Afra Mahmood holds degree of Master of Philosophy in Applied Psychology from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. She served as Psychologist at Social welfare & Baitul Maal Department Punjab, Pakistan (2017-2020). She currently provides telehealth services as Clinical Therapist in Chicago.

To be clear, I am not a researcher. I undertook this project after interviews with colleagues at the outset of COVID for clinial purposes. However, the discussion invariably redirected to their concerns for their careers, their fears about being infected, the effect on their family and their levels agitation, angst and depression. By chance this turned into the pursuit of a PhD in this area. In spite of literally no research background outside clinical dentistry, the effort is going remarkably well.

Bernard Mayer has many years of expertise in the treatment of simple and complex psychotrauma and dissociative states in his psychotherapy practice in Paris. President and founder of the IETSP: www.ietsp.com and co-founder of the AFPJ :www.pierrejanet. org , he is the creator of the Integrative Body-Mind Psychotherapy / TICE, certified practitioner in EMDR for more than 30 years, in Somatic Experiencing and Hypnosis. Member of the ESH, ESTD, he speaks at various conferences and symposiums in France and abroad on request. - It is a new psychotherapy which allows to reach the somatic and emotional unconscious memories (subcortical zones) which contain "the frozen memory of the trauma", the words are not enough, nor even the analysis... Moreover, amnesia is a central symptom of psychotrauma. It is a non-verbal and non-cognitive therapy that acts directly on the neurophysiological level and frees the blocked memories of the trauma It is a Psychotherapy and a Neuro-therapy

Patricia A. Broderick has completed her PhD from St John’s University, Queens, NY, USA and her postdoctoral studies from The Albert Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA and Cornell University Medical School, White Plains, NY, USA. Patricia serves as Tenured and Full Medical Professor in the Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences at the City University of New York School of Medicine and as Director of the Neurobiology Course at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CUNY School of Medicine, CCNY. A highly recognized expert and prominent editor, author, inventor and lecturer, Patricia has published more than 500 papers in reputed journals and sought after books and she serves as an editorial board member of repute worldwide. Dr. Broderick holds several patents and trademarks and is the Founder and CEO of Eazysense Nanotechnologies Inc.and the Broderick Brain Foundation