EMDR Advanced Training

EMDR for Grief, Loss, & Mourning: Honoring the Past, Healing the Present, Creating Neuropathways Forward

Trainer: Crystal Wildes
Live Virtual Training: Friday Janauary 23rd, 2025 at 10 am Central | Available for synchronous, live learning 
On-Demand: Available one week after the live event

Grief is universal. Healing can be, too.
Whether your clients face the loss of loved ones, identity, health, or dreams, grief often sits at the intersection of trauma, attachment, and culture. For many, this pain leads to feeling stuck and unable to process loss, reconnect, or move forward.

Join us for an EMDRIA-approved advanced training that goes beyond bereavement, training that honors every form of grief, and guides your clients on a path of integration, meaning, and renewed hope.

Ready to deepen your clinical mastery and help clients transform suffering into resilience?

Practical Interventions You’ll Learn

Deep grief isn’t just painful. It’s neurobiological, individual, and deeply shaped by culture and history. This immersive course will empower you to:

• Understand grief through an advanced, trauma-informed lens - moving beyond the “stages” model.
• Conceptualize and treat grief in complex contexts, including trauma loss, cultural/identity loss, and secondary trauma.
• Confidently assess readiness, choose targets, and modify EMDR protocols for blocked or “stuck” presentations.
• Apply Polyvagal Theory for safety, attunement, and stabilization across the arc of treatment.
• Work effectively with continuing bonds and rituals to honor memory, repair ruptures, and restore meaning.
• Support clients in moving from pain and numbness to integration, connection, and embodied hope.

Whether you’re experienced in EMDR or seeking to deepen your work with grief, you’ll leave this training with a toolkit you can use immediately, for every client, every session.

About Your Trainer, Crystal Wildes

Dr. Crystal Wildes is a licensed psychologist and the owner of Insight Psychology, LLC in Evergreen, Colorado. She has over 20 years of experience providing therapy, training, and supervision across diverse clinical settings. She is a senior faculty member and trainer with the Trauma Therapist Institute and an EMDRIA-approved consultant and trainer.
Crystal has extensive experience working with individuals and families across the lifespan, including adjudicated youth, at-risk teens, families involved with social services, and survivors of crime. She specializes in working with underserved populations and is deeply committed to providing compassionate, effective care for complex trauma, with EMDR therapy as her primary approach to fostering healing and resilience.

In addition to her clinical practice, Crystal directs a trauma-informed clinical training program at Insight Psychology, where she supervises graduate trainees and early-career clinicians in the practice of EMDR and trauma-focused care. She also trains and consults with clinicians nationwide, offering workshops and advanced trainings in trauma-informed care and the integration of EMDR therapy. Known for her authenticity and approachable teaching style, she creates shame-free learning environments that equip clinicians with the tools, confidence, and knowledge to navigate the complexities of trauma treatment.