EMDR Therapy Basic Training

Faculty:  Jackie Flynn is the trainer for this EMDR Basic Training. Marshall Lyles serves as supporting consultant.

Learn EMDR therapy so you can feel more prepared when clients are stuck and talking alone has not been enough.

Many clients do not come to therapy saying, “I have trauma.”

They may call it anxiety.

Panic.

Shame.

Numbness.

Perfectionism.

Avoidance.

Grief.

Anger.

Shutdown.

Or relationship patterns they cannot seem to change.

Some clients know exactly what happened.

Others only know that something in them still feels stuck.

As a therapist, you may recognize that something deeper is asking for care.

You may see clients gain insight, learn coping skills, and understand their patterns, but still feel trapped in the same emotional, relational, or body-based responses.

EMDR Basic Training gives you a clear, ethical, and structured way to begin helping clients process painful experiences with more confidence and care.

This training is designed for therapists who want a model they can trust.

You will learn how to understand trauma through the Adaptive Information Processing model, assess readiness, prepare clients, support memory processing, and integrate EMDR therapy into your clinical work with support.

You will not be expected to figure it out alone.

Through instruction, demonstration, supervised practice, and consultation, you will begin learning the standard EMDR therapy model in a way that is grounded, practical, and faithful to the EMDR model.

You may be here because you want to:

• Help clients who feel stuck, even after insight or coping skills.
• Understand how trauma may show up when it is not named as trauma.
• Know when to prepare, when to slow down, and when a client may be ready for processing.
• Feel more grounded when clients flood, shut down, avoid, or disconnect.

Learn EMDR therapy with structure, practice, consultation, and support.

This is not just a training in how to "do" EMDR therapy.

It is a foundation for how to think clinically with EMDR.

You will learn how to:

Use the Adaptive Information Processing model to guide your understanding of symptoms and treatment planning.

• Recognize how present-day symptoms, beliefs, body responses, and patterns may be connected to earlier experiences.
• Assess readiness and identify when a client may need more preparation before processing
• Support trauma processing in a way that is structured, ethical, practical, and clinically thoughtful.
• Begin using EMDR therapy within your professional scope of practice with more clarity and confidence.

Eligibility

• This training is intended for participants who meet EMDRIA eligibility requirements for EMDR Basic Training.
• Eligible participants may include independently licensed mental health clinicians and pre-licensed mental health professionals who are actively working toward independent licensure in a mental health service provider setting under appropriate supervision.
• Graduate students may be eligible when they are enrolled in a qualifying master’s or doctoral mental health program, have completed core graduate coursework, are in the practicum or internship portion of their program, are on a licensing track, and provide any required documentation to the training provider.
• Participants are responsible for practicing within their own mental health scope of practice, licensure, supervision requirements, and ethical guidelines.

Register today to save your place in this January 2027 EMDR Basic Training. In-person attendance is limited to 20 participants, with live stream attendance available.