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David Archer, MSW, MFT, is an anti-racist psychotherapist from Montreal, Canada. In addition to being trained as a clinical social worker, he is also a registered couple and family therapist. Though mindfulness, intersectional feminism, and critical race theory inform his philosophic approach, he works full time in private practice using EMDR, Brainspotting, EFT, and other mind-body strategies which utilize memory re-consolidation. Areas of interest relate to working with individuals who have suffered from PTSD, racial trauma, minority stress, addictions, and eating disorders. Mr. Archer is an ally of LGBTQ, Black, Indigenous, and oppressed people of color around the world.

Quandra Chaffers, LCSW, is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant. She is the creative force behind Sexual Abuse & Sex Solutions, a private practice located in San Francisco. She has roughly 10 years of experience using EMDR to helps teenagers and adults to overcome intimate partner violence and sexual abuse. Quandra takes an intersectional approach to solving race, sex, and gender disparities.

Roger Solomon, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in the areas of trauma and grief. He is Senior Faculty with the EMDR Institute (and now is Program Director) and teaches EMDR internationally. He is a consultant with the US Senate; and has provided consultation to law enforcement and government agencies, including the FBI, Secret Service, NASA, Polizia di Stato in Italy, US Army, and has worked extensively with families of police officers killed in the line of duty. He has authored or co-authored 45 articles and book chapters pertaining to EMDR therapy, grief, complex trauma, acute trauma, and law enforcement stress.

Lauren Day, LPC, LCDC, specializes in the treatment of trauma, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and dissociative disorders. She has many years of experience treating complex issues in the inpatient, residential, PHP & outpatient level of care. Lauren is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Supervisor, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Lauren facilitates EMDR trainings and many seek her consultation with complex cases. She has developed multiple clinical programs for those suffering with addictive disorders and behaviors. She has held the role of Clinical Director in various treatment facilities and is completing her doctorate degree addressing therapeutic competency in eating disorder…

Mark Nickerson, LICSW, a psychotherapist in Amherst, MA, is an EMDR Institute trainer. He conducts advanced EMDR trainings nationally and internationally on topics including integrating culture and healing culturally-based trauma, treatment for problem behaviors, problematic anger, and effective use of EMDR protocols. He has developed award-winning innovative programs designed to reduce and resolve interpersonal conflict. He is editor/author of Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy: Insights, Strategies, and Protocols (Springer, 2016) and The Wounds Within (Skyhorse, 2015), an expose on the challenges for war veterans and their families. More information at culturalcompetenceEMDR.com and markinickerson.com.

Craig Penner, LMFT, has been in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA since 1982, avidly using EMDR since 1993. His experience that EMDR naturally facilitates our drive to completion and resolution inspires his commitment to this work. Craig has been a Facilitator with the EMDR Institute since 1995 and is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Therapist. Craig brings a process-oriented approach to therapy, with a strong somatic focus. He is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and is also a Somatic Experiencing Touch Therapy Practitioner. He has lead 4-day trainings on “Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy with EMDR Therapy” for the past 5 years.

Andrew Leeds, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist with 40+ years of private practice experience. He completed EMDR training in 1991. He has conducted EMDR training for 14,000 clinicians internationally and presented at numerous conferences. He is author of A Guide to the Standard EMDR Therapy Protocols (2016), articles, and chapters. He served on EMDRIA Board 2003-2005. He serves the Journal of EMDR Editorial Board and Council of Scholars. He is Director of Training for Sonoma Psychotherapy Training Institute. In 1999, he received Ronald Martinez Memorial Award from Francine Shapiro, EMDRIA’s award for creative innovation, and in 2013 EMDRIA’s Francine Shapiro…

Tyler Orr, LPC/MHSP, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, EMDRIA approved consultant, EMDR trainer with the Personal Transformation Institute, and founder of the Chattanooga Center for Mind/Body Therapy. Tyler’s approach to counseling and teaching integrates EMDR therapy, mindfulness, nonduality, transpersonal psychology, somatic psychotherapy, and attachment theory. Tyler specializes in working with chronic pain and is the co-founder of the Insight Pain Institute—an organization dedicated to training practitioners of various disciplines to work with persistent pain and illness.

Sheila S. Bender, Ph.D., is a New Jersey licensed psychologist and retired faculty from the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (legacy UMDNJ). She is an EMDR Institute facilitator, charter member of EMDRIA and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She has published and/or co-presented nationally or internationally on: EMDR & Hypnosis, EMDR and Transference/Countertransference, and EMDR and energy therapy. Other EMDR projects include an article on EMDR and the Dialectic in the EMDR Journal and two grants for EMDR, one treating PTSD with auditory BLS in an MRI scanner. Dr. Bender maintains a private practice in Morristown, NJ.

Viviana Urdaneta, LCSW, is an EMDR Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant. She has her private practice and works at the University of California at Berkeley. She specializes in counseling for survivors of trauma, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault. Viviana is from Colombia, South-America and considers herself bilingual and bicultural. Viviana has worked consistently to promote the utilization of EMDR therapy in the university setting and to increase awareness around the challenges and strengths of working with diverse populations.