Dr. Andrew Dobo

08/01/2025

Missing my awesome force of nature son who sucked 70 tears of living in 31. Miss him dearly. Today my wife and I are having a drink and remembering how lucky we were to have him in our life for 31 years.

08/01/2025

So many therapists were trained to guide every moment, to find insight, connect dots, and to help clients “understand.”

But when it comes to trauma healing, insight alone isn’t enough.

What EMDR teaches us is this:
The client’s system already knows where to go.
The work is about creating the conditions for it to unfold.

When a therapist learns to trust the process, to honor the protocol, stay present, and allow the client’s brain to do what it was built to do, something remarkable happens.

There’s less pressure.
More flow.
Sessions deepen. Clients shift. And therapists stop feeling like they’re carrying the entire session on their back.

Trusting the process doesn’t mean doing less.
It means doing the right amount and letting the healing emerge, not be imposed.

In EMDR, the therapist is not the source of transformation. The client is.
The protocol is the path.
And when you learn to follow it with precision and attunement, you’ll see healing happen in ways that no insight-driven model can reach.

📖 Want to understand what changes when a therapist truly trusts the process?
Read the full blog post: https://emdreducators.com/what-happens-when-therapists-trust-the-process/

07/31/2025

Every EMDR therapist reaches a point where they realize the protocol isn’t the ceiling of the work, it’s the floor. And what happens next depends on how deeply you’re willing to listen to what’s unfolding beneath the surface.

Integrating Jungian Psychology with EMDR Therapy is an advanced, in-person training that helps therapists move beyond technique and into attunement. EMDR processing becomes more fluid, more meaningful, and often more efficient.

This training isn’t about adding complexity but about removing interference. With it, you learn to recognize the symbolic material that naturally arises during processing and how to support it without interrupting it.

We meet in Titusville, FL at Hyatt Place Kennedy Space Center on August 15–16.
Earn up to 12 CEs.
And if you’re pursuing Transformational EMDR™ Certification, this is one of two required trainings.

Whether you're refining your craft or preparing for a deeper level of practice, this training sharpens your instincts and reconnects you to the original power of EMDR.

Train with us. emdreducators.com

07/30/2025

For many therapists, training in EMDR begins with a practical goal:
Learn a research-backed trauma therapy.
Earn continuing education.
Expand your clinical toolkit.

But something unexpected happens along the way.

EMDR isn’t just a technique you learn. It’s a way of working and being that changes you.

Because EMDR therapy asks more than just your clinical attention. It asks for presence. Stillness. Trust in the client’s system. Comfort with the unknown. A willingness to let go of over-intervening.

It teaches you how to listen beneath the story.
How to sit with silence.
How to feel the subtle shift in the room when transformation begins.

The journey to becoming an EMDR therapist is not just about mastering protocols.
It’s about becoming the kind of therapist who knows how to use them with reverence, restraint, and intuition.

And as your clients heal you do too.
Something softens. Something sharpens.
You begin to feel like you’ve come home to the work you were meant to do.

📖 Want to understand what makes EMDR more than a skillset?
Read our full blog post: https://emdreducators.com/the-emdr-therapists-journey-more-than-just-a-skillset/

07/30/2025

No therapist can "fix" a client.
No technique alone can create transformation.

True healing happens when the system reorganizes itself — naturally, intelligently, powerfully.

EMDR is one of the few modalities that trusts the client’s inner drive toward wholeness.

And that trust changes everything.

Train with us. emdreducators.com

07/25/2025

Trauma therapists are not exempt from the effects of the work. The intensity, the emotional weight, and the responsibility of holding space for others accumulates over time. And yet, many therapists go years without turning toward their own need for integration and restoration.

It's time to remember that your healing matters too. And not in a surface-level way, but in the same depth you offer clients.

For EMDR, when practiced well, becomes more than a technique. It becomes a process that shapes the therapist as much as it shapes the client. It sharpens your awareness, reconnects you with meaning, and invites you to engage the work with greater clarity and care.

Whether you’ve trained in EMDR or are considering it, the path into this work is also a path back to yourself.

Train with us. emdreducators.com

07/25/2025

If you already work with anxiety, grief, or inner child healing, then you know these presentations run deep.

You’ve likely witnessed the layers, the fear beneath the perfectionism, the ache beneath the anger, and the child self still frozen in a memory the adult can't name. You’ve held space for it. You’ve gone deep with your clients.

But what if there’s a way to help them resolve it fully?

EMDR therapy offers a method that doesn’t just explore the pain. It helps the system complete what never got resolved.

Using the brain’s adaptive information processing system, EMDR works beneath the level of cognition. It doesn’t ask the client to explain the anxiety, narrate the grief, or identify the origin of a parts protector. Instead, it activates the inner healing mechanism and lets it lead.

That’s why EMDR for anxiety is more than a management tool. It targets the original event. The body calms because the source no longer exists.

Why EMDR for grief brings relief when the mind can’t move forward.
Why EMDR for inner child work can reach the place where the child got stuck and free them to grow again.

If you already do powerful work, EMDR won’t replace it. It will deepen it.
And in many cases, it will accelerate it.

📖 To explore how EMDR integrates with the work you already do, read our full blog post: https://emdreducators.com/emdr-for-anxiety-grief-and-inner-child-work/

07/24/2025

The unconscious is not chaos. It is order, meaning, and healing if you know how to listen. This is the premise behind Integrating Jungian Psychology with EMDR Therapy, a training designed not to add more techniques, but to sharpen your perception of what is already unfolding in the session.

Because when you understand the language of the unconscious with its symbols, its timing, and its drive toward wholeness, you intervene less, but accomplish more. And that means processing accelerates, resistance dissolves, and the client’s transformation becomes something you accompany, not manufacture.

This advanced EMDR training is for therapists who already know the standard protocol, but feel called to something deeper.
It’s for those who want to refine their EMDR practice into an art form.

We meet in person, at the Hyatt Place Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, FL. August 15 - 16. With this two-day training you can earn up to 12 CEs.

And if you're pursuing certification in Transformational EMDR™, this is one of two required trainings. More information about that certification is available on my website. It's only available through us.

But whether or not you're seeking certification, this is a place where your skills deepen, your insight sharpens, and your reverence for EMDR grows.

Train with us. emdreducators.com

07/24/2025

07/23/2025

There’s one phrase we hear again and again from therapists after they complete EMDR training:

“I wish I had done this sooner.”

Not because the training was easy, but because it finally gave them a way to help clients heal fully, deeply, and often faster than they imagined possible.

They wish they had started sooner because:

– Clients began shifting in weeks, not years.
– Sessions no longer circled the same themes without resolution.
– They stopped feeling like they had to carry the session or guide every insight.
– They witnessed their clients release burdens that talk therapy couldn’t touch.

EMDR therapy changes how you understand healing.
It works with the brain’s adaptive information processing system, allowing unresolved trauma to complete its path. The healing isn’t symbolic, it’s physiological. And the results speak for themselves.

If you’re a licensed therapist and you’ve been considering EMDR training, listen to the words of the ones who’ve walked ahead of you:

“I wish I had done this sooner.”

📖 Ready to understand what makes this training so powerful?
Read the full blog post: https://emdreducators.com/therapists-who-train-in-emdr-often-say-this-one-thing/

07/22/2025

The more deeply you trust the EMDR process, the more fully your clients can trust themselves to heal.

So as it turns out, mastery isn’t about doing more. Mastery is about learning how to do less and allowing the mind’s wisdom to lead.

Train with us. emdreducators.com