Sole Proprietor
D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW
Bremerton, WA, United States
D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, (he/they) is a clinical social worker and maintains a private practice in Bremerton, Washington, USA, where he serves transitional-age youth, adults, and older adults. Psychodynamically grounded, Michael integrates EMDR therapy with additional training in clinical hypnosis, Ego State Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Deep Brain Reorienting.
Michael is an EMDR Certified Approved Consultant and Trainer through the EMDR International Association, served on EMDRIA's Standards & Training committee from 2014 to 2017, and currently serves on EMDRIA's Training Council.
Since 2016, Michael has collaborated with colleague Jennifer Madere and Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation developer Paul F. Dell to make the MID more accessible, co-authoring the MID Interpretive Manual and managing the MID Analysis and MID website. Since 2017, Jennifer and Michael have taught hundreds of clinicians how to employ the MID, both in the US and internationally.
Michael has presented and co-presented at a number of ISSTD annual and regional conferences since 2016, and in ISSTD's webinar series, on both the MID and his own, original work; co-presented with Jennifer Madere at EMDRIA's annual conference both in 2017 on the MID and as invited plenary speakers in 2021; and both at the Hypnotic Idea Exchange and for the Oregon Society of Clinical Hypnosis in late-2022.
Michael has served on the ISSTD Board of Directors since 2017 and became Treasurer in 2018, a role in which he continues to serve. From 2017-2020, Michael co-chaired ISSTD's EMDR Therapy Training Task Group, which created ISSTD's EMDR therapy 'basic' training. He now co-chairs ISSTD’s EMDR Therapy Training Committee and co-teaches the training.
Michael has more recently taken a foray into writing, co-authoring both an article and chapter on diagnostic instruments, and is in the midst of writing a chapter on autohypnotic model of dissociation and children for an upcoming edited volume.
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