Creative & Caring Counseling

03/16/2026

Hello Colleagues! 🌻

I am teaching an EMDR Basic Training in Fort Collins, Colorado in April 2026 through Scaling Up: A Mental Health Clinician Community for EMDR & Trauma Therapy, a company founded by Kelly Smyth Dent.

If you've been curious about EMDR Basic Training, please read this message from Kelly! And, of course, pass it along to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks! 🌻

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Dear Colorado Clinicians,

If your clients are carrying trauma and you've been thinking about adding EMDR to your practice, this is the year to do it.

Scaling Up is bringing our EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training to Colorado — both Denver and Fort Collins in April 2026!

EMDR is one of the most evidence-based, in-demand trauma therapies available. Clinicians who complete training consistently tell us it transforms not just their clients' outcomes, but their own confidence and sense of clinical purpose.

Here's what's included:
>>All 10 required consultation hours
>>EMDRIA-approved curriculum
>>Practical, hands-on skill development
>>Ongoing support from experienced Trainers throughout your training
>>40 CEs available for licensure renewal

We've also built in options to make training accessible:
>>Group discounts for agencies and practices registering 5+ clinicians — email info@scalingupemdr.com to inquire
Individual scholarships available — apply at scalingupemdr.com/scholarships

With limited spots remaining, now is the time to secure your place.

Register or learn more here: scalingupemdr.com/emdr-basic-training

If you're not interested or are already trained, please consider passing this along to colleagues who may benefit.

We’d love to support you in bringing accessible and affordable trauma-informed care to Colorado!

Kelly
Founder, Scaling Up

MDR Basic Training: Join our EMDRIA-approved EMDR training and gain expert EMDR therapy skills in this comprehensive online course.

03/14/2026

This is the year of Brave Adventures! I’m off to a great start as I wrap up co-facilitating a 3-day retreat with Feld. The topic: “ Presence + Possibilities - The Therapy Intensives Retreat.”

This was soulful work that balanced learning with playing, embodiment with merriment, and in-sight with external validation and witnessing.

Some comments I heard include:
“I am changed for the better.”
“I need more of this.”
“I feel safe and so seen.”

I am feeling SO grateful. I love what I get to do.

02/14/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1bBzMvHrTB/

Response from EMDRIA about the misrepresentation of EMDR therapy published recently on the Psychology Today website.

02/12/2026

11/27/2025

My grateful heart. 💜

A big chunk of the counselors and social workers in McLean County just got trained in a rising therapy model that can help people overcome anxiety, depression, and PTSD. It's called Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR.

11/22/2025

Just finished my final EMDR Basic Training with Scaling Up EMDR for 2025! 🥳

What a joy to connect with nearly 100 clinicians who are ready to elevate their careers with this comprehensive training. And, what a privilege to work with an amazing team of facilitators and admin staff. Feeling soooooo grateful! 😊

Until 2026, Scaling Up! See you then for some more wonderful trainings of EMDR Basic Training! 🌻

11/08/2025

I love learning!

Attending an in-person IFS Level 3 training for the week in DC. I’m looking forward the the deepening, the slowing down, and the connecting to IFS colleagues.

I just got home from the Polyvagal Institute Conference on Sunday, had some quality time with dedicated clients, taught 2-days of EMDR Basic training, played with my Colorado grandkids, attended exciting meetings planning for 2026, went to the movies with my beloved, and chatted with dear friends what a week! 💖

I. Am. Grateful.

11/06/2025

Hello Colleagues!!

I’m stepping into something that brings me joy and excitement!! (And asks me to be brave!)

Steffeny Feld …. So happy and honored to collaborate with you this soul-nourishing, fun and informative retreat!

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🌊 Big news, friends! 🌊

Registration for the Presence & Possibility Retreat is officially OPEN!

March 11–14, 2026 | Huntington Beach, CA

This 3-day retreat is a soulful journey to remember what you truly desire—in your work, your body, and your life.

Step away and reimagine your practice through therapy intensives so that...

✨ your work heals deeply
✨ your days feel spacious
✨ your life feels alive and aligned

I’m beyond thrilled to be co-hosting this experience with my dear friend Barbara Sheehan-Zeidler — EMDR Trainer and one of the most grounded, heart-centered clinicians I know.

You might remember her from our series earlier this year on the skills therapists need to offer powerful intensives (it was so much fun!). Let me know if you want to see the replay!

Barbara and I created this retreat as a sacred pause for therapists ready to work differently — a space to slow down, reconnect, and design intensives that are sacred, solid, and booked out.

This is an intimate experience,
limited to just 12 therapists,
so we can truly go deep together.

Are you ready? 🌿

👉 Get all the details & save your spot here:

10/25/2025

Today I finished up two days in a row of virtual teaching EMDR therapy to 95 clinicians from across the country! So many great questions! So many skills learned and so much confidence gained! What an honor to introduce and teach EMDR therapy to so many clinicians.

I couldn't have done it without the amazing curriculum from Scaling Up, an outstanding admin, Marie, and a dedicated group of facilitators. Yay teamwork!!