There is a question I have been sitting with for many years.
Not because I don't know the answer, but because it deserves to be asked again and again, in every consultation group, every training, every clinical conversation we have about how EMDR therapy works.
The question is this: What actually...
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It was a great experience to be with colleagues and friends for another year of sharing ideas and getting updates on research and clinical developments! The general theme was about EMDR as an integrative psychotherapy as we heard about from our keynote speakers, which is very exciting! There were...
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Growth. Self-awareness. Self-compassion. These are essential feel-good goals in the therapy room. As human beings, we naturally favor the positive over the negative. As psychotherapists, we want our clients to feel good about themselves and their work with us.
But what if leaning into moments of...
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"Do you ever find yourself wondering whether EMDR training is the right fit for your practice, and whether now is the right time?"
Maybe colleagues have completed Basic Training and speak about it in ways that make you genuinely curious. Maybe clients have started asking about EMDR...
In the past few years, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) has become an increasingly discussed topic in the mental health field.
As an EMDR psychotherapist trained through The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy, I’ve been particularly interested and excited in how ketamine can complement...
There was a moment in my career when intervention alone stopped being enough.
I was working in high-acuity agency settings, surrounded by complex trauma, fragmented family systems, and clients whose pain couldn’t be resolved through insight alone. I was trained systemically and understood that...
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I’m delighted to share an article I wrote, “AIP Case Conceptualization: Easier Said Than Done?” in the Spring 2026 issue of Go With That® magazine published by EMDRIA™. In this feature article, I explore an important understanding in EMDR case conceptualization with complex trauma: moving beyond wha...
At a recent 2026 PTSD Conference hosted by McLean Hospital, a world-renowned psychiatric hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School and internationally recognized for its leadership in trauma, I led a full-day pre-conference workshop titled “EMDR Therapy as a Broad-Based Approach.”
This...
As EMDR therapists, we understand that a client’s narrative unfolds through their day-to-day experiences and what is going on in their body, their affects as well as their defenses. So, how do we attune and listen to understand?
This insight aligns with the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP)...