Doreen Van Leeuwen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist. She has a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has also completed certifications in Critical Incident Stress Management, Advanced Critical Incident Response and Disaster Management.

Doreen relocated to Sonoma County from Southern California and joined Redwood Empire CAMFT in 2015. She served on the Programs committee, and revitalized the Disaster Response team with the help of Gail Van Buren, LMFT. 

In 2018 she became RECAMFT's President Elect, and served as its President in 2019. 

In 2019, she was hired by Medtronic to provide onsite employee assistance services with special focus on the 53 workers who lost homes, as well as all those impacted by the fires and more.

In 2002, Doreen took her first course in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and has provided hundreds of interventions for companies of all sizes, to assist management and employees after a wide variety of disruptive events. Once she joined RECAMFT in 2015, Laura invited her to join the Disaster Management committee. As a result, during and after the Tubbs Fire, she and Laura quickly began to formulate strategies to respond to the Santa Rosa Community.

In 2019, Doreen received the Mary Riemersma Distinguished Clinical Member award for her volunteerism and leadership during and after the 2017 Santa Rosa Firestorm. 

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Providing Disaster Mental Health Response in aftermath of SoCal Firestorms

Description: In the aftermath of the horrendous 2025 firestorms, thousands of children and adults are experiencing wide-ranging symptoms of acute stress. Mental health workers will be called upon to provide immediate, short-term interventions to stabilize individuals and families quickly and effectively. Learn key strategies to help people understand and normalize their symptoms, facilitate coping and planning skills, identify available resources & supports, assess their need for further intervention(s), and foster their resilience and hope.

Objectives:

After the workshop you should be able to:

1. Assess if you have the capacity and are ready to serve as a Disaster Mental Health(DMH) Responder to the current event.
2. Have working definitions of DMH and Psychological First Aid(PFA).
3. HIdentify 3-6 core differences between DMH and psychotherapy.
4. HDescribe the Sea-3 Method to assess functioning and components of effective individual interventions.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of responder peer-care and self-care planning