Presenter: Jillian Hosey, MSW, RSW, LICSW 
Presenter Bio: Jillian Hosey, MSW RSW, LICSW is a Clinical Social Worker, Trauma Therapist, and Consultant in a collaborative Private Practice in Toronto Canada, providing psychotherapy to children, youth, and adults with histories of attachment disruption, complex trauma, and dissociation. She is a graduate of York University's MSW program in Toronto, Canada. Grounded in a psychodynamic, phase-oriented approach to treatment, Jillian integrates a variety of trauma and dissociation specific modalities into her work, tailoring her approach to the unique needs of each client. Jillian is trained in EMDR Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Ego State Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, and Clinical Hypnosis, with ASCH. She is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant and an EMDR Trainer, a facilitator with the AGATE Institute (Ana Gomez Attachment Trauma Education Institute) and Faculty with the ISSTD’s Professional Training Program and EMDR Therapy Training Program. She has presented on integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) into EMDR Therapy at the Child and Adolescent Complex Trauma Conference 2019 and the SSP Gatherings with Dr. Stephen Porges in 2019 and 2022. She is the lead author of the Clinical guidelines and considerations for integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol into EMDR Therapy, a chapter on Therapeutic presence and the therapeutic relationship as both trigger and container to healing in E. Christenson’s (Ed.), Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues, and the co-editor and contributing author for the Handbook for Child Complex Trauma and Dissociation: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Routledge, In Press). Jillian was awarded Fellow Status with the ISSTD in 2022 and is winner of the 2022 ISSTD Distinguished Achievement Award.

Presenter: Rosita Cortizo, PsyD, LMFT, MA
Presenter Bio: Rosita Cortizo, PsyD, LMFT, MA, ISSTD Past President, originally from Panama City, Panama in South America, currently works as a high risk, multicultural, bilingual prenatal and perinatal clinical psychologist for Women Health Services and Behavioral Health working with female adults and children. Dr. Cortizo has worked in Public Health in Southern California with pregnant women at high risk with multiple diagnosis, traumatic stress, dissociative processes and relational crisis for more than 30 years. Education is an important value and that fueled her determination to complete and promote higher education. She brought EMDR training to her community clinic and is their onsite consultant. Dr Cortizo has published four prenatal articles for different peer reviewed Journals in the past 4 years. She holds licenses as both clinical psychologist (2001) and marriage family therapist (1998); and earned a Master of Arts in Psychology with specialty in Chemical Dependency (1993) in San Diego, California. She is EMDRIA Certified, an Approved EMDR Consultant, trained in Hypnosis, Sensory Motor Psychotherapy, Equine Assisted Therapy Certified, and the 2021 ISSTD President. Dr. Cortizo was raised by Spaniard and Ecuadorian immigrant parents in Panama City, lived many years in New Orleans, and is currently residing in Fallbrook California, the avocado capital of US. Dr. Cortizo is an advocate of universal trauma-informed prenatal psychotherapy, prenatal bonding work, post birthing support, The Calming Womb Family Therapy Model psychoeducation, and works empowering pregnant women and families with devotion. If you would like to know more about Dr. Cortizo's work, recent projects and interests you can visit both of her websites. www.thecalmingwomb.com www.rositacortizo.com