FOUNDER

Healing TREE (Trauma Resources, Education & Entertainment)

Marissa founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Healing TREE in 2014, led as Executive + Artistic Director for 11 years and currently serves as Board President. Under her direction, Healing TREE collaborated with several of the world’s leading trauma experts and internationally renowned artists, as well as partnered with Aetna, which is under the CVS (Fortune 5) umbrella, on a groundbreaking EMDR Therapy Training initiative.

Healing TREE (Trauma Resources, Education & Entertainment) advocates healing from abuse and trauma rather than coping with the symptoms, in order to transform lives and, ultimately, society. We achieve this by providing trauma-focused resources and education and by producing and partnering with relevant film, television, and theatre, empowering the social change necessary to create a healing movement.