Dr. James T. Reese is an award-winning author, lecturer, and consultant and is president of James T. Reese and Associates, a Virginia-based international behavioral sciences and management-consulting firm. Dr. Reese serves as an Associate editor for the Journal of Threat Assessment as well as Preventing Suicide: The National Journal. Reese is Board Certified as an Expert in Stress Management, Traumatic Stress, Forensic Traumatology, and Emergency Crisis Response. Reese is a Fellow of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and a Diplomat in Police and Criminal Psychology.

In September 2001, Reese suspended his business activities and traveled to Ground Zero in New York City at the request of authorities there. Reese has since decompressed more than 600 rescuers from the World Trade Center and continues to provide service there. Reese went to the Pentagon and later presented trauma recovery information to those witnessing that tragedy.

Reese has worked with rescuers and first responders from the Piper Alpha Oil Rig that tragically sank in the North Sea off Scotland; the Lockerby crash of Pan Am 103; the caretakers of the families of TWA 800; and he returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the closest land mass to Swiss Air 111, to lecture on stress management to those rescuers and others. Reese provided stress management programs for the "Green River Murderer" Task Force (Washington State) and the "Tylenol Case" (Chicago area). Reese has addressed representatives of more than 300 Fortune 500 companies. Reese has provided expert testimony before the United States Congress on stress and addressed the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. Reese provides workshops throughout the United States on stress-related issues for emergency service personnel.

Reese served as a lieutenant / platoon leader in Vietnam, logging dozens of combat heliborn assaults and earned the United States Bronze Star Medal and the Vietnamese Distinguished Service Cross. After 25 years as an FBI Agent, Reese retired as the Assistant Unit Chief of the Behavioral Science Unit. Reese lectured at the FBI Academy for 18 years on stress management. Reese helped to establish the psychological services, employee assistance, chaplains', and stress management programs in the FBI. He was an original FBI criminal personality profiler (The Silence of the Lambs). Reese published seven books while in the FBI. Prior to his retirement, Reese received the FBI Director's Award for Distinguished Service. Reese continues to be called by firefighters, police, victim assistance groups, probation, corrections, hospitals, rescuers, and more throughout the world for presentations on issues related to stress, trauma and coping.

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