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Colorful homes along the water in Monterey, CA.

Welcome TRN Association of Monterey Bay

During the final week of March 2021, we expanded our Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) with the inauguration of the TRN Association of Monterey Bay. This new network serves the counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, California. The mission of the TRN Association of Monterey Bay is to assist their diverse community members in times of emergency, with pro...

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...

Ethiopia Update

Multi-Decade Ethiopia Intervention Begins with Hope for Children The Saturday Program at Hope for Children Ethiopia Training in EMDR in the mid-90s, Dorothy Ashman, M.A., and Psychologist never dreamed of teaching the therapy to others. Chance encounters, inspiring relationships and partnership with Trauma Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Programs...

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...

Success Story Video: Parkland Florida

There are TRN’s all over the country responding to community disasters.

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...

Trauma Recovery/ HAP in Puerto Rico

In 2018, Trauma Recovery/HAP responded to rising suicides and related trauma suffering in Puerto Rico (PR) following Hurricane Maria with EMDR Basic I and II trainings. Working with Vanesa Cintrón, the Puerto Rican Coalition in Minnesota, and the Association of Social Workers, the first trainings were held in June and August 2018, at the Interamerican...

Expanding Training in Uganda

Dr. Deborah Silveria, PhD., licensed Psychologist, LMFT, felt well prepared when she arrived in Kampala, Uganda to facilitate an EMDR II training in November of 2018. The foundation for success had been laid in the extensive planning and budgeting for the session by Carol Martin, Executive Director, Trauma Recovery|Humanitarian Assistance Programs...