Dr. Julia Carranza Neira is a psychiatrist and trauma psychotherapist specialized in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, standard dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and DBT for complex post-traumatic stress disorder. She is a member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and a researcher at the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress.
Dr. Neira has training in psychotrauma and resilience from Metiv: The Israel Psychotrauma Center, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Trauma and Dissociation Unit of Pontificia Universidad Católica (UC) in Santiago, Chile. She also has training in complex trauma and dissociation in children and adolescents from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, as well as psychological first aid training in the ABCDE protocol from UC Chile.
Dr. Neira has studied continuing education in the fields of global mental health with a focus on trauma and recovery through the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and the McGill University Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry; mind-body medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Benson-Henry Institute; and curricular development and teaching for healthcare professionals at UC Chile
