Disaster Responses
Trauma is the most widespread and socially costly mental health issue worldwide. It’s often caused by frightening or violent events that result in physical, emotional and/or psychological pain. Our mission is to provide transformative Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy to reduce the amount of PTSD and other mental health conditions in devastated communities.
Natural
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Wildfires
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Hurricanes
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Floods
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Earthquakes
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Tornadoes
Manmade
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Shootings
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Terrorist Attacks
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War
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Transportation Crashes
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Power Outages
Trauma Recovery Network®
Staffed entirely by trained volunteers, our global Trauma Recovery Network® (TRN®) consists of local/regional member groups that can quickly mobilize after a disaster and provide pro bono EMDR services to those in need. These networks engage local emergency management systems and the general public to restore and safeguard psychological well-being.
EMDR Access
Supports the cost of increasing access to our services, and educating communities about trauma, EMDR therapy and resilience.
Community Engagement
Helps us engage communities impacted by disasters with important educational tools and response materials, such as brochures and flyers.
Advanced Training
Provides advanced trainings in EMDR early intervention for TRN® volunteers so they can act quickly and effectively when disaster strikes.
Francine Shapiro, PhD
As a helping profession, we must take help to where it is most needed…The clinicians are those who directly help to alleviate the world’s suffering. The alleviation of that suffering is the duty of our profession.
Steven Silver, PhD
EMDR is one of the most powerful tools I’ve encountered for treating post-traumatic stress. In the hands of a competent and compassionate therapist, it gives people the means to heal themselves.
Anonymous
EMDR therapy helps you process things…and then put those thoughts back away, not to forget them but to keep them somewhere where they can no longer hurt you.
Robert Stickgold, PhD
We believe that EMDR…allows the person undergoing treatment to more effectively process and incorporate traumatic memories into general association networks in the brain.
Luna
When I discovered HAP and the mission they serve I felt like I found my professional family. The impact we made serving the community after the Parkland MSD Shooting in 2018 made me more passionate about spreading EMDR teaching in the therapeutic community. I saw firsthand the huge impact EMDR had on long term healing.
Francine Shapiro, PhD
To have these clinicians worldwide, to understand that they are bonded together by a desire to alleviate suffering…and to have organizations know that if one country is in need, other countries are going to come to their aid to be able to bring the world together in that way. That’s the hope. To be able to allow EMDR worldwide where it’s needed, and perhaps to make some inroads in bringing peace together.
Lori Pereira, MA, LPCC, LPC
So if you can imagine that we have therapists all over the world helping people heal through trauma and adverse events, that their interactions improve with everybody around them. And now the good is spreading and that’s that ripple effect, right? It only takes one of us to make a difference.
Lauren Stinson
My individual TRN client has completed trauma therapy around the school incident after five individual sessions, reporting no more flashbacks or nightmares. I’m very excited for their progress and am reminded why working with teenagers is so rewarding.
Anonymous
I feel even calmer than I had felt before the fires…life feels normal and safe again.
