RCC AC and CIT Resource
As an EMDR Therapy Trainee, you are required to complete 10 hours of supplemental consultation to complete your training requirements. You may use the following consultants or consultants-in-training that are affiliated with Rutti Counseling & Consultation's EMDR Therapy Training Program. In addition to the following consultants and consultants-in-training, you may use any consultants/consultants-in-training that are affiliated with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness' training program. The ICM directory can be found here.
*Please note that if you are not attending training through RCC and are attending a different ICM training, the below list may include consultants or consultants-in-training that are not approved by your trainer.
RCC Approved Consultants
Suzi Rutti, MSW, LISW-S (she/her)
Suzanne (Suzi) Rutti, MSW, LISW-S (she/her) is the owner of Rutti Counseling & Consultation, and a network faculty member with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Suzi specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced a range of traumatic experiences. She works often with complex PTSD, dissociative experiences, preverbal trauma, sexual violence, childhood abuse, traumatic birth experiences, intimate partner violence, and other adverse life experiences. Suzi enjoys collaborative consultation opportunities, as well as providing advanced topics and foundational trainings.
Jasmine Adams, LCSW, PMH-C (she/her)
Jasmine Adams (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Perinatal Mental Health certification (PMH-C), EMDRIA-approved trainer and consultant, and owner of a Long Beach-based private practice, specializing in trauma, oppression trauma, complex PTSD, perinatal mental health, and dissociation. Her therapeutic approach centers the participant as the expert of their own healing, emphasizing empowerment, choice, and dismantling hierarchies within the therapeutic space. With a strong anti-oppression framework, Jasmine is passionate about supporting BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ individuals, chronic health needs, and those with marginalized identities through inclusive, decolonized, and collaborative mental health care.
Taína Amaro, LCSW (she/her)
Taína is an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant and trauma therapist with a focus on fertility challenges and perinatal/birthing person trauma, historical/intergenerational trauma, and medical/oncological trauma. She is experienced with survivors of domestic violence. She enjoys providing consultation, particularly for the communities she has helped to cultivate in perinatal and BIPOC spaces.
Sam Berstein, LISW-S, REAT (she/her)
Sam Bergstein (she/her), MA, MSW, LISW-S, REAT, is the founder of Mantra Mental Health LLC. Based in Columbus, Ohio, on occupied/stolen Myaamia/Miami, Kaskaskia, and Hopewell Cultural land, Sam is a dedicated mental health professional offering both individual therapy services and specialized professional consultation. She is deeply committed to fostering growth and well-being, leveraging her expertise as an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant and a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT). Sam's approach is rooted in compassion and a holistic understanding of mental health, empowering both her clients and fellow clinicians to thrive.
E. Sterling Boyadzhiev, LISW-S, REAT (she/her)
Sterling specializes in complex trauma, dissociation, and relational trauma across the lifespan. She uses a relational approach to EMDR Therapy, with integration of IFS/parts work, Expressive Arts Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and other somatic strategies in order to honor the unique needs of each person. Creating a comfortable, non-judgmental space for consultees to learn and grow their skills is a top priority for her!
Erin Kelly, LCSW, REAT, RYT500 (she/they)
Erin E. Kelly, LCSW, REAT, RYT-500 is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and an EMDR training facilitator based out of Pittsburgh, PA. A current doctoral student at California Institute of Integral Studies in the Transformative Studies Department, Erin is also exploring components of humility and vulnerability in healing relationships. As a white, queer, and neurodivergent provider, Erin aims to decolonize their therapeutic approaches as much as possible, while still currently holding state licensure—it’s a work in progress!
Kristen Gidel Kelly, LPCC-S, LICDC, CTTS (she/her)
Kristen Gidel Kelly, LPCC-S, LICDC, and CTTS (she/her) is a Certified EMDRIA approved Consultant and Facilitator with the Institute of Creative Mindfulness. She is a Registered Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama and REIKI Teacher. Kristen holds Advanced Training in Dissociation/DID, Substance Use Disorders, Military and First Responders, Neurodivergence, Queer communities, DBT/Suicide/Self Harm, and Court Ordered/Formerly Incarcerated populations. Kristen holds 18 years experience working in Community Mental Health, Government, and Private Practice settings. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of Imagine Recovery Counseling in Gahanna, OH and the Co-Founder of Educating Healers Consultation and Wellness.
Tammy Moore, LISW-S (she/her)
Tammy is a local and national presenter of various trauma focused trainings ranging from trauma informed care, trauma recovery, secondary trauma, and impact of trauma on marginalized populations. In her clinical practice, Tammy focuses on treating childhood trauma and other adverse childhood experiences, complex PTSD, military trauma, LGBTQIA+ specific support needs, traumatized children, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual abuse, and dissociation. Tammy is committed to providing access to trauma recovery and education to patients and her community. She strives to provide treatment, training, and consultation from a lens of cultural humility, resiliency, respect, and collaboration.
www.tammymoorecounseling.com
Erica Smith, LCSW, C-DBT (she/her)
Erica’s primary focuses are children and adults who experience chronic illness/medical trauma, racial trauma, religious trauma, oppression, and/or IPV. Erica provides EMDR therapy and is additionally certified in DBT and Pain Reprocessing Therapy while also using Flash and Expressive Art techniques.
Dr. Rachel Weaver, LICDC-CS, REAT, RMT, RYT200 (she/they)
Dr. Rachel Weaver is an independently licensed clinical social worker/supervisor, independently licensed chemical dependency counselor/supervisor, and integrative mental health professional with advanced training in EMDR, DBT, Expressive Arts, Autism, and holistic healing modalities. Licensed in three states, she is the founder and CEO of WiseMind Consulting & Wellness, has taught at several universities, and presents continuing education workshops on trauma-informed and integrative practices. With a doctorate in psychology and over 18 years of experience, her work is grounded in anti-oppressive values, person-centered care, and the belief that healing emerges through connection to the authentic self.
Tom Zimmerman (he/him), LPCC
Tom specializes in working with complex trauma in agency settings. He also maintain a popular blog for EMDR Therapy therapists, https://GoWithThat.wordpress.com, that addresses many questions that new therapists may have. He also maintains the EMDR Podcast, a podcast that focuses on the intersection of EMDR Therapy and complex trauma.
www.emdrtom.com
RCC Consultants-in-Training
Mirela Fodor Nagy, LPCC-S (she/her)
Mirela specializes in the treatment of chronic emotional dysregulation using EMDR, somatic experiencing and parts work to assist you in understanding how your nervous system works based on your relational experiences. Adverse experiences teach you to close your heart and armor up. Healing teaches you to open your heart and boundary up. She is passionate about working with people with mood and anxiety disorders, survivors of adverse childhood experiences, trauma and PTSD, addictions and compulsive behaviors, parenting, and high conflict couples and families.
Leah Herman, PsyD (she/her)
Leah is the owner of Our Community Today LLC, a teletherapy private practice, where she provides EMDR consultation and therapy to support inspired, optimal growth and connection with infant to adult clients. Leah specializes in attachment-focused EMDR, incorporating parts work, supporting healing journeys in a wide range of experiences of complex PTSD and dissociation. In providing EMDR consultation, Leah is passionate to support the growth of other clinicians in developing comfort and confidence with a therapy that offers so much hope and healing.
Kim Johnson-Smith, LISW-S (she/her)
Kim Johnson-Smith, MSW, LISW-S is a Clinical Social Worker specializing in the treatment of complex trauma, traumatic loss, single incident trauma, and dissociative disorders in adults. Kim has been certified in EMDR since 2020 and is a CIT through EMDRIA. Kim enjoys working with other clinicians and takes an intuitive and collaborative approach to both therapy and consultation. Kim graduated from Loyola University in 1999, and was trained from a psychodynamic perspective which she utilizes in therapy. Kim also draws from modalities including mindfulness, somatic interventions, ego state and parts work, DBT and CBT. Traumatic experience often manifests in the development of a wide array of psychological and physiological conditions that can limit one's capacity to be fully engaged and present in life. Effective trauma treatment is a journey that is best served with an integrated approach tailored to the unique needs of the client.
Rachel McPherson, LPCC (she/her)
Rachel is a Consultant-in-training who practices with a foundation in relational work and building rapport in a healing environment that creates genuine connection, & self-discovery. Rachel uses standard EMDR along with different EMDR protocols with a relational and mindfulness focus. Consultation will support the clinician in providing an environment that creates safety to address challenging material. Consultation will provide support to clinicians for self-regulating and management of any secondary-trauma symptoms. Rachel’s client work focuses on mood, anxiety and compulsive disorders, perinatal mental health, grief/loss and faith-based counseling.
rachel@renew-wellness-center.com
Julie Richards, LPCC (she/her)
Julie creates a safe space of attuned therapeutic support to explore the depths of unresolved places with her clients. She is a passionate lifelong learner who thrives
in developing connected relationships. Julie works with complex development trauma, attachment injuries, family of origin dynamics, and childhood emotional neglect. She deeply believes in meeting clients where they are, and modifying her approach to work with neurodivergence and LGBTQIA; hearing perspectives and seeking to understand.
Lauren Sullivan-Strain, LISW (she/her)
Lauren is a CIT who practices somatically with a foundation in nervous system awareness. Lauren focuses on applying many different EMDR protocols with an IFS lens and focus. Consultation will seek to support the clinician in holding the client content with a focus on attachment, attunement, and containment. Consultation will seek to support the clinician in noticing ways in which the client content impacts their own nervous system and parts system. Consultation will provide a safe, warm, inclusive, and body based environment where the clinician can feel supported while engaging with challenging case content and material. Lauren’s client work focuses on attachment trauma, complex trauma, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and dissociation.