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 Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW)  
​Michigan License # 6801059775
NPI# 1356401962        
PLLC Tax ID: 83-2458785
CONTINUING EDUCATION & TRAININGS
2022
Trainings Attended:
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2021

Trainings Attended:
  • Peter Levine's ​Basic Principals of Somatic Experiencing,  Amy Shoko Brown
  • EMDR 2.0: An Enhanced Version of EMDR Therapy,  Ad de Jongh and Suzy Matthijssen
  • Simplifying Complex PTSD: New Treatment Approaches,  Ad de Jongh and Suzy Matthijssen
  • ​Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy with EMDR Therapy, Natural Processing II,  Craig Penner​
2020 
Trainings Attended:
  • A Practical Introductions to Parts Work, Thomas Holmes, Ph.D.
2019
EMDR Training Facilitator
Part 1 & 2 EMDR Basic Training Course with Extended Practica & Case Consultation 
Zona Scheiner and Bennett Wolper, EMDR Resource Center of Michigan
Trainings Attended:
  •  Intensive Trauma-Focused Therapy, Ricky Greenwald
  • The Flash Technique, Ricky Greenwald
  • Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain, Health Training Institute
  • Setting Clear & Ethical Boundaries with Clients, Health Training Institute
  • Human Trafficking: Legal, Social, and Clinical Perspectives, Melissa M. Novock and Robert Lagrou
  • EMDR International Association Conference, Garden Grove, CA
  • Innovative: Assessing Resiliency Using Somatic Tracking of the Window of Tolerance, Craig Penner
  • Polyvagal Theory: A Foundation for EMDR Therapy, Barbara Horne
  • Why Are There Differences in International Guideline Recommendations Regarding EMDR: Does It Matter and What Can We Do About It?, Derek Farrell
  • Part of Me Wants to Quit, Part Doesn’t: Developmental Approach to Addiction, Susan Brown
  • Consultation for EMDRIA Certification: Challenges, Ethic & Best Practices, Andrew Leeds
  • The Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired and How to Foster Resilience, Gabor Mate
  • EMDR Now and Tomorrow: Connecting Therapy Research to Practice, Ad de Johgh
  • Journey of the Hopeful Healer, Mackenzie Phillips
  • Working with Parts in Dissociative Disorders: A Practical Guide for EMDR Therapists, Dolores Mosquera
2018
EMDR Training Facilitator
Part 1 & 2 EMDR Basic Training Course with Extended Practica & Case Consultation 
Zona Scheiner and Bennett Wolper, EMDR Resource Center of Michigan
Trainings Attended:
  • EMDR International Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Opioids & Stimulants: Addressing These Complex Cases, National Conference on Alcohol & Addiction Disorders
  • Trauma and Resilience 101, Cae Soma and Erica Giron
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Level I Training: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory Anne Westcott and Kelly Callahan, Ann Arbor, Michigan  
Module 3: Somatic Resources for Stabilization
Module 4: Orienting and Defensive Responses,
Module 5: Memory Processing and Sensorimotor Sequencing
Module 6: Integration and Resolution
2017
 Achieved EMDRIA Approved Consultant Status
 EMDR Training Facilitator
Part 1 & 2 EMDR Basic Training Course with Extended Practica & Case Consultation 
Zona Scheiner and Bennett Wolper, EMDR Resource Center of Michigan
Trainings Attended:
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Level I Training: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory Anne Westcott and Kelly Callahan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 
Module 1: Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Module 2: Core Sensorimotor Skills
Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy with EMDR Therapy, Natural Processing I,​ Craig Penner, Austin, Texas
2016
​Trainings Attended:
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Course with Pat Ogden, PhD
Integration Based Stress Removal, IBSR Somatic Restructuring & Reprocessing, Judith Molten
 2015
Trainings Attended:
  • Evolving Me to We, BSP Training, John Mlinarcik
  • Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Developmental Deficits and Adults Abused as Children, Lauren Parnell
  • Clinical Implications and Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview with Daniel Siegel, MD
 2014
Trainings Attended:
  • Anger Control Made Easy, Jeannie Staudt and Greg D. Greene
2013
Trainings Attended:
  • Somatic Resources: Body Awareness and Physical Action in the Treatment of Trauma, Anne Westcott
  •  Talking to Teens about Sex: Ethical Boundaries
  •  Attachment Theory and Sexual Disorders, Kenneth M. Adams
2012
Trainings Attended:
  • EMDR Toolbox: Specific EMDR-related Methods of Therapy for Clients with Complex PTSD and Dissociative Personality Structure, Jim Knipe
2011
Trainings Attended:
  • Healing the Wounds of Attaching and Rebuilding the SELF, Deany Laliotis
  • Phase-Oriented Treatment of Complex Developmental Trauma Disorders: A Dissociation Perspective, Kathy Steele
  • Deployment and Reintegration in Wartime, US Department of Defense and Military OneSource EAP Program
 2010
Trainings Attended:
  • Mindfulness, Meditation & EMDR, Julie K. Greene
  • Professional Ethics and Boundaries
2009
Trainings Attended:
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Joseph Dragun
  • Traumatic Brain Injury, Charles Bauer
  • Diversity and End-of-Life Care, Frank Sesno, Special Correspondent with CNN, Moderator
  • Helping Eating Disordered Patients Find Their Identity, Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating & Anxiety Disorders
  • OC Spectrum Disorders: Breaking the Silence and Finding Solutions
  • Somatic Interventions for Enhancing EMDR Effectiveness, Janina Fisher
2008
Presenter: Randy Bizer
For NASW Competition of Certificate in Using EMDR in Pain Management, Royal Oak, Michigan
Trainings Attended:
  • Differential Diagnosis of Sex Addiction: What Every Therapist Must Know, Kenneth Adams
  •  Treating Chronic Dissociated Patients With EMDR, Gerald Puk
  • Depression Center Colloquium Series: Healthy Lifestyles to Combat Depression, Daniel Eisenberg, Heather Flynn, Leslie Hollingsworth, and Ilan Kerman, University of Michigan Depression Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2007
Trainings Attended:
 Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, Sue Johnson
  • ​Depression Center Colloquium Series Ronald M. Davis and Richard Dopp, University of Michigan Depression Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Meadows Workshop Series:
  • Recovery of Innocence, John Bradshaw 
  • The Addictive Family: The Legend of Trauma, Claudia Black
  • Love Addition Love Avoidance, Pia Mellody
  • Emotional and Social Intelligence, John Bradshaw
  • Personal Boundaries as Spiritual Practice, Pia Mellody
  • Introduction to Sexual Compulsivity, Maureen Canning
  • The Body Keeps Score, Bessel van der Kolk, MDLegacy of Trauma XIV – Breakthroughs in Healing Trauma: Success through Guided Imagery and the New Therapies, Belleruth Naparstek, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation – Southeast Michigan Chapter
2006
Trainings Attended:
  • Intimate Marriage: Helping Couples Move into the New Millennium, Terrence Real
  • The Journey to Recovery, Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating & Anxiety Disorders
  •  In the Shadows of the Net, Elizabeth Griffin
 The Meadows Workshop Series:
  • The Addictive Family: The Legend of Trauma, Claudia Black
  • Love Addition Love Avoidance, Pia Mellody
  • Emotional and Social Intelligence, John Bradshaw
 2005
Trainings Attended:
  • Counseling Couples: What Works, What Doesn’t Work
  •  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop: EMDR in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect, Deborah Korn
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop: Through the Eyes of a Child, EMDR with Children, Robert Tinker and Sandra Wilson
2004
Trainings Attended:
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop: Integrating EMDR into the Treatment of Panic, Phobia, and OCD, Marcia Whisman
2003
Trainings Attended:
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop: Treating Core Attachment Issues in Adults and Families: Incorporating EMDR with Other Methods and Techniques to Help Our Most Traumatized Clients, Debra Wesselman
2002
Trainings Attended:
  • Modified Basic Critical Incident Stress Management, Gary Loan
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop
  • Integrating Resource Installation Strategies into Your EMDR Practice
  •  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop: 
  • Deepening EMDR Treatment Effects Across the Diagnostic Spectrum: Integrating EMDR and Ego State Work, Carol Forgash
2001
Trainings Attended:
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Advanced Clinical Applications Workshop: 
Critical Incident Stress intervention for EMDR Therapists, Roger Solomon
 International Energy Psychology Conference, Mission Bay, San Diego, California
Sessions:
  • Compulsive Behavior, Arenson,
  • Severe Impairments, Baladarian
  • Children & Energy Psychology, Yordy
  • Heartmath: Physiology of Heart Intelligence, Sundram
  • Be Set Free Fast (BSFF), Lims
  • Basic Realities of Thought Energy Therapies, Greg Nicosia
  • Trauma, the Brain & Energy Psychology Treatments, Sisi and Kowal
  • Donna Eden’s Methods, Eldringhoff
  • Tapas Acupressure Technique, Tapas Fleming
  • EMDR & Energy Psychology, Lane
2000
Presenters: Randy Bizer, Bennet Wolper, Henry Woodworth, and Steven Ingersoll, Havenwyck Mental Health System Conference in Breakthrough Therapy: E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Trainings Attended:
  • Legacy of Trauma VII: Innovative Therapies for Dissociative and Trauma Disorders, Bessel van der Kolk, MD
  • News on the Blues: Depression’s Effects on Kids, Couples, and Kin, Michael Yapko
EMDR International Association Conference, Toronto, Ontario
Sessions:
  • The Neurobiology of Attachment and the Origin of the Self: Implications of Theory and Clinical Practice, Allan Schore, PhD
  • Traumatic Attachment and the Development of the Right Brain, Allan Schore, PhD
  • EMDR – Integrated Coaching for Effective Leadership and Innovation Strategic Visioning, Sandra Foster, PhD, Jennifer Lendl, PhD, and Sandra Paulsen, PhD
  • Introduction to the Strategic Developmental Model for EMDR, Maureen Kitchur
  • Accommodation, Assimilation, and Growth: Integrating the Future, Now, Francine Shapiro, PhD
  • Utilization of EMDR in the Treatment of Grief and Mourning, Roger Solomon PhD
  • EMDR in the Playroom: Creative Processing, Frankie Klaff, PhD and Philip Dutton
  1999
 Achieved Certification as an EMDR clinician
Recommended by Bennet Wolper, who served as my EMDRIA Consultant and Supervisor 
Received additional hours of supervision by Zona Scheiner, Eileen Freedland, and Cam Vozar
Trainings Attended:
​EMDR Level II Training with Francine Shapiro, PhD, EMDR Institute, New York City, New York
  • EMDR for Life Enhancement, Pat Yoder
1998
Trainings Attended:
EMDR Level I Training, Kay Werk, EMDR Institute, Lansing, Michigan
  •  Legacy of Trauma V: Psychological Trauma, Judith L. Herman
1996
Trainings Attended:
  • Advances in Managing Major Depression, Continuing Medical Education (CME), Dearborn, Michigan
  •  Rapid, Cost-Effective Treatment for Anxiety Disorders, David D. Burns
 1995
Trainings Attended:
  • Progress in Psychoses, Continuing Medical Education (CME), Dearborn, Michigan
  • Beyond Prozac, Institute for Natural Resources Course
1993 and 1994
Trainings Attended:
  • Post-Graduate Educational Monthly Seminar, Douglas Davies and Laura Nitzberg,  Psychiatry, Adult/Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1992
Trainings Attended:
  • Psychological Trauma: Treatment Issues, Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Richard Kluft, MD
  • Depression and The Family, James C. Coyne, PhD, Michigan Association For Marriage and Family Therapy 
 1991
Trainings Attended:
  • The Person of the Therapist: Use of Self in Psychotherapy, Medical College of Ohio, Department of Psychiatry
  •  Treating Difficult Teens: A Family Perspective, Michigan Alcohol & Addiction Association, Harper Hospital, Detroit
 Intensive Training Program in Strategic/Systemic Therapy, Jerome A. Price, Michigan Family Institute
1990
Trainings Attended:
  • The Self in the System, Michael P. Nichols
  • Family Therapy Oriented Advanced Training for Human Services Professionals
  • Strategic Therapy with Individuals and Families, Joel S. Bergman, PhD

 
 
 
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