EMDR Trainings Overview

Our EMDR Basic Training is your first step in a practice-changing approach to transformational healing! It’s your opportunity to begin applying the practice of EMDR therapy by helping your clients recover from the impact of painful life experiences. Our basic training is EMDRIA-approved, the gold standard in EMDR training, and is offered in three parts. It's an all-inclusive package with case consultation throughout the course, helping you apply what you're learning with your clients along the way. You'll be guided by a highly trained and experienced faculty while at the same time, traveling with the same small group cohort throughout, making it a shared experience.

This is the next step in your EMDR journey after you have completed your Basic EMDR Training and you've had a chance to make discover what you understand and what more there is to learn! Our Intermediate EMDR Training combines hands-on practice, deep learning and direct application to your more complex cases! This course also comes with a one-day Refresher as an added bonus for those of you who are struggling to apply what you learned in the Basic Training, or who want to update your knowledge and renew your foundational skills. You will walk away with a renewed appreciation for EMDR as a comprehensive psychotherapy approach that helps your clients thrive rather than just survive.

Advanced trainings are for EMDR therapists who want to learn more about working with developmental trauma and attachment and who don't need hands-on practice at this time. In these online trainings, we apply the field's current understanding of attachment styles, interpersonal neurobiology and parts work through an EMDR framework to better understand and treat the client's difficulties with self-esteem, relationships and self-regulation. We will also expand on the therapist’s role in facilitating the client's moment to moment experience during the process, navigating the delicate waters of attachment trauma and repair, and rebuilding the self as part of this transformational journey.

As EMDR therapists who treats complex developmental trauma, we understand the power of the therapeutic relationship as key to transformational healing. These Master trainings introduce you to Relational EMDR Therapy℠, an approach to treating attachment trauma using the relationship between the therapist and client as the parallel process where memory is in the making. You will fine tune your attunement skills with an emphasis on exploring how we relate to our clients' experience, both implicitly and explicitly. You will walk away with a better appreciation of how to be there with our clients in a way that allows them to "go there" with us, making for a transformative experience for therapist and client alike.

Masterclass retreats are for experienced therapists who are deeply committed to their personal as well as professional growth as a Relational EMDR therapist and are also looking for a restorative communal experience with other colleagues. These practice-based trainings in Relational EMDR Therapy℠ are about the dynamic relationship between client and therapist as both a source of impasse as well as a vehicle for change. The Self of the therapist is the central focus, working on how our own attachment experiences inform how we relate to our clients. You will walk away feeling restored and inspired to bring your best self to this work with greater clarity and courage.

EMDR consultation is a process where you meet with an expert EMDR therapist individually, in a group, or both, to discuss your cases and reflect on your work. As part of the conversation, you will not only will you deepen your understanding of EMDR case conceptualization and treatment planning, but you will examine the dance between therapist and client, with an openness to self-reflection as an integral part of the learning. So, in addition to studying the science of EMDR therapy, we look at the art of how a session unfolds, moment to moment, which requires attunement and mindful navigation, working through impasses towards healing and transformation.

Therapists who train with The Center belong to a community of lifelong learners. In addition to offering the full range of EMDR trainings, case consultation and resources you need, we are committed to streamlining the processes that earn you the recognition and certification you deserve. You'll find everything required to meet EMDRIA’s requirements for becoming an EMDR practitioner and an EMDRIA-certified consultant—all under one roof. We’ve also established a Master Certification in Relational EMDR Therapy. It's designed to support and recognize therapists willing to work on themselves and the relational dimension of the work at the highest level in order to bring transformative healing to their clients.