Chandra Ghosh Ippen

Chandra Ghosh Ippen trained in Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) at the Child Trauma Research Program as an intern and postdoctoral fellow from 1998-2000. She spent a year as adjunct faculty for the CAARE Center at UC Davis. She rejoined CTRP in 2001 as the Associate Research Director and helped lead the team’s partnership with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. In 2013, she became the CPP Dissemination and Implementation Director.

Ippen developed the CPP Fidelity Framework and is co-author of the 2nd edition of "Don’t Hit My Mommy," the manual for CPP. She has led international CPP implementation efforts in Sweden and Norway and has co-led national implementation efforts in multiple states including California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

She is the developer of the Ripple Effect Curriculum, a manualized curriculum designed to support the development of trauma-informed systems by sharing core trauma concepts using a combination of stories, visuals metaphors, and clinical vignettes. Ippen has conducted over 34 Ripple Effect trainings in 15 states as well as in Norway and Sweden. She has also authored 6 chapters on diversity-informed practice and trains regularly on this topic.

She has written numerous children’s books that serve as population-based interventions for children who have experienced stressful events, including the Trinka and Sam disaster series, "Once I Was Very Very Scared," which has been translated into English, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, and German, and "You Weren’t With Me," which is available in English and Spanish, and was written to support families who have experienced stressful separations.