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About the Course
This course introduces Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a brain-based therapy for trauma and other issues. It covers EMDR's history, how it works, and its applications for law enforcement and first responders. The course also provides coping skills and an overview of what an EMDR session looks like. Led by Dr. Leah Kaylor, a certified EMDR therapist, this course offers a "kinder, gentler" approach to trauma treatment.
Your Instructor
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Leah Kaylor
Dr. Leah Kaylor is a licensed clinical psychologist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She specializes in trauma and sleep.
Dr. Kaylor completed her residency at the Memphis VA Medical Center, where she worked in the sleep clinic helping veterans with sleep hygiene, nightmares, insomnia, and CPAP adherence. While in Memphis, Dr. Kaylor also provided psychoeducation, crisis response, and psychological debriefings to firefighters, law enforcement, and first responders.
Since joining the FBI, Dr. Kaylor provides therapy to agents and professional staff who have been exposed to traumatic experiences while on the job, such as shootings, graphic crime scenes, and viewing job-related child sexual abuse images (CSAM). Her go-to treatment approaches for processing traumatic events include EMDR (Eye-movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Brainspotting.