You finished EMDR training. You learned the eight phases, practiced bilateral stimulation, filled your notebook with acronyms, and left feeling excited to finally start using EMDR with your clients.

And then you actually started doing EMDR.

Suddenly, the neat flowchart from training doesn't feel quite so neat.

Your client has 15 possible targets. They intellectualize everything. They say their SUD is a 2 while their entire body is telling you otherwise. You get halfway through reprocessing and think, Wait…where do I go from here?

Welcome to actually practicing EMDR.

I offer individual and group EMDR consultation for therapists who have completed EMDR Basic Training, including clinicians working toward EMDRIA Certification and therapists who simply want to become more confident using EMDR in their clinical work.

Consultation with me is collaborative, curious, and very human. Bring the complicated cases, the questions you think you "should" already know the answer to, and the sessions you've replayed in your head three times wondering what you could have done differently.

We'll figure it out together.

You Don't Need Another EMDR Training. You Need Somewhere to Talk About What Happens After the Training.

Knowing the EMDR protocol and knowing how to use it with a complex human being are two very different things.

Especially when your clients don't present with one perfectly identifiable traumatic event and a convenient negative cognition.

Real clients come in with childhood trauma layered with attachment wounds layered with a terrible relationship layered with the belief that somehow everything is their fault.

That's where things get interesting.

My clinical work primarily focuses on CPTSD, childhood and developmental trauma, sexual trauma, abusive relationship recovery, and relational trauma. These are often the cases where therapists understand EMDR conceptually but need help figuring out how all of the pieces fit together.

In consultation, we're not just asking, Which protocol do I use?

We're asking:

What is actually happening here?

Where did this pattern begin?

What's keeping it going?

What does this client's nervous system need before we ask it to process anything?

And where does EMDR fit into the larger picture?

My Approach to EMDR Consultation

I'm not interested in creating EMDR robots.

I want you to understand the model well enough that you can stop anxiously wondering whether you're "doing EMDR right" and start trusting your clinical judgment.

That doesn't mean throwing the protocol out the window. Fidelity matters. Understanding the Adaptive Information Processing model matters. The Eight-Phase Protocol and Three-Pronged Approach matter.

But so does the human sitting across from you.

My consultation style is similar to my therapy style: warm, relational, direct, curious, and down-to-earth.

We'll talk through cases. I'll ask questions. I'll challenge you when I think there's another layer worth exploring. We'll probably pull apart a case that initially seemed straightforward and realize there are three completely different ways we could conceptualize it.

And yes, you can absolutely say, "I have no idea what I'm doing with this case."

Those are usually the most interesting ones.

EMDR Consultation for Complex Trauma

Complex trauma is where I feel most at home clinically.

I specialize in working with adults experiencing:

• Complex PTSD (CPTSD)

• Childhood and developmental trauma

• Sexual trauma

• Abusive relationship recovery

• Attachment and relational trauma

• Chronic shame and negative self-beliefs

• Repeating relationship patterns

• Trauma involving multiple experiences rather than one isolated event

With complex trauma, finding a target isn't always as simple as asking, "What's your worst memory?"

Sometimes there are dozens of memories.

Sometimes there isn't a clear memory at all.

Sometimes the thing causing the most distress happened twenty years ago, but the same belief has been reinforced through relationships ever since.

This is where thoughtful case conceptualization becomes incredibly important.

We'll look beyond the presenting symptom and start connecting the dots between past experiences, present triggers, relational patterns, protective strategies, negative beliefs, and future concerns.

Then we can figure out where EMDR can create movement.

A Feminist and Relational Lens

I approach both therapy and EMDR consultation from a feminist, relational, and trauma-informed lens.

Trauma doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Gender, culture, relationships, family systems, identity, power, societal expectations, and lived experiences all influence how someone understands what happened to them—and what they learned to believe about themselves because of it.

This becomes particularly important when working with sexual trauma, abusive relationships, childhood trauma, and relational trauma.

Sometimes the negative cognition is I'm powerless.

But sometimes the more important question is: Who taught this person they weren't allowed to have power in the first place?

We can hold both.

EMDR gives us an incredibly powerful framework for processing trauma. A relational and feminist perspective helps us understand the larger context in which that trauma occurred.