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UPCOMING TRAININGS

About the Course (6 CEs)

EMDR's standard assumptions quietly break down when the client is chronically ill. Our protocols were built around a trauma that happened- an event with a before and after, a body that has returned to baseline, a nervous system we can help settle. Chronic illness offers none of that. The target isn't over; it's Tuesday. The threat isn't a memory; it's the next flare, the next appointment, the next dismissal by a provider. This training is for EMDR clinicians who have sat across from a medically complex client and felt the eight phases strain against a reality they weren't designed for.

We'll reframe chronic illness as active, ongoing trauma and work through what that changes at every phase: how you conceptualize targets when the "incident" is still happening, how you prepare a client whose baseline is dysregulation rather than safety, and how you reprocess without pathologizing an accurate fear or installing false comfort. Along the way you'll learn a preparation approach— grounded in resource development and a prepared-not-ready framework— that meets clients where their nervous systems actually are instead of at an external readiness bar. We'll cover accessibility and language, ethical considerations specific to medical trauma, and interweaves for grief, uncertainty, and loss that doesn't resolve. Drawn from the growing evidence base for EMDR in chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms, and from the presenter's clinical and lived experience.