For the EMDR Professional

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.

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August 25th 7pm-8:30pm EST
FREE! 1.5 hr ZOOM presentation “Setting the Stage for EMDR: Practical Guidance to Prepare Clients and Clinician Orientation”

Includes take-home handout! for you to offer clients in preparation for all subsequent EMDR sessions. 2 of our own Georgia EMDR Approved Consultants, Angie Heath, LCSW and Pegah Moghaddam, PsyD will review the What, How, and Why:

• How the EMDR clinician can shift their practice and manage sessions for EMDR psychotherapy to be the focus
• How to contract the work that’s ahead with already established and new clients
• What clients can expect with EMDR? List for clients (HANDOUT!)
• How EMDR clinicians weave AIP collaboratively into EMDR sessions from the start

We’ve partnered with the Connecticut EMDR Network to join with Georgia EMDR Network for this FREE presentation. 1.5 EMDRIA Ceus will be applied for. Register prior at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990983228432?aff=oddtdtcreator

Yes, presentation will be recorded for re-play another time if you cannot make it live. Just register prior.

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August 28th 10-11:15 am EST
FREE! zoom presentation “Burnout to Resilience: Supporting Trauma Therapists Through Sustainable Clinical Practice” by Deb Del Vecchio-Scully, LPC, BCN, DCMHS, EMDRIA Approved Consultant.

Trauma therapists dedicate themselves to supporting individuals through some of life’s most difficult experiences. While deeply meaningful, this work can also lead to emotional exhaustion, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and professional burnout when clinicians are continuously exposed to high levels of emotional intensity without adequate restoration and support.

This presentation will offer practical, evidence-informed strategies to strengthen resilience, enhance self-regulation, and sustain long-term effectiveness in clinical practice. Participants will explore the neurobiological impact of trauma exposure on helping professionals, recognize early warning signs of burnout, participate in reflective exercises, and develop personalized approaches to maintaining emotional wellness. Objectives include:

• Identify signs and symptoms of burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue
• Strengthen nervous system regulation and emotional resilience
• Establish healthy professional boundaries, manage work-life balance, and sustainable clinical practices
• Foster professional connection, support, and long-term career sustainability

Will be recorded! (No CEUs to reduce Network from accruing more fees.) To register, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burnout-to-resilience-supporting-trauma-therapists-tickets-1991320304636?aff=oddtdtcreator

Many know Deb Del Vecchio-Scully, LPC, BCN, DCMHS in her aid to our Georgia TRN network after the Apalachee school shooting. Deb is a superb trainer on Preverbal Trauma, Attachment, Communal Trauma and Childhood trauma. Deb is a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of trauma and holds Diplomat status as a clinical mental health specialist in Trauma Counseling. She is also Board Certified in Neurofeedback and is also a certified Yoga Therapist. She served as the Newtown Clinical Recovery Leader following the Sandy Hook School Shooting. She worked closely with the school staff in the aftermath of the shooting providing individual and group services and training.

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September 11th 9-12:15pm EST
Zoom 3 hour Presentation “The Machinery of Control: Narcissistic Abuse, Trauma, and the Healing Relationship” by 2 rockstar presenters and survivors Beth Matenaer, LPC and Tammie Willis, MA.

This three-hour webinar reframes narcissistic abuse as a traumatizing system — a cult of one. Through a brain-based, adaptation-focused lens, clinicians will learn to recognize the same coercive machinery operating at every scale, from the intimate partner to the family to the high-demand group.

The therapeutic framework presented in this course centers on empowering survivors to embody themselves and become their own experts. Rather than positioning the clinician as the authority on the survivor’s experience, this approach restores autonomy, self-trust, and the capacity for self-knowing — the very capacities the traumatizing system was built to dismantle. Participants will leave with a clear lens for screening, conceptualizing, and walking alongside narcissistic abuse survivors as the resilient adaptors they are. Learning Objectives:

• Define narcissistic abuse as a traumatizing system and articulate at least three structural parallels between a narcissistic relationship and a cultic system.
• Describe the brain-based impact of sealed and traumatizing systems on survival physiology, attachment, cognitive dissonance, and moral injury.
• Identify clinical presentations of narcissistic abuse survivors across cognitive, somatic, relational, and identity domains, and screen for them when the client does not self-identify as a survivor. 
• Apply a collaborative, client-as-expert therapeutic approach that supports autonomy restoration rather than recreating directive or hierarchical dynamics. 

3 Georgia LPC and SW CEUs applied for. To make this essential information accessible to all, this webinar is only $35!! Webinar will be recorded but only CEUs offered for live attendees. 

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February 5th 2027 11 am-1:15pm Zoom “Ethical EMDR Preparation: Recognizing when Clients Need More Support before Trauma Processing” presentation 11:00am-1:15pm by Lauren Kiser, PhD, LPC, EMDRIA Approved Trainer and Consultant.

This 2 hour ethics course covers critical clinical and ethical decision making for EMDR trauma work- including recognizing when clients need more stabilization, pacing, and internal skills. This continuing education course will be offered only LIVE (no re-plays).

Clinicians often work with clients who want to engage in trauma processing but lack the emotional regulation or stability needed to do so safely. Participants will learn how to identify indicators that additional stabilization or support may be required before EMDR trauma processing and how to distinguish between standard preparation and situations that exceed the scope of weekly outpatient therapy. Ethical decision making will be emphasized, including informed consent, nonmaleficence, scope of competence, and appropriate referrals. This training supports ethical pacing decisions that protect client safety and improve trauma treatment outcomes.

Lauren Kiser, PhD, LPC is an Adult Complex Trauma & Dissociation Specialist, Certified EMDR Therapist, and EMDRIA Approved Trainer & Consultant. She holds a doctorate focused on addictive disorders and therapist competency in treating eating disorders. Known for her advanced trauma expertise, Lauren frequently provides training and consultation to other therapists. Lauren practices at LK Institute in Arizona.

ONLY $35 for 2 hour webinar!! 2 EMDRIA CEUs and 2 GA LPC and SW Ethics CEUS will be applied for. Register and block your schedule now, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1991323339714?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Live participation only, not offered for re-play.