Transform Trauma Treatment with EMDR – Step by Step
In addition to improved practice outcomes, effective integration of EMDR can lead to the long-term trauma resolution that your clients so desperately desire. Here is your invitation to transform your practice . . . and your clients’ lives.
EMDR Step-by-Step is a comprehensive recording featuring Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD, recognized trauma specialist, veteran clinician, sought-after national trainer and best-selling author on trauma, that will provide you with practical strategies for effective implementation of EMDR into your practice.
You’ll see HOW to turn theory into practice
This training focuses on the development of clinical assessment skills with regard to client safety and stabilization — specifically for clients who want to process traumatic material using EMDR.
Through in-session demonstration, instructive commentary, and guidance and support, you’ll learn to safely and effectively utilize EMDR for traumatic stress treatment.
Objectives Learning
- Establish the prerequisites of EMDR as it relates to clinical practice.
- Communicate the theory behind resource development and installation in a clinical setting.
- Utilize clinical strategies for grounding and centering traumatized clients.
- Communicate the theory behind resource development and installation (RDI) and (client-driven) imaginal resources.
- Summarize how EMDR is used for processing traumatic memories as it relates to clinical practice.
- Determine the eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
- Analyze the efficacy of EMDR to process past trauma as it related to treatment outcomes.
Outline
- EMDR: A Tool for Trauma
- Introduction & Course Outline
- EMDR Readiness Checklist (Part 1)
- Stage Model of Therapy
- EMDR Readiness Checklist (Part 2)
- Informed Consent Summary
- A Word on Crisis Plans
- Client Demonstrations
- EMDR Readiness Checklist
- The Theratapper
- “Tapping In” Imaginal Resources
- Client Demonstrations – “Tapping In” Imaginal Resources
- Comfortable Place
- Nurturing Figure
- Protector Figure
- Container
- Cited and Recommended Readings
- Ideas for Imaginal Resources
- Client Demonstration – “Tapping In” Imaginal Resources
- Container & Comfortable Place
- EMDR Research-Based Standard Protocol
- Client Demonstration
- Research-Based Standard Protocol
- EMDR Clinically-Based Modified Protocol
- Client Demonstrations – Modified Protocol
- Dave’s First EMDR Session, Processing His Worst Traumatic Memory
- Live Demonstration with Sandy
- Dave’s Second EMDR Session, Processing His First Traumatic Memory
- Jamie’s First EMDR Session – Future Template
- Thank You & Additional Resources
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risk
- Contraindications and precautions for reprocessing trauma
- Differences in theory and in the associated neurophysiological models are a matter of ongoing discussion
Meet the Course Experts:
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment. Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR. He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects. His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies. Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethnopolitical warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in the area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of body psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). Levine was also honored as the recipient of the 2020 Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Robert Scaer
Robert Scaer received his B.A. in Psychology, and his M.D. degree at the University of Rochester. He is Board Certified in Neurology, and has been in practice for 39 years, twenty of those as Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at the Mapleton Center in Boulder, CO. His primary areas of interest and expertise have been in the fields of brain injury and chronic pain, and more recently in the study of traumatic stress and its role in all mental illness, as well as in physical symptoms and many chronic diseases. He has lectured extensively on these topics, and has published several articles on the whiplash syndrome and other somatic syndromes of traumatic stress. His first book, The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease, presents a new theory of dissociation and its role in many diseases. A second book, The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Healing, released in July, 2005, explores the insidious spectrum of culturally-based trauma that shapes our lives, and how transformation and healing may still take place. He is currently retired from clinical medical practice, and continues to pursue a career in writing and lecturing.
David Grand, PhD
David Grand, PhD, is a psychotherapist, writer, lecturer, performance coach, and humanitarian famous for the discovery and development of the internationally acclaimed Brainspotting method, which brings about life-changing breakthroughs at "Warp Speed." Dr. Grand is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a PhD from International University, and is renowned for his groundbreaking discoveries and advancements in the arenas of healing trauma and enhancing performance and creativity. His Brainspotting method and BioLateral Sound are now used by thousands of therapist on every continent seeking to break through the limitations of talk therapy. Dr. Grand is the author of Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change.
Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW's
Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, has been a practicing psychotherapist and body-psychotherapist since 1976 and a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 1978. She is a member of the International and European Societies for Traumatic Stress Studies, the Association of Traumatic Stress. Babette has trained extensively in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Psychodrama, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Somatic Experiencing, and is a certified Bodynamic Analyst and certified Radix Teacher. She has written extensively on trauma. Her works include 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery; HELP for the HELPER: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma (with Marjorie Rand); THE BODY REMEMBERS: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment; THE BODY REMEMBERS CASEBOOK: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD; and Trauma Essentials: The Go-to Guide.
Stephen Porges, PhD's
Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is a distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland, and is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute. Dr. Porges served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published approximately 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. His research has been cited in more than 50,000 peer-review publications. In 1994, Dr. Porges proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.
Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980. She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
Belleruth Naparstek, ACSW, BCD's
Belleruth Naparstek, ACSW, BCD: Psychotherapist, author and guided imagery innovator Belleruth Naparstek is the creator of the popular Time Warner Health Journeys guided imagery audio series. Her first book, Staying Well with Guided Imagery, is a widely used wellness primer. Her second, Your Sixth Sense, has been translated into 8 languages and called one of the most thoughtful and sophisticated looks at intuition in print. Her latest book on imagery and posttraumatic stress, Invisible Heroes: Trauma Survivors and How They Heal, was released in late 2004, won the Spirituality & Health Top 50 Books Award and is out in paperback January of 2006.
Robin Shapiro, LISW's
Robin Shapiro, LISW, is an author, psychotherapist and an EMDRIA-approved consultant, offering consultation to psychotherapists on the gamut of psychotherapy issues including trauma, attachment, endogenous disorders, and countertransference issues. She is the author of three books, EMDR Solutions I, EMDR Solutions II and The Trauma Treatment Handbook. SHe is also leader of EMDR-related workshops including the Two-Hand Interweave, EMDR with Cultural and Generational Issues, Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders, Medical Issues, Anxiety Disorders, Couples, Complex Trauma and Dissociation. She has presented these workshops at regional and international EMDR International Association conferences and, for many years in, in the Part Two of an EMDR Weekly Class.
Who can learn from this course?
The “EMDR Step by Step: New In-Session Demonstrations” course is ideal for:
🧠 Mental Health Professionals:
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs)
Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs)
Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs)
These clinicians will benefit from practical tools to apply EMDR with trauma-affected clients.
🪞 EMDR Practitioners (Beginner to Intermediate):
Those trained in EMDR but seeking more hands-on guidance, demonstrations, and client preparation techniques.
Therapists looking to refine their understanding of readiness checklists, imaginal resources, and modified protocols.
🎓 Graduate Students and Trainees:
Mental health students currently studying trauma therapy or psychotherapy modalities.
Interns seeking to observe real client work to support academic learning.
💬 Clinical Supervisors and Educators:
Those who want structured case examples and demonstration materials to use in training or supervision settings.
🧘 Somatic and Trauma-Informed Practitioners:
Those trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, or Polyvagal Theory, looking to integrate EMDR with body-based practices.
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