Dr. Karen Alter-Reid is a clinical psychologist and EMDR Institute Regional Trainer, R-TEP/G-TEP Trainer, and EMDRIA Specialty Presenter. She is Faculty, EMDR Senior Consultant and Trainer at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies’ Integrative Trauma Program. She is an avid user and trainer of EMDR Early Interventions and serves as Co-Coordinator of the Fairfield County Trauma Response Team, where she has overseen trauma/EMDR education and treatment of first responders, and created a ‘Therapy for Therapists’ program. She has presented at EMDRIA conferences on her work with first responders and therapists. She co-authored with Dr. Ruth Heber, The Trans-generational Impact of Anti-Semitism: Searching for EMDR Targets to Heal Internalized Stigma and Expand Identity and is currently presenting a 2 day, EMDRIA-approved workshop on "Healing and Interrupting Trans-generational Trauma." 

William Brislin, LMHC      Trainer

Bill Brislin learned the principles of crisis intervention and stabilization during his fifteen years of clinical work in an AIDS support agency. This perspective was enhanced when he was trained in the EMDR Recent Traumatic Episodes Protocols by its founders, Elan Shapiro and Bruit Laub, in 2010. Since that time, Bill has found the protocol to be an immensely helpful EMDR tool.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Bill has been a therapist in Orlando, Florida for over thirty years. A Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Florida approved counseling supervisor, he is an EMDRIA approved consultant and facilitates basic EMDR training for the EMDR Institute and Trauma Recovery/HAP. As an affiliate of Connect EMDR Training and Consulting, Bill offers advanced workshops in treating dissociation and co-facilitates a complex trauma consultation group with Regina Morrow Robinson. Bill conducted the R-TEP/G-TEP training offered in Orlando in response to the Pulse nightclub tragedy. 

Beverlee Laidlaw Chasse, LPC     Trainer

Beverlee Laidlaw Chasse, MC, LPC is an integrative psychotherapist in private practice since 1984. She is an owner and founder of Optimal You, an integrative Health and Wellness practice in North Scottsdale, AZ. Her specialties are Recent Incident Trauma, Anxiety disorders, obsessions, compulsions, addictions and other self- injurious behaviors, stress related health problems and chronic pain, past physical and/or sexual abuse or neglect, loss and grief. 

She has been utilizing EMDR since 1996, became an EMDR Institute Facilitator in 2000, and is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Certified Therapist. Beverlee has been an EMDR RTEP/GTEP trainer with Trauma Recovery/EMDR HAP since 2015.

Beverlee has presented Internationally on Early EMDR Interventions: Preventing PTSD and other post trauma injuries. In 2010, Beverlee was instrumental in forming the Arizona Trauma Recovery Network (AzTRN), a state-wide network of volunteer EMDR therapists ready to provide pro bono, quality, Early EMDR Intervention (EEI) after natural or manmade disasters or community critical incidences.

The Early EMDR Interventions Pocket Guide that Beverlee compiled in 2013 has been included in the EMDR Researchers Foundation’s EMDR Early Interventions and Crises Response Toolkit, which outlines the most clinically effective EMDR Recent Incident Trauma Treatment Protocols to be used in the field by EMDR clinicians providing treatment after a community emergency or disaster throughout the world. 

Josie Juhasz, MA, LPC     Trainer

Josie Juhasz, MA, LPC is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, facilitator for both TRN/HAP and the EMDR Institute. She is in Private Practice, specializing in complex trauma and dissociation and medical trauma; as a member of the local Trauma Recovery Network, she has trained local clinicians in RTEP and GTEP, as well as providing early EMDR interventions within her community; in addition, she facilitates RTEP and GTEP sessions for the vicariously traumatized clinicians who are providing mental health services for first responders, victims and their families. She was part of a team of EMDR trainers and consultants who traveled to Uganda to train mental health providers in EMDR and traumatology. She co-authored a chapter in Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma with EMDR Therapy on the experiences of training in Uganda. As part of the local Crisis Intervention Team, she trains law enforcement on approaches to interacting with traumatized individuals and people with mental health issues. She also provides trainings on multiple subjects related to the treatment of trauma and dissociation, treating medical trauma and pain, secondary and vicarious trauma, and sexual and gender issues.

Maria G Masciandaro, PsyD    Trainer. 

Email: Drmgmas@me.com             Website: www.drmgm.com

Maria G Masciandaro, Psy.D, is a licensed psychologist. She has been utilizing the EMDR approach for over 25 years as the demand for  evidenced based trauma treatment grew. She specializes in treating individuals exposed to recent trauma, and in providing training and case consultation to other therapists. She is a consultant for agencies dealing with traumatized individuals. She helps clinicians to become aware of the implied meanings in the language they choose to use with clients. Maria is an EMDRIA Approved consultant mentoring EMDR clinicians who wish to pursue EMDRIA Certification or wishing to become an Approved Consultant themselves. She is a member of the NJ EMDR Regional Network steering committee. For 15 years she was a facilitator for the EMDR basic trainings of the EMDR Institute and Trauma Recovery/Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP). She is now affiliated with the Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy. She is an RTEP/GTEP Trainer, training new clinicians to be facilitators and trainers. She has spoken to professional and lay audiences on the effects of trauma. In addition to her work with EMDR, she is a Past President of the Clinical Hypnosis Society of NJ, is a Consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and is a Field Supervisor for the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University.

Mary Jo McHaney, LMFT, LMHC, CAP      Trainer

In addition to having worked in community agencies and a for profit medical practice, Mary Jo has been in private practice for over thirty years. She was originally trained in EMDR in 1996, and it changed how she viewed her clients’ and how she practiced. Trained in RTEP/GTEP in 2016, she again saw the transformative power of these protocols after the Pulse trauma. Mary Jo is an EMDRIA approved consultant and a facilitator, as well as a Trainer in Training for HAP. While her practice includes clients of all ages, she has a particular affinity for children and adults whose lives have been impacted by attachment trauma. She is a member of her local TRN, and is currently, along with Regina Morrow Robinson, Co-Executive Director of the Greater Orlando EMDR Network, which as a 501c3 focuses on promoting EMDR therapy and developing local EMDR clinicians. 

Elizabeth Prince, LCSW     Trainer

(Elizabeth) Betsy Prince, LCSW  is a trainer for Trauma Recovery EMDR HAP (TR-HAP), and travels all over the country teaching the EMDR part one and two basic protocols. She has been utilizing EMDR in her practice for 22 years. She is a Facilitator for the EMDR institute, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She is one of two TR-HAP Executive Trainers for the Recent Traumatic Episode and the Group Traumatic Episode Protocol in the U.S. She has responded, by teaching local clinicians RTEP, to many of the disasters in the US, such as the 2011 Hurricane in Alabama, Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey & New York in 2012 and the 2013 Boston Marathon tragedy. She is the co-founder of the New Jersey Trauma Recovery Network established in response to the 9/11/2001 tragedy, and she is an EMDRIA Regional Coordinator in New Jersey. In addition to her volunteer work, she has done several private trainings in New Jersey and DC. She maintains a private practice in Monmouth County New Jersey.

Regina Morrow Robinson, LMHC, LMFT, NCC    Trainer

Reg Morrow Robinson Ed.S., LMFT, LMHC, NCC is an EMDR Trainer currently for ConnectEMDR and has had the honor to train for EMDR Institute and EMDRHAP. Reg is currently a Greater Orlando Regional Network board member, and past TRN coordinator. 

Reg is co-founder of Connect EMDR Training and Consulting and owner of Windermere Counseling private practice. Reg has focused on building her community’s capacity to provide trauma care in diverse settings with individuals, couples and families. In her 33 years of practice Reg has worked in a residential setting, a large group medical practice, and private practice responding to crisis and ongoing issues. In 2010, Reg was introduced to EMDR R-TEP and the power of early interventions and incorporated it into her professional practice for individuals and couples. In 2018, Reg was co-presenter at the EMDR Early Intervention Summit focusing on building Community Response Networks (CRNs) and expanding ways to incorporate EEI into diverse practice settings and populations. She currently volunteers on the CRN leadership team. In response to COVID in 2020, Reg and Bill Brislin translated the in person training to a virtual platform and have completed 13 full 2 day R & G-TEP trainings with practicums as of June 2021. R-TEP/ G-TEP trainings, consultations G-TEP Experiences for graduates of the 2 day training can be arranged by reaching out to Reg@ConnectEMDR.com.

Rebecca Rosenblum, PsyD Trainer 

Dr. Rebecca E. Rosenblum is a clinical psychologist, with a background in trauma treatment, behavioral medicine, and integrative psychotherapy in private, clinic, hospital and nursing home settings. As a therapist she integrates EMDR therapy and its neurologically based framework with psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, systems, and feminist therapy perspectives. As both an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and a consultant for Trauma Recovery/HAP, she consults to therapists in private practice or clinic settings, addressing how to use EMDR therapy to serve populations beset by chronic ongoing traumas and stressors. She is bilingual/binational Portuguese, and has served adults with classic as well as developmental trauma, attending to ethnic, gender, linguistic, sexual orientation and socioeconomic contexts for over 20 years. Additionally, she has interests in disaster response and recovery, in the areas of traditional disasters (natural, technological, and mass violence) as well as how addressing chronic “small d” disasters can be an avenue for greater community health. She was the lead author on a November 2017 article, published on this work and has presented at several conferences on early EMDR interventions. She is the current coordinator of the Boston Area Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) – serving eastern Massachusetts – using EMDR-EI and the TRN to address both traditional disasters and trauma in marginalized communities, and co-coordinated the response to the Boston Marathon bombing. She also has a Masters degree in clinical psychopharmacology.

Julie Russomanno, LPC Trainer

Julie Russomanno has been a licensed therapist for over 20 years. She brings not only experience, but also cutting-edge counseling techniques to her practice. She trained in EMDR early in her career and has gone on to become an EMDRIA certified therapist and an approved consultant. A dozen years ago, she learned EMDR R-TEP/G-TEP and was so taken with the effectiveness of the protocol she went on to become a trainer. When trauma happens there is a way to help and she is proud to be able to use and teach EMDR R-TEP/G-TEP for others.

 

Larry M. Shrier, MA   Trainer

Larry has been in private practice in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida for over 35 years. He is licensed by the State of Florida as a Sex Therapist and as a MHC Supervisor. In 2009 he was trained in EMDR and it revolutionized both his thinking and his practice. He is a volunteer for Trauma Recovery HAP and was instrumental in establishing the Southeast Florida TRN in the wake of the Parkland shootings. He has been a R-TEP and G-TEP trainer since 2016.

Maxine Trent, LMFT  Trainer 

Maxine Trent has been licensed in Texas as a Professional Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist since 1991. During the late 1990’s she was EMDR Institute trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing by Andrew Leeds and Gerald Puk. Since that time she has become an EMDRIA Certified Consultant, Regional Coordinator and Trauma Response Network co-coordinator. Over the span of her career she has focused on providing care for kids, couples, families, and uniformed military members. Currently, she provides Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol and Group Traumatic Episode Protocol for helpers whom experience adversity in healthcare.