Lewis Engel, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Rafael, California and
consults with both groups of therapists and individual therapists mastering EMDR and Flash
Technique. Dr. Engel is a former associate professor of psychology at Lone Mountain College,
San Francisco and is the author of Imaginary Crimes: Why We Punish Ourselves and How To
Stop co-authored with Tom Ferguson, M.D., Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1990. He currently
collaborates with Dr. Phil Manfield, the developer of the Flash Technique, in research and
training therapists around the world in the use of the Flash Technique. At the present time, he
and Dr. Manfield have trained over 8000 therapists in the Flash Technique and have published
two journal articles, while collaborating with researchers in the US, Europe, and Australia in
other studies of the Flash Technique.
