Meet the Trainer:

Roy Kiessling, LISW
Founder and Director of EMDR Consulting

Roy Kiessling, LISW, is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with more than 20 years of clinical practice. He is the founder of EMDR Consulting and creator of our EMDRIA Approved EMDR Training Course: Integrating EMDR into your Clinical Practice. Roy was initially trained in EMDR in 1995 by The EMDR Institute (Level 1 by Kay Werk in Cincinnati, OH and Level 2 by Francine Shapiro in Chicago, IL). In 1997, he became an EMDR Institute facilitator and started helping conduct EMDR Institute trainings led by Francine Shapiro and her Senior Trainer staff. Since 1998, Roy has been an EMDRIA Approved Credit Provider and Consultant. He presented at the EMDRIA International Conference from 1999 through 2010 on topics involving basic EMDR procedures and protocols, resourcing interventions, and in 2010, he led a full day, pre-conference workshop on EMDR from a belief-focused perspective. Roy started working towards becoming an independent trainer with EMDRIA accreditation in 2013. In June of that same year, Roy’s own approach to the EMDR Basic Training was approved, and since then, he has remained an independent EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. With his focus on his own basic training course, Roy resigned as a senior trainer from both the EMDR Institute and EMDR HAP. Roy’s basic training approach incorporates his many years of experience in teaching EMDR and provides the most effective techniques and additional information to assist clinicians in seamlessly integrating the EMDR approach into their practices.

Meet the Coach:

Rivki Jungreis LCSW, MS.E.d,
Founder of RJ Psychological Trainings, LLC

Rivki Jungreis, LCSW, MS.E.d, is a licensed clinical therapist and trauma specialist in private practice for over 25 years. She is the Founder of Advanced Psychological Trainings, LLC.  

Rivki’s clinical background is rooted in relational psychoanalysis and psychodynamics. Her approach includes an integrative perspective. Committed to current modalities, Rivki is a certified and an Approved Consultant in EMDR and an EMDR Child Specialist, a therapeutic model developed by Francine Schapiro. She is a trained clinician in EMDR, Somatic, IFS, Sand Tray and Play Therapy modalities.

Specialty areas include treating: trauma/intergenerational trauma, PTSD, anxiety, attachment issues, grief/loss, parental work, relationship difficulties. 

Rivki works with adults, adolescents, children and parents. Her knowledge of attachment issues and the developmental stages of children were developed in her early training at Bank Street College of Education .  

Rivki provides EMDR consultation to therapists attaining hours towards Emdria certification, Clinical supervision for therapists working with children, Trauma- informed consultation for clinicians committed to improving their practice. Rivki is a motivational speaker and international lecturer. She has led workshops on various topics, including: Mental Health/Parenting/Attachment/Trauma/Intergenerational Trauma/ Abuse/and Outreach.

Rivki is a Board Member and Training Coordinator at NEFESH International, was a member of the Association for Play Therapy and served on the sexual abuse/trauma service team at William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology. She was the Program Coordinator of Summer Project Safe Camp of  Safety Kid Institute in New York; and served as Executive Board Member of NYC TRN – New York City (EMDR) Trauma Recovery Network for Disasters Response Worldwide. 

Education: Bank Street College of Education, Columbia University, William Alanson White Institute, the EMDRIA Institute