AMY ELIZABETH PAULSON (she/her) is a speaker, facilitator, writer, trauma survivor, mental health advocate, and the co-founder and CEO of Healing Together, an Oakland-based non-profit that works at the intersection of healing and social justice - helping to break generational cycles of trauma and harm, build individual and collective resilience, and democratize access to healing resources in the Bay Area and around the world.
As an orphan and survivor of gender-based child abandonment, Amy is passionate about healing and transformation for those who have lost their mothers and those who most need to reclaim their inner mother. She is working to de-stigmatize and de-pathologize trauma as a mental health issue, and advocate for individuals, communities, and institutions to embrace healing as a universal human right.
Amy has served in the non-profit sector as a volunteer, international program manager, finance manager, and board member, working in the U.S, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Nepal, and Cambodia.
Before Healing Together, Amy worked for over a decade in corporate finance and accounting, with firms such as Deloitte, SAP, eBay International in Switzerland, and the US Embassy in Germany. She holds a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management with a specialization in Global Studies (Northeastern University) and is certified in Trauma-Informed Interventions (UC Berkeley) and Global Mental Health & Refugee Trauma (Harvard Medical School). Amy is also a facilitator-in-training of the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Amy’s #MeToo story was published in The Anatomy of Silence: 26 Stories About All The Shit That Gets In The Way Of Speaking About Sexual Violence. Her memoir, The Wound Myth (working title) will chronicle her journey as a survivor of generational trauma, gender based violence, child sexual abuse, and transnational adoption - and explore what it means to heal, from the inside out.
Amy's Story | Amy's profile on LinkedIn
As an orphan and survivor of gender-based child abandonment, Amy is passionate about healing and transformation for those who have lost their mothers and those who most need to reclaim their inner mother. She is working to de-stigmatize and de-pathologize trauma as a mental health issue, and advocate for individuals, communities, and institutions to embrace healing as a universal human right.
Amy has served in the non-profit sector as a volunteer, international program manager, finance manager, and board member, working in the U.S, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Nepal, and Cambodia.
Before Healing Together, Amy worked for over a decade in corporate finance and accounting, with firms such as Deloitte, SAP, eBay International in Switzerland, and the US Embassy in Germany. She holds a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management with a specialization in Global Studies (Northeastern University) and is certified in Trauma-Informed Interventions (UC Berkeley) and Global Mental Health & Refugee Trauma (Harvard Medical School). Amy is also a facilitator-in-training of the renowned Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Amy’s #MeToo story was published in The Anatomy of Silence: 26 Stories About All The Shit That Gets In The Way Of Speaking About Sexual Violence. Her memoir, The Wound Myth (working title) will chronicle her journey as a survivor of generational trauma, gender based violence, child sexual abuse, and transnational adoption - and explore what it means to heal, from the inside out.
Amy's Story | Amy's profile on LinkedIn
