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EMDR Bootcamp: A Complete Clinical Training on Treating Trauma with EMDR Therapy

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Introducing the EMDR Bootcamp – A live online training experience designed to transform you into an EMDR therapist.

You’ll join Laura Swinford, a certified EMDR clinician, approved consultant and EMDR instructor whose trainings have helped hundreds of clinicians just like you bring EMDR into their practices.

Laura will guide you step by step, breaking down each key element of the EMDR process ensuring you leave the bootcamp with a complete understanding of how to treat trauma using EMDR therapy.

The Results You Can Expect:

  • Master the 8-Phase EMDR Protocol: Learn how to guide clients through each phase of the EMDR process, from assessment to reprocessing and installation of positive cognitions.
  • Develop Real-World EMDR Skills: Use bilateral stimulation (BLS), cognitive interweaves, and other EMDR techniques in person or in online sessions.
  • Strategies for Working with Complex Trauma and Dissociation: Tailor EMDR for individuals with challenging trauma histories.
  • Tools to Navigate Problems: Handle client resistance, blocks, or difficulties that may arise during the EMDR process.
  • And much more!

Unlike other courses that rely on pre-recorded videos, you’ll experience live, interactive sessions with an experienced EMDR trainer so you can ask questions and engage in exercises that make the material stick.

EMDR therapy is one of the most respected and trusted trauma treatments available today.

Don’t miss this chance to learn exactly how to use it in just 3 days.

Purchase now and reserve your spot in the EMDR Bootcamp today!

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Here's What You'll Learn


 

Day 1

  • Trauma and Complex Trauma Treatment Review
  • Neurobiology of Trauma and Symptomology
  • EMDR Overview: Research, Treatment Risks, and Limitations
  • Determine Appropriateness for EMDR
  • Start EMDR Safely
  • Screening Instruments and Assessment
  • Clinical Implications of Using Dual Awareness and Methods of Bilateral Stimulation
  • The AIP Model: How EMDR Incorporates Adaptive Information Processing

Day 2

  • Phase 1: History Taking, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment Planning
  • Phase 2: Preparation and Resourcing
    • Peaceful Place
    • Container
    • Internal Resource Team
    • Light Stream
    • Breathing Exercises
    • Somatic Resourcing
    • Mechanics and Set Up for BLS
  • Phase 3: Assessment and Target Set-Up
    • Identify the Target
    • Floatbacks
    • Negative and Positive Cognition

Day 3

  • Phase 4: Desensitization & Trauma Processing
    • Beginning the Processing Phase
    • Giving Feedback After Each Set of BLS
    • When to return to Targets
    • Taking a SUD
    • Titrating the Target and Graduating the Work
    • Feeder Memories and Stuck Processing
    • Work with Blocking Beliefs
    • Desensitization and Processing
    • If the Client Wants to Stop or Pause
  • Phase 5: Installation of Positive Cognition
  • Phase 6: Body Scan
  • Phase 7: Closure
    • Instructions for Closing all Sessions
    • Instructions for Completed Targets
  • Phase 8: Re-Evaluation
  • EMDR Issues, Additions, and Adaptations
    • Working with Blocking and Looping
    • Restricting the Standard Protocol
    • Cognitive Interweaves
    • Working with Parts
    • Working with Attachment Wounding

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 18 hours of video content
  • Up to 18.75 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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EMDR Bootcamp: A Complete Clinical Training on Treating Trauma with EMDR Therapy
Digital Seminar
$599.99

Meet Your Experts


Laura Swinford, LCSW, EMDR-C

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Laura Swinford, LCSW, EMDR-C, is certified in EMDR, trains therapists as part of PESI’s 6-month EMDR Certification Program and provides EMDR consultation. She works as a therapist in a group private practice specializing in the treatment of trauma using EMDR, Ego State Therapy and Somatic therapy. She has been certified in EMDR for nearly a decade and has used it with clients over that span to help them better process their past traumas and increase their ability to identify and cope with destructive emotions. She has more than 15 years of clinical experience and is also a published author of research work in the mental health field. Ms. Swinford previously served as an adjunct professor at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, where she taught evidence-based treatment to master’s level students. Ms. Swinford believes in connection and relationship as she journeys through life. She brings this approach to her work, matching techniques to the needs of her clients.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Laura Swinford maintains a private practice and is the owner of Know Yoga Know Peace. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Laura Swinford has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150315
Duration:
18 hours, 55 minutes
Copyright:
Oct 06, 2025
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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