Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW, Rev., is a Latino Clinical Social Worker with over twenty years of experience in working with community-based clinical practice. He received his Social Work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work. He is a family therapist with clinical interests in the areas of immigration, diversity, LGBTQ empowerment, spirituality, and working with marginalized communities. In the last decade he has become a trauma specialist assisting clients with complex psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).  He has extensive training and practice in family systems therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Structural Dissociation and Ego States Psychology, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He served as a counselor faculty at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, and adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work and Smith College School of Social Work. He was also a faculty and member of the Executive Committee of the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and at the Integrative Trauma Studies Program of the National Institute for Psychotherapy. He is currently on faculty with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.  He formerly served on the Board of the National Association of Puertorrican and Hispanic Social Workers.  He lives in New York with his partner and son.