EMDR Consultation for Therapists

Sometimes the most useful place to begin is with what isn’t making sense.

I love helping clinicians think through the places where things don’t seem to be working, especially when complex trauma, attachment, dissociation, protective parts, identity, or the therapeutic relationship are part of the picture.

You might be wondering:

• Is my client ready to begin reprocessing?
• Why does processing keep getting stuck?
• Am I overcomplicating this?
• Is this a blocking belief, a protective part, or a somatic process?
• How much history do I actually need?
• Am I staying too close to the protocol or moving away from it too quickly?
• What is happening relationally between my client and me?

Bring the uncertainty. Bring the stuckness. Bring the case you can’t stop thinking about.

Consultation is a place for curiosity.

Relational EMDR Consultation

Attunement is the soil for the EMDR process.

In consultation, we’ll look not only at what your client is presenting, but at how they are presenting it—and what you notice in yourself as you receive them. That may include shifts in your body, emotion, attention, energy, clinical intuition, or the interaction unfolding between you.

Together, we can practice receiving that information, differentiating what may belong to you, the client, or the relational field, and deciding how to respond in a way that supports safety, autonomy, and connection while remaining grounded in EMDR.

Sometimes the most useful question is not immediately, “Which intervention should I use?” It is: “What is happening here, and what might this client need from me for the process to unfold?”

Fidelity Without Rigidity

Standard protocol is home base.

I believe in standard EMDR protocol. If it isn’t broken, we don’t need to fix it.

Complex and developmental trauma can also require additional preparation, a different entry point, or greater attention to attachment, dissociation, parts and somatic process.

When it makes clinical sense, we may draw from IFS-informed EMDR, attachment-oriented EMDR, preverbal protocols, Flash Technique, Four Blinks, RDI, Zimmerman’s complex-trauma practices, Knipe and Mosquera’s work, somatic and relational approaches, or EMDR 2.0.

The goal isn’t to collect adaptations. It’s to understand:

what you’re doing,
why you’re doing it,
and what this client needs from you.

Working with Complex Trauma

Complex trauma asks us to hold more of the picture.

With complex trauma, we may need to think more about stabilization and resourcing, attachment, dissociation, protective parts, dual awareness, somatic experience, developmental history, the therapeutic relationship, identity and context. At the same time, fear of complexity can keep us from ever moving into processing.

My own C-PTSD EMDR framework draws from the work of Thomas Zimmerman, Laurel Parnell, Francine Shapiro, and Deborah Korn, alongside my own clinical synthesis. It remains grounded in standard EMDR while giving additional attention to preparation, attachment, parts, somatic process and relational safety.

One principle underneath how I think about trauma is simple:

Trauma happens when things are too much, too fast, overwhelming and we are alone and isolated.

Healing moves in the other direction:

Titrated. Tolerable. In safe company.

An Embodied, Intersectional Lens

EMDR doesn’t happen outside the relationship or outside the world.

My background is in relational somatic psychotherapy, complex and developmental trauma, attachment, IFS-informed parts work and dissociation. I specialize in working with queer and trans communities and sex workers, and bring attention to identity, power, oppression and systemic trauma into how I think about clinical work.

I especially love working with clinicians who want to become more embodied, deepen their work with complex trauma and marginalized clients, integrate relational, somatic or IFS-informed thinking with EMDR, or work through imposter syndrome.

You don’t need to practice exactly like I do.

Bring your own orientation. We’ll work from there.

Practical Consultation

I want you to leave with something you can use.

I’m a trauma-healing geek and a resource maven. I’m continually reading, training and collecting clinical resources, and I love sharing something useful when it fits the work.

You might leave consultation with a clearer formulation, a concrete next step, a protocol clarification or adaptation, a somatic or resourcing intervention, a different way of understanding a protective part, or a resource to explore.

But I also want you to leave:

more organized internally,
more confident clinically,
and more equipped for what comes next.

Complex cases can make it harder to see what you already know. Sometimes my job is to help organize the case, fill a genuine knowledge gap, broaden the options, or help you recognize that your clinical instincts are already pointing somewhere useful.

You probably know more than you think you do.

Resources for EMDR Therapists

Tools for the work.

I love collecting, creating and sharing resources that make complex clinical ideas more usable. Here are some of the tools I return to in my own work and consultation.

EMDRIA Consultation

EMDR Consultation & Certification Support

I am an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and offer individual consultation for clinicians seeking support with their EMDR practice and therapists working toward EMDR certification.

I offer virtual EMDR consultation to clinicians across the U.S. and Canada.

Individual EMDR Consultation
60 minutes · $150

Consultation with me can fulfill the consultation-hour requirements for EMDR certification, including the required individual consultation hours, when the consultation meets current EMDRIA requirements.

A recommendation for certification is not automatic based solely on completing consultation hours. If you are seeking certification, we will track your consultation hours and discuss your progress and readiness as we work together.

Bring me the case you’re thinking about.

The client you’re stuck with. The protocol question. The thing you can’t quite formulate. The clinical decision you keep turning over in your mind.

You don’t need to know exactly what question to ask.

We’ll think it through together.