About Ricky Greenwald, PsyD

Dr. Ricky Greenwald is a practicing clinical psychologist who has been working with children, teens, adults, and families since 1985. He is the Child Trauma Institute's Founder, Executive Director, and Chair of Faculty.
Dr. Greenwald was previously Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Training for the child trauma program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, NY), Department of Psychiatry. Prior to that he served as Senior Psychologist with the Mokihana Project (Kauai, HI), a successful demonstration project providing child/family mental health services through the public school system. Special interests include assessment, treatment, and training re child/adolescent trauma, loss, and problem behaviors. For more information, browse the site, read on, check out his CV, or write to him.

Books by Dr. Greenwald

Using EMDR With Children, 1993, Pacific Grove, CA: EMDR Institute.
EMDR in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 1999, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency, 2002, New York: Haworth.
Child Trauma Handbook, 2005, New York: Haworth.
EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment, (2007). New York: Haworth.
Treating Problem Behaviors, in press, pre-publication edition available now.
A Fairy Tale (comic book, with artist K. J. Baden). (2007). Greenfield, MA: Child Trauma Institute.

Psychology Practice and Consulting

Services Offered:

Psychotherapy: consultation and brief/intensive treatment for individuals, couples, or for kids and their families. Dr. Greenwald will travel to your home or office to work with you and/or your child/family for (typically) one or two days. Goals might include: assessing what's going on and why; providing specific guidance regarding treatment, parenting, and placement; and/or providing treatment for trauma/loss resolution. This intensive approach can be very productive under the right circumstances.
Consultation for therapists, agencies, programs, or institutions. By phone or on site at your location.

Teaching & Training

Dr. Greenwald offers the Child Trauma Institute training programs, including in-depth trauma training for mental health professionals and others (educators, caseworkers, line staff, parents, etc.) who work with trauma-exposed children, teens, and adults, as well as EMDR basic training and related programs.

Research

Most of Dr. Greenwald's research is in the area of child and adolescent trauma, loss, and related symptoms. Examples of his work can be found throughout this site, especially in the publications section. He is currently working with colleagues on several research projects focused on trauma assessment and treatment, as well as ongoing study of the CTI training programs.

EMDR

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a proven-effective/efficient treatment for trauma, loss, and stress. Dr. Greenwald is a pioneer and leading authority on EMDR. His book, EMDR in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy (1999) has been translated into German and Italian; his 1993 booklet, Using EMDR With Children, has been translated into Spanish. He recently published an EMDR text book. Dr. Greenwald provides training and consultation for therapists, researchers, and agencies internationally.

Child Trauma Institute

CTI is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that provides training, consultation, information, and resources for those who work with trauma-exposed children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Greenwald founded CTI in 2002 in order to more widely disseminate high quality training programs on trauma treatment and EMDR. CTI has a growing faculty of highly qualified supervisors and trainers. CTI's web site provides information and resources to the professional community and the general public, and averages more than 40,000 hits per month.

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