Trainer Day, February 2026

This Trainer Day course explores engagement strategies, training techniques, and instructional technology to strengthen EMDR basic trainings.

Treating trauma memories reduces the distress of related memories (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This study’s findings suggest that treating trauma memories can reduce the distress level of related memories, with a greater effect when treating earlier memories.

The integration of culture, identity, and belongingness in EMDR therapy: Practitioners’ perspectives (Lesley University, 2026)

Using a qualitative narrative research design guided by intersectional feminist epistemology, this study investigates how privilege, positionality, and belongingness influence clinicians’ approaches to EMDR therapy.

EMDRIA Members Respond: Overcoming Biggest Fears When Becoming an EMDR Therapist

To honor the process of becoming that is inevitable in learning new skills and therapies, we invited EMDRIA members to share their biggest fears and hurdles when learning EMDR therapy and how they overcame those fears.

Trauma-informed training as a path to intergroup readiness: A mixed-methods evaluation of EMDR education in a shared society context (Frontiers in Psychology)

This mixed-methods study examined how participation in a shared EMDR training program influenced professional self-efficacy, intergroup openness, and reconciliation readiness among therapists working within a conflict-affected society.

Educational, but demanding: The experience of therapists in an intensive inpatient trauma treatment program (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study aimed to explore therapists’ experiences in an intensive trauma treatment program (ITTP). Our research questions were: How did the therapist experience working within the ITTP, and how did the treatment program influence them as trauma therapists?

Lost in translation: A phenomenological exploration of a humanistic psychotherapist’s experience of integrating EMDR therapy into their practice (Inside Out: The Irish Journal for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy)

This qualitative research study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was conducted to address a gap in the research on the experiences of humanistic therapists who use and integrate EMDR into their practice.

Trainer Day, May 2025

This EMDRIA Approved Trainer™ Day event was recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2025, and has been edited.

Free Videos of EMDR Sessions (Philip Manfield, Phd)

Free video examples of EMDR sessions by Philip Manfield of trauma processing including dyadic resourcing sessions and the flash technique. 

Trainer Day, December 2024

This EMDRIA Approved Trainer™ Day event was recorded live on Friday, December 6, 2025, and has been edited.

Protocol for evaluating a novel university-based clinical training course in eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in Aotearoa New Zealand (Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists)

This article discusses a curriculum for EMDR training in university settings that includes culturally responsive EMDR practice.

Mental health practitioners’ trauma knowledge and self-efficacy post-EMDR training (Journal of Human Services Training, Research, and Practice)

This article follows an EMDR training and tracks participants’ trauma knowledge and trauma treatment self-efficacy.