Elan Shapiro
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Psychologist, became active in EMDR early in his career in 1989, after attending one of Francine Shapiro’s first ever trainings, and later served as an EMDR Institute Facilitator. He was a Charter member of EMDRIA and one of the founding members of EMDR Europe and of EMDR Israel. In 2003, he was elected Secretary of the EMDR Europe Executive Committee and Board, serving two terms until 2011.
He received the EMDR Europe Association 2016 David Servan Schreiber Award for his outstanding contribution to EMDR therapy, in the development of the Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP in 2008) together with Brurit Laub, and his development of the Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (G-TEP) in 2013. He recently received the Humanitarian Award from Trauma Aid Europe at the Dublin European conference, 2024 & The Francine Shapiro Award from EMDR Latin America at the Conference in Chile 2024