Amy Paulson is a Consultant, Coach and Facilitator for Circles International. She is a social entrepreneur, facilitator, writer, speaker, trauma survivor, mental health advocate, and the co-founder and CEO of Healing Together, a non-profit that works at the intersection of healing and social justice - helping to break generational cycles of trauma and harm, build individual and collective resilience, and democratize access to healing resources in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.
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As an orphan and survivor of gender-based child abandonment, Amy is passionate about healing and transformation for those who have lost their mothers and those who most need to reclaim their inner mother. She is working to de-stigmatize and de-pathologize trauma as a mental health issue, and advocate for individuals, communities, and institutions to embrace healing as a universal human right.

​Amy has served in the non-profit sector as a volunteer, international program manager, finance manager, and board member, working in the U.S, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Nepal, and Cambodia. She holds a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management with a specialization in Global Studies (Northeastern University) and is certified in Trauma-Informed Interventions (UC Berkeley) and Global Mental Health & Refugee Trauma (Harvard Medical School).