Trauma is more than just an emotional wound; it manifests physically—causing muscle tension, altered heart rates, and breathing issues—impacting the entire system. This innovative session with Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, will show you how to integrate interventions from EMDR and somatic psychology help clients reconnect with their bodies, regulate emotions, and fully integrate trauma to provide ethical, cutting-edge care that leads to deep, lasting change.

You'll get:

• Tools for safely work with client's emotions, sensations, and psychophysiological arousal
• Techniques for memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
• Resourcing strategies to create a safe space
• “Felt sense” exercises for managing unease

New EMDR clinicians often over-focus on “doing the steps right and in the correct order” but EMDR is not an 8-phase mechanical protocol — it is an 8-phase relational process. This presentation from EMDR certified therapist and consultant Laura Swinford, LCSW, EMDR-C, will teach you how the efficacy of each phase can be increased through attunement, pacing, co-regulation, and moment-by-moment collaboration with the client. You'll explore the 8 phases through a polyvagal, attachment-informed lens and see how the “frame” of the protocol is only as effective as the relational field it is happening inside of.

You'll leave with:

• Specific micro-interventions and ways to navigate the phases
• Attunement, pacing, and co-regulation strategies that improve collaboration
• Somatic markers to reinforce connection
• Resourcing language to use in session

Helping clients process their trauma can be complicated and sometimes even feel out of reach...but it doesn't have to be. Utilizing tools and strategies from two of today's top therapy modalities, psychologist, consultant and international speaker Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. developed this training to make treating complex trauma more accessible – both to you and your clients.

You'll get:

• Overlapping core principles and mechanisms of change between EMDR and IFS therapy
• Practical strategies for obtaining consent from client's protective systems
• Tools to facilitate reprocessing and working through blocked beliefs
• And so much more!

No matter what type of trauma memory you're treating, the Flash Technique is a versatile tool to have in your kit. It can serve not only as a complete intervention on its own but can also be paired with any of the therapy modalities you already utilize in your practice. This session with Flash developer Dr. Phil Manfield will give you an exciting, easy-to-apply, evidence-based technique that removes the need to engage with painful memories while still allowing healing to take place.

In this engaging workshop, you'll learn:

• Essential steps to applying the Flash Technique with traumatized clients
• Safe and effective strategies for processing traumatic memories
• Explore EMDR's compatibility with the technique
• See flash in action, both via in-session video and live demonstration

Clients can spend entire sessions talking about unwanted behaviors like overuse of drugs or alcohol, overeating, and excessive internet or porn use... but we know that's not contributing to real progress - just putting out fires. Without the ability to stop these behaviors, they stay stuck in the same painful patterns and traditional therapy methods won't get past the same cycle of venting, regret, and damage control. This session, featuring trauma and EMDR expert Gerard Ilaria, LCSW-R, EMDR-C, will give you the tools to help your clients change how they behave, relate, respond, and recover...all in ONE session!

You'll get:

• Skills you can immediately apply in individual therapy or counseling
• Strategies for eliminating or reducing unwanted behaviors and replacing them with healthier ones
• Tools to help clients to better handle stress and anxiety
• Techniques for boosting self-esteem and regaining the autonomy sacrificed to compulsions

Many clinicians run into the same roadblock: traditional approaches to grief often fail to address the underlying unprocessed traumatic memories and attachment wounds that perpetuate prolonged suffering. If your clients are stuck in cycles of intense distress, avoidance, or rumination months or years after a loss, your current toolkit is missing a critical, evidence-based component. This session developed by nationally recognized specialist, educator, and founder of EMDR University Kathy Couch, LCSW, FT, will equip you with the essential knowledge of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model as it applies specifically to grief, along with specific, practical adaptations to EMDR's eight-phase protocol for loss.

You'll get:

• Grief-specific adaptations to the core EMDR protocol
• Best practices for integrating EMDR with other grief interventions
• Strategies for working with clients who are blocked or stuck processing
• Resources and further study recommendations for advanced EMDR practice

Treating transgenerational trauma can be difficult - filled with complex family dynamics and differing cultural backgrounds, it can be hard to know where to even start. That's why certified EMDR consultant and complex PTSD expert Karee Powers, LCSW, BCD, CCTP-2 EMDR-C, developed this experiential workshop! You'll learn how to evaluate patterns of trauma in your client's family and walk away with strategies to increase your client's connection to transgenerational resiliency.

You'll get:

• Practical demonstrations of using tools like Legacy Attuned EMDR
• EMDR methods for increasing resiliency
• Strategies for differentiating types of trauma
• Healing techniques for transgenerational trauma you can integrate today

In order for your clients to heal from the deep sense of shame, powerlessness, and self-blame of experiencing interpersonal violence, they need to be able to process their traumatic memories while also repairing their internal self. This workshop, led by international presenter and trainer Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, will show you how to utilize the structured and empowering pathway of EMDR to better help your clients reclaim their internal safety, develop self-compassion, and cultivate agency in their healing journey.

You'll get:

• Tools for prioritizing stabilization and nervous system regulation
• Trauma-informed pacing strategies
• Resourcing and grounding interventions for clients experiencing shame, dissociation, or internal conflict
• Interwoven cognitive and EMDR strategies for fostering self-worth and autonomy

When you're working with clients who struggle with addiction, it can be easy to fall into the cycle of symptom management and forget what's at the core of their problem: it's a protective strategy used to avoid emotional pain. You need to be able to help your clients regulate their nervous systems and rewire addiction-related neural pathways. In this engaging session, EMDR expert and integrative trauma specialist Stacy Ruse, LPC, ERYT-500, will show you how to use EMDR Therapy as a gateway to safely and effectively work with addiction memory networks using the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.

You'll get:

• Tools for working with protective parts that block processing
• Protocols for urge-desensitization
• Polyvagal-informed resourcing techniques
• Strategies for prioritizing readiness, stabilization, and pacing