About E.B. WEXLER

Elizabeth Wexler, LCSW-C, RYT-200 is a writer, a yoga teacher, a clinical social worker, a trained mindfulness facilitator, trained Trauma-Informed Care trainer, and an early childhood trauma survivor.

As a clinician, she:

  • Has been practicing clinical social work for 32 years, working with a variety of populations including children and adolescents, families, elderly, homeless, medically complicated in various settings: emergency room, hospital, outpatient clinic, and classrooms

  • Is trained and works as a clinical supervisor

As a trainer, she:

  • Has developed and delivered hundreds of trainings on public health issues such as HIV prevention and Crisis Intervention, including working in police reform

  • Is certified as a Trauma-Informed Care trainer by SAMHSA

  • Uses her own lived experience along with her professional expertise for a unique perspective

As a writer, she has been published on:

  • The Manifest Station (www.themanifeststation.net)

  • Patch.com

  • SPARK (www.getsparked.org)

  • www.chronicallywhole.com

  • Smile Hon, You’re In Baltimore!

As a yoga and meditation teacher, she:

  • Co-created a children’s program teaching mindfulness at the Baltimore Shambhala Center

  • Completed 30-hour teacher trainings in Radiant Child (http://childrensyoga.com/), Street Yoga (www.streetyoga.org), and Prison Yoga Project (http://prisonyoga.org)

  • Has taught kids yoga in a studio and in homeless shelters and transitional housing, and led a mindfulness group at a homeless clinic

  • Completed Facilitator Training Institute at SHINE (http://centerformindfulawareness.org/)

  • Completed her Yoga Teacher Training (RYT-200)