Category: News/Press/Updates

Volunteer Recognition Night – August 25, 2021

On Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 Trauma Recovery/HAP hosted a virtual Volunteer Recognition Night to celebrate and honor our incredible volunteer community. We began the evening with guest presenter Natalie Keng, owner and founder of Chinese Southern Belle. Natalie gave a wonderfully engaging presentation about “Stir Fried America” which...

Photo of monthly donors Carol Forgash and Hank Glaser.

Monthly Giving Program – Why Carol and Hank Give Monthly

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We want to share an approach to donating to Trauma Recovery/HAP that may be new to you. We are longtime Trauma Recovery/HAP supporters and monthly donors. We want to encourage you to make a regular monthly donation too. Here’s why. The idea is a simple one that is beneficial to the donors, and the organization. It’s...

Trauma Recovery/HAP Expands Our Team

Sally Parmelee – Advancement Officer Meet Sally Parmelee, a non-profit development and communications professional, and Trauma Recovery/HAP’s new Advancement Officer. Sally joins our small, but mighty staff with roughly 9 years’ experience working in the non-profit field. Before joining Trauma Recovery/HAP, she was part of the Development team at...

Photo of Founder Francine Shapiro with text Remembering our Founder, Francine Shapiro 1984 to 2019

June Declared Founder’s Month

Remembering Francine Shapiro As June marks two years since Francine Shapiro’s passing, we reflect on the many roles she embodied; teacher, mentor, author, visionary, philanthropist and a true inspiration for us all. When Francine founded Trauma Recovery/HAP more than 25 years ago, she had a vision; a vision to bring hope and healing to those...

New eBook – Free EMDR Resources for EMDR Practitioners

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

New EMDR Training For TeleTherapy

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

Together We Have Healed Trauma

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

Client Results Lead to Agency EMDR Training

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

Welcoming Our Newest Board Member

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