Rebecca Kase

MSW, LCSW, RYT

Lead Trainer

EMDR Certified Therapist, Consultant & Trainer

Rebecca Kase is a licensed clinical social worker and registered yoga teacher, living in Denver CO.  She is an EMDR Consultant & Basic Trainer, and owner of Rebecca Kase & CO.  Rebecca is a compassionate and authentic consultant, who has a keen sense for holding space and keeping learning fun.  Rebecca incorporates yoga and mind body techniques throughout her clinical work, and has specialties in dissociation, complex trauma, and ego state work. Rebecca values creating shame free spaces for learning in training and consultation, and in teaching clinicians the values of humility and curiosity as vital elements to the healing process. Rebecca has worked in a variety of settings and with a variety of populations. She began her career as an MSW working with children and adolescents. She has worked in community mental health centers, nursing homes, private practice, community based work, and internationally.   Rebecca has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She has additional experience and specialties with Yoga Therapy, Veterans, DID, and complex trauma.

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates.

Contact Rebecca.

Abby Howard

MSW, LCSW, CPCC

EMDR Certified Therapist, Consultant in Training

Abby is a licensed clinical social worker and owns a private practice in Boulder County, CO on the unceded territory that belongs to the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Ute People. Abby’s work is grounded in culturally responsive, trauma informed, and relational psychotherapy. She is certified in EMDR and has extensive training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). She works with adults and specializes in the LGBTQIA+ population, particularly those who identify as bi, pan, queer and questioning. Additionally, she provides consultation and clinical supervision. She received her Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.

Contact Abby.

Alison Leslie

LCSW, SEP

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Alison is a licensed clinical social worker who lives in Bloomington, IN and owns her own private practice, Empower Healing.  Alison approaches therapy through the lens of presence and attunement and believes in being a guide to help clients find their own internal healing powers.  She has a background in animal assisted therapy and is fully trained and certified in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and Transforming Touch modalities.  Alison works with both children and adults who have experienced developmental and shock traumas, among other life challenges. In consultation, Alison believes in meeting the consultee where they are at and supporting the continued growth of EMDR skills with openness, compassion, and curiosity. 

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates.

Contact Alison.

Beth Halverson

MS, LPC

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Beth is a licensed professional counselor based in Eugene, Oregon.  She is a practicing therapist in Community Mental Health at Looking Glass Community Services.  Beth provides consultation and training through Oregon Consultation Associates [website coming this month].  She has specific training for working with complex trauma, adoptive and foster families, and focuses on integrating multiple approaches with EMDR: internal family systems, relational interventions, polyvagal theory, and dialectical behavioral therapy to support clients and clinicians through a holistic lens.  She believes authentic connection and radical acceptance are important parts of the many pathways to healing.  She has worked with clients from ages 3-65, bringing experience from positions in inpatient treatment, residential programs, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient settings, multiple community mental health programs, and clinical supervision for intern clinicians.  She loves finding what makes clients and clinicians feel hopeful and using this as a tool for growth.

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates.

Contact Beth.

Cassie Krajewski

MSW, LCSW, LAC, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Cassie is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed addiction counselor based in Denver, Colorado. She is a Certified EMDR Therapist and Approved Consultant, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. She provides therapy, consultation, and training services through her private practice, Inner Atlas Therapy. Her practice specialties include the treatment of trauma and PTSD, modern relationships, sex therapy, disordered eating and body image issues, and substance abuse and addiction. She incorporates ego state therapy, polyvagal theory, attachment theory, and Emotionally Focused Therapy into her practice,  Cassie has had many years of leadership experience in behavioral health and also supports Rebecca Kase and CO with her administrative strengths. Cassie holds space for shame-free learning spaces and exudes warmth and compassion in everything that she does.

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates.

Contact Cassie.

Christine Pardos

MSW, LCSW

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant-in-Training

Christine Pardos is a licensed clinical social worker based in Lakewood, Colorado. Christine owns a telehealth-only private practice and EMDR consultation business, New Roots Therapy LLC. Christine has worked with diverse populations and ages in New York City and Colorado within private and group practices, outpatient facilities, community mental health programs, schools, career readiness and GED programs, and behavioral health hospitals. Currently, Christine works with adults navigating complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, and grief and loss. Christine also integrates Ego-State Therapy into her EMDR work and provides EMDR via virtual weekly, extended session, and intensive-style formats. Christine is passionate about EMDR consultation and fosters EMDR community development in Colorado via free monthly consultation groups, in-person meet-ups, and the Colorado EMDR Therapists Facebook Page. Christine believes in providing a nurturing and shame-free learning environment for therapists to feel heard and to develop their EMDR skills with confidence, empathy, and authenticity.

 

Contact Christine.

Crystal Hines

EdS/MS, LPC, IFS Level 2

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant
EMDR Training Faculty

Crystal is a licensed professional counselor based out of Firestone, CO and co-founder of The Kali Institute, a group mental health and wellness practice. At The Kali Institute you will find a team of healers and therapists on a mission to help you achieve your dreams while maintaining your health and balance. She provides virtual EMDR and IFS therapy, and EMDR consultation with an IFS/parts work orientation. Crystal has a brain-body-heart approach to healing. She is both direct and compassionate in her work with clients and knows the importance of doing her own healing. Crystal is a complex trauma survivor and is passionate about helping others along their healing journeys. She has experience working in community mental health and private practice, and loves supporting other therapists and healers. At the start of her career she worked with kids, teens, and families, and now works primarily with older teens and adults. Crystal specializes in working with complex trauma, attachment trauma, dissociation, gifted individuals and high achievers, and anxiety. She has a gift of connecting with the inner child who lives in all of us.

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates. 

Contact Crystal.

Crystal Wildes

PsyD, LP

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Crystal Wildes is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She has over fifteen years of experience working, training, and providing supervision/consultation in a variety of settings, including residential treatment, community mental health, outpatient clinics, non-profit organizations, and private practice. She has worked with individuals and families of all ages, including adjudicated youth, at-risk teens, families involved with social services, and victims of crime. Crystal has specialty areas of trauma recovery, including having been trained in EMDR in 2012, which forever changed her clinical work. She prides herself in being authentic and genuine in her approach to facilitate the learning experience.

Contact Crystal.

Erika Yourdan

MA, LMFT-S, LAC, LCDC

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant in Training

Erika is a licensed marriage and family and family therapist, a licensed addiction counselor, and a licensed chemical dependency counselor. She is also a doctoral candidate at Northcentral University. Erika is licensed to practice in both Texas and Colorado. She is a Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant-in-Training as well as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Erika teaches part time for Abilene Christian University and owns her own private practice in Abilene, TX. In the therapy room, she holds space for individuals and families working through relational issues, addiction, attachment wounds, and complex trauma. Erika enjoys spending time outdoors soaking in nature, camping, kayaking, hiking, and connecting with her large farm full of rescue animals. In both therapy and consultation individuals can expect to be feel safe in a shame-free supportive environment.

Contact Erika.

Evelyn Wright

MSW, LCSW

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

Evelyn is a compassionate and highly respected trauma expert. After obtaining a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California (USC), Evelyn became involved in trauma and play therapy while at UCLA’s Department of Pediatrics. Since transitioning to private practice in 2003, she continues to work with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as an EMDR Certified Therapist, and a current consultant in training. Evelyn is the former President of EMDRIA and served on the EMDRIA Board of Directors for 5 years. She has specialties working with adults, children, and adolescents. Her clinical focus includes Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Eating Disorders, and ADD/ADHD, as well as individuals and families with grief and loss, stage of life/adjustment, behavioral, attachment, domestic violence and abuse issues.

Evelyn utilizes research-based treatments to ensure clients achieve optimal wellbeing. She views clients’ experiences from their perspective to facilitate exploration and discovery of new understandings that help achieve their goals. Her emotional and cognitive approach includes EMDR, Mindfulness, spirituality, etc, to promote personal growth and healthy relationships. Explore more about Evelyn and her expertise at her website.

Contact Evelyn.

Jessica Downs

MSW, LCSW

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Jessica is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker residing in Grand Junction, Colorado. Before her second career as a therapist, she worked as a high school teacher among a highly traumatized population in Houston, Texas, where her inclination toward healing really took root. Jessica left her position as a teacher to earn her degree in order to more acutely participate in the resolution of trauma. She discovered the power and effectiveness of EMDR early in her therapy career, and is now a Certified EMDR practitioner and Consultant-in-Training, offering individual counseling and consultation through her private practice Live Well Counseling Center.  Jessica specializes in use of ego state work in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation.  She is bi-lingual (English and Spanish) and strives to support her clients in embodying healing and working towards becoming “whole”.

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates.

Contact Jessica.

Julie Martin

MA, LPC, DVM

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Julie is a bilingual (Spanish & English) Licensed Professional Counselor residing in the Rocky Mountains, in Carbondale, Colorado.  Julie’s first career was as a dancer with Oakland Ballet. Her second, and still current, career is as a veterinarian. Julie went back to school to pursue her third career, earning her MA in Counseling and then pursuing EMDR.  She has worked with children, teens, families, immigrants from Mexico & Latin America, and currently sees adults. She uses an integrative mind-body approach, integrating EMDR therapy with her training in trauma recovery, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Behavioral Activation, dissociation, PolyVagal therapy, and special interests in chronic pain, illness, headache, and migraine. Julie has worked in community mental health, with the department of family services, in a research program as a consultant/trainer serving depressed Latina, Spanish-speaking moms, and now in private practice. Julie is certified in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy through EAGALA (www.EAGALA.org), and will soon be trained in Equine Assisted EMDR therapy, bringing together her passion for the healing of the human- animal bond, EMDR, and the intuitive wisdom of horses. She loves supporting therapists learn EMDR and other therapies and has a deep passion for teaching and consulting. 

Offers BIPOC clinicians discounted rates.

Contact Julie.

Laurel O’Neal Thornton

MA, LPC, ALPS

EMDR Certified Clinician & Consultant

EMDR Training Faculty

Laurel is a licensed professional counselor in Morgantown WV.  Laurel has been passionate about EMDR since she was introduced to it during her Master’s studies in Counseling at West Virginia University. She attended EMDR training in 2011, and has been practicing EMDR ever since. She now owns her own private practice, Whole Brain Solutions, in Morgantown, WV, that utilizes EMDR as its primary theoretical approach. She focuses on offering therapy, consultation, and trainings focused on helping people increase their awareness and understanding of how Adaptive Information Processing can be applied and felt across settings.  Laurel enjoys the practical application of neuroscience. She attended Emory University, majoring in Psychology with an emphasis in Neuro-Psychology. She strives to integrate neuroscience into her consulting and counseling.

Contact Laurel.

Wendy Llamas

LCSW, PPSC

EMDR Certified Therapist & Consultant

Wendy Llamas is a licensed clinical social worker in North Orange County, California. She is an EMDR Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant and the owner of Growing Glimmers Child, Family, Trauma Therapy. Wendy has worked in community based mental health, school settings, and in child welfare services. It is Wendy’s upbringing and experiences as a first generation Latina growing up in a community of color that drew her to the helping field. She uses the knowledge she has learned from her own healing journey, along with all of her education and trainings, to offer therapy services that are grounded in the belief that she is not much different from her clients, and will compassionately walk alongside them as they go through their own processes. Wendy is passionate about helping children, their caregivers and adult women of color break cycles of intergenerational trauma. Through EMDR, parts and attachment work, and a social justice/holistic lens, Wendy helps her clients heal childhood wounds by aiding them in identifying, releasing, and shifting the beliefs and behaviors that might be blocking their ability
to fully be the highest version of themselves.

Contact Wendy.

Submit Waitlist Request

Request Approved Consultants Video