Seminar Speakers:

Randy Overdorff, LPC, LMFT has twentry-three years experience serving as a therapist for children, adults and families.  He specialized in treatment of sexually abused children for twelve years with the Family Relations Program where, as executive director, he initiated Project Pathfinder, a treatment program for juvenile sex offenders.  As director of cadet counseling services at  Riverside Military Academy, he provided counseling for over 1000 teenaged boys.  A dynamic trainer, Mr. Overdorff has provided workshops with topics including treatment of abused children, treatment of juvenile offenders, counseling teenagers, expressive art therapy and structural family therapy.  Mr. Overdorff is a licensed professional counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist, a board certified art therapist and a credentialed supervisor of marriage and family therapists.  He currently is in private practice in Gainesville, Georgia, with Psychiatry and Psychological Associates.   

Special Agent Mike Yoder has been with the FBI for over eleven years.  During that time he has worked Asian Organized Crime investigations, Mexican Drug Trafficking investigations, and most recently, for the past four years, he as worked internet Crimes Against Children investigations.  Mike works on the FBI's Safe Child Task Force and is co-case agent of a group of agents and local police officers who are dedicated to investigating online sex predators.  Part of his duties include going undercover online and chatting with sex predators on their level.  The ultimate goal is to arrest those who entice minors to engage in sexual acts.  It also includes aggressively going after people who possess, distribute, and produce child pornography.

Since 2000, Mike has been additionally assigned as a Criminal Profiling coordinator for the Atlanta FBI division.  This role includes specialized training in homicide investigations, criminal profiling, and interview/interrogation techniques as well as having frequent interaction with the Behavior Analysis Unit profilers at FBI headquarters.  Mike has also been certified as an Instructor by the FBI and can teach on a myriad of topics.

Prior to the FBI, Mike graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, was an Army Officer for eleven years where he commanded two companies, a tank company and a recruiting company.  Mike also holds a masters degree in Organizational Management.  Mike is married to Nancy and has two children, a 9 year old son and a 5 year old daughter.

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