👁️ Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | Free Course
Updated: Oct 19
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Therapeutic Modalities Series
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🎧 Audio - Listen as you go - Jessica Anne Bogart
👁️Welcome to the Free Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Course for Everyday People
EMDR was born on an ordinary walk in 1987, when psychologist Francine Shapiro noticed her own troubling thoughts losing their sting as her eyes darted back and forth, and spent the next three decades turning that accidental observation into one of the most heavily researched trauma treatments in the world, now recognized by major health organizations across the globe. Its central insight is what sets it apart: painful experiences can get stuck in the brain undigested, still firing in the present tense years later, and the brain contains a built-in system that can finish processing them, so the goal isn't managing your reactions to a hard memory forever, it's changing how the memory itself is stored.
This course teaches pure EMDR, with no other modalities blended in, written in plain, emotionally relatable language for everyday people. Maybe you're considering the therapy, currently in it, supporting someone who is, or simply curious how eye movements could possibly heal a memory; this course was built for all of you. You'll learn what bilateral stimulation actually does, how the famous eight phases unfold, and what a real session looks like from the inside, with each module offering clear teaching, real-life examples, and a simple EMDR practice at the end. It isn't clinical training for therapists and doesn't offer continuing education credits; it's EMDR you can put to use in your own life.
Course outline
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The Basics 1. What Is EMDR 2. Who Is Francine Shapiro 3. The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model
How EMDR Works
Walking Through the Phases
6. History Taking and Target Selection
7. Preparation and Resourcing: The Stabilization Toolkit 8. Negative and Positive Cognitions 9. The Assessment Phase: Building a Target 10. Desensitization: Processing a Memory
11. The Cognitive Interweave 12. Installation and the Body Scan 13. Closure and Reevaluation 14. The Future Template
Living It 15. EMDR in Everyday Life
Bonus 16. The Flash Technique and EMDR 2.0
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