Background

Education

  • Master of Science, Clinical Community Counseling: 2003, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  • Bachelor of Arts and Science, Sociology/English: 1980, New York University, New York, NY

Professional Training

    • INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE for MENTAL HEALTH (2024)
    • Brainspotting Couples Co-regulating Presented by Cherie Lindberg, LPC, NCC 3/11/22 – 3/13/22
    • 22nd Annual ISEPP Conference (2019)
    • Brainspotting Phase 4 (2019)
    • Treating Dissociative Disorders with EMDR: The Progressive Approach, (2019)
    • Image Transformation Therapy Workshop (2019)
    • Generational Brainspotting (2019)
    • Brain, Mind and Body: Trauma, Neurobiology and the Healing Relationship (2019)
    • Generational Brainspotting (2018)
    • Treating Chronic Pain with EMDR (2017)
    • Treating Headaches with EMDR (2017)
    • Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real (2016)
    • Brainspotting 3 (2015)
    • Recent-Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP) (2015)
    • Advanced Resource Brainspotting (2014)
    • Conference on Sex, Love and Addiction (2014)
    • Feeling State Addiction Protocol (2013)
    • The Neurobiology of Consciousness, Trauma Induced Disorders of Consciousness and EMDR: A Glimpse Inside the Brain (2013)
    • Brainspotting 2 (2012)
    • Brainspotting with Performance Enhancement, Somatic Dissociation, and Medical Trauma (2012)
    • Brainspotting 1 (2011)
    • Using the EMDR AIP Model for Treating Adult Clients with Complex PTSD (2011)
    • EMDR & Health Related Problems (2011)
    • Brainspotting with Attachment Trauma and Dissociation (2011)
    • Dissociation of the Personality: The Key to Understanding Chronic Traumatization and Its Treatment (2010)
    • The Theory of Structural Dissociation as a Guide for EMDR Treatment of Chronically Traumatized Clients (2010)
    • EMDR Treatment of Panic Disorder with and without Agoraphobia: Two Model Treatment Plans (2010)
    • Shame is my Safe Place: AIP Targeting of Shame as a Psychological Defense (2010)
    • EMDR and the Treatment of War and Terrorism Survivors (2010)
    • STEP by STEP: Making EMDR Treatment Effective and Developmentally Appropriate for Children and Adolescents (2010)
    • Complex Trauma, Structural Dissociation & EMDR (2009)
    • Using EMDR as a Contemporary Psychotherapy (2008)
    • Trauma-informed Clinical Skills for Treating the Spectrum of Eating Disorders
    • Children Group Traumatic Episode Protocol C-GTEP 2023
    • EMDR with OCD and Phobias 2023
    • Group Traumatic Episode Protocol 2023
    • EMDR Therapy Protocols for Early Intervention & Ongoing Traumatic Stress 2023
    • Addressing Dissociative Exhibitions and Suicidality 2020
    • Treating Shame, Guilt and Moral Injury with EMDR 2020
    • Acute Stress to Complex PTSD with EMDR 2020
    • Treating Veterans with Complex Trauma (non-DID) using EMDR Telehealth During a Pandemic 2020
    • Working with the Effects of Emotional Abuse, Severe Neglect and Invisibility 2020