East Bay Woman Treats Veterans with New Therapy From: CBS - San Francisco - 03/23/2011 At least one in five Americans who’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan return with post traumatic stress disorder. An East Bay therapist has found a way to help by offering an effective treatment not widely available to local veterans. As a Walnut Creek licensed marriage and family therapist, Christina Madlener has helped treat PTSD using a relatively new and powerful therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR. Read the entire story and video a video at: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/03/23/jefferson-awards-east-bay-woman-treats-veterans-with-new-therapy/ Links: EMDR definition http://www.emdr.com/briefdes.htm EMDR: Taking a Closer Look http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=emdr-taking-a-closer-look Christina Madlener http://www.counselingcalifornia.com/TherapistDetail.cfm?id=025008#