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Rebekah Demirel is the founder of Trauma Integration Programs, providing training and support to social services personell, medical and education professionals, emergency services teams and corporate organizations for more than twenty years. Her background includes fourteen years as a BC Ambulance paramedic, twenty-two years as a paramedic trainer, over two decades as a registered clinical counsellor, specializing in post-traumatic stress and loss. She is also a licensed East Asian medicine practitioner and acupuncturist, generating another layer of understanding to her counselling work. Rebekah’s unique skill set and experience is informed by her own traumatic childhood and teen years spent on the street and in the foster care system, giving her a special familiarity and empathy for trauma and loss. Rebekah continues to be an active volunteer and advocate for people who are unhoused, in her community and beyond.
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In her haunting memoir, Nothing's for Nothing, Rebekah Demirel reveals a childhood of adversity and neglect, beginning at age three when her mother fled the violence of their home, through her years growing up in a chaotic and abusive household with her Pentecostal father and violent older brother, until leaving home at age thirteen for an uncertain life on the streets. Rebekah takes us on a soulful journey of heartbreak, loss and grief, her own difficult homeless teen years, and the resiliency gained from those experiences, with inspiring messages of hope, healing, forgiveness and personal transformation.
Watch for announcements for readings or call Rebekah to arrange a reading and discussion group near you
Watch for announcements for readings or call Rebekah to arrange a reading and discussion group near you
Auricular Acupuncture
Rebekah is a NADA certified Registered Trainer of the NADA Program
Not only acupuncturists can learn the NADA protocol but in Washington State, Doctors and Nurses can become certified to use the five needle protocol to help their patients with addictions and stress.
For more information about NADA courses contact Rebekah on this website contact link.
Rebekah is a NADA certified Registered Trainer of the NADA Program
Not only acupuncturists can learn the NADA protocol but in Washington State, Doctors and Nurses can become certified to use the five needle protocol to help their patients with addictions and stress.
For more information about NADA courses contact Rebekah on this website contact link.
A specific protocol of auricular or ear acupuncture known as NADA was developed especially for treating withdrawal and cravings of all types of addiction and is also used extensively for treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There are over 2000 programs world wide in over 40 countries. As a licensed acupuncturist, Rebekah offers this as part of Taming the Dragon Secondary Trauma Training. She can come to your workplace for monthly visits to offer this valuable self-care model for staff.