EMDR Consultation

You Finished Basic Training. Now What?

You completed your EMDR basic training and you're excited. You've seen what this modality can do. You want to get better at it—not just competent, but good.

But you're also running into the parts they didn't cover in training. The client who doesn't track. The one who dissociates mid-set. The looping that won't resolve. The case where you can't find the target because everything is connected to everything.

You need someone who will sit with you in the complexity—not just tell you to "go back to the protocol." Someone who can help you think about why a client is stuck, not just what to do next.

That's what this consultation is.

What I Bring to Consultation

I'm an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Consultant in Training supervised by Christie Sprowls, PsyD—one of seven EMDR Institute authorized trainers in the country, trained directly by Francine Shapiro.

The foundation of this consultation is standard EMDR therapy: the eight phases, the three-pronged approach, the Adaptive Information Processing model. I'll help you build genuine proficiency and fidelity to the protocol—not because rigidity is the goal, but because you can't meaningfully adapt something you haven't mastered. We'll work through the AIP model until it becomes the lens you think through, not just a concept from training.

Where I go further: once you have the standard protocol solid, we work on developing the clinical judgment to recognize when modifications are needed and why. My caseload is almost entirely complex and developmental trauma—dissociation, attachment wounds, somatic flooding, the cases that don't fit neatly into the textbook sequence. I also integrate EMDR with Brainspotting, Flash Technique, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KA-EMDR), which means I can help you think about EMDR within a broader clinical context.

My background before clinical work was in information architecture—a decade building knowledge systems for academic research. That shows up in how I approach case conceptualization: I'm systematic, I see patterns across cases, and I draw on a phenomenological orientation that asks what the client's experience actually is before we decide what to do about it. Phenomenology—the discipline of attending to experience as it presents itself, without premature interpretation—is what keeps me honest as a clinician and as a consultant. It's the difference between seeing a client through the lens of a diagnosis and seeing the person in front of you.

I also teach at Seattle University, which means I know how to explain things clearly without being condescending. You won't feel talked down to here.

Who This Is For

This consultation is for licensed clinicians who have completed an EMDRIA-approved EMDR basic training and want support with:

• Mastering the 8-phase protocol and the AIP model—building real fidelity, not just familiarity
• Working toward EMDRIA Certification (I can provide up to 15 of your required consultation hours)
• Developing clinical judgment for when and how to modify standard EMDR with complex cases
• Complex trauma, developmental trauma, dissociation, and parts work within EMDR
• Getting unstuck when processing stalls, loops, or doesn't resolve as expected
• Integrating somatic awareness into your EMDR work
• Case conceptualization that connects what's happening in session to the AIP model

You don't need to be pursuing certification to benefit from consultation. If you're an EMDR-trained therapist who wants to sharpen your skills, you're welcome here.

What to Expect

Come prepared to present a case. Bring what's challenging you—not your success stories. The goal isn't to perform competence. It's to get honest, useful feedback on the places where you're uncertain.

I'll ask you questions about your conceptualization, walk through what might be happening for the client, and help you identify next steps. If something isn't working, we'll figure out why—not just try a different technique.

I create a space where not knowing is expected and respected. You'll learn more from the cases that confuse you than the ones that go smoothly.

A Note on My Approach

Standard EMDR therapy is the foundation. Full stop. You'll get rigorous grounding in the 8-phase protocol, the three-pronged approach, and the AIP model—because that's what EMDRIA requires, and because it works.

What I add is the why. I want you to understand the mechanism beneath the protocol—memory reconsolidation research (Ecker, Nader, Schiller), what's actually happening in the client's nervous system during bilateral stimulation, why the phases are sequenced the way they are. When you understand why something works, you can recognize when it's not working and make informed decisions about what to do differently.

I also bring a phenomenological sensibility to consultation—meaning I'll push you to attend carefully to what the client is actually experiencing before you interpret it or intervene on it. This isn't an alternative to the AIP model. It's what makes the AIP model come alive in the room instead of staying on the whiteboard. The consultees I work with don't just learn to run the protocol. They learn to see their clients more clearly—and that makes everything else sharper.

If that sounds like the kind of consultation you're looking for, reach out.

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