9646L • An Overview of EMDR Therapy for Trauma-Focused Care

Table of Contents

9646L • An Overview of EMDR Therapy for Trauma-Focused Care

How to Receive Credit

Course Overview

Audience

Accreditations & Approvals

Designations of Credit

Individual State Behavioral Health Approvals

Course Objective

Learning Objectives

Faculty

Faculty Disclosure

Division Planners

Division Planners Disclosure

Director of Development and Academic Affairs

Director Disclosure Statement

About the Sponsor

Disclosure Statement

Implicit Bias in Health Care

1. INTRODUCTION

2. WEBINAR

3. SLIDES

Works Cited

9646L • An Overview of EMDR Therapy for Trauma-Focused Care

Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500, RMT

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This live event takes place Wednesday, September 9, 4 pm-6 pm EDT (1 pm-3 pm PDT).

EMDR therapy is one of the most popular therapies available today for the treatment of trauma-related concerns, appearing in the evidence-based treatment guidelines of many prominent organizations. Since its introduction to the therapeutic world in 1989, EMDR therapy has helped millions of people worldwide. In this course, professionals are introduced not just to the fundamentals of EMDR therapy, but also to how EMDR therapy conceptualizes trauma through the lens of what is called the adaptive information processing (AIP) model. This conceptualization can be useful to all professionals who want to operate in a more trauma-focused way in their clinical work, whether or not they go on to do a full training in EMDR therapy. The session ends with an explanation of the full training process, helping you to determine if fully adding EMDR therapy to your clinical repertoire is a good fit.

9646L • An Overview of EMDR Therapy for Trauma-Focused Care

Education Category. Webinars

Release Date. 07/25/2026

Expiration Date. 09/15/2026

How to Receive Credit

To complete this course for continuing education credit please go to http://www.netce.com/course/3577 in your browser.

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Course Overview

This live event takes place Wednesday, September 9, 4 pm-6 pm EDT (1 pm-3 pm PDT).

EMDR therapy is one of the most popular therapies available today for the treatment of trauma-related concerns, appearing in the evidence-based treatment guidelines of many prominent organizations. Since its introduction to the therapeutic world in 1989, EMDR therapy has helped millions of people worldwide. In this course, professionals are introduced not just to the fundamentals of EMDR therapy, but also to how EMDR therapy conceptualizes trauma through the lens of what is called the adaptive information processing (AIP) model. This conceptualization can be useful to all professionals who want to operate in a more trauma-focused way in their clinical work, whether or not they go on to do a full training in EMDR therapy. The session ends with an explanation of the full training process, helping you to determine if fully adding EMDR therapy to your clinical repertoire is a good fit.

Audience

This live webinar is designed for mental and behavioral health professionals who would benefit from enhanced knowledge of EMDR therapy and its role in the treatment of clients with trauma histories.

Accreditations & Approvals

NetCE has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6361. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NetCE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. As a Jointly Accredited Organization, NetCE is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. NetCE is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). NetCE complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, NetCE is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0021. This course is considered live online by the New York State Board of Mental Health Counseling. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0033. This course is considered live online, as defined by the New York State Board for Social Work. Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of licensed master social work and licensed clinical social work in New York. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice for an LMSW and LCSW. A licensee who practices beyond the authorized scope of practice could be charged with unprofessional conduct under the Education Law and Regents Rules. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0015. This course is considered live online by the New York State Board of Marriage and Family Therapy. NetCE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0240. This course is considered live online by the New York State Board for Psychology.

Designations of Credit

NetCE designates this live event activity for 2 continuing education clock hours. NetCE designates this live event continuing education activity for 2 NBCC clock hour(s). Social workers participating in this intermediate to advanced course will receive 2 Clinical continuing education clock hours. NetCE is authorized by IACET to offer 0.2 CEU(s) for this program. NetCE designates this live continuing education activity for 2 credit(s).

Individual State Behavioral Health Approvals

In addition to states that accept ASWB, NetCE is approved as a provider of continuing education by the following state boards: Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners, Provider #0515; Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, CE Broker Provider #50-2405; Illinois Division of Professional Regulation for Social Workers, License #159.001094; Illinois Division of Professional Regulation for Licensed Professional and Clinical Counselors, License #197.000185; Illinois Division of Professional Regulation for Marriage and Family Therapists, License #168.000190;

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to provide behavioral health professionals with valuable insight into EMDR therapy's model for conceptualizing trauma, the adaptive information processing (AIP) model, which they can use alongside any other therapeutic modality in helping them to better understand their clients.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Define trauma through the lens of the adaptive information processing (AIP) model, the theoretical underpinning of EMDR therapy.

2. Discuss the origins, history, and development of EMDR therapy.

3. Identify which clients on one's caseload can most optimally benefit from EMDR therapy.

4. Determine if further training in EMDR therapy can enhance one's clinical repertoire.

Faculty

Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500, RMT, (she/they) travels internationally speaking on topics related to EMDR therapy, trauma, addiction, expressive arts, and mindfulness while maintaining a private practice and online education operation, the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, in her home base of northeast Ohio. She is the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy and the developer of Yoga for Clinicians. Dr. Marich is the author of numerous books, including EMDR Made Simple, Trauma Made Simple, and EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness for Trauma Focused Care (written in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Dansiger). She is also the author of Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery. In 2020, a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps was released. In 2022 and 2023, Dr. Marich published two additional books: The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery and Dissociation Made Simple. Dr. Marich is a woman living with a dissociative disorder, and this forms the basis of her award-winning passion for advocacy in the mental health field.

Faculty Disclosure

Contributing faculty, Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500, RMT, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

Division Planners

Kimberly Byrd, EdD, PMSW

Scott Deatherage, PhD

Division Planners Disclosure

The division planners have disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

Director of Development and Academic Affairs

Sarah Campbell

Director Disclosure Statement

The Director of Development and Academic Affairs has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

About the Sponsor

The purpose of NetCE is to provide challenging curricula to assist healthcare professionals to raise their levels of expertise while fulfilling their continuing education requirements, thereby improving the quality of healthcare.

Our contributing faculty members have taken care to ensure that the information and recommendations are accurate and compatible with the standards generally accepted at the time of publication. The publisher disclaims any liability, loss or damage incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents. Participants are cautioned about the potential risk of using limited knowledge when integrating new techniques into practice.

Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of NetCE not to accept commercial support. Furthermore, commercial interests are prohibited from distributing or providing access to this activity to learners.

Implicit Bias in Health Care

The role of implicit biases on healthcare outcomes has become a concern, as there is some evidence that implicit biases contribute to health disparities, professionals' attitudes toward and interactions with patients, quality of care, diagnoses, and treatment decisions. This may produce differences in help-seeking, diagnoses, and ultimately treatments and interventions. Implicit biases may also unwittingly produce professional behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that reduce patients' trust and comfort with their provider, leading to earlier termination of visits and/or reduced adherence and follow-up. Disadvantaged groups are marginalized in the healthcare system and vulnerable on multiple levels; health professionals' implicit biases can further exacerbate these existing disadvantages.

Interventions or strategies designed to reduce implicit bias may be categorized as change-based or control-based. Change-based interventions focus on reducing or changing cognitive associations underlying implicit biases. These interventions might include challenging stereotypes. Conversely, control-based interventions involve reducing the effects of the implicit bias on the individual's behaviors. These strategies include increasing awareness of biased thoughts and responses. The two types of interventions are not mutually exclusive and may be used synergistically.

1. INTRODUCTION

EMDR therapy is one of the leading and most discussed modalities used in psychotherapy today in addressing trauma-related disorders. Although it can seem odd or unusual on the surface, there is a tremendous evidence base and rooting in Indigenous knowledge that helps to frame it as an effective option for many people. While extensive training in EMDR therapy may not be for every clinician, having a basic understanding in the principles of EMDR therapy can help all clinicians better conceptualize trauma and thus serve their clients. Clinicians taking this introductory course may find themselves interested in getting more extensively trained in EMDR therapy to enhance their clinical repertoire.

2. WEBINAR

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3. SLIDES

The slides from this webinar are available here.

Works Cited

1. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed, text rev. American Psychiatric Association; 2000.

2. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed. American Psychiatric Association; 2013.

3. Donovan F, producer; Nalepinski B, director. EMDR: Looking Through Hemispheres [documentary]. Fran Donovan Productions; 1999.

4. Hammond M, Ryan C, Dwyer A. Clients’ experiences of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. J EMDR Pract Res. 2023;17(4):250-264.

5. Laliotis D, Luber M, Oren U, et al. What is EMDR therapy: past, present and future directions. J EMDR Pract Res. 2021;15(4).

6. Shapiro F. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures. 3rd ed. The Guilford Press; 2018.

7. World Health Organization. Assessment and Management of Conditions Specifically Related to Stress: mhGAP Intervention Guide Module. World Health Organization; 2013. Accessed February 5, 2026. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85623/1/9789241505932_eng.pdf?ua=1