Mariya Javed-Payne is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and International Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant. She is a somatic psychotherapist and the owner of Awaken Consulting Services, a private practice and consultancy where she utilizes Brainspotting therapy and offers training and consultation on the treatment of trauma, somatic psychotherapies, psychedelic assisted therapy, anti-racism, and other relevant mental health topics. She also offers therapy intensives for complex PTSD and addictions, where clients work with her for multiple hours a day for a number of days to get to the root of traumatic experiences. Always seeking out the most cutting edge advances in treatment, she utilizes psychedelic medicines such as ketamine with somatic therapy. Her 14 years of experience have focused on clients with addictions, medication-assisted treatment therapies, complex and developmental trauma, racial and ancestral trauma, oppression, and chronic pain.

Kim Warner-Hudy is an educator and therapist working professionally in the field of child welfare since 1996. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker; founder and owner of a private practice currently licensed in the state of Tennessee and Michigan. Her specialties include adoption, attachment, trauma and racial identity working across the life span. Her professional experiences in the Southeast and the Pacific Northwest include administration, domestic adoption, foster care, international adoption and mental health. She is formally trained in ARC; Certified in Brainspotting, EMDR; Theraplay®; TF-CBT and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics® Phase I. Kim is also a TBRI® trained professional and TBRI® Parent Educator. Since 2016, she has been a volunteer for the Council on Accreditation as both Hague Reviewer and Peer Evaluator. She is a Korean adoptee and an adoptive parent.