Dr. Adam O’Brien was a EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, Approved Consultant, and is EMDR Trainer as an Affiliate Faculty member with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness (ICM) until 2025.
He has since let these expire and retired these credentials and left ICM to start his our training and educational center at the Wounded Healers Institute (WHI)
He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor in New York State. He is located in Chatham (Albany/Hudson area) where he maintains a private practice. He has experience working with addictions (chemical and behavioral), C-PTSD, dissociative disorders (DDNOS and DID), domestic violence, victims of crime, first responders, veterans, children, adolescents, and adults. Adam has regularly been doing trauma resolution “intensives” sessions and is an excellent resource on this up and coming EMDR therapy service. He has agency, EAP, intensive outpatient, community-based settings, and residential experience. He specializes in preverbal, intergenerational, historical/cultural, medical, spiritual abuse, psychedelic integration, and harm reduction. He also has excellent experience with 12-steps, recovery, integrative medicine, loss, anger, and adoption. He is well-versed in Ego State Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Psychedelic Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Progressive Counting (PC), and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). Adam is also a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist. He was a certified/Approved Consultant in Brainspotting (BSP) until 2025 when he let these expire.
Group: Monthly Consulting Last Wednesday of the Month 12-2 EST
Rate: 50$ – Pay HERE
Bulk Rate: 200$ for five 2-hour (total = 10 hours) group consultations – Pay HERE (Cannot be applied to speciality groups.)
Register HERE or contact me directly [email protected]
Main Meeting
Google Meet: meet.google.com/iea-gihb-cvn
Dial-in phone number: 650-781-0841
PIN: 202 429 088#
Schedule a small group 2-6 people 2 = $75 per person, 3 = $65 per person, 4 = 50 per person, 4+ = 50 per person…
Scheduling Individual?
Contact me directly at: [email protected]
Individual Consulting: 1 Hour Individual – 125$ an hour 1-hour EMDR Individual Consult
Block of five for 500$: HERE
Complementary Certification Course with all the resources you will ever need! Access HERE
Specialty Group: Addiction as Dissociation EMDR Group Consultation
Developed by Dr. Adam O’Brien and Dr. Jamie Marich, Addiction as Dissociation Model a contending theory on addictions. This speciality group is based on Adam’s advanced topics course “Treating Addiction as Dissociation with EMDR Therapy” and will reference setting up an Ego State Meeting Area, Addressing Toxic Shame, Bulk Flash, and treating Addiction Memory.
If you can, please bring at least one case to present.
To Register: Contact me directly: [email protected]
2-Hour SPECIALITY ADDICTION AS DISSOCIATION MODEL EMDR CONSULTATIONS
Cost: $50 for 2-hour consultation (minimum of 4 to have group. Use same contact info to register. Once we have 4, I will send out more details. If 4 is not reached, you can be put on the next one.)
To register: Contact me directly at: [email protected]
(These 2 or 4-hours of EMDR therapy group consultation for foundational training and/or certification. For the 4-Hour: Maximum of 10 participants (minimum of 5 participants for the group to take place)
**Addiction as Dissociation** EMDR WHI Certification w/ class
For clinicians who have completed their foundational training in EMDR, this certification track can include two 4-hour intensives and 1 two hour. 10 hours of group and 10 individuals are required for certification but any combination will work however, these special topics groups are better able to focus on clients who have addiction and recovery needs. This track is intended for addiction professionals but any professional who recognizes that addiction presents in a variety of mental health disorders are welcome.
Certification Track CLASS (Trauma Resolution Course)
Individual consultations can range from 5-10 hours with Adam.
Interested in replays of previous trainings? You can access them: HERE
Looking to become and WHI Approved Consultant (AC)?
Here is what you need to know: First, you become a Consultant in Training (CIT)
Contact me directly at: [email protected]
Rates: Group: $75.00 and Individual consultation: $150.00
1. Consultees are expected to come prepared to ask questions about EMDR therapy phases, protocols, AIP model, and/or present case material with specific questions for consultation.
2. Please use the case consultation form for guidance on presenting cases, and have this form completed prior to the start of the consultation.
3. Do not include any information that will identify the case(s) you are presenting.
4. If you miss any portion of the scheduled group, you may schedule an individual time to make up the hours as Adam’s schedule allows (for an additional fee)
5. Consultation is not supervision. Consultation focuses on mastery of standard EMDR therapy and integrating EMDR into your practice. You are responsible for the therapeutic relationship with your clients and your competency in the modalities you offer. As a consultant, I do not hold liability for how you practice.
6. 24-hrs notice is required for cancellation, or you may be charged in full.
7. Arriving a couple of minutes late is permissible but after 5 – 10 minutes your time will be reduced by how late you are. You will have to make it up individually or join another gro
