Clinical Conversation

Guest: Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™
On-Demand: This conversation was recorded on December 3rd, 2025. It will be available, on demand, one week after the live event

Ready to rediscover the roots of healing and reignite your clinical work with what nature has always known?

Join us for an inspiring new session of Clinical Conversations featuring internationally acclaimed EMDR and play therapy trainer Jackie Flynn. Together, we’ll explore how the rhythms, rituals, and relationships found in nature, and within us, can restore EMDR to its most powerful, organic origins.

What We'll Explore

In this lively, hands-on conversation, Jackie will guide us through:

• Why returning to EMDR’s roots in natural healing reawakens our innate drive toward wholeness
• How the Adaptive Information Processing model (AIP) and nature work together to foster integrative trauma recovery
• Practical techniques for using natural rhythms - movement, play, ritual, and sand play - in trauma therapy
• Creating spaces of embodied safety and co-regulation, even when traditional talk therapy isn’t enough
• ReWilding the therapy process: letting play, sensory connection, and the outdoors open “stuck” pathways
• Simple ways to honor the nervous system’s rhythms in all settings - outdoors, telehealth, or the office
• Real-world examples and grounding rituals you can use right away to support rhythm and integration

Bring your curiosity and questions. Leave inspired, resourced, and ready to reconnect your practice with the deep wisdom of the world outside (and within).

Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™ is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor™, and EMDR Trainer in private practice in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She offers intensive EMDR therapy by the ocean, where the rhythms of nature reflects the wisdom of the Adaptive Information Processing model and regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System, healing moving toward connection the way rivers find their way back to the sea.
She is the author of Little Gecko's Broken Tail: A Book to Introduce EMDR Therapy to Children, EMDR with Kids Flip Chart: A Play-Based Tool for Trauma Processing, Nervous System Regulation, and the Transformation of Adaptive Behaviors, Being Human: A Polyvagal Informed Story About the States of the Nervous System, and In My Body, I Feel: A Story About the Felt Sense of Emotions, as well as other resources for children and therapists.
Jackie teaches ReWilding EMDR with Alisha and Catherine Denham, supporting the integration of Sandtray into this nature based and experiential approach. Her work is grounded in deep respect for EMDR and the AIP model, attachment focused healing, neuroscience, and the playful and creative ways that nature reminds us what it means to be whole.