Kenya Rocha, MS, LMHC, NCC, CCHT, EMDRIA Certified Therapist, EMDRIA Approved Trainer & Consultant
- Owner and Director of Education, EMDR & Beyond
- Founder and CEO, MOSAIC Family Counseling Center, Inc.
- Adjunct faculty, Drake University
Kenya Rocha is one of approximately 230 EMDRIA Approved Trainers globally and a developmental specialist who trains clinicians nationally and internationally. She teaches clinicians to see the whole clinical landscape: how trauma at any age or stage of development becomes a negative core belief, how it compounds across a life, and how it shows up in couples and families.
Serving children and families since 1989
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35+ years in human services, since 1989
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21+ years of clinical experience
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18+ years practicing EMDR, trained in 2008
Kenya built her career in developmental, foster care, and bilingual family services, and that foundation shapes everything she teaches about EMDR.
Her work began in 1989 with family development at the YWCA of Greater Des Moines, where she coordinated the Racial Justice Committee and taught the Green Circle diversity program in Des Moines Public Schools. From 1992 to 1996 she was a bilingual interpreter in court, foster care, medical, and substance abuse settings in central Wisconsin, and a foster care provider. From 1996 to 2002 she worked with the Young Women’s Resource Center’s young mothers program and Heart to Heart prevention education. From 2002 to 2006 she was an infant and toddler specialist with Drake University Early Head Start.
She trained in EMDR in 2008 and brought that developmental lens with her. It is why her trainings start from how people learn who they are, and how early experience carries forward into adult relationships, beliefs, and behavior.
I can walk with someone through the darkest times and show them the sun was shining the whole time.
How Kenya teaches EMDR
Kenya teaches the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model as a full psychotherapeutic approach. AIP is EMDR’s account of how unprocessed experience shapes present-day reactions, and in her teaching it becomes the way a clinician conceptualizes the whole case. Every phase of EMDR is both assessment and intervention, and each one moves the work forward.
Clinicians who train with her learn to read developmental history, attachment patterns, negative core beliefs, and family dynamics as one clinical landscape. They leave able to see the underpinnings of a client’s maladaptive patterns, and a clear path to healing complex, compounded, single-incident, and attachment trauma.
She is the developer of the COUPLES Framework and the Six Constructs of Intimacy, and teaches EMDR with couples and families as work that operates within the EMDR framework, across every phase.
EMDR is more than Phase 4. Each phase is doing EMDR. Affective assessment is just as important as processing phases.
Specializations
- EMDR with couples and families
- Culturally responsive trauma treatment
- Affect regulation
- Clinical supervision
- English and Spanish
Credentials and milestones
- 2006MS, Drake University
- 2008Completed EMDR training
- 2011EMDRIA Certified Therapist
- 2014EMDRIA Approved Consultant
- 2014EMDR Specialty Trainer, training EMDR clinicians
- 2017Began teaching EMDR Basic Training, recruited by EMDR Consulting to help build a bilingual English and Spanish trainer team
- 2023EMDRIA Approved Trainer, in the designation’s inaugural cohort
- 2024Began teaching EMDR Basic Training as adjunct faculty at Drake University
- Full credentials
- Kenya Rocha, MS, LMHC, NCC, CCHT, EMDRIA Certified Therapist, EMDRIA Approved Trainer & Consultant
- License
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Iowa #001075IA
- Board certification
- National Certified Counselor (NCC)
- EMDRIA Approved Trainer
- One of approximately 230 EMDRIA Approved Trainers globally
- Clinicians trained
- 500+
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Profile
Kenya has held EMDRIA Approved Trainer status since the designation’s inaugural 2023 cohort, after training clinicians through EMDRIA-approved training companies since 2014. She has trained clinicians internationally, including in Vietnam and Thailand.
Clinical training in her practice
In her clinical practice Kenya draws on training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, ego state work, Brainspotting, and sand tray, and she is trained in transpersonal and energy work specific to EMDR. She is a sand tray specialist. Each of these informs how she conceptualizes a case within the AIP model.
Where Kenya works today
- Owner and Director of Education, EMDR & Beyond
- Primary clinical authority for the platform. About EMDR & Beyond
- Founder and CEO, MOSAIC Family Counseling Center, Inc.
- Leads a team of 20+ therapists and maintains an active clinical caseload.
- Clinical Director, A Home Within, Iowa Chapter
- The Iowa chapter of a national nonprofit that matches foster children with pro bono therapists for long-term, relationship-based work.
- Adjunct faculty, Drake University
- Teaches EMDR Basic Training.
- Practice resource
- A practice resource for Iowa Board of Inspections and Appeals corrective and preventative sanctions programs.
- EMDR consultation
- Consultation through EMDR & Beyond, including consultation toward EMDRIA certification.
Consultation Available
What clinicians say about training with Kenya
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She is probably the best instructor I’ve had — and that includes all of grad school.
Past participant, EMDR Basic Training -
I really appreciated Kenya’s approach, knowledge, and teaching. The way that she addressed stigmatized diagnoses was thoughtful and compassionate.
Past participant, EMDR Basic Training -
Wonderful training! Very practical information that I will be able to immediately utilize in my practice. Demos were helpful and information was presented in a clear and engaging manner.
Past participant, EMDR Basic Training
Train with Kenya
Live virtual trainings, on-demand courses, EMDR Basic Training, and consultation, all through EMDR & Beyond.