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Professional Guidance to Help You Satisfy EMDR Training Requirements and Level Up your EMDR Skills DOBO TRAINED!! 😁Wonder. Discover. Overcome.

If EMDR is your main therapy model, the certification process can help you utilize it more efficiently. It means that EMDR is your art form, and I can help you express it in a way that brings out YOU. Just because you’re a therapist doesn’t mean that you’re a robot — even when you’re following the standard protocol! I believe that who you are as a therapist and who you are as a person can never be separated. After all, EMDR is a person-centered therapy! Hiding is just a sign that the therapist needs to do their own internal work. If the following apply to you, I’d love to help enrich your EMDR journey:

✅ You see EMDR as a powerful treatment modality and want to wield it most effectively for your clients.

✅ You’re looking at the long-term implications for your career and want a guide who can help you get a taste of the possibilities that await.

✅ You consider your clients’ healing sacred and thus are open to considering multiple perspectives to help sharpen your EMDR skills. As a therapist, I take a holistic approach to guiding clients back to authenticity. As an EMDR consultant-in-training, this approach helps me help therapists bring out the best in themselves. In both cases, I believe in championing autonomy. Whether we’re talking about in sessions for your clients or outside sessions for your practice and your life, you can experience greater success as an EMDR therapist. EMDR will lead you there, so let’s let EMDR do all the work—together! Let’s team up to transform lives one session at a time.

02/17/2026

Heading to help with another EMDR Educators EMDR Basic Training! Say that fives in a row! We have been having quite the marathon with a training every month since November. And in October there was a virtual training, and next month is Jacksonville! Whew! We sure are passionate about training therapists in EMDR not just because it works, but because we live it. Every day. With our clients, within ourselves, and in the therapists we mentor.

EMDR is more than a technique. It’s a transformational experience. We witness people dismantle lifelong negative beliefs like “I’m not good enough” or “I don’t matter,” and emerge changed. To sit across from someone as they shift into self-worth and clarity—it’s awe-inspiring.

The healing we see is real, and it's humbling. It reminds us that EMDR isn't just a protocol—it’s a pathway to the self. And we're honored to walk that path with every therapist we train, and every client they will go on to help.

02/12/2026

EMDR doesn’t require therapists to be flawless.

It requires us to be present. Regulated. Real.

Many therapists burn themselves out trying to maintain a version of professionalism that disconnects them from their own humanity. But clients don’t heal because we’re polished. They heal because we’re grounded, attuned, and honest in the room.

Perfection creates distance.
Presence creates safety.

When therapists allow themselves to be human, they conserve energy instead of spending it on performance. That’s not self-indulgence. That’s sustainability. And it directly impacts the quality of the work.

EMDR asks clients to show up without armor.

Therapists can’t lead that if they’re wearing one themselves.

👉 If you’re ready to grow beyond supervision and refine your EMDR practice with more confidence and less self-pressure, let’s connect about consultation.

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02/11/2026

Abreactions can make therapists nervous.

Crying. Shaking. Coughing. Yawning. Nausea. Laughter. Big reactions, loud reactions, reactions that look alarming if we forget what we’re actually witnessing.

But here’s the thing I keep coming back to:
abreactions have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

They are not the trauma happening again. They are the body finishing something it never got to complete.

I once had a cold that sounded far worse than it actually was. By the time people were offering sympathy, the worst of it had already passed. My body was discharging what it no longer needed. It looked intense. It sounded intense. But it was resolution, not danger.

Abreactions in EMDR are often like that.

Sometimes therapists get anxious and want to interrupt, slow down, or stop altogether. But the client has already survived what’s coming up. This is historic material moving through. This is reprocessing doing what it’s meant to do.

Our job isn’t to rescue the client from the experience.
It’s to stay present, regulated, and steady while it completes.

That means:

letting the set run
modeling calm breathing
reminding the client they’re here, now, with you
trusting the process instead of panicking about the volume

This is the R in EMDR: reprocessing.
This is what discharge can look like.
This is what healing looks like sometimes.

I wrote more about this for therapists who’ve ever felt their own nervous system spike during an abreaction.

How were you first taught to respond when abreactions show up in session?

02/10/2026

This Valentine’s Day, a reminder to the therapists: Love yourself.

Not the perfect, always-grounded, never-needs-a-moment version of you.
But the real you—the one who forgets they were steeping a cup of tea, who’s feeling the weight of both the work list AND the home list, who’s still on their own healing journey.

Your presence is your gift.
Your humanity is your power.

The best therapists aren’t the ones who know all the answers. They’re the ones who can sit in silence, in flow, in truth—with another soul.

Start with offering that same grace to yourself. For me, it’s going to the zoo. There’s something about being in nature, watching animals, and learning that makes the whole world stop for me.

So today, love the therapist who doesn’t get it all right.
Love the one who shows up anyway.
Love the one who heals others while still healing too.

You are enough. You matter. You’re doing sacred work.

Happy Valentine’s Day from my heart to yours. 💗

02/05/2026

Language matters more than we like to admit.

Small phrasing choices can either reinforce a client’s sense of competence or quietly suggest that something is wrong. Especially under stress. Especially during EMDR.

When we ask questions that imply fragility, urgency, or doubt, the nervous system hears that before the logic does. The body responds accordingly. Not because the client can’t handle the work, but because the environment just changed.

This isn’t about walking on eggshells or scripting sessions. It’s about awareness. About choosing language that preserves agency instead of shrinking it.

Clients don’t need to be rescued from discomfort. They need to feel trusted inside it.

That trust is built moment by moment, often through words that seem insignificant until they aren’t.

This is part of refining EMDR practice beyond protocol.

It’s learning how presence shows up in language.

👉 If you’re ready to grow beyond supervision and refine your EMDR practice at this level, let’s connect about consultation.

elenaengle.com

02/04/2026

One of the quiet surprises of EMDR is how quickly it shows us the difference between rapport and safety.

Rapport can feel warm. Easy. Collaborative.

Safety shows up when intensity rises. When the client loses words. When something unexpected surfaces and control drops away.

EMDR has a way of moving faster than relational assumptions. Not because anything has gone wrong, but because the nervous system is no longer following conversational rules. When that happens, the therapeutic relationship becomes the container, not the protocol.

I’ve noticed that when reprocessing feels destabilizing, we often look first at targets, techniques, or tolerance. Less often do we ask whether the relationship itself was ready to hold what emerged. Not conceptually safe. Felt safe.

Many clients are very good at appearing regulated. They’ve learned how to stay agreeable, capable, and composed, even in relationships that required it. EMDR doesn’t always honor those adaptations. It goes underneath them. Which means relational safety can’t be assumed just because sessions feel smooth.

I’ve been reflecting on this a lot lately. On how readiness for EMDR reprocessing lives as much in the relationship as it does in preparation, pacing, or protocol. On how slowing down in the name of safety isn’t avoidance, but care.

I wrote more about this in an essay, but I’m just as interested in hearing how others experience this moment in the work.

How do you know when the relationship is ready to hold reprocessing?

02/03/2026

In EMDR, when a client has a strong emotional reaction, we don’t say, “Do you want to stop?”
We say, “Are you okay to continue?”

It’s a small shift with a big impact. One reinforces capability. The other risks planting doubt.

Our clients are already doing the hard work. They’re facing the past. Their system is trying to heal. Our words should honor that.

When I hike at Umstead and hit a steep trail, my instinct is to think, “Maybe I should stop.” But if I reframe it—“Can I keep going?”—something shifts. I remember why I’m doing it. I keep walking. And at the end, I look back and feel the accomplishment.

Our clients need that same encouragement.
They’re on their hike. We walk with them. But they’re the ones climbing.

Let’s speak to their strength. Let’s remind them: you can do this.

01/29/2026

EMDR often asks people to move forward without full understanding.

That can make therapists uncomfortable, especially when we’re trained to explain, orient, and reduce uncertainty. But there’s a point in EMDR where explanation stops helping and experience takes over.

Healing doesn’t always feel logical. It’s incremental, embodied, and sometimes tiring. Clients don’t need the full picture to keep going. They need permission to pace themselves, to pause when needed, and to continue without being rushed or rescued.

This is where EMDR works best.
And it’s where therapists grow into their authority.

👉 If you’re ready to grow beyond supervision and refine your EMDR practice, let’s connect about consultation.
elenaengle.com

01/28/2026

There’s a moment in EMDR work that stops a lot of therapists in their tracks.

You offer a positive cognition.
Or an interweave.
And the client says, “But that’s not what really happened.”
And suddenly the room tightens.

What I want to name clearly is this: EMDR does not rewrite history. It never has. It doesn’t ask clients to pretend something different happened. What it does is help make sure history doesn’t keep dictating the present and future.

When a client pushes back like this, it’s often a sign that the AIP system is still activated; that the past is still present. The memory isn’t just remembered. It’s being relived. And that’s exactly why it became a target in the first place.

I’ve seen this show up in so many ways. A client insists they’re “just bad at public speaking,” while their nervous system is still reacting to a fifth-grade moment of humiliation. Another survives a car accident but can’t tolerate installing “I survived” because at the time, they truly believed they were going to die.

That resistance isn’t defiance. It’s honesty.

Our job isn’t to argue with the client’s lived experience. It’s to help the nervous system move from being inside the moment to recognizing that the moment has passed. Sometimes that means adjusting the positive cognition. Sometimes it means a brief interweave. Sometimes it means slowing down and honoring what still feels true before asking the system to accept what is true now.

EMDR is deeply person-centered. We don’t force insight. We follow the client. And when we do, even the sentence “that’s not what really happened” becomes useful information, not an obstacle.

I wrote more about this, including examples, for anyone who’s found themselves stuck at this exact moment in session.

How do you usually respond when a client pushes back on a positive cognition or interweave?

01/27/2026

EMDR gives clients the power to do something they don’t understand. Healing doesn’t always feel logical. EMDR works in ways that bypass explanation but leave real change behind. Sometimes the only way through is take one step at a time.

Looking Glass Rock’s elevation is 3,990 feet. It took us two and half hours to climb and the only way it happened was one step at a time. I didn’t realize the elevation was that high. I didn’t expect it to be such an arduous process, but once we got to the top, man alive, was it worth it. We took breaks when we needed and enjoyed the views, the breeze and the shade when provided. We took comfort in noticing we weren’t the only ones who needed to stop for breathers. We bonded with those who shared the lead with us knowing they would pass us on our break and hand the baton back when we passed them on their break. We cheered others on as we descended encouraging them not to give up. Looking back I’m not sure what gave me the strength to go on other than pure tenacity, but I trusted the process and came back with a new sense of power: I can complete seemingly impossible tasks, build a sense of community, and encourage others to reach the top. I can climb mountains.

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01/21/2026

There’s a moment in EMDR where the question stops being, “Is this the right target?”

Then it becomes something quieter, heavier, and more important:
What will this stir once the client leaves the room?

Readiness for EMDR reprocessing is often framed around motivation, affect tolerance, or protocol sequence. Those things matter. But they’re incomplete. What they miss is the reality that EMDR doesn’t respect session boundaries. Once processing begins, memories don’t neatly resolve and wait for next week. They move. They link. They surface at inconvenient times.

That’s not a problem with EMDR. That’s the nature of it.

Which means readiness isn’t just about what a client can tolerate with us present. It’s about what their nervous system can hold when they’re alone, when life continues, when stressors don’t pause just because therapy is happening.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how easily we can confuse readiness with eagerness, or speed with effectiveness. About how Phase 2 work quietly carries far more responsibility than it’s often given credit for. About how clinical judgment lives less in checklists and more in the spaces between sessions.

I wrote an essay exploring readiness for EMDR reprocessing through that lens. Not as a how-to. Not as a protocol breakdown. But as a reflection on what we’re actually asking of our clients when we begin this work.

Even if you don’t read it, I’m curious:
How do you know when someone is truly ready to begin reprocessing?

(And if you do want to read, the link is in the comments.)

01/20/2026

Present crises are often echoes. If the intensity feels disproportionate, it’s usually the past showing up in the now.

One thing I hear a lot: “My client keeps coming into session with a Crisis of the Week and we can’t do EMDR on the timeline events.” If it’s an overreaction then it’s a target. Present stuff can link past stuff. Remember your basic training. We know the AIP model is breaking down if PAST is PRESENT. So what your clients are bringing into session (the present) can help with their trauma history (the past). Listen to what your client is saying through the lens of the AIP model. Are you hearing similar negative cognitions to today’s problem as their trauma history? Then the information is linking.

If you client comes to session with a COW then it’s time to do EMDR.

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