About

Tony Cotraccia, LCSW

I am a clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience practicing psychotherapy. In 2012 and 2022 I authored two scientific papers in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research on the Biopsychosocial-AIP Model of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing). The goal of my work in recent years has been to bring the theory, model, mechanisms of action, and methods of EMDR closer together in a more coherent overall approach to trauma work.

As a result, I have found a focus on information processing in effective psychotherapy and everyday life goes beyond a traditional view of trauma. I describe this through the concept, trauma as absence. It means that, at it’s core trauma is a lack of biopsychosocial connectivity, rather than a presence of anything. It’s what happens when our brain, self, and relationships to varying and changing degrees, become disconnected from each other.

I welcome you on this journey in exploring how information processing brings our brain, self, and relationships into contact to support life. What I call the Life Enhancing Information Processing perspective. A perspective that is open to learning from all life forms about how to master intersubjective collaboration. That is, thriving together while staying connected to ourselves, others, and the environment around us!