Francine Shapiro, PhD, is the originator and developer of EMDR and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute.  She is a recipient of numerous honors including the International Sigmund Freud Award of the City of Vienna for distinguished contribution to psychotherapy, and has authored more than 60 articles, chapters and books about EMDR.

Florence W. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, is Director of the Florida Couples and Family Institute. She has been president of various organizations including the International Family Therapy Association, American Board of Family Psychology and two divisions of APA.  She has received numerous awards from APA, AAMFT and ABPP and has authored over 200 books, chapters and articles. 

 Louise Maxfield, PhD, is a psychologist at the London Health Sciences Centre, Canada.  She is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario and an Adjunct Professor in the Psychology Dept. at Lakehead University.  The recipient of numerous awards for her research, she is the founding editor of the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research.