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Professional Guidance to Help You Satisfy EMDR Training Requirements and Level Up your EMDR Skills DOBO TRAINED!! 😁Wonder. Discover. Overcome.

If EMDR is your main therapy model, the certification process can help you utilize it more efficiently. It means that EMDR is your art form, and I can help you express it in a way that brings out YOU. Just because you’re a therapist doesn’t mean that you’re a robot — even when you’re following the standard protocol! I believe that who you are as a therapist and who you are as a person can never be separated. After all, EMDR is a person-centered therapy! Hiding is just a sign that the therapist needs to do their own internal work. If the following apply to you, I’d love to help enrich your EMDR journey:

✅ You see EMDR as a powerful treatment modality and want to wield it most effectively for your clients.

✅ You’re looking at the long-term implications for your career and want a guide who can help you get a taste of the possibilities that await.

✅ You consider your clients’ healing sacred and thus are open to considering multiple perspectives to help sharpen your EMDR skills. As a therapist, I take a holistic approach to guiding clients back to authenticity. As an EMDR consultant-in-training, this approach helps me help therapists bring out the best in themselves. In both cases, I believe in championing autonomy. Whether we’re talking about in sessions for your clients or outside sessions for your practice and your life, you can experience greater success as an EMDR therapist. EMDR will lead you there, so let’s let EMDR do all the work—together! Let’s team up to transform lives one session at a time.

01/21/2026

There’s a moment in EMDR where the question stops being, “Is this the right target?”

Then it becomes something quieter, heavier, and more important:
What will this stir once the client leaves the room?

Readiness for EMDR reprocessing is often framed around motivation, affect tolerance, or protocol sequence. Those things matter. But they’re incomplete. What they miss is the reality that EMDR doesn’t respect session boundaries. Once processing begins, memories don’t neatly resolve and wait for next week. They move. They link. They surface at inconvenient times.

That’s not a problem with EMDR. That’s the nature of it.

Which means readiness isn’t just about what a client can tolerate with us present. It’s about what their nervous system can hold when they’re alone, when life continues, when stressors don’t pause just because therapy is happening.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how easily we can confuse readiness with eagerness, or speed with effectiveness. About how Phase 2 work quietly carries far more responsibility than it’s often given credit for. About how clinical judgment lives less in checklists and more in the spaces between sessions.

I wrote an essay exploring readiness for EMDR reprocessing through that lens. Not as a how-to. Not as a protocol breakdown. But as a reflection on what we’re actually asking of our clients when we begin this work.

Even if you don’t read it, I’m curious:
How do you know when someone is truly ready to begin reprocessing?

(And if you do want to read, the link is in the comments.)

01/20/2026

Present crises are often echoes. If the intensity feels disproportionate, it’s usually the past showing up in the now.

One thing I hear a lot: “My client keeps coming into session with a Crisis of the Week and we can’t do EMDR on the timeline events.” If it’s an overreaction then it’s a target. Present stuff can link past stuff. Remember your basic training. We know the AIP model is breaking down if PAST is PRESENT. So what your clients are bringing into session (the present) can help with their trauma history (the past). Listen to what your client is saying through the lens of the AIP model. Are you hearing similar negative cognitions to today’s problem as their trauma history? Then the information is linking.

If you client comes to session with a COW then it’s time to do EMDR.

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01/13/2026

EMDR flows at the speed of thought, not speech. Sometimes the kindest thing we do is interrupt, so their brain can keep working.

It’s a fine line to walk between being person-centered, and also owning your therapist chair. During Phase 4 remind clients that you just need a quick snapshot of what they are noticing in that moment. Assure your client that you can talk about it once the reprocessing part is completed. Remind the client you are going to interrupt them. It’s not that you don’t care, it’s that you’re trying to keep the client in flow. The healing power does not come from the therapist's voice, it is within them.

Recognize that it may also be healing for clients to talk during BLS because they’ve been silenced in some way. Be very kind and patient with your redirections. Let them know they do have a voice with you, and you’re trying to help them have that voice outside of your office as well.

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01/08/2026

Supervision gives EMDR therapists structure. It keeps you accountable to ethical standards and professional guidelines. But supervision alone isn’t enough to help you grow into your best work.

That’s where consultation comes in. Consultation is less about rules and more about refinement. It’s where you can bring your toughest cases, your biggest questions, and your “I’m not sure if I’m doing this right” moments and turn them into growth.

Both are essential. Supervision keeps you practicing within the lines. Consultation helps you color in the picture with depth, confidence, and your own clinical style.

👉 If you’re ready to grow beyond supervision and refine your EMDR practice, let’s connect about consultation. elenaengle.com

01/06/2026

Avoidance is information. If EMDR feels intimidating, that’s often the first doorway into the work.

If you client is afraid to start EMDR; target that! It’s easier to hide in talk therapy than it is in EMDR. Help them feel prepared. What’s the worst that they think will happen? Is there an attachment they’re trying to preserve? EMDR won’t take away anything that they need. We can help our clients find a safe place to lay their trauma to rest. They are not alone. You are there with them.

Once your client feels safe get ready! They’ll tell us where to go next. Work with clients at their pace while also treating them like they matter.

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01/01/2026

It’s tempting to think that mastery comes from having all the answers. But in EMDR, and, yes, in therapy as a whole, the best therapists aren’t the ones who claim certainty. They’re the ones who keep learning.

Staying teachable means staying curious. It means knowing that every client, every case, and every consultation has something new to show you. It’s how you keep growing instead of plateauing, and how you keep your work both sharp and sustainable.

The therapists who thrive long-term aren’t the ones who “arrive.” They’re the ones who choose to keep evolving.

👉 Ready to keep growing as an EMDR therapist? Let’s connect about consultation. elenaengle.com

12/31/2025

Therapy work can feel lonely until you realize you’re surrounded.

As you move through EMDR training, something begins to form: a quiet, organic network of people who understand the work like you do. It’s not an organization; it’s a community built through shared learning, curiosity, and care.

That EMDR therapist community builds you up when the work feels heavy, and keeps you connected when the world feels far away. It’s a reminder that we don’t grow in isolation, we grow together.

Read the reflection:
https://elenaengle.com/the-emdr-therapist-community-that-builds-you-up/

12/30/2025

New Year. Big Sky. Wider Wingspan. Let’s Go.

Happy New Year!

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12/23/2025

Take the vacation. Go on the cruise. Get the massage. Read the book. Treat. Your. Self.

Your clients will be there when you return, and they'll be better off because you will be refreshed, rejuvenated, and revitalized.

You're worth it!

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12/18/2025

Most EMDR therapists can point to one session that changed the way they practice. Maybe it was a moment where the client’s nervous system surprised you. Or a time when you realized you didn’t need all the answers for the process to work. Those sessions stay with us because they teach us as much as they heal our clients.

But those moments don’t have to be rare. When you take time to reflect, process, and learn through consultation, every case has the potential to shape your growth. The insights multiply. The lessons deepen. And you stop feeling like you’re learning in isolation.

The best therapists are the ones who keep learning from every session (especially the ones that shift them).

👉 Want to process those pivotal moments and grow from them? Let’s connect about EMDR consultation. elenaengle.com

12/17/2025

Silence can feel uncomfortable. But sometimes the quiet is where the real work happens.

In EMDR, my job isn’t to fill the space, it’s to protect it. Because healing doesn’t come from my words, it comes from the client’s own system finally having the room to do what it already knows how to do.

Sometimes the kindest thing I can do is interrupt… so their brain can keep working.

I wrote about what that looks like in my therapy room, and how silence can be one of the most powerful parts of healing:

https://elenaengle.com/stop-talking/

12/16/2025

“What-ifs” make great targets. Anxiety often hides in the future. Turning “what if” into a target keeps EMDR three-pronged and forward-facing.

Remember EMDR is a three-pronged approach: Past, Present, Future. What-ifs can be great future targets as well helpful interweaves. Anticipatory anxiety and/or grief should be acknowledged and cleared out.

Sometimes we have to clear the way for the future to make the past conceivable to heal and the present move forward.

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