Dr. Sweeton is the author of multiple bestselling books on trauma and brain-based approaches to mental health, including The Trauma Treatment Toolbox (PESI Publishing), Train Your Brain Card Deck (PESI Publishing & Media), Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness (W. W. Norton & Company), and the Traumatic Stress Recovery Workbook (New Harbinger Publications). Her work on trauma and memory has been widely cited and referenced in professional, academic, and public-facing resources addressing PTSD and memory processes.

In addition to her clinical and scientific background, Dr. Sweeton is a Missouri-admitted attorney. During law school, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the UMKC Law Review, where her scholarship on PTSD as bodily injury drew attention for its integration of neuroscience, psychology, and legal analysis. She completed a judicial internship with the Honorable Stephen R. Bough of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri and has experience in personal injury, neurocognitive, and trauma-related litigation.

Dr. Sweeton is the founder and co-owner of Online CE Credits, a multi-million-dollar continuing education company that provides professional education to mental health clinicians nationwide, and Legal Master, which delivers continuing legal education to attorneys. Through these platforms and related educational work, she has trained more than 65,000 professionals internationally in trauma, PTSD, and neuroscience-informed practice. She is an experienced trainer in EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, EMDR 3.0: Neural Desensitization and Integration Training (NDIT; a psychotherapy she developed), and related trauma-focused approaches. PESI has referred to her as a world-renowned trauma treatment expert.

Her clinical and educational work emphasizes mechanisms of change, particularly memory reconsolidation, rather than allegiance to any single treatment protocol. This mechanism-based orientation informs her approach to psychotherapy, training, forensic assessment, and consultation, especially in complex cases where trauma-related harm is misunderstood, minimized, or mischaracterized.

Dr. Sweeton has held adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and previously served as President of both the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association and the Oklahoma Psychological Association. Her writing, commentary, and expertise have been featured by outlets including Psychology Today, HuffPost, Bloomberg, and the American Psychological Association, as well as nationally televised programs highlighting women in leadership and expertise.

Today, Dr. Sweeton maintains a selective private practice in the greater Kansas City area, offers forensic assessment and consultation services, and continues to write, teach, and speak nationally. She is authorized to provide telepsychology services in 42 participating PSYPACT states, in addition to in-person services in Missouri.

Across roles, Dr. Sweeton’s work is unified by a single aim: to bring greater accuracy, depth, and responsibility to how trauma and psychological injury are understood, treated, and evaluated, particularly in contexts where those injuries carry real consequences and are too often dismissed or misunderstood.

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