Deborah Silveria

Service Description

Dr. Silveria is both 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, California. With a focus in trauma and grief counseling. She has trained professionals nationally and internationally (Uganda, African) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. She is a member of The Counseling Team International, (TCTI) an EAP that has over 100 contracts for counseling, employment testing, training, and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) with Public Safety at the federal, state and local levels. Dr. Silveria is an approved instructor for the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF), 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 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 provides trainings in Resilient Leadership. She has presented at conferences nationally and internationally in Canada and in Europe on EMDR and Trauma. 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 Wellness 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 Director 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.