Karee Powers

Faculty

About

Karee Powers, LICSW, EMDR-C is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR trainer and consultant. She has over 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings including inpatient facilities, and non-profit organizations offering care for children, adolescents and adult survivors of abuse, neglect, combat trauma, sexual trauma, phobias, generational trauma, and interpersonal traumas. Her private practice and training is centered in work with complex trauma and dissociation, using EMDR, CBT, psychodrama, somatic psychology, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with her Master’s in Social Work.

Courses by Karee Powers

Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach

A course on the somatic lens of addiction and recovery. Body-based tools to recognize protective functions, address underlying dysregulation, and support sustainable healing from addiction and compulsive patterns.

Compassionate Grief Work: Innovative Techniques for Healing

A course on compassionate, innovative grief work. Tools including therapeutic letters, psychodrama, somatic focusing, breathwork, and ritual to navigate grief intertwined with trauma — and cultivate a new ongoing relationship with what's been lost.

Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma

A course on healing transgenerational trauma. Family Constellations, somatic ancestral genograms, and ancestral psychotherapy as tools to disentangle inherited burdens and heal across past, present, and future generations.

How to Work with Resistant Clients

A course on working with resistant clients through a somatic lens. Tools to recognize resistance as protective, build trust, and create the conditions for engagement, safety, and healing.

Summit: Healing Trauma with EMDR and Applied Neuroscience

An 8.5-hour on-demand summit with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and seven leading experts on integrating EMDR with somatic therapy. Body-based tools, applied neuroscience, and play to deepen trauma healing.