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Empowering perinatal practitioners through holistic trainings and consultations.

01/31/2026

Effective trauma treatment during pregnancy and postpartum requires more than a standard EMDR curriculum.

Mara Tesler Stein's Foundational EMDR Training integrates perinatal clinical realities into every phase of EMDR therapy.

You’ll learn:
✅ Comprehensive training in EMDR protocols and the AIP model
✅ Trauma-informed stabilization through a perinatal lens
✅ Ethical decision-making for complex perinatal presentations
✅ Trauma-informed assessment, stabilization, and treatment planning

If you support clients through pregnancy, postpartum, loss, infertility, NICU, or early parenting and want to practice EMDR ethically and confidently with these populations, this training is designed for you.

Foundational EMDR Training for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Specialists
10:00am - 6:30pm EST
Part 1: February 1-3 | Part 2: May 3-5
42 CE Credits

Register by January 31 at https://bit.ly/ti-founational-emdr-live

01/30/2026

Thank you, Sarah Noda Counseling , for sharing your experience.

As a perinatal clinician, how you conceptualize trauma matters.

As Sarah mentions, Mara Tesler Stein's EMDR courses go beyond teaching technique to offer a perinatal-specific framework that's still relevant to her practice years after her initial trainings.

Ready to start your EMDR journey?

Foundational EMDR Training for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Specialists
10:00am - 6:30pm EST
Part 1: February 1-3 | Part 2: May 3-5
42 CE Credits

Register today at https://bit.ly/ti-founational-emdr-live

01/29/2026

Save 15% today to begin your course right away... or tomorrow... or whenever works best for you!

Our wide variety of on-demand trainings allow you to earn CE credits at your own pace.

Use discount code YOURPACE15 by midnight tonight to save 15% on your next course at https://www.touchstoneinstitute.org/training

01/28/2026

When you register for our on-demand trainings, you determine the date, time, and pace at which you learn.

Visit https://www.touchstoneinstitute.org/training to find your next on-demand training and save 15% through January 29 with discount code: YOURPACE15

01/27/2026

Our On-demand drop sale starts now!

Save 15% on all on-demand trainings with discount code YOURPACE15 from January 27-29!

Whether you’re exploring new techniques or expanding your existing skills, our on-demand courses provide the same trauma-focused content as our live courses, with the flexibility to learn when your schedule allows.

Register for your next on-demand course at https://www.touchstoneinstitute.org/training

01/25/2026

From building a solid EMDR foundation to navigating the added complexity of couple dynamics, February’s trainings focus on what happens when trauma lives between people, not just within them.

🗓️ Feb 1-3 & May 3-5: Foundational EMDR Training
🗓️ Feb 19: Recipe for Love: Integrating EMDR into Couples Therapy

Enroll today at https://www.touchstoneinstitute.org/training

01/23/2026

What a client might say if they are dissociating during an EMDR session:

🤖 "I feel robotic."
😶‍🌫️ "I feel like I'm in a fog."
🫥 "I feel zoned out/numb/disconnected from my body."
💔 "I feel split apart."

Ready to learn more?
Join Mara Tesler Stein for Foundational EMDR Training starting February 1.
Register today at https://bit.ly/ti-founational-emdr-live

01/22/2026

Join us January 27 for Perinatal Crisis and Beyond: A Trauma-Focused Comprehensive for EMDR Practitioners, a 10-month advanced course offering a conceptual framework to identify perinatal ruptures, how they shapes attachment and nervous system responses, and how to intervene with greater clarity and care.

You’ll learn:
✅ Treatment approaches for perinatal trauma, grief, and psychiatric disorders
✅ Strategies for reprocessing early trauma
✅ How to support healing and integration for parents of medically fragile children
✅ Ethical considerations relevant to medical decision-making
and so much more.

If you support clients through perinatal trauma, NICU experiences, or perinatal loss, this course is designed to meet the complexity with structure, depth, and clinically grounded strategies.

Enroll by January 26 to join the 2026 cohort at https://bit.ly/TI-PCB

01/21/2026

Meet Patrick Monette!

Patrick is a licensed trauma counselor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and certified EFT couples therapist based in New York. He specializes in Complex PTSD, addiction, perinatal trauma, and couples work, offering bilingual therapy and consultation to EMDR clinicians at all stages of their journey.

Join Patrick on February 19 for his course Recipe for Love: Integrating EMDR into Couples Therapy to gain confidence in applying EMDR with couples, using trauma-focused tools to support healthy relational dynamics.

What you'll learn:
✅ How trauma shapes couple dynamics and relational conflict
✅ EMDR-informed strategies for stabilization and preparation with couples
✅ Treatment planning that integrates EMDR into couples therapy

Register at https://bit.ly/Recipe-for-Love

01/20/2026

“The first thing lost in a perinatal crisis is one's innocence; the second is one's peer group.” - Mara Tesler Stein, PsyD, PMH-C

Perinatal crisis doesn’t just disrupt a pregnancy or a birth. It can rupture the developmental path of family-building and shape the clinical dynamics that follow.

Perinatal Crisis & Beyond is a 10-month advanced course for EMDR practitioners. Together, we’ll examine the wide range of disruptive perinatal events, learn to identify the qualities that create rupture, and build a conceptual framework to support families in the aftermath. We’ll take deep dives into the neurobiology and dynamics of grief and trauma, explore trauma-focused interventions across perinatal presentations, and address ethical considerations in perinatal decision-making.

Perinatal Crisis & Beyond: A Trauma-Focused Comprehensive for EMDR Practitioners
Jan 27 - Nov 3 (every 4 weeks)
Register today at https://bit.ly/TI-PCB

01/19/2026

We’re so grateful for the generous feedback from last year's Perinatal Crisis & Beyond cohort!

Clinicians have shared how meaningful it is to have a consistent space to learn, build community, and gain valuable tools to improve their practices.

Enroll today to join Mara Tesler Stein for her first training of 2026! 👇

Perinatal Crisis and Beyond: A Trauma-Focused Comprehensive for EMDR Practitioners
Jan 27 - Nov 3 (every 4 weeks)
https://bit.ly/TI-PCB

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