Course Summary
This specialized training is designed for EMDR-trained clinicians who want to confidently integrate somatic interventions into each of the 8 phases of EMDR therapy. While EMDR is inherently body-informed, many clinicians struggle to effectively incorporate somatic awareness and processing skills throughout the protocol, beyond moments of distress or abreactions.
In this 4-hour experiential course, you'll explore how to include and work with physical sensation in every phase of EMDR, from history taking and assessment to desensitization, installation, and re-evaluation. Through guided demonstrations, clinical examples, and embodied exercises, you'll learn how to enhance client safety, deepen processing, and support integration by including somatic techniques as a core component of the process
This training will teach you how to:
- Track somatic cues and autonomic states
- Use body-based techniques to enhance resourcing, titration, and pacing as well as processing and desensitization
- Increase client capacity for embodiment during processing
- Identify somatic signs of readiness, stuckness, or overwhelm in session
- Apply somatic strategies that support integration and closure
Prerequisite: Completion of EMDR Basic Training.
Learning Objectives
- Identify appropriate somatic interventions to support clients during each of the 8 phases of EMDR therapy.
- Demonstrate the use of at least two somatic resourcing techniques during the Preparation phase of EMDR.
- Apply somatic tracking and processing skills during desensitization and body scan phases.
- Distinguish between somatic signs of readiness, activation, and overwhelm during EMDR processing.
- Integrate body-based awareness strategies into clinical decision-making across all EMDR phases.
Your Purchase Includes
- Live 4-hour webinar
- Webinar recording to complete at your convenience after the live date, or to review whenever you need
- 4 NBCC CEs
- Presentation slides
- Access to The Integration Space - A Community Forum where you can brainstorm with fellow learners, ask questions, and get support
- A Follow up Q&A with the instructors for any questions that might arise as you practice what you’ve learned
Meagan Chevalier is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) specialized in treating complex trauma. Meagan comes to this work having served as a teacher, writer, and organizer in academic, community, and nonprofit spaces. These experiences have helped her to cultivate a therapeutic practice and curiosity that is integrative and expansive. Meagan uses her training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems, and somatic therapies to help clients reclaim their ability to fully embody their present day experience, whatever that experience may be. Meagan is also passionate about the intersections of this work and social justice and believes that healing our individual traumas better enables us to address our collective traumas. This lens is integral to both her clinical work and her work as an educator.
Maureen Bethea, LMFT
Maureen is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with a passion for treating relational trauma, getting to the underlying issues, and helping clients live better day to day. With 15 years of clinical experience, Maureen specializes in treating trauma and PTSD, mood issues, and relationship conflict. Maureen is EMDR Certified and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant with experience in EMDR intensives, Couples Intensives, and Trauma Process groups. Maureen also facilitates EMDR consultation groups for clinicians improving their practice of EMDR and working towards certification.
This training is approved by NBCC for 4 CE credits.
Students who attend live will receive a certificate of completion within 1-week of the training date.
Students who take the course on demand will be required to complete a post training quiz to receive their certificate
If you need to request accommodations please email us at [email protected]
