Mark Dworkin LCSW, P.C. is a clinical social worker with over 35 years of experience in the mental health and substance abuse field. He has worked with adults and adolescents, in individual and marital therapy, treating them for problems of depression, anxiety, trauma especially military traumas, relationship problems, phobias, alcohol and drug issues and survivors of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.
He believes strongly in a focused, goal oriented approach to problems people have, so that they can find solutions to their issues. He uses many cognitive behavioral approaches, hypnosis, gestalt therapy, relational psychoanalytic therapy, Seeking Safety and Motivational Interviewing. He is best known for his work with trauma survivors using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
He is a trainer and consultant for the EMDR International Association, and wrote the definitive text in the EMDR on the power and necessity of the therapeutic relationship.
Recently Dr. Jamie March published her research article on the importance of the therapeutic relationship in EMDR referenced Mark Dowrkin's research in the field of EMDR.
He lives at home with his wife and their demented cairn terrier (much like toto from The Wizard of Oz), Zody. His two boys are now grown and are both attending graduate school.