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Elizabeth S. Warner, EdM, PsyD

Psychologist
SMARTmoves Partners
Auburndale, Massachusetts, United States

Elizabeth Warner Ed.M., Psy.D. is a licensed psychologist with 40 years of experience working with children and families in psychiatric inpatient and outpatient settings (in training at Boston University Medical Center), schools, clinics and residential treatment and has a private practice in Boston for adults and families for 37 years.
Dr. Warner completed a Master’s Degree in Human Development at the Harvard Graduation School of Education in 1976, and her doctoral degree at William James College (aka MSPP) in 1986.
Early in her career, Dr. Warner spent 15 years working at the Language & Cognitive Development Center in Boston for autism where motoric engagement was used to develop cognition and language.
The last 16 years, Dr. Warner’s focus has been on treatment for traumatized persons from 1.5 years to 22 years as well as caregivers and adults, whose lives have been impacted by chronic stress and complex trauma. The clinical effectiveness of engagement of the movement senses for emotional regulation drives her current academic and clinical investigations.
As Project Director at The Trauma Center, Dr. Warner oversaw model development with colleagues of Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART). She collaborated with community-based therapists to develop SMART applications for in-home therapy, and trained in diverse settings in the U.S., Hong Kong, Norway, and Canada. She constructed two videotape coding systems for studying regulatory processes, which identified vestibular and rhythmic input as two effective regulators
A Founding Partner in SMARTmoves LLC, since 2018 she continues to train and consult to therapists. She contributes to research through videotape study and treatment outcome studies. Her publications include the book, Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing and Attachment Building (2020), elucidating the model, and three peer-reviewed journal articles regarding theory, evidence, and a case study for SMART.

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