meet deany
Deany Laliotis, LCSW-C, LICSW, is a trainer, clinical consultant, master therapist and practitioner of EMDR. She was named a Top Therapist by Washingtonian magazine in 2009. Deany’s areas of clinical expertise include simple and complex traumatic stress responses, anxiety and self-esteem issues with a particular emphasis on relationship difficulties. A well respected teacher in the EMDR community, Deany trains clinicians in EMDR as a broad-based psychotherapy, both in the US and abroad, teaching clinicians how to incorporate this powerful and effective method for helping clients reprocess difficult experiences—traumatic or not—that impede the client’s ability to move forward in their lives.
Deany Laliotis is also on the faculty of EMDR Institute, Inc., and she is the co-director of EMDR of Greater Washington. Her publications include a chapter in Psychotherapist Revealed: Therapists Speak about Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy. She has recently co-authored a clinical article with Francine Shapiro, titled “EMDR and the Adaptive Information Processing Model: Integrative Treatment and Case Conceptualization.”