HI, I'M
DANIE

About Me

Co-Counseling Community. Mutual Aid. Trauma Focused.

Atlanta, USA --> Cologne, Germany

B.A. in Religion (Haverford College)
M.Sc. in Professional Counseling (Georgia State University)
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (University of Konstanz)

Danie Meyer

things make sometimes sense

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

Here we can be alone together.

Founded by outsiders for other outsiders.

We help ourselves.

Cologne Counseling was established to offer a place for us to gather together, heal wounds and re-build our relationships. Our community members are often affiliated with Art, Activism and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is one of our favorite tools. NET is an empirically based, brief intervention designed to help individuals navigating the fallout of traumatic experiences and chronic stressors.

I train and utilize translators from diverse backgrounds to assist me while implementing NET. I also supervise new NET practitioners and lay counselors. I am under direct supervision of my Doctor Father, Professor Emeritus Dr.Thomas Elbert, one of the original creators of NET.

 

Herstory

May 11, 2022

Founded NET.Collect

Narrative Exposure Therapy the Collective

Spring 2020-Spring 2022

La Corona

Cologne Counseling went online. Community Members from every corner of the globe!

March 25, 2020

“Imparting the Narrative: Memory Theory & Practice in Sensitive Interviewing”

Identity on the Line Project (http://www.i-on.museum/) :

January, 23 2020

“Hope and Horror in the Cycles of Violence: Encouraging Systemic Change through Psychological Research”

Presentation to the European Research Council(ERC) in Brussels, Belgium

2019

Established Cologne Counseling as a Co-Counseling Community

Honors

2018 Magna Cum Laude Doctoral Dissertation, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Professional Societies and Public Advisory Committees

2021 Board of Advisors for Elnor
https://elnor.education/
2019 active member of vivo International e.V.
https://www.vivo.org/

PUBLICATIONS

Meyer-Parlapanis, D., Elbert, T., 2015. Torture and its Consequences, Psychology of. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 24. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 434–441. ISBN: 9780080970868

Augsburger M, Meyer-Parlapanis D, Bambonye M, Elbert T and Crombach A (2015) Appetitive Aggression and Adverse Childhood Experiences Shape Violent Behavior in Females Formerly Associated with Combat. Front. Psychol. 6:1756. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01756

Meyer-Parlapanis D, Weierstall R, Nandi C, Bambonyé M, Elbert T and Crombach A (2016) Appetitive Aggression in Women: Comparing Male and Female War Combatants. Front. Psychol. 6:1972. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.0197

Meyer-Parlapanis D, Siefert S and Weierstall R (2017) More Than the Win: The Relation between Appetitive Competition Motivation, Socialization, and Gender Role Orientation in Women's Football. Front. Psychol. 8:547. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00547

Augsburger M, Meyer-Parlapanis D, Elbert T, Nandi C, Bambonye M and Crombach A (2017) Succumbing to the Call of Violence – Sex-Linked Development of Appetitive Aggression in Relation to Familial and Organized Violence. Front. Psychol. 8:751. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00751

Meyer-Parlapanis, D, Elbert, T, Schauer, M (2017) MEMOTV - Epigenetic, neural and cognitive memories of traumatic stress and violence - FP7. doi: 10.21820/23987073.2017.2.45

Meyer, D. (2018). Deconstructing the Cycles of Violence: Female Experiences of Appetitive Aggression (Doctoral dissertation). Konstanz, Universität Konstanz.

Stevens, N. R., Miller, M. L., Soibatian, C., Otwell, C., Rufa, A. K., Meyer, D. J., & Shalowitz, M. U. (2020). Exposure therapy for PTSD during pregnancy: a feasibility, acceptability, and case series study of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). BMC psychology, 8(1), 1-18.

Stevens, N. R., Miller, M. L., Puetz, A. K., Padin, A. C., Adams, N., & Meyer, D. J. (2021). Psychological intervention and treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder during pregnancy: a systematic review and call to action. Journal of traumatic stress, 34(3), 575-585.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2020-2022

POPP: Putting Offence Prevention into Practice

ERC_PoC_862005_POPP

Project Coordinator
Research on the effectiveness of NET with Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers (UMA’s) with a history of violence and the development of a curriculum for training NET therapists in Germany

2013-2018

MemoTV: Memories of Trauma and Violence

ERC_2012_ADG_323977_MEMOTV

Project Coordinator
Research on the epigenetic, cognitive and neural underpinnings of violence and traumatic stress in 4 different international and transgenerational populations exposed to continuous conflict and violence.