EMDR Faculty

Jennifer Roberts, MSW, LISW-S practices in Lake County, Ohio. Jennifer works in both private practice and community mental health as an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Certified EMDR Therapist. She is an Institute for Creative Mindfulness faculty member licensed to offer in-house trainings in community settings. She has experience with populations of all ages, has developed programming for intensive family work, and frequently helps children struggling with a variety of behavioral challenges and symptoms. Jennifer also has extensive experience with both first responders and people experiencing or previously having experienced homelessness. Jennifer has received additional training in integrative arts and EMDR specialized protocols of pain, R-TEP, and G-TEP.

I am a clinical social worker with supervision designation with the Ohio Counselor Marriage and Family Therapist Board. I own and operate my own private practice, I am a co-owner of the Ohio Institute for Trauma and Wellness, LLC and I am also employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.  I have practiced social work since 2005 after graduating with a  Master’s degree in Social Work from the Ohio State University.  I am  an adjunct faculty member with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and provide EMDR therapy consultation as an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant to clinicians across the nation. Throughout my career, I have provided local and national trainings focused on the impacts of trauma and its effects on individuals, communities, and families.

My therapy practice focuses on the treatment of childhood trauma and other adverse childhood experiences, complex PTSD, military trauma, LGBTQIA+ specific support needs, traumatized children, birth trauma, perinatal mental health and grief, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual abuse, and dissociation. 

In my practice, I utilize various therapeutic interventions including: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR),  DBT skills, Cognitive processing therapy, trauma-focused CBT, art and play strategies for children, and mindfulness based interventions. 

As owner and co-founder of Renew Wellness, a holistic counseling practice specializing in EMDR therapy, mindfulness practices, and yoga, Anna Schott believes that real change comes from connecting the mind, body, and spirit utilizing a variety of holistic modalities and interventions.

Anna is a LISW-S and earned her Masters in Social Work and Masters of Arts in Public Policy and Management through The Ohio State University. She earned her BA in Psychology from Denison University.  She is trained in and utilizes EMDR therapy, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Therapy, and DBT.  Anna is a Certified EMDR Therapist and an Approved Consultant through the EMDR International Association as well as an EMDR trainer and adjunct faculty member of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness.

In addition to her clinical background, Anna is a Registered Yoga Teacher and teaches therapeutic yoga classes to clients of Renew Wellness.  As part of the treatment process, all clients who attend therapy at Renew Wellness receive a free yoga membership and can attend any of the classes offered at Renew Wellness.

Anna also provides EMDR consultation to clinicians working towards their EMDR training requirements as well as certification.  She co-facilitates EMDR basic trainings as an adjunct faculty of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and co-founded Central Ohio EMDR Connection, which provides advanced EMDR therapy trainings.  Anna enjoys expanding clinicians’ knowledge of EMDR therapy and demonstrating how to incorporate EMDR therapy into their own practices.

​Anna is passionate about working with individual clients with complex trauma, attachment trauma, PTSD, dissociation, depression, anxiety, and addiction on a weekly basis and also offers EMDR intensive sessions on a case-by-case basis.  In therapy, her specialty is to help clients reprocess negative beliefs about oneself and develop mindfulness skills, overcoming anxiety, depression, dissociation, complex and attachment trauma, addictions, and compulsive behaviors, freeing them to work towards discovering their best self.