Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D., is an international instructor, author, and illustrator specializing in EMDR for complex trauma, including structural and somatic dissociation and trauma held in implicit memory. She developed the first EMDR protocol for highly dissociative individuals, advocated for dissociation screening before EMDR, and has trained thousands of mental health professionals since 1993.
Sandra has numerous online workshops available through the Steve Frankel Group at www.sfrankelgroup.com.
Her books include The Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation, Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma, When There Are No Words, and All the Colors of Me: My First Book on Dissociation. Her latest publication (2024) is The Beauty and Burden of Autism, and her upcoming book, Indigenous Trauma and Dissociation: Healers, Psychotherapies and the Drum, is coauthored with Shelley Spear Chief. Sandra is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She lives in a log house in the forest on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, Washington, USA where she does intensive treatment in the three-day Format. Learn more about Sandra Paulsen at www.paulsenpsychology.com.
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