Ukrainian born therapist, who has two master’s degrees, one in psychology and the other in history. She immigrated to the United States of America 20 years ago. Nataliya organized many humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, including establishing an organization called the Green Cross, which continues to function successfully to this day. She is the current acting President of Safehaus, which is an intensive crisis residential center established back in 2010. She started her journey with the organization as a therapist and eventually was promoted to clinical director to oversee business operations. This career journey has given her an opportunity to be well-versed in all aspects of clinical and administrative side of the business. Nataliya brings a wealth of expertise and therapeutic clinical knowledge and acts as the lead educator for all therapists working with Ukrainian refugees. She is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Polish languages. Due to her extensive experience, she also has a very strong network and professional relationships throughout Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Her background gives her a strong cultural understanding of these populations.

Born in 1958, worked for many years as a journalist and filmmaker. He is co-founder of Irrsinnig Menschlich e.V. (in English Madly Human) and a social entrepreneur. Together with Dr Manuela Richter-Werling, he has developed the organisation over 24 years into a recognised national and international organisation is committed to cross-sectoral work in the fields of education (school, vocational training, higher education) and health (prevention, care). The core competence of Irrsinnig Menschlich lies in developing low-threshold universal prevention programmes and in implementing and scaling them on a supra-regional level with the support of numerous partners from community mental health. A key role is played by so-called personal experts, people who have experienced and recoverd from the mental health crises.

Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health and the Centre for Implementation Science, King’s College London. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working in a community mental health team in Lambeth with people in a first episode of psychosis. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator Emeritus, and Honorary Fellow of King’s College London and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Graham has made significant contributions to the development of mental health policy in England. He is also active in global mental health, for example, he chaired the World Health Organisation Guideline Development Group for the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide . He chaired the External Reference Group for the WHO guidelines on the Management of Physical Health Conditions in Adults with Severe Mental Disorders. He has recently also chaired the Guideline Development Group for the WHO guidelines on Mental Health at Work. He Co-Chaired the 2022 Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health. He is a Board Trustee of United for Global Mental Health, and a Board Member for Mental Health and Human Rights (F-GIP). His areas of research expertise include: reduction of stigma and discrimination, evaluation of community mental health services, and global mental health.

Supervisor, psychotherapist and training analyst in group analysis, couples and family psychotherapy, clinical psychologist with many years of experience in hospitals, government organizations and private practice. Trauma Fokus therapist. Trainer in deep work with trauma including PTSD in groups, families and individually. Therapist and trainer of See Far CBT. Head of the Section of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Couples and Families of the APPU, member of the Presidium, International Committee, Ethics Committee of the APPU. Full delegate of EFPP (European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy). Full member of the Group Analytic Society International - GASI. IAGP (The International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP and GASI are world organizations) Full member of the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists (USP Ukraine), the European Association of Psychotherapists (EAP, Austria); Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gruppenanalyse (IAG, Austria, Germany, Switzerland). She is a member of the Creating Large Group Dialogue program and research community (London, England). Public figure, headed a number of international social and psychological projects. “Interaction between the government and the community”, ‘Helping those who help’. She is a co-author of the Program for Women Leaders in War and others. Expert invited to the European Parliament at the World Forum for Democracy. Founder of the Khmelnytsky School of Psychotherapy (Ukraine. Khmelnytsky). Founder and head of the organization Creative Laboratory “Life Competencies” (Germany, Regensburg). Cooperation in projects with Tavistock Relationships, IOS University

Valeriia Rybak

Director of the NGO “Human Rights Vector” since 2016, has professional record at governmental and non-governmental organizations, author and developer of a mechanism of broadcasting trials via technical means of courts, author of researches, publications and handbooks on communication activities of judiciary, observing the right to a fair trial in Ukraine, the impact of war on the mental health in Ukraine. She has been active in the field of human rights in non-governmental sector since 2008. From 2010 to 2012 she worked as an analyst at the state institution “Governmental Contact Center”. From 2012 to 2016 she developed and coordinated a group of civic observation “OZON” that monitors trials and peaceful assemblies. OZON operates within the civil society organization “Center for Civil Liberties” that was awarded a Nobel Pease Prize in 2022 for human rights activities. In 2015, Valeriia Rybak provided professional training for patrol units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kyiv on “Police and Society Partnership”. Currently, Ms. Rybak is actively working on issues of healing wounds of war in Ukraine: working on restoring and strengthening the mental health of the population, victims of war, legal education, and strengthening the capabilities of helping professions specialists.

Is sociologist and lecturer. His current position is director in the Centre for Mental Health Care Development and coordinator of international CARe Network. He has experience with transformation of mental health care and development of innovative services in the Czech Republic and internationally.

Jana D. Javakhishvili

Ph.D, clinical psychologist, is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute of Addiction Studies at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Her research interests focus on exploring mental health problems of war and political oppression-affected populations. She is heavily engaged in the projects of the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) focused on improving human rights-based mental health care in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and other war-affected countries. She is the past president of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). Currently, she is on the board of directors of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and trustee of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma Europe (DCE). She is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) as well as the Journal on Trauma and Dissociation (JTD).

From Leipzig/Germany

Committed to prevention and destigmatisation. I worked as a university lecturer, historian, cultural manager and radio/TV journalist before co-founding the NGO Irrsinnig Menschlich e.V. in 2000 and running it for 24 years. The aim of the NGO is to reduce stigma, fears and prejudices towards people with mental illness. I know from my own life how important it is to start early: Helplessness and speechlessness in family and school, years of suffering, destroyed life chances. If up to 80% of all mental illnesses begin in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, then my idea is that schools urgently need information, education and encounters with people who have overcome mental crises, as well as easy access to help and crisis services - in short, a positive understanding of mental health. The prevention programme I developed, ‘Mental? So What! Mental-Wellbeing at School’ is unique and pioneering and is being implemented in 5 countries.

Professional Training on Military Loss and Traumatic Grief Professional instructor, certified counselor, and published author on military loss and traumatic grief, informed by thirty years of professional and lived experiences. Joanne Steen has worked with more than forty diverse organizations, notably the U.S. Department of Defense and the Canadian Military Forces. She has provided customized seminars, rapid-response training on emergent needs, grief group development, and peer mentor training. Ms Steen is the coauthor of Military Widow: A Survival Guide and the author of We Regret To Inform You: A Survival Guide for Gold Star Parents and Those Who Support Them. For her contributions to the counseling field in military loss and traumatic grief, Ms Steen was named an Alumni Fellow by Old Dominion University, and a Distinguished Author by the United States Naval Institute. She also received the Chairman’s Award from the Military Officers Association of America and the Meritorious Civil Service Award from the United States Navy and Marine Corps.