True North EMDR Training Institute

05/31/2025

Emotional awareness—the ability to recognize, label, and differentiate one’s emotional experience—is a foundational skill in Phase 3 (Assessment) of EMDR Therapy. In this phase, the clinician works with the client to identify the target memory’s key components: the image, the negative cognition (NC), the positive cognition (PC), the emotion, the associated body sensation, and the client’s SUD (Subjective Units of Disturbance) and VOC (Validity of Cognition) ratings....

Emotional awareness—the ability to recognize, label, and differentiate one’s emotional experience—is a foundational skill in Phase 3 (Assessment) of EMDR Therapy. In this phase, the clinician works with the client to identify the target memory’s key components: the image, the negative cognit...

05/31/2025

Somatic awareness—an individual’s capacity to notice, interpret, and respond to bodily sensations—lies at the heart of effective trauma therapy. Within the framework of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, cultivating somatic awareness allows clients to access and process distressing material that may be stored in the body rather than in explicit memory. The “body scan” procedure is a structured way to help clients systematically notice and release residual tension or disturbance associated with a targeted memory....

Learn how somatic awareness and the EMDR body scan enhance trauma therapy—techniques for mental health professionals.

04/26/2023

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, commonly known as EMDR, is a form of psychotherapy used to treat people who have experienced traumatic events. It was developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s and became a widely recognized treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). EMDR Therapy has since been found to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions, including anxiety, depression, and addictions....

04/13/2023

True North EMDR Training Institute is officially an EMDRIA Credit Provider! 🎉