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Get started right with EMDRIA-Approved Basic Training! Not Just for trauma anymore - Explore how EMDR supports healing across a wide spectrum of clinical work.
Join us for live hands-on practice, expert support, and trauma-informed instruction — the complete foundational training you need to learn the proven tools to help clients heal from trauma & confidently integrate EMDR into your clinical work.
An EMDR Consulting Training
This course meets all of EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) requirements for an EMDR Basic Training Course. Integrating EMDR into your Clinical Practice teaches mental health clinicians the foundations of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) through lectures, videos, demonstrations, and practice sessions between participants. At the completion of this course, participants will have applied the Adaptive Information Processing theoretical approach to psychotherapy, demonstrated the eight phases of EMDR therapy, and identified how to utilize EMDR with a variety of clinical populations. Special instruction is given on varying applications of bilateral stimulation that uses a client-centered approach by addressing the needs of each individual client. As of 2020, this course also teaches clinicians how to utilize EMDR in a telehealth environment.
Intended audience: counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, etc. Please scroll down and click on our Training Eligibility tab for more information about eligibility for this course.
Skill level: This is a beginner level EMDR training course.
CEs to be offered: Participants will receive 40 hours of continuing education credit upon completing this program. Please scroll down and click on our Continuing Education Credits tab for more information about continuing education credit and approvals for this course.
Completion Deadline: The entire EMDR training course – including 10 hours of consultation and the 45-question EMDRIA Learner Assessment – must be completed within 12 months (1 year) of your start date.
Please consider this deadline before registering for the training.
5-Day Training Objectives:
After attending the training, participants will be able to:
Summarize Francine Shapiro’s development of EMDR
Describe processing mechanisms (BLS, REM, orienting response, and taxing working memory with DAS)
Recognize EMDR as evidence-based practice
Describe the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Approach
Demonstrate stabilization and affect management skills
Demonstrate developing a neural network target sequence plan
Identify ways to explain EMDR to clients
Discuss EMDR client selection criteria
Summarize the use of the Phase 3 Assessment questions before EMDR processing
Demonstrate standard EMDR and adaptations (contained and restricted processing)
Recognize the reevaluation phase as part of treatment integration
Identify three-prong processing (past, present, future)
Identify ways to provide EMDR via telehealth
Recognize modifications to utilize EMDR with children
Recognize ways to use EMDR with couples
Identify EMDR options with recent or crisis events
Demonstrate self-use techniques one may teach a client
Recognize the AIP approach to neurobiology with clients with complex presentations
Summarize front-loading additional resources for use with clients with complex presentations
Identify two or more ways to approach target sequence planning in EMDR
Describe the use of cognitive interweaves during processing
Identify clinical processing interventions to assist in managing client emotions during processing
Recognize ways to help client stay within their window of processing tolerance
Describe phase 8, reevaluation phase of EMDR, and its purpose
Demonstrate three-prong processing (past, present, future)
Discuss EMDR with first responders
Describe modifications for working with dissociative tendencies
Identify the EMDR approach to treating addictions
Recognize the use of EMDR with grief
Explain an EMDR approach to working with phobias
Describe using EMDR with pain
Summarize how to integrate EMDR into one’s clinical practice
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