Dr Hamerling is the Faculty Chair and Past President of WSPP, and has served on the Board for over 20 years. She is also an active member of the American Group Psychotherapy Society and the Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society, currently serving on the Workshop Committee of the AGPA. Dr. Hamerling was at the DC Institute of Mental Hygiene from 1984-1995. While there, she was Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee, led the Supervision Group for Psychology Externs, taught workshops and was on the Supervisors Committee. Her training and orientation are psychodynamic, but she is also trained in Brainspotting (a technique that accesses subcortical parts of the brain, often allowing for deeper processing and help with stuck points and trauma that are less accessible to talk therapy).