Deany Laliotis, LCSW, is a world-renowned trainer, consultant, and clinician in EMDR therapy. She's authored several book chapters and articles on EMDR therapy and is the Founder and Director for The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy, Inc., in Washington, DC.

Walda Ciafone is a seasoned therapist, having practiced since 1984. She specializes in trauma and has been extensively trained in various modalities. In 2016, Ms. Ciafone became a EMDR consultant and training facilitator for the Center for Excellence in EMDR. Currently, she maintains a therapy practice, a consultation practice for EMDR therapists and provides facilitation and consultation for The Center for Excellence in EMDR.

Amber Foster, LCSW licensed clinical social worker, board-approved supervisor, and owner of Infinite Hope Counseling, PLLC. Amber has been working with trauma survivors over the entire course of her career. She specializes in relational trauma such as intimate partner violence, family of origin and childhood trauma, sexual violence, and racialized trauma. Amber is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant. In addition, she is trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy, Theraplay, and Trauma-Focused CBT. As a 200 Registered Yoga Teacher and Trauma Conscious Yoga Provider, Amber incorporates somatic work, mindfulness, and breathwork into her therapeutic approach. Amber provides licensing supervision, EMDR consultation, and regularly speaks to professional and community audiences on trauma, intersectionality, racial trauma, and the integration of yoga and psychotherapy. Her work is grounded in NASW ethics and a commitment to ongoing learning and culturally responsive care.

Lisa Menard, LPC is an experienced EMDR therapist whose clinical work centers on complex PTSD and affirming care for LGBTQ+ individuals. She is an EMDRIA-approved EMDR Therapist and Consultant and maintains a virtual psychotherapy practice serving clients throughout Arizona.  Learn more at lifejourneytherapy.com.

Christina Allen, LCPC is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant whose career has been shaped by a deep commitment to healing and growth—both for her clients and for the clinicians she trains. Formerly the Training and Education Director of CTSA, Christina in recent years has refocused her work to fully align with her passion for trauma therapy and advancing EMDR practice within the clinical community.

Jennifer Fights, LCMHC, is an EMDR psychotherapist working with adolescents, adults and families in private practice in Charlotte, NC. She is an EMDRIA Certified therapist and is a Consultant. Jennifer received her master’s degree in Clinical Counseling from New York University in 2002.  Jennifer’s early career focused on working with complex developmental trauma with youth and their families within the juvenile justice system, residential treatment centers and community mental health centers. Since transitioning to private practice in 2015, Jennifer’s areas of focus continue to include complex attachment trauma as well as treating complicated grief and bereavement and specializes in the trauma of suicide loss by families, loved ones and communities. She also treats individuals that struggle with suicidal thoughts and behaviors which gives her a unique perspective in working with the survivors of suicide loss.

Carmen Pepicelli, LMHC, is an EMDR relational therapist and consultant in private practice in Northeastern Massachusetts where she helps facilitate lasting healing from complex trauma in adults and children with structural dissociation. As a trainer and consultant, she provides guidance on how to recognize maladaptive defenses & attachment patterns, effectively and succinctly prepare clients for trauma processing, explore transference & counter-transference reactions, incorporate parts work, somatic, mindfulness, attachment-based, hypnotic, polyvagal & other evidence-based interventions into all phases of treatment, and modify standard EMDR for safe trauma reprocessing in those with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Hope Payson LCSW, LADC has over 30 years of experience in addiction and trauma treatment and currently assists private and non-profit organizations in creating trauma informed systems of care. Her areas of specialty include working with clients with histories of developmental trauma, addiction, incarceration and financial hardship. Hope presents internationally on topics ranging from EMDR therapy, complex trauma, addiction, and ways to promote individual and systemic recovery.   She is the producer of the film "Uprooting Addiction" and authored a chapter of “EMDR and Group Therapy: Emerging Principals and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond”. 

Erika Tsoukanelis, LCSW is an EMDRIA-certified Therapist, Master Consultant, and Basic Trainer in EMDR therapy for The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy.  Erika is the owner of Heart of Inquiry, a private practice in Westport, Connecticut, and specializes in PTSD, complex trauma, anxiety, grief and loss, and chronic illness. Erika received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Sarah Lawrence College in 1992 and her master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Social Work in 1996. addition to using EMDR as a comprehensive and relational therapy, Erika applies to her practice trainings in psychodynamic psychotherapy, structural dissociation theory, Integrative Restoration (iRest), Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT), Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience (DARe), and neurobiology. As a certified holistic health counselor and  Kripalu yoga teacher, Erika naturally incorporates somatic awareness and mindfulness skills into her work. She partners with clients and consultees to collaborate on the course of the work, ever-respectful of each person’s individuality as a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual being.

Karen Alter-Reid, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with specialties in trans-generational trauma, psychedelic medicines, and first responder treatment. Karen is an EMDRIA Specialty Presenter and Senior EMDR Consultant for the Integrative Trauma Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. She has presented her work both nationally and internationally on Trans-Generational EMDR Therapy, Integrating Psychedelic Medicine and EMDR Therapy. Betrayal Trauma in First Responder Treatment, and her “Therapy for Therapists” program which followed clinical work followed mass shootings and disasters.

Kate Becker, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant in EMDR Therapy, and a 300 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher.  Kate was trained by MAPS in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in 2018 and is trained and experienced in ketamine assisted psychotherapy.  Kate has been providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy since 2019.   Kate has facilitated psilocybin journeys in Jamaica for 6 years.  Kate's private practice focus is on the treatment of anxiety disorders, PTSD, depression, addiction, and trauma.