Treating Trauma- and Stressor-Related Conditions – Marilyn Luber Book Study (12 CEUs)

Marilyn Luber, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and has a general private practice in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, working with adolescents, adults, and couples, especially with complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), trauma and related issues, and dissociative disorders. She has worked as a Primary Consultant for the FBI field division in Philadelphia.  In 1992, Dr. Francine Shapiro trained her in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She was on the Founding Board of Directors of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) and served as the Chairman of the International Committee until June 1999. Also, she was a member of the EMDR Task Force for Dissociative Disorders. She conducts facilitator and consultation trainings and teaches other EMDR-related subjects both nationally and internationally. Since 1997, she has coordinated trainings in EMDR-related fields in the greater Philadelphia area. In 2014, she was a member of the Scientific Committee for the EMDR Europe Edinburgh Conference. Currently, she is a facilitator for the EMDR Global Alliance to support upholding the standard of EMDR Therapy worldwide. She is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Future of EMDR Therapy Project and on the Council of Scholars. In 1997, Dr. Luber was given a Humanitarian Services Award by the EMDR Humanitarian Association. Later, in 2003, she was presented with the EMDR International Association’s award “For Outstanding Contribution and Service to EMDRIA” and in 2005, she was awarded “The Francine Shapiro Award for Outstanding Contribution and Service to EMDR.” In 2001, through EMDR HAP (Humanitarian Assistance Programs), she published, Handbook for EMDR Clients, which has been translated into eight languages; the proceeds from sales of the handbook go to EMDR HAP organizations worldwide. She has written the “Around the World” and “In the Spotlight” articles for the EMDRIA Newsletter, four times a year from 1997-2019. In 2009, she edited Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Basics and special situations (Springer) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Special populations (Springer). She interviewed Francine Shapiro and co-authored the interview with Dr. Shapiro for the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research (Luber & Shapiro, 2009) and later wrote the entry about Dr. Shapiro for E.S. Neukrug’s, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). Several years later, in 2012, she edited Springer’s first CD-ROM books: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols With Summary Sheets CD-ROM Version: Basics and Special Situations and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols With Summary Sheets CD-ROM Version: Special Populations. In 2014, she edited, Implementing EMDR Early Mental Health Interventions for Man-Made and Natural Disasters: Models, Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets.  In 2015, three ebooks were published that supplied protocols taken from Implementing EMDR Early Mental Health Interventions for Man-Made and Natural Disasters: Models, Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: EMDR Therapy With First Responders (ebook only), EMDR Therapy and Emergency Response (ebook only), and EMDR Therapy for Clinician Self-Care (ebook only). The text, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating Anxiety, Obsessive-compulsive and Mood-Related Conditions and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating trauma-and stressor-related conditions were released in 2015. In 2019, Springer published Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating medical-related issues and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy Scripted Protocols and Summary Sheets: Treating eating disorders, chronic pain, and maladaptive self-care behaviors. In 2020, Luber compiled resources for and from the worldwide EMDR community and published online, EMDR Resources in the Era of COVID-19.