Aimee Stockenstroom

Aimee Stockenstroom, LCSW, is a highly skilled clinician and trainer specializing in intimate partner and sexual violence, with extensive experience working both nationally and internationally. She provides individual and group psychotherapy to adult survivors while also training advocates in domestic violence and sexual assault agencies, law enforcement, prosecutors, community-based professionals, and medical healthcare providers.

Her training covers a range of critical topics, including the neurobiology of trauma, the psychological and physiological impact of trauma on survivors, and how specific interventions can support restorative strength and long-term recovery. She also provides education on trauma-aware advocacy, wellness and resilience for first responders and supervisors, and the importance of collaborative partnerships between advocates, prosecutors, healthcare professionals, and law enforcement in navigating survivor-centered responses within the legal system.

In addition to training, Aimee offers consultation services to domestic violence and sexual assault agencies, assisting with program and policy development through a trauma-informed lens. As a certified expert witness, she provides testimony on the ways trauma affects memory and decision-making, the dynamics of domestic violence, and the behavioral patterns commonly observed in adult survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence.

Professional Experience

  • Consultant/Trainer, Justice 3D (March 2023 – Present)

  • Volunteer Faculty Member, Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Services Council (2022 – Present)

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Private Practice (2020 – Present)

    • Consultant for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Agencies

    • Trainer

  • Contract Adoption Counselor, A Child’s Hope (2020 – Present)

  • Consultant/Mentor, Trauma-Informed Training Center (2021 – 2022)

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Richmond Therapy Center (2020 – 2022)

  • Crisis Services Manager, HELP Auckland, New Zealand (June 2012 – August 2015)

  • Program Director, Rape Prevention Education, Whakatu Mauri, Auckland, New Zealand (February 2011 – June 2012)

  • Social Worker, Refugee Services, Auckland, New Zealand (July 2009 – February 2011)

  • Director of Client Services, Project Horizon (August 2005 – August 2009)

License

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Virginia

    • Qualified LCSW Supervisor

Education and Specialized Training

  • Master of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • B.A. in Psychology, Georgetown College

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Trauma-Informed Care Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Care Training Center

  • Treating Trauma Master Series, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

  • Complex Trauma Master Class, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Action with Pat Ogden