“3 Earthquakes, 1 Coup d’état and a Handful of Revolutions: A memoir from a humanitarian psychologist” an interview with Penelope Curling

Penelope Curling is a clinical psychologist. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the fields of traumatic stress, humanitarian aid work, community psychology as well as clinical psychology and psychotherapy. After many years working as a UN staff member and in NGOs, Penelope is currently working as an international consultant in the field of staff care in the international aid work sector. She provides coaching and consultations on staff welfare, facilitate trainings and workshops with a particular focus on traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, stress management and resiliency building, providing mission support to field offices and individual counselling including post-disaster trauma interventions, as well as writing of policies and guidelines of practice.