Lisa Fliegel is an embedded therapist, who provides real-time, ground-level, trauma treatment, advocacy, training and consultation. Based in Massachusetts, her collaborative approach to treatment and training embeds her with grassroots leaders to align identity and action for peace-building and community healing. The following passages are excerpted from her forthcoming book, Here but Often There: The Clinical Adventures of a Bullet Proof Therapist, an interface of narrative journalism, clinical insights, and memoir, based on experiences in inner-city Boston, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.