Episode 12: The Truth About Anxiety with Dr. Kateri Picard Ray

Dr. Kateri Picard Ray, Ph.D., LCSW, RYT  is a social worker and a yoga practitioner/teacher.  She is a certified Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator.  She is also trained in Yoga Behind Bars (to bring yoga practice to incarcerated populations) and Trauma Informed, Brain Sensitive Yoga.  She currently maintains a private practice in addition to serving as a part-time faculty member at Capella University and Brandman University’s Master of Social Work programs.  Her work experience includes service in a variety of capacities as a social worker.  She worked extensively at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels including private practice, day treatment, residential treatment, in-patient psychiatric, and academia.  Her passions include working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed perspective and integration of physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of treatment to promote a holistic approach to intervention.