About Amy Butler, MA, LPC
Amy has her Masters in Marriage and Family Counseling (MAMFC) and has been a Licensed Professional Counselor for more than 20 years. She has experience working in therapeutic day treatments, inpatient psychiatric facilities, non-profit organizations, and private practice settings.
Amy is trained in multiple trauma and attachment informed models such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Story Informed Trauma Training (SITT) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma Competent Caregiver (TCC), Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). She utilizes all of these models to go towards her typical demographic of law enforcement and first responders, educators, nonprofit leaders, international relief aid workers, and survivors of high trauma realities.
In recent years, Amy has leveraged her expertise in trauma therapy to assist high trauma-impacted helping organizations such as police departments, education systems, child safety centers, and child endangerment nonprofits. She assesses the system of these organizations to find out “what hurts” and build tailored experiential trainings and consultations that seek to relief what hurts.
Her trainings cover critical topics such as understanding trauma and secondary traumatic stress, completing the stress response cycle to mitigate PTSD, cultivating a safe organizational culture, trauma-informed supervisors, trauma-informed bias training, emotional intelligence, and developing skills for handling traumatic realities with others.
About Mark DiBona
Mark DiBona was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts. In 1985, Mark began his Law Enforcement career with the Braintree Police Department and later transferred to the Amtrak Police Department, Boston District. In 1993, Mark moved to Florida and continued his career with the Avon Park Police Department and the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, 19 years as a Patrol Sergeant. After 25 years with S.C.S.O. and 33 years of Law Enforcement experience, Mark retired in 2019.
Throughout his Law Enforcement career, Mark has held several positions and assignments, to include Field Training Officer, Traffic/DUI Unit, Peer Support Unit, Critical Incident Stress Management Team, Public Information Officer, Police Academy and in-service training Instructor.
Mark is the President and Co-founder of Protecting The Guardian, a Non-Profit Organization. Mark is an advocate for First Responder suicide prevention, mental health education and wellness. During his career, Mark developed mental health issues and a suicide attempt. He is very open speaking about these issues and his wellness. He has been a Keynote Speaker nationally, internationally at several conferences. Mark has appeared in several media events, podcasts, webinars, newspapers, books, documentaries, magazine interviews, radio shows, conferences, training events and in a music video. He also has acted in training videos and documentaries. In his free time, Mark enjoys spending time with his wife Gailyn of over 33 years. Spending time with their dogs, Romeo and Bella. He is a huge fan of Rock and Roll music, playing the guitar and keyboards.
About Melissa Kaiser
Melissa Kaiser is an independent consultant in the anti-human trafficking field. She was the first Human Trafficking Navigator hired for Eastern North Dakota, contracted with the North Dakota Human Trafficking Task Force. Melissa was employed with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation as their first Victim/Witness Specialist, and assisted in creating the integrated victim services and law enforcement program in ND.
Melissa graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social work from Minnesota State University Moorhead and holds a ND licensure. She has been a member of the North Dakota Human Trafficking Task Force since 2016, is currently the co-chair for the Lived Experience Subcommittee, and was the vice chair of the Labor Trafficking Subcommittee for six years.
Melissa has trained over 12,000 professionals and students on the topics of trafficking, creating and maintaining multi-disciplinary teams, person-centered and trauma informed approaches, and secondary traumatic stress. She currently lives in Florida and is working nationally and internationally in the anti-human trafficking field.
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Supplemental Material
Interested in exploring more of their expertise? Check out these resources:
- Mark DiBona's resources
- Melissa Kaiser's resources
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