Marti Loring, Ph.D., LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and trauma expert specializing in behavioral health. For three decades she has guided clinicians on techniques to help traumatized individuals like battered spouses and military war veterans recognize and cope with trauma.

Trauma surrounds us in today’s world. With extensive experience as a trauma expert, Dr. Marti Loring thoroughly examines how people are affected by both PTSD and less intense trauma- in wartime injuries
and losses, weather-related tragedies, hostage situations, vicious and dangerous political attacks, and other life-changing/threatening situations.

She developed theories on how emotional, physical, and sexual abuse can lead to trauma. Dr. Loring testifies in courts across the country when trauma has gripped a person and caused behavior that could be unusual for an otherwise peaceful and loving individual.

She is also a psychotherapist in Atlanta and on Zoom.

Understanding the powerful and insidious mechanisms of the subtle but destructive results of emotional and physical trauma, she created a model for healing, growth and integration back into society.

Her book, Emotional Abuse: The Trauma and the Treatment, set the bar for clinical understanding and treatment of emotional abuse. Since that publication, she broadened her scope to confront trauma in its various forms, whether caused by wartime injuries and losses, weather-related tragedies, hostage situations, vicious and dangerous political attacks, societal abuse, torture, and other lifechanging/ threatening situations.

She explores vicarious trauma experienced by all of us witnessing and hearing about human tragedies. Loring testifies about coercion that makes people do things they ordinarily would never do, the Stockholm Syndrome of victims loyal to their captor, and other forms of the trauma that floods our society. Her techniques help trauma victims gain a new foothold in life.

In this era of events from school shootings to war hostages, her proven methodology provides hope for trauma victims and those in their lives.