Michele DeMarco

Michele DeMarco, PhD, is an award-winning writer and a specialist in the fields of psychology, trauma, health, and spirituality. She is also a therapist, clinical ethicist, and researcher who’s spent the last two decades studying trauma generally, moral injury and lost innocence specifically, and resilience. She is one of Medium’s Top Writer’s for Mental Health and Health, respectively, and the author of the Psychology Today blog: “Soul Console: Healing from Moral Injury.” Michele’s writing has appeared in national and international publications, including the New York Times, POLITICO, The Hill, The Boston Globe, The Daily News, Psychology Today, The Free Press, The War Horse, Forge, Elemental, and One Zero. She has been featured as a psychology and spirituality expert for MindBodyGreen, The Daily News, Integrative Practitioner, Lifehacker, Bloomberg/WNBP Radio, and Partners HealthCare. Her non fiction books include Holding Onto Air: The Art and Science of Building a Resilient Spirt and Writing the Wrongs: A Guided Journal for Healing Moral Injury. Her upcoming novel, About Others, won the national Mystery Writers of America’s Helen McCloy Award for Mystery Writing. She’s taught Creative Nonfiction and Conflict Transformation at California Institute of Integral Studies, where she is also a Vice President. Dr. DeMarco’s research spans the fields of moral injury, psychology, trauma, neuroscience, and somatic and creative art therapies, respectively, and world wisdom and spirituality. Out of this research, she has developed a writing therapy specifically for moral injury called Embodied Disclosure Therapy (EDT).