Welcome to Life After Trauma - a web site dedicated to serving individuals and families who have experienced traumatic events.  This page is presently under construction and will be expanded shortly.

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Dr Beverly Dexter, PhD, is a Psychologist with over 20 years ofActive Duty military experience, who has served three tours with Marines in the U.S. and Iraq.  She is a warfare qualified former Navy Special Operations Officer (salvage diver and ship driver) and former Navy Supply Corps Officer.  She has served operational tours on four Navy ships and frequently gives professional military presentations on leadership, resilience building for military families and prevention and treatment of trauma.  Dr Dexter has lived military life as a single person, double active duty couple, "dependent" wife and mom, deployed mom, stationed overseas and deployed to a combat zone.  She has extensive experience serving Army National Guard troops in Iraq.  She is the Founder and Chairman of the EMDR International Association Military Special Interest Group and the ISTSS Military Special Interest Group.  Dr Dexter is a leader in the effort to improve trauma treatment for Active Duty, Reservists, and National Guard returning from combat and for their families.  Dr Dexter is EMDRIA Certified in EMDR and a Fellow and on the Speaker’s Bureau of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.  Author of No More Nightmares: How to Use Planned Dream Intervention to End Nightmares, she has taught her original theory of Planned Dream Intervention to thousands of individuals who have experienced rapid resolution of recurring dreams and nightmares.