Who We Are

Dr. Rampe created Developmental Trauma and Traumatic Grief Clinic services to meet the unique needs of adults who have experienced childhood disruption in development and attachment or who have experienced an unbearable/traumatic loss. We currently offer services through a telemedicine-based platform using graduate clinicians. Services are individualized towards each patient’s unique needs, experiences, and history. The developmental trauma aspect of this clinic is informed by the work of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT™) by Dr. Bruce Perry. Therapy focuses on how a person’s childhood trauma manifests in daily challenges such as emotional regulation, self-compassion, vulnerability, body awareness, etc. The traumatic grief aspect of the clinic is informed by the Compassionate Bereavement Care (CBC) framework by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. A person’s grief experience is unique to the person in connection with the human or animal in someone’s life who died in a traumatic manner making therapy also a unique and individualized experience within the lens of the CBC approach. The patient information for DTTG can be found here. Recently, Dr. Rampe opened the Mindfulness, Meaning, and Self-Compassion Esketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic to offer utilization of dosing experiences to increase access to healing. The clinics are currently housed within a Dr. Rampe’s place of employment. Patients interested in services will be contacted for a phone screening to verify fit and current patient needs match services provided. Please view the services tab for more information and/or contact Dr. Rampe at rrampe@uabmc.edu.

“When we love deeply, we mourn deeply; extraordinary grief is an expression of extraordinary love. Grief and love mirror each other; one is not possible without the other.”

— Dr. Joanne Cacciatore