EMDR Fall Basic Training Part 2, Day 3

Carol Miles, MSW, LCSW, EMDRIA-approved Basic Trainer and Consultant, is a clinical social worker specializing in individual psychotherapy and maintains a private practice with adolescent and adult clients. She also provides training and consultation for therapists developing skills in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR Therapy) under her Three Rivers Training Center. Most of her training and therapy have been virtual since March 2020. She currently specializes in offering intensive EMDR Therapy to address trauma and healing.

A graduate of the LSU School of Social Work, Carol specializes in Clinical Social Work, with over 30 years of experience as a social worker in clinical, administration, and marketing with the public and private sectors. Among her areas of expertise are working with clients who have eating disorders and trauma. She is certified in EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy) by EMDRIA (EMDR International Association) and has additional training in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). Carol has often presented at statewide conferences and to general audiences on topics ranging from Eating Disorders, Assertiveness, EMDR Therapy, DBT, and Developing a Private Practice. She taught as an adjunct professor at the Tulane School of Social Work from 1998-2018.

Additionally, she is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and an EMDRIA Approved Provider of EMDR Therapy Training. She has been a member of EMDRIA since 2008, shortly after being trained in EMDR Therapy in New Orleans. As a volunteer for EMDRIA, she served as a member and co-chair of the Conference Committee and chair of the University Special Interest Group. She founded and is the Regional Co-Coordinator of the South Louisiana EMDR Network, stepping down in 2022. In 2017, she was elected to serve on the EMDRIA Board of Directors, 2017-2021. She served a 2-year term as the President of EMDRIA, 2019-2020.

Viviana Triana, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas, an EMDR-certified therapist, and an EMDRIA-approved consultant. Born in Colombia, South America, she considers herself bilingual and bicultural. She is passionate about learning and supporting others in their learning experiences. Since 2008 Viviana has worked as a therapist with children, teens, adults, and families who have experienced trauma in settings such as rape crisis and domestic violence centers. She provides consultations and training for clinicians who work with this population. Viviana has been published in professional journals and contributed to the recently released book EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach. Currently, Viviana serves as the Clinical Director of Youth180, an organization that provides trauma-centered counseling and outpatient substance use treatment for youth and their families in North Texas.