Finding an EMDR Consultant
Looking for an EMDRIA Approved Consultant to further expand your knowledge, confidence, and quality of EMDR services?
Consultation is an essential part of mastering the art of EMDR and providing quality care. It involves keeping therapists up to date on the latest research, provides education on prominent EMDR protocols, and assists in mastering the EMDR 8-phase, 3-pronged approach.
EMDR Consultation, in an individual and group format, can be used toward your Certification hours or can be provided just for your continued focus on quality treatment and a regular outlet for your complex cases.
We have wonderful and seasoned therapists in Georgia that have acquired the status of EMDRIA approved EMDR consultants.
Upcoming Community Events/Training
This Georgia EMDR Network strives to bring 1-2 prominent EMDR presenters to our area every year as well as many regular local networking events and local presenters.
Friday June 13th 12-1 EST
Fundraiser Zoom Presentation benefiting GA EMDR Network! Join us for “Empowered by AI”, a hands-on workshop designed just for therapists. Discover how to use AI tools like ChatGPT and Google’s NotebookLM to simplify complex clinical concepts, have a go-to station for all those workshop notes and clinical articles you have collected all these years. Also discover how to generate outlines for group therapy programs, create outlines for presentations and seminars, and finally write those blog articles you’ve been dreaming about—without the burnout. Walk away with practical tools, real prompts, and renewed creativity so you can do more of what you love: connecting, educating, and inspiring hope.
Presentation offered by Kristen Wold, LMFT. Kristen is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and trauma therapist who offers EMDR Intensives through her private practice. She has provided trainings on complex trauma and dissociation for fellow clinicians and recently launched Curious Trauma Therapist, a space dedicated to helping trauma therapists cultivate balance, confidence, and sustainable success in their work.
Re-play will be made available, but no CEUs. $35 (All proceeds going to the GA EMDR Network for upcoming events, speakers, and networking) Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/empowered-by-ai-just-for-therapists-tickets-1364963756339?aff=oddtdtcreator
Monday, June 23rd, 5:30pm-6:30 pm EST
FREE ZOOM panel discussion on KETAMINE and EMDR.
More and more clients are seeking out Ketamine to help with PTSD and intractable depression. As EMDR clinicians we need to prepare ourselves with awareness of how to enable clients to further benefit from this treatment. Please drop in June 23rd at 5:30 pm as Georgia EMDR Therapists Noushine Navabi Palatchi , LPC and Kelsie Baggs, LMHC, LPC offer a fantastic overview of how they are incorporating Ketamine integration into their EMDR psychotherapy practices. Bring your questions for the speakers. They are prepared to discuss their experiences with this up-and-coming intervention plus describe Ketamine integration work, the purpose and goals of Integration, ways to incorporate EMDR Therapy, and what the best window for incorporating EMDR with ketamine treatment. **Email Angie Heath, LCSW to save your spot and for the zoom: angie@clinicalconversationsinc.com
RESCHEDULED to September 19th 1-4:15pm EST on Zoom 3 hour Presentation “Kids and Dissociation” by Danyale Weems, LCSW, RPTherapist and Supervisor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant This workshop will describe core symptoms of dissociation, and how these can overlap with other disorders. It will describe how protective parts appear hostile and aggressive at home, school and community; and provide specialized interventions with children with dissociation that can be incorporated into treatment modalities, such as expressive arts, family therapy and EMDR. This presentation is suitable for any clinician trained in EMDR working with children and teens who have been abused or neglected. 3 EMDRIA CEUs and 3 GA LPC and SW CEUS will be applied for. No Re-play, live webinar only. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kids-and-dissociation-tickets-1364976103269?aff=oddtdtcreator
Friday October 3rd, 3 pm-6 pm EST Georgia EMDR therapists Networking and Headshots!! Come to just mingle and shake hands, no rsvp needed. Or Register for your 5-7 min timeslot for Professional Headshots. We will have some on-site spots for you to choose a couple poses for your new professional headshot. Only $40 with all extra proceeds going to our Georgia EMDR Network. Your pictures will be sent after the event. Food and drink sponsored by Meadows Outpatient Center.
Location: currently being scouted. Maximum for headshot sign-up is 25 people. FREE to just come and mingle. We know you get more referrals when people meet you face-to-face. So come mingle! Register for headshots only at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/georgia-emdr-therapists-networking-and-headshots-tickets-1364997126149?aff=oddtdtcreator
Any questions? angie@clinicalconversationsinc.com
November 7th 9am-12:30pm EST Jamie+ Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S (she/they) is LIVE!
3 hour Zoom Presentation
- Do you get overwhelmed with Complex Trauma and Dissociative clients with how to select targets for EMDR therapy reprocessing? Dr Jamie has created an awesome presentation to address this very issue. You will gain comfort with your decision-making abilities to develop target selection in a client-centered manner. “Thematic Client History in EMDR Therapy: Enhancing Your Effectiveness with Complex Trauma & Dissociation”
Dr. Francine Shapiro, the founder of EMDR Therapy, indicated that there are many ways to conduct Phase 1 Client History. For clients who experiences complex trauma and clinically significant dissociation, engaging in a history taking process that is too chronological or too list-oriented might be overwhelming or impractical. In this workshop, Dr. Jamie Marich brings in her experience as a phenomenological researcher to assist EMDR therapists in thinking more thematically. Participants are oriented to the phenomenological principles of theme. They will then learn how to conduct a client history thematically for optimally target selection and case conceptualization, with opportunities for practice and discussion.
This presentation is open only for those who have completed EMDRIA basic training. No Re-Play, Live Webinar only. GA LPC and SW CEUS will be applied for as well as EMDRIA CEUs. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thematic-targeting-for-emdr-therapy-with-complex-trauma-and-dissociation-tickets-1365020425839?aff=oddtdtcreator
After this workshop participants will be able to
- To explain the principles of phenomenology and its connection to the word theme and the term lived experience
- To list and critically evaluate three major approaches in the EMDR Therapy community other than thematic client history for conducting Phase 1 Client History
- To conceptualize a client case in the EMDR approach to psychotherapy using the thematic client history approach
- To select targets for EMDR Therapy reprocessing and develop an ideal “order of operations” in a client-centered manner
Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they/we) is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, the author of EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors, Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Jamie has also co-authored a couple books. Her best-selling book to date, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life as well as her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God arrived on all our bookshelves in the last two years. We are thrilled to be sponsoring this excellent author, EMDR clinician, and presenter.
SATURDAY, January 24th, 9am-3pm EST ZOOM webinar “Techniques to Integrate Parts Work and EMDR to Address Attachment Trauma” with IFS practitioner, EMDRIA Consultant Cathy Hanville, LCSW. 5 hour webinar, with 30min lunch break. EMDR therapists can feel stuck when working with attachment trauma. This intermediate-level course is meant to help therapists develop some concrete interventions to help prepare a client for EMDR processing of attachment wounds. It will also help with some cognitive interweaves that can help when processing gets stuck. This course is targeted toward clinicians who are fully trained in EMDR and have an introductory knowledge of parts work. This course will integrate slides, live demonstrations, experiential work, and small group interactions. This course is IFS focused.
5 EMDRIA CEUs and 5 GA LPC and SW CEUS will be applied for. No Re-play, live webinar only. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/techniques-to-integrate-parts-work-and-emdr-to-address-attachment-trauma-tickets-1365035480869?aff=oddtdtcreator
After this workshop participants will be able to
- Participants will be able to give three examples of questions to utilize when completing an attachment history.
- Participants will be able to develop EMDR target sequence plans that address attachment issues.
- Participants will be able to give examples of two different cognitive interweaves to utilize in attachment processing.
- Participants will be able to describe techniques for facilitating communication and cooperation between parts during EMDR sessions.
- Participants will be able to utilize the EMDR Protocol to address attachment trauma.
Book Club
Keep strengthening your skills and holding yourself accountable for your clinical enrichment!
The Book Club joins local EMDR colleagues to discuss books about EMDR therapy and other relevant topics. We typically allow 2 months to read a book and vote on the next book at our meetings. Our meetings are typically now held Fridays at noon.
EMDR Book Club July 18th, 2025 at Noon EST All welcome. Let’s have a light read for the summer. Come As You Are: Revised and Updated. The surprising new Science that will Transform your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, PhD. We’ve all been hearing about this book and Emily as a writer. It is supposed to be a great read, not just academic. Here’s a quote about it, “In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless people have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself.” Another person recently said reading the book was a “journey of making amends with my own body.”
Join us for a low-key discussion to help our clients of course (wink)! Join us if you have read a little or all. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89931890977?pwd=4d2UUMSZeD5pfB9y5CIkCBKU710Ibn.1
Or type in Zoom.us Meeting ID: 899 3189 0977 Passcode: 952149
Let’s look ahead for another more clinical EMDR Book Club September 5th, 2025 at 9 AM EST All EMDRers welcome. Let’s shoot for reviewing at least the first 100 pages-ish of Looking Through the Eyes of Truama and Dissociation by Sandra Paulsen, PhD. We’ve all heard of this book, it’s time to crack it together. Topics such as perpetrator introject, working with baby parts, ego strengthening, “talking through” with parts, pacing the work all in the first 100 pages. Let’s do this!!
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89931890977?pwd=4d2UUMSZeD5pfB9y5CIkCBKU710Ibn.1
Or type in Zoom.us Meeting ID: 899 3189 0977 Passcode: 952149
Email questions to Angie Heath at angie@clinicalconversationsinc.com
Books read previously in Book Club include:
- The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation, by Deb Dana.
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem.
- When There Are No Words, Sandra Paulsen.
- EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation, by Jim Knipe.
- Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal by Michael Baldwin & Deborah Korn, PsyD
- EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment, by Arielle Schwartz and Barb Maiberger
- Easy Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working with Parts, Robin Shapiro.
- Attached, by Amir Levine
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine
- by Joanne Twombly
- Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists, by Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, and Onno Van Der Hart
No Fee Peer Groups
- Peer organized groups are encouraged by EMDRIA to help EMDR therapists get regular outlets of peer support with cases and to learn about and share relevant trainings, materials, and other resources.
The no fee, or P2P/Peer to Peer, groups offer no CEs or consultation hours for attendance.
These groups meet via Zoom.
- 3rd Friday of the month drop-in Peer Group meets 9-10:30am. Contact is Mark Jones LPC, LMFT mark@markjonescounseling.com
- EMDR Play Therapists– Contact is Keeley Bailey.
- Other P2P groups that get formed, please email Angie Heath the information to add here.
Interested in starting a No Fee Peer Group? A great place to start recruiting group members may be a post on the Georgia Facebook page or GTN (Georgia’s Therapist Network email discussion group).
Facebook Group
Connect with local EMDR therapists on Facebook.
The Georgia EMDR Network Facebook Group is a closed group available for resource sharing and referrals. Due to online confidentiality issues, case consultation is not allowed.
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