IATP-C Certified Clinicians

 
IATP-C Certified
The following are experienced clinicians who have completed all certification requirements.

Gelly Asovski, LCSW-R

 

 

 


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Email: gellyasovskilcswr@gmail.com
Phone: (929) 322-0791

Gelly Asovski

Gelly Asovski, LCSW-R

Gelly Asovski has practiced as a social worker for twenty years and is currently in private practice in Monsey, New York. Her population is 100% orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families, and she speaks fluent Yiddish with many of her clients. Most of the children in the community grow up with Yiddish as their first language. Her practice is children and their families, focused mostly on younger children two years and up through adolescence. She created a local Trauma Recovery Network through HAP after a major hate crime traumatized hundreds of children and adults in the Hasidic community. She treated large numbers through R-TEP and G-TEP.

Gelly went to NYU for her master’s in Social Work and started out doing regular CBT and DBT, working in a local clinic. She states, “Then the children found me.” She started working on becoming a Registered Play Therapist until she had a head-on collision with a truck. EMDR therapy was the only therapy she found helpful for her trauma. After that she was determined to get trained in EMDR therapy. She did consultation hours with Frankie Kluft and now is an EMDR consultant, certified in the IATP-C model. Gelly states that the IATP-C model aligned with her values as a child and family therapist, especially regarding helping parents become part of the process. She states, “The healing between the parents and child is so powerful.” She refers parents to the Integrative Parenting classes as well and states, “When they learn what they can do at home, it makes such a big difference.”

Her work now is consistently with trauma using EMDR therapy and Play Therapy. Her goal is to bring the best of everything in the therapeutic world to her community. She takes her role very seriously because her community is an underserved population.

Gelly is active on social media as @parentingwithgelly sharing how parents can connect with their children through nurture and play, the non tech way. During Covid, Gelly took her offline parenting program online and continues her work teaching moms all about how to be a playful parent to create happy, healthy, resilient families.

 

Kathleen Bush, LCPC

Clinical Programs Manager, Adoption Preservation Program
The Baby Fold
612 Oglesby Avenue, Normal, IL 61761
(309) 454-1770

Kathleen Bush

Kathleen Bush’s ambition while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Madison in Wisconsin was to work with kids with attachment issues. Today, Bush is fulfilling her dream, serving as clinical services manager at The Baby Fold in Normal, Ill.

Bush oversees the “Keeping the Promise” adoption preservation program at the not-for-profit child welfare agency, which is seeing success in reducing the disruption of adoptions where a child is turned back to the state to less than 3 percent. “That is really a good result for what we do,” she says, noting that her agency deals with the tough cases.

“I see so much healing,” Bush says. “Families are functioning better, children are happier, getting on the right meds, not going to a residential placement.”

Bush credits use of the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol with helping her agency better reach parents. About five years ago, she attended a two-day training that included an introduction to the Attachment Trauma Center Institute’s (ATCI’s) team approach. “It really helped me rethink how we were doing things,” she recalls. At that time, therapists working with families were pretty much on their own, which was stressful. “It was a good design, but it wasn’t enough,” Bush says.

“We started increasing the number of therapists involved with the families,” she said. “They really needed to hear from other adults and hear a similar message.”

When Bush began working with the adoption presentation program, five staff members covered 10 counties. Since then, it’s grown to 17 staff members covering 22 counties. Most of the agency’s work is through state contracts. While the team approach can’t be used for all clients because of distance, the agency tries to present all of them with the same information and apply the underlying concepts. This includes focusing on the effects of trauma on the brain and helping parents listen to the message in different ways. Parent support groups also are beneficial.

Therapists working with Keeping the Promise have a small caseload of about 10 families, which enables them to do this intensive work and communicate with parents outside of sessions.

Success, she said, is “getting kids to use their voice and words and parents to listen to them, hold those words in their head and connect. The parents really appreciate this approach. When we get to the point where the child is really processing the trauma with the parent in the room, it is very impactful on the parent and child and developing their relationship.”

A couple of years ago when Bush was looking to become certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she requested to work with Debra Wesselmann, LIMHP at ATCI, a co-developer the model, along with colleagues Cathy Schweitzer, LMHP, and Stefanie Armstrong, LIMHP. Since becoming certified, Bush has been able to train other therapists on her staff in this technique. Wesselmann also has traveled to Illinois to present an intensive training therapy workshop.

“Deb has really given us a lot of tools to make sure children are really ready for the trauma processing,” Bush says. “It has increased our effectiveness.”

Bush has been a part of The Baby Fold for more than 21 years, beginning her career in the residential treatment center following college graduation. After earning her master’s degree in human development counseling at Bradley University, Bush moved to the adoption preservation program. She left the program after a couple of years to work with homeless families, then returned to clinical work, supporting the foster care program before taking her current position at The Baby Fold.

The Baby Fold serves more than 1,000 children and families every year with professional services in the areas of adoption support, foster care, specialized education, residential treatment and family services that prevent child abuse, neglect and strengthen relationships. For more information, visit the website at www.thebabyfold.org.

Peter Capper, LCSW

4 E. Germantown Pike #204
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Phone: (215) 782-8625
Email: peter@petercappertherapy.com

Peter Capper

Peter Capper, LCSW, is in full-time private practice in the north-western suburbs of Philadelphia. His work focuses on children, teens, families, parents, and individual adults, with a special focus on teenagers and young adults.

Peter trained in EMDR in the early 1990s and immediately started incorporating EMDR with simple trauma. However, after getting trained in the EMDR and family therapy integrative model, he felt he was utilizing EMDR much more effectively with the traumatized adolescents
and kids he works with in his practice, and he, therefore, decided to continue with consultation and certification in the model. Peter stated, “I was trained in John Bowlby’s attachment theory in England early in my career. It was the basis of my training as a psychiatric social
worker. I found the attachment resource methods involved with the integrative model fit in perfectly with my early theoretical training and the entire model really made so much sense for working with these very challenging kids.”

Peter has been a social worker since 1974. He completed family therapy training in 1978 and 1979 through the well-known Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic; home of Salvador Minuchin and Structural Family therapy. Peter had a very long involvement as Director of Emotional Support for a private high school called the Crefeld School in Philadelphia, which has a population of 100 adolescents. He had a part-time private practice as well, and upon retirement from the school, he expanded his practice to full-time. Peter enjoyed the work
with the school because he got to know the students, their friends, and their teachers so well and was able to work within the student’s entire support system.

Peter’s first degree was in history from Cambridge University. An interesting fact is that Peter attended Cambridge at the same time as Prince Charles, who was also a history student there. Peter received his master’s degree in social work from the University of Suffix and then moved to the U.S. on a 2-year educational exchange program through the Fulbright Foundation. He met his wife-to-be while in the U.S., and so to extend his time here, he found the internship at the Child Guidance Clinic, stumbling into what Peter refers to as
“family therapy heaven.”

Peter and his wife lived in London for 3 years and then settled back in the states. Peter’s interest in working with adopted children grew when he and his wife adopted their two daughters from China, now ages 25 and 20. He and his wife became very involved in the
Chinese adoption community and even attempted to learn Mandarin. Peter loves to travel, read novels, play the piano and sing, and he also gardens in his free time.

Wendy Copeland, MA, LPC, CIRT, CCTP

 

 

 


8751 Collin McKinney Parkway
Suite #1001
McKinney, Texas 75070
Phone:(972) 210-0429 
Email: wendy@texashopeslantern.com

Wendy Copeland

Wendy Copeland, MA, LPC is a relational therapist who provides counseling and trauma-resolution therapy services for individuals and couples in North Texas. Wendy is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist, a Certified Imago Relationships Therapist (CIRT), a Trust-Based Relational Intervention Practitioner (TBRI), a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and is certified in the Integrative Attachment Protocol for Children (IATP-C). 

Wendy specializes in helping adults with a history of childhood trauma heal and step into joyful growth in adult life. This healing translates into more power and presence in their parenting, marriage, or other key relationships.  

Wendy is trained to treat acute trauma, PTSD, childhood and developmental trauma, and intimate partner trauma.  She also has a skill set specializing in helping people with a variety of mental and emotional challenges.  This includes anxiety, OCD, depression, mood disorder, grief and traumatic grief, adoption/foster/kinship foster, attachment wounds, co-dependency, and relationship issues.  Wendy also provides support for individuals and families who desire to integrate their personal faith in their healing process. 

Wendy’s professional background includes clinical skills from serving in acute pediatric/adolescent inpatient hospital programs, intensive adult outpatient mental health and substance recovery, hospice and bereavement, community mental health, and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.  Prior to starting her own private practice, Wendy was the Senior Staff Therapist at Stonebriar Psychiatric Services, where she served for almost 13 years.

Following her EMDR basic training, Wendy participated in the IATP-C training due to her interest in integrating individual and family EMDR services from an attachment-based model.  She also participated in individual and group consultation with the Attachment Trauma Center Institute.  Wendy explained, “I was drawn to Cathy, Debra, and Stefanie’s work, as they demonstrate a solid understanding of TBRI principles and implement a treatment orientation addressing the person as well as the attachment.  As a relationship therapist who incorporates interpersonal neurobiology and attachment in my work, their model was a next evolution in integration of best practices!”  She added the she holds “a deep appreciation for the team integrative approach, the practical and helpful strategies, and the emphasis on solid support and educational information for caregivers and families. “ Wendy incorporates a variety of empowering resource materials into her therapeutic work.  She expressed thankfulness for resources such as the Integrative Parenting book (Wesselmann, Schweitzer, and Armstrong; 2014) and the parenting videos (thecordeducationandtraining.com).    “I deeply value the attachment-minded and neurobiologically-informed insights, principles and strategies that these resources provide.” 

In her work, Wendy helps caregivers to also attend to their own personal work, as well as their role in parenting the children and teens in their charge.    Wendy holds to a wise saying from Dr.  Karyn Purvis from TCU, “You cannot lead a child to a place of healing if you do not know the way yourself.”   

As a relationship therapist, she holds to the tenet that the wounds that happen in relationship will also need to heal in the context of a safe relationship.   She explained that, “A trust-based nurturing relationship is a sacred space by which people are empowered to heal.”  She finds joy in helping people find meaningful healing. 

For more information, please visit texashopeslantern.com or call the office at 972-210-0429.  

Robyn Gobbel, LCSW

1705 W. Koenig
Austin, TX 78756
(512) 522.1029

Robyn Gobbel

Robyn Gobbel knew at an early age that she wanted a career focused around children. Today, the licensed clinical social worker operates Gobbel Counseling in Austin, Texas, where she specializes in working with kids who have been abused, neglected or traumatized.

“Every day I marvel at how lucky I am to spend my working days with children and families, helping them discover within themselves what they already possess,” Gobbel says.

Early on, Gobbel’s focus was collaborating with parents and using an attachment emphasis when counseling children.   After completing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) training in 2011, Gobbel was eager to learn how to integrate the treatment with her primary population.

She first heard about the Attachment Trauma Center Institute (ATCI) and its Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children through an online group for parents. After learning more about the research behind the protocol and how it was being used, Gobbel attended a three-day training program in Denver.

“They took this really amazing tool (EMDR) and adapted it not only for children but for kids with really complex trauma,” Gobbel says.  “The training provided me with tools I didn’t have access to, and I could go home and start using them immediately.”

The training helped crystallize Gobbel’s game plan, and it provided a framework for parents to understand their kids and their behaviors, which is critical. “It didn’t really shift my lens, but it gave me much better tools to bring parents along,” she says.

It’s rewarding for Gobbel to accompany a family on this journey and to share in their success when a child comes to the end of treatment and is discharged. “In children with really challenging behaviors, we see a decrease in those behaviors because of having truly integrated the trauma as opposed to modifying the behavior,” she says. “EMDR helps integrate the traumatic memories and link those traumatic experiences to the challenging behaviors. That is a huge game changer for parents.”

Gobbel continues to access ATCI resources and schedule consultations with the team as needed. “Their access and commitment to working with clinicians after the training have been very important to my success,” she says. “This is the foundation for what I do.”

Gobbel opened her own practice in 2009. Two years ago she founded the Central Texas Attachment and Trauma Center, which is a group of independently practicing therapists who specialize in guiding their clients toward connection and healing.

After receiving her undergraduate degree in psychology from Miami University in Ohio, Gobbel earned a graduate degree in clinical social work from the University of Utah. She began her career doing traditional social work in Texas. While her son, who is now nine, was younger, Gobbel worked part time doing adoption work, which helped her realize her passion is working with kids who had been abused and neglected. Gobbel also has a post graduate certificate in therapy with foster and adoptive children and families.

For more information, visit Gobbel’s website at www.gobbelcounseling.com or check out the Central Texas Attachment and Trauma Center’s website at centraltexasattachmenttrauma.com.

Bonnie J. Haack, M.S., NCC, LPC

Children’s Home Society
801 N. Sycamore Ave., PO Box 1749, Sioux Falls, SD 57101
(605) 334-6004 – reception / (605) 965-3121 – direct
Email: haack@chssd.org

Bonnie Haack

Bonnie Haack MS, LPC, is an adoption therapist with The Children’s Home Society in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  She has been with the society for 15 years.  Previous positions included work with middle schoolers and work with the developmentally disabled population in various roles.  However, Bonnie was drawn to working with children and trauma and wanted to do more intensive counseling work.  The Children’s Home Society is an agency that partners with Children’s Inn, the domestic violence shelter, as well as Bright Star, a nurse and family partnership program.  The three agencies all have different roles in the communities.  The Children’s Home Society has 4 residential units for children with emotional issues.  Most have experienced trauma, including abuse and neglect.  Many of the residential children still have birth parents in their lives.  The Children’s Home Society also has a community-based department designed to assist children whose families are unstable or who are placed or adopted outside of the biological home.  Bonnie works with the community-placed program, typically with children adopted through foster care.  Bonnie provides the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol (IATP) as a solo therapist, providing both the family therapy and EMDR therapy components of the protocol.  She has also been working more and more with children in the residential program who have been traumatized.  Within the residential program, the residential therapists are providing the family therapy while Bonnie provides the trauma work.

Bonnie received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of South Dakota in 1992 and her Master’s in Counseling from Iowa State University in 1997.  Bonnie became interested in EMDR therapy after a colleague presented what she had learned at a staff meeting.  She was intrigued that clinicians were applying EMDR therapy to the treatment of traumatized children.  Their supervisor was very supportive, and so they attended weekend I EMDR Basic Training in Omaha in December of 2012.  While there, they also learned about the specialty training in the IATP model.  Bonnie attended an IATP training in Omaha shortly after her basic training, consulted with the team there, and then read the Integrative Team Treatment manual and the accompanying parent guide.  Bonnie states, “I love all of the strategies. They work so well–they just get to the heart of things with these kids. I feel very fortunate to know these methods.”

In her free time, Bonnie is very devoted to the rescue of stray cats.  She nurses them to health and then finds placements for them.  She is always happy to help anyone in her area looking for a good home for a stray cat.

Irma Hein, MD, PhD   

 

 

 


Email: i.hein@debascule.com

Irma Hein
Irma Hein is a child psychiatrist and senior researcher. She is affiliated at the Amsterdam University Medical Center and Levvel, an organization for specialized youth mental health, in the Netherlands.
Irma’s primary focus of research is child abuse and neglect, family treatment, and attachment related disorders. She is trained in EMDR, TF-CBT and IGT-K. She worked with refugee populations, foster children and families with multiple psychopathology.

Diana Hubberts, MS, LCPC

Diana Hubberts, MS, LCPC        
4180 IL Route 83, Suite 10
Long Grove, IL 60047-9563
Phone:(847) 606-8629
Email: d.hubberts@comcast.net
Website: dianahubberts.com

Diana Hubberts

Diana Hubberts, MS, LCPC is a certified IATP-C and EMDR clinician in private practice in Long Grove, a northwest Chicago suburb. Diana works primarily with children and teens, with a special focus on attachment, trauma, and gifted children. Diana was born and raised in the diverse inner city of Chicago in the 1960s. She received her Master of Science Degree in Biology along with a teaching certificate at Northern Illinois University. Diana expanded the environmental science program at Stevenson High School in Chicago during her thirteen years there as a biology teacher. Diana states, “My life after teaching was like another degree program. I lived in Europe, had children (one of whom joined our family from Russia) and then, along with my family, made an emotional and rewarding journey to Russia for a successful reunion between our daughter and her biological family.” Diana then went back to school, attending National Lewis University and receiving her Master of Science degree in Counseling. Because she was a busy mother, she started out volunteering as a counselor at a nonprofit agency that served young parents and children, many of whom were immigrants, for eleven years. The families came out of traumatic settings due to immigration and poverty. Diana states, “I loved my work with the parents, and I was the only one doing EMDR therapy at the agency. I felt like I was giving the best possible counseling to the people for whom it was least available. However, in the back of my mind, I always thought I wanted to work with children. I started taking every training regarding work with children that I could find, and I also trained in more useful methods I could use to help parents. Besides learning what I could to help my clients, I was always seeking greater understanding of issues related to attachment and trauma so that I could better understand my child. I took Joan Lovett’s child presentation at EMDRIA Montreal, and Joan recommended that I speak with Debra Wesselmann. I decided to bring Debra to Chicago and sponsored the IATP-C training here 7 years ago. It was perfect timing for me because I was starting my private practice and felt called to treat attachment trauma in children. I started getting calls for those children right away and continue with the work to this day. I still love this work.” “I have really been driven by my own experiences as a mother, as I didn’t have this kind of guidance or help when my own child was young. I tried therapist after therapist back then, and no one worked with children like mine. I hoped to find more answers when I began graduate school, but I learned nothing there that was helpful to me with my child. I saw the need, and I was inspired to help other families. If I can help any number of these children and families, I feel it has all been worthwhile.”

Lynne Lyon, MSW LCSW

 

 

 

 

Center for Attachment & Trauma Therapy, LLC
Virtual Therapy
Licensed in New Jersey, Pennsylvania & Delaware
Phone: (609) 217-2366
Email: lynnelyon@comcast.net
Phone: (609) 217-2366 Fax: (609) 219-6664
Website: https://attachmenttherapynj.com

Lynne Lyon

Lynne Lyon, MSW, LCSW worked as a graphic designer for 25 years before embarking on the journey of becoming an adoptive mother. Through the discovery that her daughter had been acutely traumatized from a medical accident, Lynne became involved in learning about attachment and trauma. Unfortunately, she discovered that no one in her city of Philadelphia seemed to understand or know how to effectively treat this kind of trauma. Lynne set out to do something to help other children and families affected by trauma related to orphanage care. Lynne started the Attach-China/International Parent’s Network, a website and on-line support group for parents whose internationally and domestically adopted children suffer from attachment impairment, trauma, and the effects of institutionalization. Lynne moderated the group from 2000 until 2007. The support group was in existence from 2000 until 2019. Lynne started Widener University’s Master of Social Work program, using her time to research RAD and PTSD (now known as attachment-trauma). Since graduating in 2004, 95% of her clients have been adoptive families and adopted children and adults. Lynne maintains a private practice at the Center for Attachment & Trauma Therapy in the Lawrenceville/Princeton, NJ area, specializing in working with adoptive families whose children are struggling with symptoms and behaviors related to their history of attachment trauma. Lynne’s work has focused on building a better attachment between family members and helping children and adults recover from complicated attachment trauma experiences. Lynne is fully EMDR trained and has trained extensively with The Attachment Trauma Center Institute, including their trainings for children and families as well as for adults. She also completed Laura Parnell’s series on Attachment Focused EMDR and the Certification Program in Adoption at Rutgers University School of Social Work. She is a member of the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Workers (NJSCSW) and EMDRIA.

 

Chris Perlmutter, LCSW

Chris Perlmutter, LCSW 
Comprehensice Therapy Services, LLC
10660 East Bethany Drive, Suite 29
Aurora, CO 80014-2602
Email: chris.lcsw.co@hotmail.com
Phone: (303) 217-1421  Fax: (303) 690-0642

Chris Perlmutter

Chris Perlmutter, LCSW  has been a Colorado licensed therapist for more than twenty years. She completed a Psychology, BA, degree at Metropolitan State College, and a Masters in Social Work at Denver
University. Working for a local community
Mental Health Center was an intensive orientation in treating children, adolescents, adults, and families struggling with trauma challenges. Chris
completed certifications in EMDR and
the [Attachment Trauma Center Institute]
Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children (IATP-C) and a training by Deb Wesselmann and Ann Potter, Strengthening the Adult Authentic Self: EMDR Therapy for Healing Adult Attachment /Developmental Trauma; all
have developed her therapy skills for people of all ages. Chris maintains a private practice since 2017 in Centennial, Co.
In her free time, she enjoys family
time and hobby knitting enhanced by hand
spinning sheep fleece into custom wool yarns.

Mary Pratt, LCSW

 

 

 

 


Mary C Pratt, LCSW
Hands on Parenting
23441 South Pointe Dr Suite 140
Laguna Hills CA 92653
Phone: (949) 584-5572
Email: Mary.Pratt@handsonparenting-pcit.com
Website: www.handsonparenting-pcit.com

Mary Pratt

Mary C Pratt, LCSW has been working with children and families for 20 years. She obtained her master’s degree from Long Beach State. She worked with physically and sexually abused children and their families at a non-profit agency for 5 years in California, then moved to Illinois and worked with the same population before returning to the agency in California. Mary has always been drawn to helping children and their parents.
In 2004, Mary became certified in PCIT by UCDavis. Within a year she also became a trainer in PCIT. Mary is currently working with UCDavis to train other therapists in a new modality called PC-Care, which is a brief version of PCIT. Mary started her private practice, Hands On Parenting, in Laguna Hills, California in 2006. Mary trained in EMDR in 2017 and was EMDR-certified in 2019. She was eager to apply EMDR to child trauma. This required more specialized training.
Mary was happy to participate in the IATP-C trainings and went on to achieve certification in IATP-C. She found the trainings and consultations to be invaluable in her work with children and families. In her private practice, she now offers family therapy, PCIT, and EMDR therapy.

Katie Stallman, LICSW

 

 

 

 

Arbor Place Therapy PLLC
7603 35 th Ave SW (West Seattle Office) Seattle, WA 98126
2021 Minor Ave East, #3 (Eastlake Office) Seattle, WA 98102
Phone: (206) 240-4185
Email:
www.arborplacetherapy.com
Website: Katie@arborplacetherapy.com

Katie Stallman

Katie Stallman, LICSW was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Katie knew as early as adolescence she wanted to work in the field of foster care and adoption. While still in high school, she worked with younger children in foster care as a volunteer with Crittenton Children’s Center in Kansas City and went on to do a college internship and was eventually hired to work in their group home for adolescent girls. Inspired by both the challenges and the resiliency of this population she continued her educational journey receiving her Master of Social Work degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998.

Upon graduation, she returned to the Kansas City area working again within the child welfare system for Kaw Valley Center in Kansas City, Kansas for two ½ years. Her clients as well as some very experienced mentors schooled her in the impact of intergenerational trauma. After she finished her licensure, she moved across the country to Seattle to be with her husband and transitioned to working for a private adoption agency specializing in open adoptions. Her interest in the long-term well-being of children and the whole adoption constellation deepened. She worked there for 15 years and continues to have a
supervisory role.

Katie opened her private practice in 2014 specializing in attachment and trauma work ever striving to understand and assist in the complex process of healing. She completed Deborah Gray’s ATFT program, became a Certified Bringing Baby Home Educator, a Certified Theraplay Practitioner and more recently took the basic EMDR training. After the initial training in EMDR and eager to learn how to apply this modality to her population, she discovered and then completed the Attachment Trauma Center Institute
IATP-C trainings finishing her certification in the IATP-C model in 2021.

Katie enjoys blending Theraplay and the EMDR and Family IATP-C model. She still specializes in work with parents and children impacted by foster care and adoption as well as working with children with anxiety. She is a part of the Adoption Therapy Associates of West Seattle group, and she participates in regular peer consultation as they apply this model and integrate the IATP-C as a team.

Rebecca Mahan-Strupp, MA, LPC

 

 

 

Reflections Mental Health LLC
2802 Coho St Suite 203
Madison WI, 53713
Cell: (608)-2917033
rmahanstrupp@reflectionsmhwi.com 
Website: Reflectionsmhwi.com

Rebecca-Mahan-Strupp

Do you feel like no one believes you when you describe your child’s outbursts and behaviors? Do you feel overwhelmed, numb, disconnected, hopeless, or stuck? Do you feel like happiness is unreachable, experience pain in relationships, and/or a lack of productivity? Do you want to feel “happy” or “okay” — maybe for the first time in years or for the first time?

Families experience stress, pain, worry, embarrassment, and guilt when navigating children’s anxiety, outbursts, and day to day struggles at home and school. Look for therapy that helps your child’s need for connection while maintaining your child’s while maintaining your own sanity!

As a Licensed Professional Counselor and fully certified EMDR therapist, Beckie uses an attachment theoretical orientation to blend the science of connection with the power of healing. She strives to bring compassion, warmth, and a direct yet collaborative approach to working with her clients.  She frequently hears “I feel like I’m going crazy!” or “no one else is seeing this!” when talking to parents who are dealing with intense, attachment seeking behaviors.

When people feel overwhelmed, numb, disconnected, hopeless, or stuck they experience a loss in happiness, pain in relationships, and a lack of productivity. Therapy is helpful with these issues in more ways than teaching coping skills. The science of connection helps people find a way to a sense of feeling “okay” — maybe for the first time in years or for the first time, period. Beckie believes in helping parents understand their child’s need for connection while maintaining their own sanity. For all clients, work together includes strategies from trauma-informed care and neuroscience to help increase calm, reduce negative thinking and anxiety, increase health in relationships, and improve productivity in school, at work, or at home.

Based on her six years of experience doing in-home therapy, plus her years as an outpatient psychotherapist, Beckie has direct insight and personal experience observing children’s anxiety, outbursts, and day to day struggles in both home and school settings. Beckie has worked closely with families to navigate psychiatry appointments and IEP/504 meetings.

Beckie works with children 4+, adolescents, parents and families, and one on one with adults. Her clients often experience pre- and post- adoption struggles, anxiety, chronic stress, PTSD and complex trauma, school stress, attachment issues and reactive attachment, dysregulation, suicidal ideation, dissociation, sensory issues, depression, and mood disorders. Beckie provides parenting and cross household parenting consultation, and often works one on one with parents and caregivers for their own anxieties, chronic stress, and caregiver fatigue.

Beckie also works with first responders. Her background as a “police wife” of 13 years brings an understanding of the struggles of wellness versus cashing out comp time, shift work, work stigma, and feelings of being broken.

Beckie’s office space includes access to the Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART) area, including a trampoline and exercise balls. Her office also has giant bean bags, weighted blankets, Legos, and toys for therapeutic play!

Beckie is certified in the Integrative Attachment Treatment Protocol for Children (IATP-C) with the Attachment Trauma Center Institute, and is a fully trained TF-CBT therapist. Her interventions also include CBT, DBT, attachment narratives, and parts work.

Beckie is a consultant-in-training (CIT) through EMDRIA for other EMDR and IATP-C clinicians. She provides one on one supervision for fully licensed and training licensed staff interested in working with children and adolescents.

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Cardinal Stritch University
Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, The Trauma Center at JRI
B.A. in Psychology and minor in Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Member of EMDRIA, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychology Association, and Psi Chi

In her free time, Beckie can be found drinking coffee, snuggling her German Shepherds, cats, and rabbits, snowboarding, gardening, reading, and tabletop gaming.

Gwen Marlatt Vela, LCSW

 

 

 


1316 Opdyke Avenue
Ocean, NJ 07712
Phone: (908) 902-1356

Gwen Marlatt Vela

Gwen Marlatt Vela, LCSW, specializes in working with traumatized children, adults, and families in her private practice, Back to Center Counseling, LLC.  Gwen provides pre and post adoptive services to children and their families as part of her private practice. EMDR therapy became a passion after her EMDR basic training three years ago when she was surprised by the personal growth she achieved during her practicum experience.  She has trained and consulted with the clinicians at The Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska regarding application of the IATP with children and families as well as application of EMDR with dissociative adults.

Gwen also works as a School Family Liaison Counselor at a High School near her home, where she continues her work with children and their families.  Prior to accepting this position, she served as the program administrator and supervisor for the clinical/behavioral health program and pre and post adoption program for The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey.  The program there provides clinical in-home services to families planning to adopt and to families who have adopted and are struggling to maintain their families and employs seven clinicians to work with the families involved in those programs.  Prior to becoming a clinical supervisor, Gwen was a clinician with the program. Gwen participated in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol training with The Attachment Trauma Institute (Attachment Trauma Center of Nebraska) due to her work with the program.  She stated, “I felt lost about how to help these families 2 ½ years ago, and after completing the training in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol (IATP), I found out that it was just what these children and families needed. Also, I discovered that it could be adapted to in-home work. The IATP training changed how I provided services and how I practiced. This is a difficult population to work with because the parents have a pre-conceived notion of how people respond to things and they need the information about how trauma affects the brain.  It takes away the shame piece. I find it so rewarding, watching the relationship shift and change.” Gwen went on to explain, “Having everything together in a clear outline and having the support of the consults was so helpful in moving forward and gaining confidence in working with severely traumatized children and their families.  Learning this modality has removed burnout because even though the work is still challenging, I feel really effective.  It is like a light that keeps growing brighter.”

As clinical director, Gwen started the process of getting all clinical staff at The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey training in EMDR and in the IATP model.  Although Gwen is now working full-time in her own private practice, the staff at the agency are continuing to complete their training in both components of the model and are excited about the process.

Gwen attended Rutgers University as an undergraduate completed her master’s at Monmouth University.  However, Gwen believes that she gained the majority of her expertise in the area of trauma through her later training and experiences at The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey. “I am still on this journey. I believe that to become skilled in this work requires a certain amount of vulnerability and willingness to say ‘I’ll give it my best shot’.”

Gwen feels fortunate to have wonderful eight-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, and a very supportive wife.  Her family lives in the beautiful little town of Wanamassa, near the beach, where they enjoy surfing and time in the water.

Teresa Brown, M.Ed., LPC, Registered Play Therapist

Family Therapy Solutions, PLLC
101 Southwestern Blvd. #105 
Sugar Land, TX 77478
Phone: (281) 504-8004
Website: atchouston.com

Teresa Brown

Teresa Brown, M.Ed., LPC, RPT, received her undergraduate degree from LSU and her master’s degree from the University of Houston Victoria. She worked in education for 15 years as a teacher and school counselor. Teresa feels extremely fortunate to have had the
opportunity to do her internship as part of the family team with Mary Ring, MAMFC, LPC-S at Julianna Poor Memorial Counseling Center. This is where she began learning about attachment and trauma and the effectiveness of EMDR and the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol (IATP) for children. Teresa explains that she decided to experience EMDR therapy for herself and discovered miraculous results in her own life. She attended EMDR basic training and began implementing it with children immediately. Next, she studied the Integrative Team Treatment for Attachment Trauma manual and then attended the online IATP training. Teresa states that she has discovered the model to be the most effective and efficient way of helping the children and families she works with. One of the first cases in which she applied the model was for a child in a residential treatment center. The child was able to be discharged from residential after 3 months and family members celebrate as he continues to thrive and do well.

Teresa has discovered that attachment problems affect a multitude of the families she works with, including those who have been impacted by stressful pregnancies, foreign adoptions, foster care, and medical problems. She states, “That is where my heart is. I am so privileged and humbled to be able to do this work with these kids and to bring them hope. The parents say that this is different from what we have ever tried. When parents see their child work through traumas and gain a new perspective, it touches them. Having the parent in there and doing that work makes so much difference.”

Teresa is in the process of bringing in new therapists who are getting trained in EMDR and the IATP and is officially opening a new space: The Attachment and Trauma Center of Houston. Teresa and her colleagues are excited to treat more children and families through the team approach and expansion of their services.

In her off times Teresa enjoys trying new foods, caring for her 3 rescue dogs, spending time with family, and traveling.

Alyssa Caldbeck, LISW

 

 

 


Website: alyssacaldbeck.com
Email: alyssa@alyssacaldbeck.com

Alyssa Caldbeck

Alyssa Caldbeck, MSW, LISW is an adoption-competent therapist with training and completion of the TAC
(Training for Adoption Competency) program through the Center for Adoption Support in Education (CASE). She will have completed the requirements to be a Registered Play Therapist in 2017. In addition to providing mental health therapy in a child health agency along with occupational and speech therapists, she provides parent coaching (consultations) and trainings as well as community presentations and therapist trauma consultations/trainings.

Alyssa states, “In the 10-plus years I have been working with children and families, I have been most impacted by the struggles endured by families with children who have experienced trauma and attachment difficulties. Finding the right help can be so difficult for these families.”

Alyssa knew in graduate school that she would seek training in EMDR therapy for trauma treatment. She completed the EMDR basic training while still in graduate school in order to work with the children and families affected by attachment and trauma difficulties. Although most of her work has been with adopted families, Alyssa states that she has also had the privilege of working with children in biological families who have also experienced trauma.

Alyssa’s first advanced EMDR training was the Integrative EMDR and Family Therapy Model training through the Attachment Trauma Center Institute. Alyssa states, “I feel fortunate to have been trained in both EMDR and the integrative model so early on in my career because it has shaped my theoretical approach and understanding in such in a profound way. I have been able to work effectively with challenging clinical concerns and feel competent in doing so. Receiving on-going consultation towards being certified was greatly beneficial to me, also, because it helped me go in a deeper direction and help my clients make critical shifts through the work.” Alyssa states, “The on-going consultation was also a form of professional self-care for me.” Alyssa’s career plans include helping others become more skilled clinicians. She wants to continue on with consultations to become an EMDRIA-approved EMDR consultant. Alyssa states that her dream is to help spread the word regarding the EMDR and family therapy integrative model so that the approach could become a part of the programming in adoption agencies, youth shelters, and residential facilities.
For more information, visit Alyssa’s website at www.alyssacaldbeck.com

Beth Coles, LPC-S, RPT-S

 

 

 


Beth Coles Therapy, PLLC (TX LPC-S #61349) 1755 N Collins Blvd. #310 Richardson, TX 75080

Phone:  (214) 577-7550
Email: bethcoles@bethcolestherapy.com
Beth Coles

Beth Coles, LPC-S, RPT-S (TX LPC-S #61349) is in private practice in Richardson, Texas. She is a registered play therapist, a registered play therapist supervisor, and is certified in EMDR as well as the IATP-C model for treating children affected by attachment trauma. Beth completed her EMDR consultation with Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, and she is an EMDR consultant-in-training with Marshall as well. She also completed trainings with Ann BeckleyForest, LCSW, RPT-S and Annie Monaco, LCSWR, RPT.
In addition to her private practice, Beth helps with trainings for an EMDR training group in Texas called Compassion Works. Beth worked for ten years with a multidisciplinary team at a child advocacy center for children who experienced sexual abuse. She also served time there as their clinical director.
Working with traumatized children has been Beth’s goal since she was an undergraduate. The majority of Beth’s caseload are adopted children with a history of attachment trauma. She combines her expertise in play therapy with the IATP-C EMDR and family therapy model.

Danie Duron, MA, LPC EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant

 

 

 


Founder and Clinical Therapist
Direct Line: (616)757-5667
Fax: (616)757-4536
12330 James Ste. A80
Holland, MI 49424
Email:
DanieD@traumaattachmentcenter.com
Website: http://TraumaAttachmentCenter.com

Danie Duron

Danie Duron, M.A., LPC received her undergraduate degree in family studies and her master’s degree in counseling with and emphasis in marriage and family therapy from Western Michigan University. She’s a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Michigan since 2012 and was a Licensed Associate Counselor in the State of Arizona from 2009-2012. Most of her career has included working with children, adolescents, and their families in different communities and environments in Arizona, Nevada, and home-based services in Michigan. Danie has worked with primarily women and children with a variety of disorders and difficulties including adoption issues, reactive attachment, trauma, abuse, self-harm and suicidal ideation. She has a special interest in working with teens who have traits of personality disorders while helping them develop the skills they need to overcome their struggles. She also specializes in the treatment of women with a history of sexual trauma. She was trained in EMDR therapy in 2018, is now a certified EMDR therapist and EMDR consultant-in-training. Danie is certified in IATP-C model. She was first trained in the IATP-C model in 2019 and has been participating in consultation on the model since her first training. She is currently creating an IETP-C team in Holland, Michigan with a focus on children, adults, and families affected by attachment trauma

Marcia Gonclaves-Terlep, LMHC

 

 

 


Marcia Gonclaves-Terlep, LMHC        

1354 Willow Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
Phone:(561) 308-8191
Email:mterlep9@gmail.com

Marcia Gonclaves-Terlep

Marcia Goncalves-Terlep has a private practice in West Palm Beach Florida, where she works with children and adults, with a special focus on helping children who have experienced trauma. She has always had a passion for working with children and recently became certified in the IATP-C approach. Marcia grew up in Brazil and graduated from The Methodist University in Brazil. She began practicing there as a psychologist and play therapist in 1986. On the side, she worked pro bono at a non-profit facility for children of poverty who had intellectual or physical disabilities. It was a nonprofit organization for children who did not have access to other services because the children came from a very poor population.

Marcia had heart surgery in Brazil and needed an extensive stay to recover. She had to take a 6-month sabbatical from work, and a friend asked her to spend it with her in her home in the U.S. While staying in the U.S., Marcia met her husband-to-be. She and her husband have made Florida their home after Marcia immigrated in 2003. Marcia’s mother and one of her sisters recently moved to the U.S. as well.

In order to get licensed to practice in the U.S., in 2008, Marcia completed a second master’s degree at South University in West Palm Beach. While going back to school, she worked in shelters as a volunteer and an advocate. Marcia worked as a therapist from 2009 until 2016 with children ages 5 through 17 in an inpatient psychiatric facility in Palm Beach County. In 2017, Marcia opened her private practice.

Marcia was drawn to the IATP-C model due to the emphasis on inclusion of parents and the focus on attachment resource development. Because Brazil is a family-oriented society, Marcia has always recognized the importance of the family component and the development of healthy attachment relationships, making the IATP-C a natural fit for her practice.

Jayna Haney, MS, LPC

Jayna Haney, MS, LPC
The Wellness Collective 5900 Memorial Dr., Ste. 218
Houston, TX 77006
Ph. 832-779-2120
Email: jayna@thebridgeacross.com
Website: thebridgeacross.com

Jayna Haney

Jayna Haney, MS, LPC, provides services to stepfamilies and single parents as well as nuclear families with complex issues. She works with adults, couples, children/teens, and families through private practice at The Wellness Collective and Red Dun Ranch. She has experience and training in EMDR, trauma, attachment, high conflict dynamics/parental alienation, marriage, parenting, and the Integrative Attachment Protocol for Children (IATP-C).
Jayna reports that her own experience with divorce in 1998 highly impacted her career.
After Jayna and her husband Mike married in 2001, they began teaching classes for stepfamilies, couples, and single parents and both trained at the Stepfamily Foundation in New York. She founded The Bridge Across for Single Parents and Stepfamilies in 2006, providing coaching, education, and programs, including those she authored herself. Jayna earned her MS in Counseling from UHCL.
Jayna was drawn to working with children and families during her graduate school
practicum at an elementary school and a junior high school. She observed that almost every child she worked with came from a divorced family or step-family. Following that experience, she went back to school and received her post-graduate certification in marriage and family andattended extensive trainings including the High Conflict Institute advanced family training,
finding its principles to be a guiding post for her.
Following her EMDR basic training, Jayna participated in the IATP-C training due to her
interest in integration of the family. She states, “The IATP-C was a coming together of all the
important pieces of my training and experience in a way that made so much sense. It was
completely applicable to children of divorce due to the trauma and attachment issues that they experience. I also use pieces of the protocol with parents who have adult children from who they are estranged, and I incorporate elements of the protocol with two adult addiction groups.
Equally influential for my practice was the 3-day Adult Attachment training I attended with Deb Wesselmann LIMHP and Ann Potter, Ph.D.”
Jayna and her husband Mike have been married for 18 years and are enjoying their empty
nest and four grown children with full hearts.

Scott Herman, MA, LPC

Senior Psychological Examiner – Health Services Provider Licensed Professional 
Counselor – Mental Health Services Provider Diplomate, American Academy of Experts 
in Traumatic Stress
831 West Jackson Street
Cookeville, TN 38501
Phone: (931) 520-4418

Scott Herman

Scott Herman is a licensed professional counselor in Cookeville, Tennessee who recently became certified in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol. Located on the edge of the Appalachian Plateau, Cookeville is the service center for the 14-county Upper Cumberland Region, an area containing some of the most impoverished counties of the United States.  Although Scott is a solo licensed provider, he works with a canine co-therapist; Bailey.  The seven-month-old poodle is instinctively attuned to individuals of all ages.

Scott did his internship at the Alvin C. York Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and worked at Plateau Mental Health Center from 1989 until 1997.  He progressed from an outpatient therapist and psychological examiner to Program Manger of an inpatient diagnostic facility for adolescents.

From 1997 to 2000, Scott served as the Regional Director for an agency that provided therapeutic foster-care services to special-needs children and then became the clinical consultant for an agency specializing in family preservation.  In 2002, Scott went into a group medical practice, Cookeville Medical Center and attended his first EMDR training He was encouraged by drastic improvement in several clients that had been “stuck” for months.

In January of 2012, Scott entered private practice and established a partnership with a large focus on psychological testing, autism testing, and consulting for Social Security Disability; Determination Section, schools, medical practices, and local social-service agencies.  With the greater freedom that solo practice brought, Scott elected to finish his EMDR training and to focus more on trauma treatment.

In 2014, Scott conducted a psychological assessment on a teen that had been adopted from an orphanage in the Ukraine.  It became evident that the boy’s primary difficulty was an inability to form attachments.  A Russian psychologist with expertise in treating children raised in orphanages steered Scott to the cutting edge work at the ATCN and the book by Wesselmann, Schweitzer, and Armstrong, Integrative Team Treatment for Attachment Trauma in Children: Family Therapy and EMDR. Scott realized the emotional dysregulation described in the manual was the source of the difficulties with many of the children referred to his practice, including the boy from the Ukraine.  Intrigued, Scott attended a presentation by the authors at the 2014 EMDRIA Convention in Denver, Colorado and then enrolled in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol training program.

Following the training, Scott immediately began implementing the IATP, and was pleased when the young man adopted from the Ukraine had a successful resolution of the difficulties that had brought him into therapy.  Scott realized that the expertise he was developing through the Attachment Trauma Center Institute had far-reaching applications. With consultation assistance through ATCI, Scott began cautiously applying the techniques with a variety of clients and was gratified with the results, including a significant reduction in the nightmares of an adult woman with addictions and a history of horrific mental and sexual abuse.  Scott went on to complete certification in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol and now specializes in the treatment of children and adults who endured severe abuse and neglect by their attachment figures. Scott is also a diplomate with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.  For more information on Scott Herman LPC, contact him at scott@scotthermanlpc.com or visit his website at scotthermanlpc.com.

Wendy Llamas, LCSW

 

 

 

Wendy Llamas, LCSW
Email: wendy@growingglimmers.com
Website: www.growingglimmers.com

Wendy Llamas

Wendy Llamas LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in Southern California. Since 2016, she has provided community based mental health services in school settings in Orange County, California. Wendy provides EMDR, attachment-focused services to primarily Latinx tweens and teens and their caregivers. Wendy is on a mission to help families and individuals, particularly those from communities of color, recognize the ways their upbringing is impacting their present day and help them break family patterns that are blocking their potential to heal and grow. Wendy completed her EMDR basic training in 2017. As she began looking for an Approved Consultant to receive consultation from, she quickly realized that there were not many who specialized in attachment work with children and families in her area. Wendy learned of the Attachment Trauma Center Institute and has received most of her EMDR consultation through their supportive team. She recently became certified in EMDR and is working towards becoming an EMDR Approved Consultant to work with other clinicians in her community to offer these valuable services. She hopes to combine the information she has learned with her passion of providing culturally affirming services to underserved populations. Wendy also has a private practice, Growing Glimmers: Child, Family, and Trauma Therapy, in Orange County, California.

Cathy Maindonald, MDIV Registered Psychotherapist

 

 

 


23 Manominee St.
Huntsville ON
P1H 1H2
Phone: (705) 788-0813
Email: cathymaindonald@gmail.com

Cathy Maindonald

Cathy Maindonald, MDIV, Registered Psychotherapist received her Master’s of Divinity with a counseling focus at Tyndale University and Seminary in Toronto, Canada in 2002. Cathy is an affiliate member with AAMFT and is a registered psychotherapist in Canada. While in graduate school, Cathy completed her practicum with physician, therapist, and EMDR practitioner, Dr. T.Y. Wong, at The Grace Health Center in Toronto. She feels grateful for her internship with Dr. Wong because she was able to work with Individuals, children, families, and couples, from a Family Systems perspective as well as Emotional Focused therapy. During her practicum she also observed the effectiveness of EMDR therapy. Under Dr. Wong’s guidance she began her EMDR training before leaving graduate school.
After graduation, Cathy participated in group as well as Individual supervision at the Institute for Family Living in Toronto. She was trained in play therapy under supervision with Liana Lowenstein MSW for several years where she also was trained to assess and treat Trauma as well as sexual abuse trauma. Cathy trained in integrating Play Therapy with EMDR therapy through Jan Yordy MSW and completed her level 3 in The Canadian Association of Child and Play Therapy.
Cathy is currently in private practice but is also contracted with the Algonquin Family Health Team. She treats children in her town under 30 physicians. Due to the many adoptive families seeking services for children with complicated presentations, Cathy sought more information and was happy to discover the IATP-C training, including the EMDR and the family therapy components of the model. Cathy appreciates how the model allows her to be more interactive in sessions and to “think outside of the box,” something she has always enjoyed. Although she has created some teams for specific cases, she also uses the model solo. Due to the effectiveness of the model, Cathy felt it was important to complete her IATP-C certification.

Nathalie Schlattmann, MA   

 

 

 


Email: n.schlattmann@debascule.com

Nathalie Schlattmann
Nathalie Schlattmann is a clinical psychologist and family therapist. She specialized in working with chronically traumatized children and adolescents. She is a trainer and consultant TF-CBT and an EMDR Europe consultant.
She currently works for a regional team at Levvel in Amsterdam and is one of the experts at the Trauma Attachment and Family team of Levvel.
In her therapeutic practice with chronically traumatized children she found that for these children, TF-CBT and EMDR were not satisfactory. She discovered the methodology of Debra Wesselmann and colleagues and arranged for it to be tailored to the Dutch population. The method is now being tested on effectiveness for use in the Netherlands by Mara Van Der Hoeven and Irma Hein at the University of Amsterdam. The method has been named IGT-K in the Netherlands.

Lebeka Shin, LCSW

Attachment and Trauma Therapy – Brookside Office         
6155 Oak Street, Ste. B
Kansas City, MO 64113
Phone: (816) 607-1775 
www.attachmentandtraumatherapy.com

Lebeka Shin

Lebeka Shin, LCSW, Certified in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children

Lebeka Shin, LCSW is in private practice at Attachment and Trauma Therapy in Kansas City, Missouri. Lebeka was drawn to the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children after completing EMDR I and II.  She went on to become certified in the model and in EMDR therapy. She states, “I loved the model and it is a perfect fit for the children, adolescents, and families I work with.” Lebeka has also completed training in Theraplay, Levels I and II, Child-centered Play Therapy, and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI).  She works primarily with foster and adopted children and their families.

The attachment and family component of the IATP model fit perfectly with Lebeka’s philosophy regarding her work with children. She states, “I have always believed that to help a child make change, the clinician must work with the parent child relationship.” She especially loves working with challenging children who come from difficult backgrounds and supporting their families.

Lebeka received her master’s degree from Yeshiva University in New York City. She first became interested in working with children when she took a year off from school and volunteered for Americorps. During that year she provided literacy programs and education about social issues to youth in an inner city area. She states, “One youth in particular touched my heart. He had been sexually abused and labeled as emotionally disturbed. I decided then that I wanted to help children like this young boy.”

Lebeka states that some of her other early jobs were also invaluable in terms of the experience she gained. Her work with families at a homeless shelter and later work as a behavioral health staff at a lock-down residential facility deepened her commitment to helping children.

Lebeka loves the outdoors. This fall she will be hiking and camping in the Grand Canyon with friends. She loves traveling and has been to many different nations, including a trip to China last summer during which she worked at a camp for children who had lost their parents.

Stacey C. Stevens, MS, LMHC

Stacey C. Stevens, MS, LMHC 
300 Center Rd.
West Seneca, NY 14224
Phone:(716)598-0063 Fax: (716) 677-0230
Email: stacey@scscounseling.org
Website: scscounseling.org

Stacey C. Stevens

Stacey C. Stevens, MS, LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor. She has been in private practice in West Seneca, New York, since 2007. She specializes in the treatment of trauma in children as well as grief, loss, and anxiety for ages 3 and up. She offers group, individual, and family counseling. Stacey also was a co-founder of Pathways of WNY, a supervised therapeutic supervised visitation program which was purchased by G.A. Family Services, a local foster care agency. The visitation program is thriving and growing.

Stacey received her undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo in psychology. Stacey was drawn to working with children in a child advocacy environment. For her student internship,Stacey worked with Dr. Gail Goodman, a specialist in children’s testimony. She received her master’s degree in counseling from Canisius College in Buffalo in 1996.

Stacey has had broad experiences working with all aspects of trauma. Prior to starting her private practice, Stacey worked at Child and Adolescent Treatment Services in the Child AdvocacyCenter. She later worked in Child and Family Services providing outpatient mental health services to children, families, and adults, and then the Sex Offender Management program for adults, adolescents, and children. When she opened her private practice, most of her clients were adopted and foster children due to her expertise in child advocacy.

Stacey completed her basic EMDR training in 2006 and found that the AIP model fit pulled together everything that she had learned about trauma. She went on to become EMDR certified and then an EMDR certified consultant. She continued specialized training in EMDR and was asked to review some EMDR books, including “Integrative Team Treatment for AttachmentTrauma in Children: Family Therapy and EMDR,” which led her to take the IntegrativeAttachment Trauma Protocol training for children with The Attachment Trauma Center Institute.
Stacey stated, “The best part of the IATP-C model for me is the structured way in which the parents are included in the therapy. Having a structure and language to effectively involve and guide the parents has allowed parents the opportunity to become part of the healing process for their children.”

Stacey has two adolescent boys and two dogs who keep her very busy. She is a baseball mom, lacrosse mom, basketball mom, and football mom.

Lindy Swimm, LCSW

 

 

 


Creative Therapy Services
Culpeper, Virginia
Phone: (703) 380-6559
Email: lindyswimm@gmail.com

Lindy Swimm

Lindy Swimm, LCSW is an EMDRIA-approved consultant, certified in the EMDR and family therapy Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol. Lindy is a licensed social worker with Creative Therapy Services in Culpeper, Virginia. She works primarily with foster and adoptive families and traumatized children. She has worked in the areas of trauma, attachment, sexual assault, and domestic violence for thirty years. Lindy trained through the Mary Ainsworth Clinic and is certified in the Circle of Security training. She is extensively trained in play therapy and in art therapy. She explained that although she still uses these methods, none of them provide a way to work directly with the children as well as the parents to help them with challenging behaviors related to trauma such as elimination and food problems. She decided to get trained in the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol after she attended a training on the model at EMDRIA in Washington, DC. “When I saw the EMDR and family therapy work with the kids, the parents, and the trauma, it made so much sense to me.” Lindy was excited by the results and decided to continue with consultation and certification in the EMDR and family therapy integrative model. Lindy received her master’s degree in art education therapy from Southeastern Massachusetts University. She later received a master’s degree in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University. Early in her career, Lindy ran an art therapy program and a residential program and worked with an annual festival called a Very Special Arts Festival. She was the director of a special needs program for adults and later was director of a children’s domestic violence and sexual assault program. Lindy was also director of an intensive in-home counseling program. Lindy authored grant-funded books for kids on domestic violence including one called “Visitation Through the Eyes of Children” and one called “Going to Court.” Lindy has gravitated towards private practice in order to be able to utilize her creative thinking process and incorporate her art therapy background into her work. She states, “I believe that when we are working with children we have to be flexible and utilize what will work best for each child.” Lindy grew up and worked in Massachusetts but has lived in Virginia for the past twenty years. She continues to have a passion for art and feels extremely fortunate to be working in a field that she absolutely loves. She states that she and her partner of 22 years have been blessed with a beautiful home in Virginia with horses and chickens and dogs and cats and now a 2 ½ year old daughter. She states, “Having a child of my own after all these years has opened my heart further and given me so much more empathy for the parents I work with.”

Dawn Wilcox, LCSW

 

Dawn Wilcox, LCSW
130 Maple Avenue
Suite 6C
Red Bank, NJ 07701
Ph. (732) 735-5572
Email:dwilcoxlcsw@gmail.com
Website: www.dawnwilcox.com

Dawn Wilcox

Dawn Wilcox, MSW, LCSW specializes in working with children, teens and families,
specifically in the areas of trauma and attachment. She began her career as a School Social Worker before beginning her private practice in 2007. Dawn is an approved New Jersey Clinical Supervisor, an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist and an EMDRIA approved EMDR Consultant. She is certified in the Integrative Attachment Protocol for Children (IATP-C) and has also completed the Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program through the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute located in Boston. Ms. Wilcox is trained in the Integrated Learning Systems' Safe and Sound Protocol and Focus System and most recently completed her training with SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment). Dawn continues her
training and education in the areas of trauma studies and trauma informed treatments, including EMDR, Sand Play and Internal Family Systems. Her professional affiliations include the National Association of Social Workers, the Association of Play Therapy,
the Sandplay Therapists of America and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
International Association (EMDRIA).
Dawn’s interest in working with children grew during her undergraduate work as a law and justice student when she was completing an internship at a Juvenile Detention Center as a tutor. Some of the youth in the detention center were as young as 10. She stated, “It made me want to help them with whatever got them there. As a result, I picked up a minor in psychology and then applied for Social Workgraduate school. I did my field placements all working with children. I’m fortunate because I’m one of those people who had a realization and followed it, so that now I love what I’m doing and I’m passionate
about it. I really just genuinely enjoy the kids I work with and look forward to seeing them each day.”
Dawn completed the IATP-C training four years ago. She stated, “I realized that was the piece I was missing. It really resonated with me because it worked. Although I’m a solo practitioner, the IATP-C has become a pillar of my practice. I’ve incorporated it with my sand tray and play therapy work. I can’t think of a client that I’ve seen for whom I haven’t incorporated attachment work.”

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