Training & Events

Kenya Rocha treats ethics as a routine part of practice, the willingness to notice ethical questions as they arise and resolve them competently. This three-hour discussion explores the dilemmas specific to EMDR: preparedness, hesitancy to process, and managing emotional content in session. You will engage real scenarios and sharpen the judgment to recognize and work through the ethical moments that surface in everyday EMDR practice.

Kenya Rocha builds practical affect-regulation skills for clients who flood, shut down, or stall when emotion runs high. You will learn to assess affect tolerance, sequence resourcing, and pace the work so complex-trauma and abuse survivors stay inside their window of tolerance long enough for EMDR to take hold. Concrete tools for the clients who destabilize fastest.

Kenya Rocha integrates AIP, attachment, developmental, and family systems theory with the eight-phase model to treat childhood wounds and intergenerational trauma. You will learn how unresolved early experience shapes emotional regulation, negative beliefs, and recurring family dynamics across the lifespan. Participants learn to conceptualize relational concerns through an EMDR-informed lens, build readiness for processing, and intervene with individuals, couples, and families.

Kenya Rocha applies AIP theory to relational and systemic work, extending EMDR from the individual to couples and families. You will learn to identify attachment and relationship deficits, build collaborative resources across a dyad or family, and handle the ethical considerations of treating more than one person in the room. Lecture, video demonstration, and interactive activities anchor the skills.

Kenya Rocha leads a practice-focused return to EMDR fundamentals grounded in the AIP model. You will refine your application across the eight phases and three stages, work with Roy Kiessling's EMD, EMDr, EMDR continuum to match approach to presentation, and strengthen client stability through affect regulation and resourcing. Drawn from current peer-reviewed research, with attention to attachment history and cultural context.

Robin Shapiro, author and longtime EMDR trainer, brings a wide set of interweaves and integrations for mood disorders, sexual trauma, and dissociation. Drawing on decades of clinical work, she offers demonstrations, guided practice, and consultation for difficult presentations. Originally a twelve-hour intensive, condensed here into a single advanced reference.

Amanda Goodrich and Darcie Yamada introduce Internal Family Systems theory and integrate it with the first four phases of EMDR. You will learn the model's core assumptions, the categories of parts, and the role of Self energy, then apply IFS-informed technique through parts mapping and guided practice. Built from their clinical experience blending the two approaches for complex presentations.

Sheila Russell adapts advanced EMDR technique to the specific needs of first responders, military members, veterans, and their families. You will learn to address trauma, moral injury, and the strain these roles place on family systems, using tactical language and framing that resonate with these populations. Demonstration and guided practice help you apply the skills directly.

Krista Helman, of the Trauma and Grief Institute, adapts the eight-phase model to the demands of mourning. Grounded in AIP, the EMDR-GRIEF protocol uses positive memory as the bridge to integration, remapping the loss in space, time, and attachment. You will learn to address the pain and the blocks to adaptive information that keep grief unresolved.

Crystal Whitlow, authorized to teach Jim Knipe's material, presents his EMDR Toolbox across three modules built around dissociation, avoidance, and shame. You will work through structured protocols for recognizing and treating each defense, the ones that most often derail reprocessing, pairing the underlying rationale with concrete technique to improve outcomes in complex trauma.

Sara Brammer and Andrea Gibbs-Wilson examine the historical, psychological, and social dimensions of child abuse, neglect, and intimate partner violence. You will study how early exposure affects brain development and attachment, then apply trauma-informed, AIP-based EMDR interventions with children and adults. Emphasis on ACEs data and evidence-based technique for long-term recovery and relational repair.

Melissa Benintendi bridges embodiment and trauma reprocessing, showing how somatic awareness deepens each phase of EMDR. You will build interoceptive awareness, the felt sense of internal state, and learn structured somatic interweaves to move through stalled Phase 4 moments. Lecture, experiential practice, and case study translate the body's signals into concrete conceptualization and preparation tools.

Elyse Harper combines two of her most-used trainings into one, focused on the moments EMDR stalls: client resistance, therapist ambivalence, and dissociation. You will gain practical strategies to engage difficult and resistant presentations across all eight phases, plus a working clarification of EMDR and trauma terminology from basic to complex. Packed with protocols and client video demonstrations.

Kenya Rocha draws on psychodynamic theory, trauma-informed care, and AIP to examine how conscious and unconscious relational patterns shape clinical outcomes, ethical decisions, and professional dynamics. You will learn how early maladaptive experiences activate in clinical, supervisory, and organizational relationships, and find relationally attuned pathways to resolution. Meets criteria for ethics and supervision CE.

Lauren Ogren focuses on trauma that takes hold during adolescence, when brain development heightens vulnerability and shapes identity, regulation, and relationships well into adulthood. Grounded in AIP and the trauma tree model, you will learn to locate negative cognitions and dig out their roots, using resourcing strategies that build adaptive neural pathways and developmentally informed case conceptualization.

JaCarie Owens offers an integrative framework for treating personality disorders through attachment theory and trauma-informed care. You will learn how early attachment disruption contributes to presentations like borderline and histrionic personality disorder, then adapt the eight-phase protocol with attention to pacing, resourcing, cognitive interweaves, and somatic work. Case examples emphasize safety, stabilization, and culturally responsive conceptualization.

Patricia Alvarado provides a foundational examination of how traumatic stress affects children and adolescents across physiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral domains. You will build the knowledge and skills to recognize trauma presentations in young people and respond effectively across cultural contexts. Designed as an entry point into trauma-informed practice for clinicians new to the population.

Shaun / Sienna Bries shows how minority stress, discrimination, internalized stigma, and identity-based trauma shape symptom presentation, target selection, and core beliefs, then how to respond with stage-specific strategies across all eight phases. You will gain tools for inclusive assessment and documentation, affirming communication, and interventions that support stabilization, reprocessing, and integration. Substantial enough to serve clinicians who do not practice EMDR.

Roxanna Carcamo and Kenya Rocha pair a return to EMDR's foundations with the skill of adapting it across cultures, with particular focus on Spanish-speaking clients. You will revisit structure, phases, and interventions while learning to adapt language and technique to deeply held cultural values, verbal and nonverbal nuance, and clinical challenges. The principles carry or apply to other richly contextual cultures.

Martha Norton integrates somatic intervention across all eight phases of EMDR, addressing how trauma is held in the body and bringing implicit responses into the explicit so they can heal. Through case studies and hands-on technique, you will learn to fold body-based methods into each phase to strengthen reprocessing and improve outcomes.

Krista Helman integrates EMDR into grief and loss work across all phases, with an emphasis on history-taking and treatment planning for clients facing pet loss, complicated grief, and other distinct situations. Through client examples and video you will gain immediately usable tools for grief-focused conceptualization. A solid introduction; further training and consultation are recommended for depth.

Kenya Rocha uses AIP theory to turn the intake into a foundation for treatment. You will learn to trace how past experience shapes current struggles, surface self-belief systems, and fold cultural, developmental, and systemic factors into case conceptualization. Whether or not you practice EMDR, you leave with tools to build insight and move clients from stuck to supported.

Kenya Rocha introduces how AIP theory reshapes work with couples and relationships across all eight phases. In one focused hour you will see where the standard protocol fits relational work, how couple dynamics change the frame, and what to weigh before taking a couple into reprocessing. A starting point; Deeper Connections is the 4.5-hour follow-up.

Kenya Rocha teaches protocols built to reduce distress quickly after a critical incident or recent trauma, designed for high-crisis settings like schools, hospitals, and emergency services. You will learn to lower present-moment disturbance so adaptive problem-solving becomes possible. Useful for first responders, medical and military personnel, human service workers, and others who support people in crisis.

Kenya Rocha prepares licensed Iowa clinicians to become qualified clinical supervisors under state administrative rule. You will cover supervisory roles and responsibilities, legal and ethical frameworks, evidence-informed supervision, documentation, and supervision planning. On completion you will be equipped to build compliant supervision plans, support supervisees toward independent licensure, and meet the requirements for listing with Iowa as an approved supervisor.