About Dr. Raz

Sherrie Raz Psy. D. is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and a licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida, MH#0003078. She has been a practicing Psychotherapist in the U.S. and Europe for over 20 years. In the year 2000 Dr. Raz returned from the U.K. where she spent 1 year integrating a medical psychology program into the Traumatic Medicine department at a teaching hospital in Devon, U.K. During which time she completed a research project on the effect “roles” play in maintaining illness behaviors, from which she developed a psychological assessment tool, The Role Transformation Assessment (RTA,©1997). The assessment tool helps guide psychological evaluation of patient diagnosis.

Dr. Raz is the past President of the Green Cross Projects, an organization dedicated to developing standards of practice for traumatologists, expanding the understanding of trauma work to other work and disciplines and to deploying traumatologists to areas of need throughout the world.

Dr. Raz is the founder and past president of the International Association for Psychology and the Performing Arts (IAPPA). IAPPA is dedicated to the alliance of mental health practitioners and performing artists in promoting a healthy society through psychology and performance, and to maintaining a healthy society through progress and research in the social sciences and the arts.

At present she continues her part time private practice and is the director of The Institute of Emergency Mental Health Services. This institute is dedicated to training mental health counselors, teachers, and sectors of the media on the effects of trauma and Emergency Mental Health and conflict transformation. She is the co-inventor of the MSRU (Mobile Stress Reduction Unit) for front line field disasters. Dr. Raz is also a member of the United States Homeland Security on the Disaster Medical Assistant team, FL-3.

Affiliations

The Institute for Emergency Mental Health Services (IEMHS)

The Institute is at the leading edge of development in this field whose importance has grown exponentially in the last decade. Particularly the traumas caused by major crises, natural and man-made disasters, and terrorist attacks on the homeland have become one many of the challenges that needed to be addressed by those in major corporations and public service occupations.

Dr. Raz is the Director of the Institute for Emergency Mental Health Services. The Institute grew out of the World Trade Centers disasters and the need to educate mental health practitioners as well as the public, as to primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions in trauma. It is a trauma and conflict transformation research facility as well as a teaching facility.

The Institute offers higher educational instruction to interdisciplinary students (from all fields) across the U.S. and from International Institutions, in ways and means of preventing and reducing the effects of trauma and conflict. We specialize in instructing teachers and student teachers in all countries ways to teach conflict transformation and peaceful coexistence to children of all ages throughout the world. The institute emphasizes the teaching of cultural diversity through our international faculty.

The Institute offers courses in Conflict transformation, Trauma reduction and Peace services on seven main tracts: Education, Sociology, Media, Performance, Law, Religion and Finance. All of our faculty have been trained and have practiced in countries outside of the U.S. and are multilingual.

The Institute’s Mission

The IEMHS is dedicated to the forging of humanitarian paths to peace, to address natural and man-made crises, and to reducing psychological trauma in a world of conflict. The Institute will focus on conflict resolution, trauma reduction, community building, peace research, and provide the resources needed for developing the practical skills and technical expertise essential to humanitarian operations and projects under austere conditions.

IEHMS will offer a Master’s degree and Certificate Programs that will prepare students for careers in emergency mental health, and humanitarian service. It will also offer outreach programs to engage our local communities, and host a Humanitarian Operations Training Center to advance the practice of humanitarian services.

International Institute for Psychology and the Performing Arts (IAPPA)

The International Institute for Psychology and the Performing Arts is dedicated to the alliance of mental health practitioners and performing artists in promoting a healthy society through psychology and performance, and to maintaining a healthy society through progress and research in the social sciences and the arts.

Multidisciplinary Medical Practice

Dr. Raz is a part of a multidisciplinary private medical practice that emphasizes total body wellness. Dr. Raz specializes in the psychology of trauma and stress reduction but sees an array of diagnosis. The practice houses medical services, psychological services, massage, physical fitness, and acupuncture. Her practice is located at 951 NW 13th Street Suite 3E Boca Raton, FL 33486. To contact her or any of the practitioners in the practice please call 561-368-5558, or 561-750-3313.