Trauma Training Faculty

 Our compassionate and experienced EMDR Professionals deliver an engaging, quality, learning experience.

Lisa

Lisa Sager
Executive Director

Senior EMDR Training Approved Instructor
EMDR Training Consultant
Practicum Facilitator
EMDRIA Certified Therapist

Lisa Sager, LPC developed the EMDR Training Center EMDRIA Approved EMDR Therapy Training in 2010.  Her approach to education is comprehensive and creative, yet sensitive to a diversity of backgrounds and learning styles.  Lisa is an innovative and dynamic instructor, with personal experience in healing a diversity of trauma with EMDR Therapy.  Lisa has over 15 years of experience utilizing EMDR with individuals and couples for the successful treatment of PTSD, Complex Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Personality and Dissociative Disorders.   

Max Sager
Approved EMDR Training Instructor, Consultant &
Practicum Facilitator
EMDRIA Certified Therapist

Max Sager, LPC has utilized EMDR Therapy in private practice and now enjoys helping other therapists learn this effective trauma-informed treatment. Max has utilized EMDR Therapy in private practice with adults and couples struggling with depression, anxiety disorders, sexual abuse victims and religiosity.    Max brings compassion and humor to therapists working with difficult client presentations.

Roy Thomas

EMDR Training Consultant &
Practicum Facilitator
EMDRIA Certified Therapist

 

Roy Thomas, LCSW has 30 years of professional experience as a therapist and social worker.  With extensive training and practice, he has acquired an expertise in marriage and family therapy, trauma, PTSD and emotional disorders. He graduated from Catholic University of America in Washington DC and he completed an internship at Georgetown University Child Development Center. He has worked with eating disorder patients, adolescent disorders, domestic violence, sexual assault, couples and rare psychiatric disorders. He has expertise and enhanced skills in working with trauma and PTSD in inpatient settings working with dissociative identity disorder, veterans with PTSD, chronic mental illness and substance abuse disorders.  

Kathleen Rohan Approved Consultant Practicum Facilitator

Kathleen Rohan

Approved EMDR Training Consultant &
Practicum Facilitator
EMDRIA Certified Therapist

 

Kathleen Rohan, LPC uses EMDR Therapy for complex trauma working clients with a wide variety of presentations and populations. She obtained her Masters in Counseling through The Franciscan University  in Steubenville, Ohio. Both during her internship at a local community mental health facility and her period of clinical residency at an organization focused on victims of domestic violence, she worked with child, adolescent and adult victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence and sexual assault. She has also worked with refugees from countries subject to violent and unstable political situations.   In 2014 Kathleen was among the first clinicians to be trained by the EMDR Training Center.  Kathleen has developed a particular interest in working with children, as well as adolescents and adults, victims of violence, sexual abuse, attachment trauma, and dissociative disorders.

 Jennifer Lang Certified EMDR Therapist Approved Facilitator Approved Consultant-in-TrainingJennifer Lang

Approved EMDR Training  Consultant &
Practicum Facilitator
EMDRIA Certified Therapist

 

Jennifer Lang, LPC has been using EMDR Therapy along with Expressive Art Therapy for over a decade.  She enjoys using the creative arts in her therapeutic approach with adults, adolescents,  and children.   She has extensive advanced training with specific interest in attachment issues, trauma, grief and loss, and EMDR with children and adolescents.  Jennifer has treated adults, couples, adolescents, and children in private practice.  She is currently employed full-time with BJC Hospice in Wings and Wings on Wheels  where she provides emotional support and expressive arts therapy for children with life limiting and terminal illnesses and for their parents and siblings.