EMDR Therapy Basic Training - Early Winter 2024

A Rock Solid Foundation for Practicing EMDR Therapy 

EMDRIA is the gold standard for EMDR training and our Basic Training is EMDRIA approved. With a combination of didactic presentation, clinical videos and hands-on practice, we’ll cover all of EMDR’s cornerstone practices, processes, disciplines and tools in depth.

An Understanding of EMDR Therapy’s Flexibility and Scope

EMDR Therapy is restorative—proven to be effective in resourcing, strengthening positive behaviors and filling in emotional and developmental deficits common in complex trauma. It’s also flexible with a variety of responses to stabilize an easily dysregulated client. You’ll learn when to use specialized protocols and how to modify the standard protocol based on what’s best for your client. You'll gain a full appreciation of how EMDR is effective for addressing a variety of clients and issues including:

• couples
• families and children
• disaster survivors
• frontline crisis workers
• combat veterans
• complicated grief
• addictions
• phobias

Support for Integrating EMDR into Your Practice

You’ll learn how to introduce EMDR to clients, help clients formulate an effective treatment plan, select specific disturbing memories for reprocessing and support clients as they heal, grow and change. Time is set aside for case consultation during small group sessions and 10 hours of additional case consultation are included following your training at no extra cost. The mentoring you receive during consultation will help deepen your understanding of procedures and protocols, refine your practice, and move you through roadblocks and resistance as you apply EMDR with your clients.

Our Basic Training exceeds EMDRIA’s requirements by including more time for hands-on practice of what you learn every day of training. Practicing in triads and small groups, you’ll experience EMDR memory reprocessing firsthand—from the therapist’s, client’s and observer’s point of view. You’ll be mentored by a member of The Center’s Faculty who is also an EMDRIA-approved Consultant. Their role is to support you through the work, to clarify procedures and practices and to facilitate small group discussions. You’ll have the opportunity to work with the cornerstone elements of EMDR practicing how to:

• apply the principles of the AIP model to case conceptualization and treatment planning.
• work through the seven procedural steps to set up a memory for reprocessing.
• administer bilateral stimulation (BLS).
• use interweave strategies during reprocessing.
• bring closure to a reprocessing session and get blocked reprocessing back on track.
• manage intense emotional responses.
• recognize and handle defensive responses and barriers to reprocessing.