Deb Silveria, Ph.D.

Deb Silveria Ph.D. is both a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist.  She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1993. She has a  private practice at the Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa, CA. with a focus in trauma and grief  counseling. She has trained professionals nationally and internationally (Uganda, Africa)  in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy. She is a member of the Counseling Team International, (TCTI) an EAP that has over 100 contracts for  counseling, employment testing, training, and CISM (Critical Incident Stress Management) with Public Safety at the federal, state, and local levels. Dr. Silveria is an Ap proved Instructor for ICISF (International Critical Incident Stress Foundation), a POST  Certified Instructor for Law Enforcement, and an adjunct professor at Rio Hondo College and California State University, Fullerton. She also teaches at Cerritos College in  their Foster and Kinship Program. She is part of a team of instructors for Crisis Intervention Training for Law Enforcement, designed to help officers deal more effectively  with the mentally ill on the street. She teaches many courses including Psychology of  Trauma, Relational Violence, Suicide Prevention and Intervention, Identification and  Treatment of PTSD, Identification and Treatment of Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and  Secondary Trauma, Grief and Loss Recovery, Wellness and Mindfulness. She also pro vides trainings in Resilient Leadership. She is also an EMDR Therapy trainer. She is an instructor on Resiliency and Leadership for The Amen Clinics and TCTI for  first responders, Change Your Brain, Change Your Department. She teaches Wellnes  and Resiliency for the Department of Corrections personnel through Humboldt State  University in California. 

She has worked hundreds of critical incidents nationally and internationally, providing  CISM services after natural and man-made disasters, (Hurricane Katrina, Earthquake in  Haiti, and San Bernardino Terrorist attacks) In the past she has been the Clinical Direc tor of Family Solutions, a non-profit organization for foster and group home youth on  probation, or removed from home due to abuse or neglect. She has been the Director  of an in-patient adolescent psychiatric unit at CPC Santa Ana Hospital and Head of the  Partial Hospitalization program at BHC Alhambra Hospital. 

Her passions are teaching, traveling, learning about other cultures, and building collabo rations to help heal those wounded by trauma throughout the world. She is also a scu ba diving instructor and dives whenever she can. Her training has enabled her to travel  throughout the United States as well as globally. She has presented at conferences,  throughout the United States and Guam, as well as internationally in Canada, Europe,  and Asia on EMDR and Trauma. She co-authored a chapter in a book, EMDR Group  Therapy: Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond, published by  Springer in November, 2023.