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New eBook – Free EMDR Resources for EMDR Practitioners

EMDR Resources for Covid-19 Response New Free eBook Provides EMDR Resources to Aid Practitioners Many EMDR clinicians are tirelessly working to treat the anxiety and many forms of trauma wrought by the pandemic, in hospital settings and through Teletherapy. EMDR Resources for the Era of Covid-19 was written by EMDR experts to inform and support therapists...

New EMDR Training For TeleTherapy

Help Treat the Mental Health Crisis Stemming from Covid-19 and recent Violence across the US. Trauma Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Programs (HAP) has created three on-demand video trainings to help adapt your EMDR skills to a phone or online video session. These courses, offered free for a limited time, build on your training and introduce TeleHealth...

Success Story Video: Parkland Florida

There are TRN’s all over the country responding to community disasters.

Together We Have Healed Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk said, “hurt people, hurt people.” Our mission is to help clinicians heal hurt people with EMDR therapy. Throughout 2019, Trauma Recovery, EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (HAP) has worked with many of you in numerous training sessions and TRNs pro bono relief efforts to heal trauma victims, and stop the cycle...

Client Results Lead to Agency EMDR Training

When Beth Rogers-Doll, Ph.D., executive director of Agnesian Behavioral HealthCare, saw stunning client success with EMDR therapy in her practice, Doll & Associates, she knew she had to share this therapy with her colleagues. Originally trained in EMDR in 1999, she had not really used EMDR until retraining with Trauma Recovery, EMDR Humanitarian...

Trauma Recovery/ HAP in Puerto Rico

In 2018, Trauma Recovery/HAP responded to rising suicides and related trauma suffering in Puerto Rico (PR) following Hurricane Maria with EMDR Basic I and II trainings. Working with Vanesa Cintrón, the Puerto Rican Coalition in Minnesota, and the Association of Social Workers, the first trainings were held in June and August 2018, at the Interamerican...

Expanding Training in Uganda

Dr. Deborah Silveria, PhD., licensed Psychologist, LMFT, felt well prepared when she arrived in Kampala, Uganda to facilitate an EMDR II training in November of 2018. The foundation for success had been laid in the extensive planning and budgeting for the session by Carol Martin, Executive Director, Trauma Recovery|Humanitarian Assistance Programs...

Norcal TRN® Brings Trauma Recovery To The Camp Fire Victims

TRN Mobilization Delivers Results The NorCal TRN has begun to wind up its emergency response to treat Camp Fire victims. The results of their heroic and selfless efforts are amazing. The TRN served over 500 Camp Fire survivors. They documented forty-eight percent of participants noting a reduction of symptoms after the sessions. Sixty-four percent...

Welcoming Our Newest Board Member

Trauma Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Programs is pleased to announce and welcome our newest board member, Kenneth Miller. Ken joined the EMDR HAP Board in the spring of this year. He had recently retired from many years serving as Senior Associate General Counsel for Yale University, when his friend and colleague Cynthia Carr introduced him to...

Training Florida Keys

One TRN Organizer’s Story Until you’ve lived it, smelled everything rotting out on the road, lost everything, and seen the suffering of everyone you know, you cannot fully understand the trauma that devastation and loss from Hurricane Irma left on the Florida Keys community, “ says Sarah Brawer, Counselor, MA, CAP, LMHC and coordinator of the new...