Karen Hopenwasser, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine. She is an integrative psychiatrist and a psychodynamically informed therapist in private practice, doing long term psychotherapy for more than three decades with individuals who have experienced extreme early relational trauma. She is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation and received the ISSTD President’s Award of Distinction in 2019 for work focused on global mental health concerns and climate change. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In 2008 she introduced the concept of dissociative attunement in “Being In Rhythm: Dissociative Attunement in Therapeutic Practice” Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, Vol. 9(3) 349-367, 2008), a concept that emerged from the integration of lifelong engagement in musical studies with neuroscience, systems theory and ecology. She has written about her experiences working with individuals suffering from complex posttraumatic problems as well as intergenerational transmission of trauma.