About Us

Christie Jackson, Ph.D.

For over 15 years, Dr. Jackson has trained and supervised therapists in several Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to evaluate STAIR. These studies have included diverse groups of individuals in a variety of treatment settings, including women in public sector clinics, juveniles in detention centers, women Veterans affected by military sexual trauma (MST), and veterans receiving care exclusively through telemedicine. Her experience conducting training, supervision, and integrity monitoring for STAIR evaluation studies includes an NIMH multisite (15) trial evaluation program for the Department of Veterans Affairs.  

Dr. Jackson has specialized in the treatment of traumatized individuals throughout her career.  Currently the founder of Evolution Trauma and Wellness, Dr. Jackson formerly served as the Director of the PTSD Clinics at the Manhattan and Honolulu VA Medical Centers. Dr. Jackson’s clinical expertise with traumatized individuals spans numerous populations, including Veterans, law enforcement personnel, political refugees, survivors of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, adolescents in juvenile detention, rape and assault survivors, and individuals affected by childhood trauma. Dr. Jackson completed a postdoctoral fellowship in trauma and dissociative disorders at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, as well as other specialized training in the area of posttraumatic stress. She served as Program Co-Chair for the 2011 International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) Conference, has published articles and book chapters in the area of traumatic stress, provided clinical supervision to mental health professionals, clinical psychology interns, externs, and psychiatry residents, and presented widely on PTSD and similar topics.

Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D.

Dr. Cloitre is the lead developer of STAIR and STAIR Narrative Therapy. For over 30 years, she has provided clinical and research supervision regarding the care and well-being of diverse trauma-exposed populations, including those who have experienced childhood abuse, sexual assault, physical assault, combat, and military sexual trauma, as well as providing specialized care to communities such as refugees and sexual and gender minority individuals. She has worked for 30 years to develop empirically supported, client-tailored, flexibly-delivered mental health programs for trauma-exposed populations. She has been the principal investigator of over 10 government or foundation-funded clinical trials and has published 200+ peer-reviewed articles, 35 chapters, and 5 books. 

Dr. Cloitre received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Early in her career, she was on the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College for 10 years and was a tenured professor at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, where she also held the Cathy and Stephen Graham Endowed Chair in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After 9/11, she received awards for her services to New York City from the NYU Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Tuesday’s Children, a foundation for and by the families affected by 9/11. Dr. Cloitre is a past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 working group on trauma-spectrum disorders, focusing on the formulation and testing of the Complex PTSD disorder. She is also the 2015 recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Trauma Psychology from Division 56 of the American Psychological Association. 

Dr. Cloitre lives in San Francisco and is a Research Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. She was Director of Research at the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division at the Palo Alto VA where she worked for 14 years. Previous to that, she was the founder of the Institute for Trauma and Stress at the NYU Child Study Center and the Stephen and Cathy Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.