... Caring for traumatized
people and the professionals who work with them...
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James C. "Jay" Martin, D.Min., LMFT, CT, CFS, CEAP is Co-director of the Oklahoma Traumatology Institute and Director of the Center for Families in Transition in Oklahoma City where he has maintained a private practice since 1992. Dr. Martin is a Diplomate with the American Psychotherapy Association, a Certified Traumatologist and Compassion Fatigue Specialist and Educator with the Academy of Traumatology, Clinical Fellow with the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a professional member of the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists and the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr. Martin provided counseling for more than forty individuals and couples impacted by the Oklahoma City bombing. He was involved in training Safe Haven volunteers who were present to support victims' families viewing the Timothy McVeigh trial via closed circuit television and was present to support the victims' families viewing the McVeigh execution. Dr. Martin trained clergy and medical staff working with victims of the American Embassy bombing in Kenya in 1998 and was deployed to Manhattan as a volunteer with Green Cross in September of 2001, providing crisis intervention, consultation and training. For the next twenty-three months he led traumatology, compassion fatigue, and crisis intervention workshops in New York, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. and served as consultant in developing crisis intervention services for trade union workers cleaning up Ground Zero in New York. Since then he has led workshops in Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Nevada, Kansas, Michigan, South Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Canada. Dr. Martin's history of working with trauma victims includes working eight years in an in-patient psychiatric hospital where he provided psychotherapy with individuals, groups and families and taught courses in the psychiatric residency training program. He has worked twelve years as oncology counselor in a hospital-based cancer center providing crisis intervention, psychotherapy services, educational seminars and support group leadership to cancer patients and their families.
Chaplain Williams coordinated the provision of on-site pastoral care services following the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, for which he won the F.B.I. Director's Award. For years afterward he worked on the Resource Coordinating Committee which oversaw the provision of services for Oklahoma City bombing victims and families and facilitated the provision of trauma-related training for mental health, clergy and other professionals in Oklahoma City. Chaplain Williams was deployed to New York and New Jersey for eighteen months following September 11, 2001. While there he was chaplain to those involved in the rescue and clean-up operation at Ground Zero and other sensitive locations. He represented his faith tradition in the provision of emergency assistance and crisis intervention services to persons in Manhattan and Madison, New Jersey, served as a consultant to members of the Port Authority, church groups and other community agencies and coordinated the provision of field traumatology and compassion fatigue training, as well as crisis intervention workshops in New York and Washington, D.C. He has since spoken to numerous groups of law enforcement, chaplain, clergy and other professionals across the United States. Chaplain Williams' history of working with trauma includes serving as director of chaplaincy services for his faith tradition in the state of Oklahoma for thirteen years. He also worked for many years as volunteer chaplain for local law enforcement agencies before becoming an F.B.I. chaplain over fourteen years ago.
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