Instructors

Deborah Silveria PhD Deborah Silveria PhD is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist with over three decades of experience. She is a therapist, consultant and international trainer, specializing in the treatment of complex trauma, grief, and stress disorders. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (USC). She is an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Basic Trainer, and an EMDR RTEP/GTEP (Recent Traumatic Episode/Group Traumatic Episode) Trainer. She co-authored a chapter in EMDR Group Therapy, Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond, Springer 2023. She provides therapy at the Amen Clinic in Costa Mesa, CA, where she combines advanced brain research with practical therapeutic methods. She has an extensive experience with First Responders, children, adolescents and adults.

In addition to being on the team with Magnus One and Peerology 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 Law Enforcement, District Attorney’s Offices, Federal Air Marshals, Border Patrol, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Fire Departments, at the federal, state, and local levels.  She is also a member of The First Responder Clinician Support Team of North Idaho (FRCST)where she provides trainings on multiple topics to First Responders. Dr. Silveria is an Approved Instructor for the following ICISF (International Critical Incident Stress Foundation) Courses:  Assisting Individuals in Crisis, Advanced Assisting Individuals in Crisis, Group Crisis Interventions, Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response in the Workplace, and Resilient Leadership. She provides many trainings, to name a few: Kevlar for the Brain for Public Safety, Relational Violence, Identification and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Identification and Treatment of Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Trauma, Suicide Intervention and Prevention, The 5 Love Languages, and Wellness to Resilience. She is an adjunct professor at Cal State Fullerton where she teaches Trauma and Group Psychotherapy to Master’s In Counseling students. 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 has taught the segments on psychiatric medication, overview of mental illness, suicide, and dealing with veterans with PTSD.

She has worked hundreds of critical incidents nationally and internationally (Haiti, India, China) providing CISM services after natural and man-made disasters. She responded to the TSA shooting at LAX airport, the Salon Meritage shooting in Seal Beach, the Christopher Dorner Line of Duty Deaths, and the San Bernardino Terrorist Attack. In the past she has been the Clinical Director of Family Solutions, a non-profit organization for foster and group home youth on probation or involved with social services.  She was the Director of an in-patient adolescent psychiatric unit at CPC Santa Ana Hospital and Director of the Partial Hospitalization program at BHC Alhambra Hospital. She was also the Day Treatment Director for Olivecrest Treatment Center’s Level 14 group home for seriously emotionally disturbed adolescent males, located in Bellflower.