EMDR & Beyond

04/23/2026

Explore our latest trainings and on-demand courses designed to support your growth and deepen your practice ✨

From live learning experiences to flexible, self-paced options, there’s something for everyone.

Visit 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱.𝗰𝗼𝗺 to learn more!

04/19/2026

For 2SLGBTQIA+ clients, the experiences driving the clinical picture — discrimination, internalized stigma, identity-based harm — accumulate across a lifetime. They don't always present as discrete traumatic incidents. And that shapes what EMDR clinicians need to look for.

The Minority Stress Model gives clinicians a research-based framework for understanding how these experiences encode in memory networks and what they produce clinically. Integrated into AIP case conceptualization, it changes how assessment, targeting, and reprocessing work with this population.

On May 29, Shaun/Sienna Bries, LICSW, MSW-ITR presents EMDR Affirming Care for 2SLGBTQIA+ Clients: From Research to Practice & Interventions — live virtual, through EMDR & Beyond.

Morning session open to all licensed mental health professionals. EMDR Basic Training not required for morning attendance.

6 CE Credits (under review) · Early bird ends May 15 — code GAC26 saves $20.

👉 https://courses.emdrandbeyond.com/emdr-affirming-care-page

04/18/2026

Adoption trauma rarely announces itself.

Clients with adoption histories often present with anxiety, relational difficulty, identity confusion, or chronic grief — and adoption never comes up as the source. Early separation and disrupted attachment encode into memory networks before language develops, and the clinical picture that follows can look like almost anything else.

Dr. Linda Russell, LPC, PhD has spent 28+ years at exactly this intersection. Her May 15 training — Invisible Threads: Addressing the Losses and Trauma of Adoption through EMDR Therapy — gives EMDR-trained clinicians a phase-specific framework for recognizing and treating adoption-related trauma across all eight phases.

6 CE Credits · EMDRIA & APA Approved · Intermediate Level · Live Virtual

Early bird ends May 1 — code IT25 saves $20.

👉 https://emdrandbeyond.com/trainings/invisible-threads-emdr-adoption-trauma/

04/17/2026

Now enrolling: 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗥 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

✔️ Bilingual peer support
✔️ Culturally responsive guidance
✔️ Real-world tools for complex trauma work

Starts May 1 — save your spot today!

04/15/2026

✨ Upcoming Trainings You Won’t Want to Miss!

Join us this May for two powerful learning experiences designed to deepen your clinical skills and expand your impact:

𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 – May 15
𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗥 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 – May 29

🌟 𝗢𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲! Don’t miss the chance to save while securing your spot.

Learn from expert trainers and gain valuable insights you can bring directly into your practice.

Spots are limited—secure yours today!
👉 www.emdrandbeyond.com

04/10/2026

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04/10/2026

Adoption trauma is real.

I'm adopted at birth. My adoptive mother gave me my adoption decree after the birth of my son. I found her when I was 36 years old, and we met for dinner at a local restaurant.

She got pregnant with me in high school and gave me up for adoption. She got married to someone other than my biological father not long after I was given up and had 2 other children that she raised. I remained a secret. No one in her family ever knew she had a child she gave up for adoption.

When I found where she lived and got her phone number, I called and left her a message. "I was adopted at birth, born June 1, recently received my adoption decree, and I believe you're my mother." She called me back that same day, letting me know she was thankful she got home first to get my message off her voicemail because no one in her life knew I existed and she didn't want that to change.

She refused to tell me who my biological father was since he still lived locally. I honored her request to remain a secret for 14 years, then I got an ancestry DNA test and found my biological father. It's not my choice to be anyone's secret.

My biological father was 17 when I was born, still in high school. When he heard I was about to be born, he moved heaven and earth to get a ride to the hospital to see me, but when he got there, he wasn't allowed to see me because she had said she didn't know who my father was. He went back home defeated and knew nothing about my adoption. He became an alcoholic.

I've met him, but we no longer have a relationship of any kind. I'm rejected by him again, and the reason is pretty sad.

I'm currently writing a book about my adoption and reunion. It's going to be called "I wish I'd never met you, my life in adoption reunion".

- Melinda Amsler (adopted from and living in Pennsylvania, USA)

04/08/2026

04/07/2026

🚨 Last Chance to Register! 🚨

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲
𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥

📅 April 10, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM CST
💻 6-Hour Virtual Training (Zoom)

There’s still time to join us—but not for long. Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your work with adolescent wounds and support lasting, meaningful healing for your clients.

✨ Secure your spot before registration closes!
👉 Enroll now at EMDRandBeyond.com

04/04/2026

Just a few days left to sign up for Healing the Roots of the Trauma Tree: Tending to the Adolescent Wound!
Join us at
EMDRandBeyond.com

04/04/2026

🧠 Mapping the Inner Family: A Creative Path to Integration

This interactive tool guides clients through a full parts mapping experience, integrating elements of Transactional Analysis, Internal Family Systems, and art-based exploration.

Clients identify, name, and visualize five parts of self:

🧍‍♂️ Adult
💬 Controlling
💗 Nurturing
🤝 Adaptive
🎨 Free
Once mapped, each part engages in a group-style dialogue — sharing safety needs, insights, goals, and check-outs. The process ends with deep integration questions that promote reflection, self-compassion, and linkage across the self.

✨ It’s experiential, playful, powerful… and grounded in trauma-informed principles.

📄 Use it in EMDR Phase 1 or in parts work to help clients honor and link all aspects of themselves.

04/04/2026

We had a great training in Des Moines this week! Another 35 clinicians trained to treat trauma and adverse experiences.
Welcome to the EMDR Community!