Presenter: Elizabeth Davis, MFA, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, EMDR Consultant and Trainer

Presenter Bio: As an Integrative Therapist, who combines evidenced based approaches and creative expertise, Elizabeth Davis has a passion for innovation in the service of making trauma therapy more tolerable and meaningful. Her approach is client specific, treating each person  as unique and using her diverse training experience and creativity to meet them where they are in their journey. 

Elizabeth’s experience as a therapist began over 23 years ago working with at-risk youth in residential placement and in the community with vulnerable families and adults. This foundational experience led Elizabeth to a focus and passion for understanding the effective treatments for complex trauma and attachment insecurity. Her training includes: EMDR Therapy (Certified, Consultant, and Trainer), Internal Family Systems (IFS Level 2), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Hypnosis, Attachment Focused Therapy, (she is trained to administer and score the Adult Attachment Interview- AAI), Art Therapy, and Play Therapy, (she has over a 100 training hours in play therapy, and was a Board Member of the New York State Play Therapy Association, 2014-2015). As a trainer for Trauma Institute, Elizabeth has conducted dozens of workshops, including at the EMDR International Association (Emdria) Conference (2019), and International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD, 2018, 2021). She is an author (chapter in EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach, 2020) and co-editor (with Jen Marchand, Sherri Jacobs, and Jocylin Fitzgerald) of the soon to be released book, EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies, (Routledge, to be release in 2022).  Elizabeth serves on the Child and Adolescent Treatment Task Force for ISSTD and is Secretary of the Creative Arts SIG. Currently she serves as Director of the Buffalo NY satellite and as Supervisor of Intake for Trauma Institute.