After Basic Training
For EMDR therapists who know EMDR is helpful and still hesitate to use it.
Registration is open
(bonus trainings available immediately)
Live kickoff Saturday, January 2 at 12:00 pm Central
Holly Forman-Patel, LMFT · EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Basic Trainer
Here's what that uncertainty actually does. It keeps you from offering EMDR to the clients who could benefit from it. And when you do start, it makes the structure hard to hold, so you drift, and the work feels like it never quite lands.
You didn't do anything wrong. Basic training gives you the whole model in a few days. It cannot give you the confidence. That part comes later, and almost nobody tells you how to get it.
Confidence in EMDR isn't a personality trait, and it isn't more information. It's knowing what to do in the specific moments that make you hesitate, and knowing how to say it out loud.
After a decade as an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, I can tell you those moments are remarkably consistent. The same handful of stuck points, over and over, therapist after therapist. So I built this program backwards from them.
Register and the two bonus trainings are yours straight away, an 8 hour EMDR Refresher and a 3 hour training on navigating stuck reprocessing. Watch them before the live kickoff call. They are the foundation the six weeks builds on.
Together they normally cost $400, the Refresher at $275 and When the Train Stops Moving at $125, exactly the price of this program.
In other words, the trainings are worth what you paid. The six weeks of live support, practice, and coaching come with them.
Why I built it
I'm the kind of person who jumps in. I used EMDR with a client the first week after my basic training, and it went really well, so I kept going.
I initially used it with almost every client. Then I started hitting walls. A session wouldn't work with a certain kind of client presentation, so I'd quietly stop using it with similar situations. Then another. By the time my consultation hours for basic training were done, I looked up and realized I'd gone from using EMDR with most of my caseload to using it with just a few people. Nobody told me to stop. The protocol just shrank while I wasn't looking.
That was a decision point. I could let it keep shrinking, or I could double down. I decided to get certified, worked with two consultants, and began to realize the small stuck points that were occurring.
These stuck points were not glaring. They often related to my internal confidence and were easily smoothed out once I realized what they were.
I then witnessed similar patterns occurring with other therapists, often those initially coming to me for EMDRIA certification. The pattern over the last decade became clearer and clearer. This program was born from my own experience paired with my work with consultees over the years.
After the kickoff, we'll choose the dates for the two Q&A calls and the wrap-up call/Q&A together so they land when the most people can be there. Every call will also be recorded, so if you cannot make one live, you will not miss it.
Most lessons run 5 to 20 minutes. The practice is weekly, not daily, because you have a caseload and clients don't arrive on a content schedule.
The curriculum
Honing in the what and why. Your elevator speech, the AIP model in plain language, why the BLS works, and what to tell clients to expect. Begin to explore your own hesitations and/or fears.
For you AND your client. Ways to prepare yourself and your client to do the work. Uncovering any of your own fears or internal limitations to doing the work.
Organizing your sessions. What do I keep script wise versus what can I change. How do I tailor this protocol to the client in front of me.
Navigating initial stuck points. Managing intense emotion. What to do when processing stalls, and how to respond when a client doesn't want to do EMDR that day.
Confidence reevaluation. What is working, what still needs honing. Creating an action plan.
Practicing it with clients. Tailoring your website and profiles to showcase EMDR therapy. And how to keep going after week six.
Six weeks from the start of the program, you'll be offering EMDR to the clients you've been avoiding, more naturally applying the protocol and feeling confident as you do so.
What this won't do: make you an expert in six weeks. Expertise comes from doing the work with real clients, and you'll probably still have your manual nearby. That's fine. The more you provide EMDR, the more confident you will be, and the easier it will be to navigate the inevitable stuck points.
Bilateral stimulation in session.
Who's teaching this
I've been practicing EMDR since 2012, I'm an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and I'm an EMDRIA Approved Basic Trainer.
I teach EMDR basic training. This is the program I wish existed for everyone right after it.
Includes $400 in bonus on demand trainings available at registration.
Program begins January 2nd.
If you've been telling yourself you'll feel ready to use EMDR once you understand it better, I want to gently push back. You already understand it. What's in the way isn't knowledge, it's the moments where you're not sure what to do, and those are learnable. That's the whole six weeks.