Shirley Jean Schmidt MA LPC

Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor near Portland, Oregon. She was trained in EMDR in 1995. She’s a former EMDRIA-Approved Consultant. In 2001 she began putting together a new therapy model, the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS). The DNMS is an ego state therapy focused mainly on meeting the unmet emotional needs of wounded child parts. She’s trained hundreds of therapists in the DNMS over the last 20 years. She recently expanded her model to include interventions for preparing dissociative clients for EMDR. She’s published articles and webinars about integrating EMDR with ego state therapy. She holds the patent on the TheraTapper, an EMDR tapping device.