Podcast Guesting/Media Kit
Dr. Don Russell Trauma Recovery Expert Creator of the Relational Nervous System Integration Model™ Author of The Trauma Recovery Blueprint and The RSVP Protocol: Reclaim Your Life, Your Voice, Your Self - Without Leaving Your Marriage
Dr. Don Russell is a psychotherapist, former professor of Counseling Psychology, and trauma specialist helping audiences understand the connection between trauma, nervous system regulation, attachment, and relational healing.
His work introduces a new framework for understanding trauma recovery through the Relational Nervous System Integration Model™.
Why Podcast Audiences Connect With Dr. Don
Dr. Don combines:
- neuroscience
- attachment psychology
- nervous system healing
- relational dynamics
- emotional storytelling
into conversations that are:
- deeply insightful
- emotionally validating
- practical and engaging
Listeners often describe his interviews as:
- calming
- eye-opening
- transformative
- profoundly clarifying
Suggested Interview Topics
The Hidden Nervous System Effects of Trauma
Why Smart, Successful People Lose Themselves in Difficult Relationships
Trauma Bonds, Emotional Confusion, and Nervous System Survival
Why Insight Alone Often Doesn’t Heal Trauma
The Relational Nervous System Integration Model™ Explained
How Relationships Shape the Nervous System
The Difference Between Cognitive Understanding and Nervous System Healing
Emotional Regulation, Attachment, and Recovery After Trauma
Short Bio
Dr. Don Russell is a psychotherapist, author, and coach who has been guiding women navigating some of life’s most emotionally complex seasons. Dr. Don has served as an esteemed professor of counseling psychology for over ten years and has been practicing psychotherapy for 30 years. Don has spent years walking alongside men, women and couples helping them find clarity, stability, and renewed purpose.
Through his practice, writing, and speaking, Dr. Russell brings both professional insight and genuine compassion to the work of emotional healing.
Longer Bio
Dr. Don Russell is a psychotherapist, trauma specialist, educator, and author with more than three decades of clinical experience helping individuals recover from relational trauma, emotional neglect, childhood wounds, attachment injuries, and the long-term effects of nervous system dysregulation. Known for his warm, grounded teaching style and ability to translate complex neuroscience into deeply practical insight, Dr. Russell has helped countless men and women better understand the connection between trauma, relationships, emotional patterns, and the nervous system.
Drawing from years of clinical work, advanced training, and interdisciplinary research, Dr. Russell integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, somatic regulation, relational psychology, and trauma recovery into an accessible and compassionate framework for healing. He is the creator of the Relational Nervous System Integration Model™, an emerging framework that explores how trauma becomes embedded within emotional, relational, and physiological patterns—and how lasting healing occurs through nervous system regulation, relational safety, and embodied integration.
Dr. Russell is especially known for his work with high-achieving women navigating difficult marriages, emotionally unsafe relationships, chronic self-doubt, and trauma-bonded relational dynamics. His work helps individuals move beyond self-blame and survival-driven reactivity toward greater clarity, emotional stability, self-trust, and relational health.
A former professor of Counseling Psychology, Dr. Russell is recognized for making the science of healing accessible, actionable, and deeply empowering without losing emotional depth or clinical sophistication. Through his writing, teaching, media appearances, and educational platforms, he continues to help audiences understand that trauma recovery is not simply about managing symptoms—it is about restoring safety, connection, identity, and the capacity to fully come alive again.
He is the author of The Trauma Recovery Blueprint, a groundbreaking exploration of trauma healing through the lens of the Relational Nervous System Integration Model™.
