EMDR Training Center

We started a training center because of what we kept hearing.

Clients coming in having been harmed by EMDR done incorrectly. Therapists in consultation revealing they were skipping major protocol steps — not out of negligence, but because no one had ever shown them what correct looked like. People who said EMDR didn't work for them, but described sessions that weren't really EMDR at all.

EMDR basic training is a weekend course. EMDRIA requires fifty hours of consultation beyond that for certification — but certification is optional, and there's no mechanism preventing a therapist from practicing EMDR indefinitely after a two-day training with no further oversight.

We decided we weren't willing to just keep watching that happen. So we built the training environment we wished had existed when we were learning.

What we offer

Supervised Graduate Therapist Program

Carefully selected graduate students complete their clinical training at NWMHA under intensive supervision by EMDRIA-approved consultants. They learn EMDR from the ground up — correctly, thoroughly, with the full protocol — before they develop habits that are hard to undo.

EMDR consultation

Kevin and Linda are both EMDRIA-approved CITs. They provide individual and group consultation to therapists working toward EMDRIA certification or Washington State licensure supervision hours.

Our standard

Every clinician who trains here learns that EMDR is a structured, eight-phase protocol — not a technique to sprinkle in. That bilateral stimulation without the surrounding protocol isn't EMDR. That closure at the end of every session isn't optional. That knowing when to get out of the way is the hardest and most important thing to learn.

We train the next generation of trauma-informed clinicians because the field needs it — and because the people who trust us with their trauma deserve better than a therapist who just had basic training.