Jennifer A Madere, LPC-S, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Trainer
Jennifer Madere is an LPC-Supervisor, EMDR Consultant and Trainer in private practice. She is a founding partner of Intuitus Group in Cedar Park, Texas.  She has accompanied child, adolescent, and adult survivors of trauma on their journey of healing and recovery in psychotherapy since graduating from the University of Denver with a master’s degree in counseling psychology in 2005. She is trained in EMDR therapy, ego state therapy, deep brain reorienting, the ethical integration of faith in clinical practice, and sexual addiction treatment.

Jennifer has a passion for supervising graduate and post-graduate clinicians and consults and offers training and consultation related to treatment of complex trauma, pathological dissociation, EMDR therapy. Jennifer is a Fellow of the ISSTD and co-teaches the EMDR therapy training offered by ISSTD. She received the President’s Award in 2021 (with the team which developed ISSTD's EMDR therapy training), and the Cornelia B. Wilbur award (with D. Michael Coy) in 2022.

Jennifer is also a member of the EMDR International Association, European Society for Trauma and Dissociation, Texas Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors, International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and member and past-president of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association. She served on a working committee within the EMDR Council of Scholars focused on assessing the teaching and learning of EMDR therapy worldwide from 2021-2023.

Since 2015, Jennifer has collaborated with D. Michael Coy and Paul Dell to update the interpretive manual and associated documents for the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) and make the MID documents and training accessible to clinicians and researchers world-wide.  Jennifer is the published author of scholarly works on topics including consultation, screening, assessment, and differential diagnosis for dissociative disorders. Jennifer and D. Michael Coy are writing a book focused on EMDR and Dissociation, to be published in late 2025.

D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Trainer
D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, (he/they) is a 2006 graduate of The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago and currently maintains a private practice in Bremerton, Washington, USA.

Michael is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and has served EMDRIA in a number of different volunteer capacities over the years. He has presented on EMDR therapy and dissociation for EMDRIA, ISSTD, and independently, and serves as lead trainer for ISSTD’s EMDR therapy basic training, which he helped develop. He co-authored the MID Interpretive Manual, 2nd through 4th Editions, and has updated and managed both the MID Analysis and MID website since 2016. Michael has taught and consulted for hundreds of clinicians, both in the US and internationally, on using the MID for diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatment. 

Michael was co-author of both an article on screening for dissociation in EMDR therapy that appeared in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research in 2022 and a book chapter on diagnostic instruments for dissociation published in Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future (2nd Edition) in 2022. He is sole author of a chapter on the Autohypnotic Model of Dissociation, which will be part of a forthcoming book on childhood dissociation. Michael is currently co-authoring a book on EMDR and dissociation with his frequent collaborator Jennifer Madere. 

Michael was elected to ISSTD’s Board of Directors in 2017, served as Treasurer from 2018 to 2023, was elected President-elect for 2024, and serves as President in 2025. He was named a Fellow of ISSTD in 2019 and has been honored with a number of awards from the Society, including the Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions to the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders in 2022.