HDIAC Webinars - Transforming Traumatic Memories: The Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) Protocol

Dr. Richard Gray is Research Director for the NLP Research and Recognition Project where he led the pilot studies of the RTM protocol. He is a past faculty member in the School of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, and served for more than 20 years in the US Probation Department, Brooklyn, NY. During that time, he was awarded the US Probation Officers Association North East Regional Line Officer of the Year Award. Gray was also the recipient of the 2004 Neuro-Linguistic Programming World Community Award in Education for his work with federal offenders with substance use disorders. He is the author of Archetypal Explorations (Routledge, 1996); Co-Author with Lisa Wake and Frank Bourke of The Clinical Effectiveness of NLP (Routledge, 2012); and other books and articles. Gray received his BA in Psychology, Central College, Pella, IA; MA in Sociology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY; and Ph.D. in Psychology, The Union Institute, Cincinnati, OH.

Dr. Frank Bourke, Fulbright Grant, Institute of Psychiatry, London has 43 years of professional experience in a variety of areas to include business working as a CEO managing twelve psychiatric hospitals, academia serving as a lecturer, Cornell University as well as operating in numerous clinical settings, including one year in NYC where he was responsible for a rehabilitation program for 850 World Trade Center survivors following the attacks on September 11, 2001. Currently, Dr. Bourke is the Executive Director of the Research and Recognition Nonprofit Project which was founded to research an effective treatment for PTSD. Research studies of the Research and Recognition Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) protocol have shown positive results, relieving PTSD symptoms in over 90% of the 160 male and female veteran participants. The Project is now committed to training counselors to support a national program aimed at making the RTM Protocol available to PTSD diagnosed veterans.