The Wattle Centre

10/07/2025

We’re excited to announce a new workshop:
🌟The Power of Imagery: A Practical Day on Rescripting and EMDR🌟
Co-facilitated by Dr Sarah Dominguez (The Wattle Centre) and Dr Rita Younan (Schema Therapy Institute Australia), this workshop is designed for EMDR and schema/ imagery rescripting therapists who want to deepen their combined use of these interventions.

We’ll explore how to use imagery rescripting alongside EMDR in a practical, ethical and effective way—without straying from the standard steps or protocols.

The workshop will include:
🧠 Foundations of imagery and EMDR
🔄 When and how to integrate both approaches
🎬 Clinical demonstrations and case examples
🤔 Ethical reflections and decision points

This will be a hands-on, skill-based day designed to help you work more flexibly and efficiently with complex presentations.

Places are limited. For details and registration: https://www.thewattlecentre.com/emdr-imrs

25/06/2025

I was honoured to be interviewed for a recent ABC article talking about EMDR and explaining why more people are turning to it for support with trauma and other mental health challenges.

If you’re a therapist keen to learn EMDR, we run accredited trainings across Australia and online – check them out here: www.thewattlecentre.com/emdr

📖 Read the full article here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-25/emdr-therapy-for-mental-health-treatment/105453498

Celebrities like Miley Cyrus are speaking about the benefits of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. But what is EMDR and its role in psychological treatment?

03/06/2025

Almost home from the EMDR Europe Conference in Prague, where I had the chance to run a workshop, deliver a keynote, and—most importantly—catch up with some of the brightest and most experienced therapists and researchers around. Feeling grateful, a little tired, and very full (of both ideas and Czech sausages and schnitzels).

02/04/2025

This week is all about Amsterdam! Today I was lucky enough to be able to visit PSYTREC and sit in on a team meeting and client sessions. For those who don’t know, PSYTREC is a well established intensive therapy centre that combines prolonged exposure, EMDR and intensive exercise. A great example of integrative psychotherapy delivering amazing results.
And a shout out to Suzy for making it all happened.

02/04/2025

Hope to see lots of you in Prague!

Exciting News! 🌟

We're thrilled to announce Dr. Sarah Dominguez from Australia, one of our Keynote speaker, at our next EMDR Europe Conference in Prague, May 30th-June 1st 2025!
Watch her presentation on “EMDR Therapy: Navigating the Transdiagnostic Terrain” clicking here: https://player.vimeo.com/video/1015688521?autoplay=1

Don’t miss out! Secure your spot now! 🌟

👉 EARLY BIRD DEADLINE EXTENSION!
Register here with the Early Bird fee that was extended till the 10th April 2025! https://emdr2025.com/registration/

19/03/2025

Counting down to the EMDRAA Conference in Adelaide this May! I look forward to sharing insights with clinicians on enhancing their EMDR practice with imagery. I’m also excited to be presenting alongside Logan Harvey on Consultant’s Day, where we’ll be diving into the latest EMDR research and literature updates. See you there!

24/02/2025

Are you interested in mastering EMDR in the ACT? We’re excited to announce an upcoming training session in Canberra at the end of March. With seats filling up quickly, now is the time to reserve your spot! If Canberra isn’t convenient for you, please visit our website to explore additional locations and dates. Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
https://www.thewattlecentre.com/emdr
Warm regards,
Sarah

20/01/2025

Looking for EMDR consultation groups? Due to demand, we have added several more EMDRAA-accredited groups to support therapists at all levels of their EMDR learning following the initial training. Our Basic Training Groups are for those who working towards completing the initial ten hours of consultation for EMDRAA Basic Training.
Accreditation Focused Groups are for those who have completed their basic training and are looking to become an EMDRAA accredited practitioner or consultant. Book directly here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/drsarahdominguez?srch=Group&date=&sort=start
See you there!

17/12/2024

Want to share your EMDR work? Submit a poster for the EMDRAA 2025 Conference! Poster abstracts have been extended until 19 January and are a great way to showcase some of the brilliant work happening in our EMDR community.
I have attached more information on the process and a couple of examples. For more information and submission guidelines, visit https://lnkd.in/gnbDF_Ua

14/12/2024

And that’s a wrap for the first year of The Wattle Centre EMDR Basic Training workshops. I am so grateful to all of the 250 participants who contributed to the years success. The eagerness, vulnerability, skill, and humour that I witnessed over the last year is so incredibly heartening.
An extra special thank you to the brilliant Katie Mitchell for her ongoing expertise and support! This year would not have been so successful without you.
2025 here we come!

13/10/2024

Happy 25th birthday Associazione EMDR Italia! It was an honour to have been able to give one of the keynote addresses along side Olivier Piedfort-Marin Ph.D. and Debra Wesselmann. Thank you Isabel Fernandez for involving me and Roger Solomon for chairing my talk. Also for all of EMDR Italia for their beautiful warmth and hospitality. What a fabulous conference!

11/09/2024

One week to go before our first-ever two-day Imagery Rescripting training in Sydney!
https://www.thewattlecentre.com/imagery-rescripting