Our Team
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We first met in graduate school, where we quickly bonded over a shared passion for advancing chronic pain treatment. Our combined research and clinical experiences have shown us just how transformative Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) can be—relieving suffering and reshaping lives for those living with chronic pain.
Yet, there is a critical gap in access to in-depth, practical training for clinicians eager to learn about EAET. To address this need, we joined forces to develop our training and consultation programs. Our goal is to equip clinicians with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to bring EAET into their practice.
Shoshana Krohner, Ph.D.
Dr. Shoshana Krohner is a licensed clinical psychologist living and working in New York City. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Wayne State University, completed her predoctoral training at Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Health System, and her postdoctoral training at the New School for Social Research and Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical System. Her approach to chronic pain is integrative and was shaped by her diverse training experiences, including with the developers of EAET, as well as her training in mentalizing-focused therapy and somatic experiencing therapy.
Dr. Krohner is a current faculty researcher and attending psychologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, where she researches and provides mentalizing-focused therapy for parents of children with psychiatric and chronic medical conditions. Dr. Krohner also works with chronic pain patients in a group practice in NYC.
Hallie Tankha, Ph.D.
Dr. Hallie Tankha earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Wayne State University. She completed a health psychology APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio where she worked with a complex patient population with co-occurring physical and mental health conditions. Dr. Tankha has had specialized clinical training in pain psychology at Cleveland Clinic and while in her doctoral program under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Lumley, co-developer of EAET. She uses an integrative approach to chronic pain treatment, flexibly applying emotion-focused, psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral principles and techniques.
Dr. Tankha is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western University and a member of the research faculty at Cleveland Clinic in the Department of Wellness and Preventive Medicine. She is actively engaged in clinical intervention research for comorbid chronic pain and psychiatric distress, with a specialized focus on the interaction between pain and trauma.