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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.

12/11/2025

Advanced trainings, specialized techniques, and new interventions can all make you a sharper EMDR therapist. But no amount of technical skill will carry you if your own nervous system is constantly running on empty.

The work of EMDR is relational at its core. Your steadiness is part of what creates safety. When you know how to regulate yourself in the room, your technical skills have room to shine. Without that, even the best interventions can fall flat.

That’s why consultation matters. It’s where you strengthen not only your skills but also your ability to stay grounded session after session. Because in the end, sustainability isn’t just about what you know. It’s about how you show up.

👉 Ready to strengthen both your skills and your steadiness as an EMDR therapist? Let’s connect about consultation. elenaengle.com

12/10/2025

We talk a lot about outcomes in therapy, but not enough about the how of showing up.

Certification changed that for me. It slowed me down, sharpened my focus, and reminded me that excellence in this field is less about hierarchy and more about integrity.

Why EMDR certification matters isn’t about proving something, it’s about embodying it. It’s about fidelity to the model, respect for the process, and care for the people we serve.

Read the reflection:
https://elenaengle.com/why-emdr-certification-matters-to-the-work-itself/

12/09/2025

You don’t need to know every detail, EMDR goes to the cause.

EMDR makes the implicit explicit. It can take memory fragments, private images and discomforting sensations right to the cause. Then, EMDR will reprocess it adaptively. We don’t need to poke around. We don’t need to know exactly what was said, or what the image looks like. In fact it’s better if we don’t poke around too much so we aren’t unintentionally manipulating any information. The client knows; even if they’re not exactly sure why. Just go with it.

EMDR is efficient because the client’s brain brings up what matters most. Our role is to follow, not force.

Trust the process. Even if it’s foggy.

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12/04/2025

EMDR therapy isn’t just about the protocol. It’s also about the presence of the therapist in the room. Your nervous system is part of the process. If you’re grounded, your clients feel safer. If you’re exhausted or scattered, they feel that too.

This doesn’t mean you need to show up perfectly calm every time. It means your steadiness matters as much as the structure of the method. Taking care of your nervous system is not selfishness but a clinical responsibility.

Consultation helps you stay steady. It gives you space to process tough cases, reset, and remind yourself that you’re not holding this work alone. Because the more regulated you are, the more powerful the EMDR process becomes for your clients.

👉 Want to feel more grounded and present in your EMDR sessions? Let’s talk about consultation. elenaengle.com

12/03/2025

Clichés get dismissed for being overused, but maybe that’s what makes them powerful.

They’re the words we all seem to reach for when language falls short.

In EMDR, when a client says something like “the rug was pulled out from under me” or “I don’t want to rock the boat,” I don’t correct it, I go with it. Because that phrase carries history, emotion, and connection to moments across their life.

Clichés are the words our nervous system already understands. They link us back to every time that feeling was real.

I wrote about why I believe clichés can be a bridge to healing, and why “unoriginal phrases” might be some of the most human things we say:

https://elenaengle.com/cliches-are-the-road-to-healing/

12/02/2025

Adaptive states don’t always land in absolutes.

Sometimes “I’m learning to be enough” is more believable than “I am enough.” It’s okay to add qualifiers such as, “I’m going to be okay,” or, “I can find my voice.” It can be similar to when we exercise; it was a difficult workout, but our bodies feel cared for, stronger. Sometimes our clients haven't fully achieved their goal yet, but they are getting stronger in the process.

Whatever train tracks they need to get from, “I think I can,” to “I know I can,” and then to “I knew I could,” is an adaptive pathway well built.

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11/26/2025

There’s a point in every therapist’s journey where competence becomes routine. You’re doing meaningful work, but it doesn’t light you up the same way.

That’s when deepening your expertise stops being about credentials and starts being about connection to your clients, your curiosity, and yourself.

For me, that’s what becoming an EMDR expert really meant. The more I understood the process, the more I enjoyed it again. The work stopped feeling heavy. It started feeling alive.

Read the full reflection:
https://elenaengle.com/how-to-become-an-emdr-expert-and-love-the-work-again/

11/25/2025

I'm grateful for EMDR and the positive impact it has made in both my professional and personal life. I'm thankful for my community of friends and colleagues. I'm appreciative of the outdoors and my healthy body. I am humbled by my trainees, consusltees, and students. I am most delighted for my family and every second we have together.

Sometimes the teachable moment is sharing your gratitude. Thank you all.

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11/20/2025

One of the biggest traps for EMDR therapists is believing you need to have all the answers. The “right” target, the “right” cognition, the “right” interweave. But EMDR isn’t about knowing everything in advance. EMDR is about staying curious as the process unfolds.

When you bring curiosity into the room, you take the pressure off yourself and open the door for the client’s nervous system to lead. That’s when EMDR does its best work. Not from you having all the solutions, but from you being steady enough to follow where the process takes you.

Consultation is where curiosity gets reinforced. It reminds you that you don’t have to do this alone, and that even experienced therapists grow sharper by asking good questions, not by pretending to have all the answers.

👉 If you want to grow your confidence by deepening your curiosity, let’s talk about EMDR consultation. elenaengle.com

11/19/2025

Anger gets a bad reputation, but sometimes it’s the part of you that finally refuses to be dismissed. It’s the moment your body says, “This isn’t right.”

When you stop trying to quiet it and instead listen, it can turn into clarity, self-trust, even pride.

You don’t have to fear your anger. Sometimes it’s the proof you still believe you matter.

When I stopped trying to quiet my anger and actually listened, it turned into something unexpectedly healing. In my latest blog post, I write about what that looked like in real life, how one frustrating moment turned into something quite transformative:

https://elenaengle.com/anger-can-be-adaptive/

11/18/2025

Choosing the right Negative Cognition (NC) makes all the difference. Subtle word choices shift everything. The difference between “I’m not safe” and “I’m in danger” changes the entire session.

If you can get the correct NC it makes a world of difference. It drives the session. Notice the difference between passive and active language such as, “I should have done something,” versus “It’s all my fault.” When you begin Phase 4 and your clients notices a lot of other negative cognitions (NCs) coming up then congratulations: you’ve chosen the correct NC. It produced a lot of robust information.

Remember we want our client to be able to generalize as much as possible: getting all the puzzle pieces and putting them together.

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11/13/2025

There’s a reason some EMDR therapists thrive for decades while others burn out after just a few years. The work itself is intense. Trauma therapy asks a lot of your nervous system, your presence, and your capacity to hold space. Doing it in isolation will drain you.

The ones who last aren’t the ones with superhuman stamina. They’re the ones with a circle; a place to process cases, share the weight, and know they’re not carrying this work alone. Consultation isn’t just about clinical growth. It’s about sustainability.

When EMDR therapists build strong consultation circles, they don’t just get better at the work. They get to stay in it without sacrificing their own wellbeing.

👉 Ready to strengthen your practice and your longevity? Let’s connect about EMDR consultation. elenaengle.com

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