Cancro-Silvetz, Lorraine

Lorraine Cancro-Silvetz, MSW. A trained Psychotherapist with a Master’s Degree of Social Work from New York University specializing in the treatment of returning veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and suicidal ideation.

Silvetz collaborated with the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center in research and treatment related to traumatic brain injury (TBI), Post traumatic stress (PTSD), and suicide impacting military members and their families. She also served as Mental Health Editor launching several series for Exceptional Parent (EP) Magazine, a 40-year-old award winning disability magazine.

Her PTSD/TBI series inspired her to found the program, Global Stress Initiative (GSI), under the auspices of the International Committee Against Mental Illness (ICAMI) to research and provide non-invasive treatments for military members and their families. GSI promotes alternative techniques for the alleviation of stress including the innovative protocol individualized transcranial magnetic stimulation (iTMS).

GSI launched a series of awareness and fundraisers to educate the public on several non-invasive techniques including cranial stimulation by Fisher Wallace Labs and Transcendental Meditation (TM) taught by the David Lynch Foundation. Silvetz created a partnership with the acclaimed Hollywood Director David Lynch’s Foundation in advocacy and helped introduce TM into the United Nations. Earning a film degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts helped contribute to her creative approach to advocacy in the world of mental health.

In 2018, Global Stress Initiative was awarded $100,000 from the Diana Davis Spencer foundation for the treatment of 75 veterans impacted by PTSD at their clinic, iSynchrony. In the past, Cancro served as co-Director at iSynchrony Clinic, with her husband, Robert Silvetz MD, in Virginia. The clinic offered individualized transcranial magnetic stimulation (iTMS) for the treatment of PTSD and TBI.

Lorraine Silvetz and her husband Robert Silvetz, M.D. introduced the treatment modality in the northeast in 2019. GSI is now focused on the treatment of not only service members/veterans but domestic violence and human trafficking survivors impacted by PTSD and TBI. Additionally, she and several of GSI’s supporters, including three-time Emmy Winning Anchor, Rita Cosby; philanthropist/entrepreneur Mitzi Perdue; Medical Director of ICAMI-GSI, Robert Cancro, M.D. received Congressional Awards, in 2011, from Congressman Ed Towns for their efforts to provide treatment for service members and veterans with PTSD and TBI.