I strive to create an environment of empathy and compassion where clients feel safe. I couple this with various theoretical frameworks to meet each client, family, or couple's unique needs. I work with many challenges including anxiety, depression, attachment traumas, parenting, grief/loss, and family concerns. I have a special interest in maternal mental health and am certified in caring for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders by Postpartum Support International. I also have done a lot of couples counseling including sexual difficulties.
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Layla Asamarai, PsyD, LP (EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Trainer)
EMDRIA approved consultant and trainer (affiliated with Institute for Creative Mindfulness) has been utilizing EMDR since 2006 until now. Specializes in working with communities of colors as well as utilizing EMDR in working with refugee populations, survivors of torture, generational trauma, EMDR with interpreters, and how to adapt it's use in other languages.
Group EMDR sessions available for $95 for 2 hours ($105 for 1 hr of individual) on weekends via teleconferencing (GoToMeeting). Availability of groups can be found at www.luminousmind.appointy.com
Also specializes in providing EMDR trainings with experience in providing EMDR basic training to multicultural communities and therapists of color. Contact via dr.layla@gmail.com to explore scheduling and pricing options.
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Alexis Anttila, MA, LMFT
- 1053 Grand Ave, Ste. 103, St. Paul, MN 55105
- (763) 703-7546
- EMDR Trained Clinician
Laurie Koltes MA LP
- 627 Snelling Ave S, St Paul, MN 55116, USA
- 612-930-3086
- EMDRIA Certified Clinician
Dr. Dorothee Ischler, DMFT, LMFT, LP
- Northfield, MN 55057, USA
- 5072104984
- EMDR Trained Clinician
Romana Triliegi, MA, LPCC
- 8401 Wayzata Blvd, Suite 150
- 7635441004
- EMDRIA Certified Clinician
Kori Hennessy, MA, LMFT
- 812 East 48th Street Suites 5
- 6518028302
- EMDR Trained Clinician
EMDR Certified in Minnesota?
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EMDRIA Approved Consultant/Trainer
Midwest Center for EMDR Training and Therapy
Susan Schaefer PhD, LP
EMDRIA Approved ConsultantTrainer
All Inclusive Basic EMDR Training Program (Part 1, Part 2
and 10 hours of consultation)
Fall 2018 Dates:
Sept. 7-8
Sept 28-29
Nov. 9-10
Nov. 30-Dec. 1
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Did I Lock The Door? Treating OCD With EMDR Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention, and Ego State Therapy
OCD is a notoriously challenging condition to treat, in part because exposure is not enough to extinguish the high levels of anxiety. Research clearly indicates that response prevention, simultaneously with exposure to obsessional thoughts, is needed to eventuate extinction or reduction of anxiety.
Dr. Paulsen teaches how EMDR Therapy can potentiate the anxiety reduction through desensitization and reprocessing, making an arduous treatment not only efficacious but time efficient and more comfortable than pure exposure and response prevention.
Additionally, OCD sometimes appears to be a response to developmental trauma sequestered at ages when magical thinking is normal. In such cases, ego state maneuvers will help access the locus of developmental arrest at the time of trauma, and disarm loyalty to the aggressor as manifest in perpetrator introjects, where appropriate.
The workshop describe the taxonomy of the disorder, details the specifics of treatment of O…
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