EMDR Coach Practitioner certified Course

Explore how trauma manifests in the body and mind, and learn to process meaning, emotions, and shame with EMDR coaching strategies for client healing.

Explore how trauma triggers cortisol and shapes responses from freeze to fight, flight, flop, and fawn, while reinterpreting memories and applying EMDR to clarify core beliefs.

Discover how dissociation functions as a safety mechanism during trauma, and how EMDR desensitization techniques help clients reprocess memories, reduce hypervigilance, and desensitize emotions.

Explore PTSD and complex post-traumatic stress disorder, their symptoms—re-experiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal, hypervigilance—meaning-making and identity impacts, and learn how an EMDR coach helps clients regulate emotions, desensitize trauma, and move forward.

Explore how deep seated core beliefs drive trauma and self-sabotage, including fears of not being good enough or lovable, and reframe them with eMDR, timeline therapy, and Socratic questions.

Explore how trauma shapes core cognitions and schemas, fueling beliefs like not good enough or not deserving love, and begin EMDR bilateral reprocessing in part one.

Beliefs reside in the unconscious mind as neural pathways in long term memory, and neuroplasticity enables reprogramming through REM processing in EMDR to form empowering new beliefs.

Explore how feelings in the trauma response have a positive intention, validate them, and shift schemas toward healthier cognitions to empower clients and move forward.

Explore the eight-step emdr process, from history taking to reevaluation, focusing on targets, preparation, assessment, desensitization and reprocessing, and body scan techniques.

Explore the first step of EMDR: history taking, identifying past triggers, how they shape present experiences, and how reprocessing can alter future responses through an open client conversation.

Explore the three-pronged EMDR approach that links past triggers to present distress and future outcomes, reprocessing beliefs and emotions to support moving forward.

Guides the preparation phase of the eight-step EMDR process by creating a safe space, assessing distress, and using grounding, breath work, and the butterfly hug.

Define the sudd, the scale of emotional disturbance, a 0 to 10 measure of subjective distress for memories and emotions; use desensitization while holding space for clients or yourself.

Create a safe space for clients through grounding, slow induction, breath focus, sensory anchors, five-sense visualization, and desensitization of negative memories.

Step 3 guides the assessment script and experience video by guiding clients through target memory imagery, negative beliefs, positive cognition, distress ratings, and bilateral stimulation.

Link incident to a client-chosen positive cognition in phase five, install it via bilateral stimulation, recheck VOC from 1 to 7 or 1 to 10, and adjust toward seven.

Guide a body scan to assess how the new belief has reprocessed, checking for tension in the legs, feet, hips, chest, and shoulders, using breathing, safe space, and bilateral stimulation.

Guide clients through the body scan script and experience video to desensitize negative feelings and install a new positive cognition via bilateral stimulation, repeating until the body feels neutral.

Learn the closure and reevaluation steps of eMDR, exploring effects, fatigue, and triggers, and apply grounding techniques and positive cognitions to guide clients safely toward resolution.

Explore when to start coaching trauma with EMDR, emphasizing gradual desensitization, assessing commitment, and addressing fears before tackling complex trauma or PTSD.

Reflect on your EMDR coach certification and work with clients who want to change, recognizing identity and trauma stories while applying EMDR techniques for meaningful growth.