Fall Isn’t About Starting Over

By EMDR & Beyond | Last updated: September 16, 2026 Kenya Rocha thinks of September as a deep, vibrant blue. It’s the birthday month for many of her favorite people, so it has always carried connection and celebration for her, along with the way it gently starts the turn into fall. It brings her back […]

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Understanding Minority Stress: What EMDR Clinicians Need to Know for 2SLGBTQIA+ Affirming Care

By EMDR & Beyond | Last Updated: April 18, 2026This content is for professional education purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. 6 min read For gender-expansive and sexual minority clients, the experiences driving their trauma often include discrimination, internalized stigma, identity-based harm, and systemic marginalization. These don’t show up in memory networks the same […]

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Invisible Threads: What Adoption Trauma Looks Like in the EMDR Room, and How Adoption-Informed Practice Changes the Work

By EMDR & Beyond | Last Updated: April 28, 2026This content is for professional education purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Adoptees walk into therapy carrying histories that don’t always have words. The loss happened before language. Before object permanence. Before the nervous system had any framework for making sense of why the first […]

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