Eugene Porter, Mft

In the many years since 1984, I have learned and taught about how to address trauma and its many manifestation. Treatment approaches include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), sensorimotor and somatic awareness strategies, Gestalt therapy, Cognitive behavioral work, Mindfulness, subjective and intersubjective communication and dreamwork. I have been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1984. After my undergraduate degree, I worked in Social services and Education in New York, before moving to California and working for 7 years in the Mental Health System with severely mentally ill adults and adolescents. This is where I was first exposed to the basics of family therapy psycho-pharmacology. This experience motivated me to get graduate training and licensed as an MFT. I received my Masters Degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University in 1983. I did my internship at Parental Stress Services with one of the first acknowledged populations of Male sexual abuse victims. Since this issue had not been publicly acknowledged before this point, there was virtually nothing in the clinical literature on strategies for treating this population. So I helped to develop the first clinical groups and treatment strategies for treating men and boys who had been sexually abused. In 1986, I authored “Treating the Young Male Victim of Sexual Assault”, which was the first text to address the challenge of treating adolescent and adult males who had been traumatized in this way. When I began my licensed clinical practice I specialized in working with Male sexual abuse and rape survivors. Due to the complexity of this issue, the work expanded into a range of areas, including trauma, adolescent development, chemical dependency, family and couples treatment and child therapy. In the many years since 1984, I have learned and taught about how to address trauma and its many manifestation. Treatment approaches include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), sensorimotor and somatic awareness strategies, Gestalt therapy, Cognitive behavioral work, Mindfulness, subjective and intersubjective communication and dreamwork.