A new champion in the world of trauma treatment

Nearly 20 years ago, Ricky Greenwald, Psy.D., founder and executive director of the Northampton, Mass.-based Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute, stumbled upon some surprising research. A leading trauma therapist who primarily worked with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Greenwald saw a randomized comparison study by David Read Johnson, Ph.D., that showed that a treatment called the Counting Method was as effective as more complex and articulated approaches, including EMDR.
He was shocked - a simpler, easier to learn and administer method that matched the outcomes of EMDR? After trying it while teaching a course for trauma therapy, Greenwald accessed a training manual from Read Johnson to learn more. He soon r...