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EMDR Advanced Training

This Didn't Start With Me: EMDR Approaches to Intergenerational and Ancestral Trauma

Trainer: Erica Bonham, LPC
Live Virtual Training: Friday January 9th at 10 am Central | Available for synchronous, live learning 
On-Demand: Available one week after the live event

Some wounds run deeper than a lifetime. Intergenerational and ancestral trauma leave powerful imprints. Sometimes quiet, sometimes overwhelming. They always ripple across families, communities, and identities. If you’re ready to help your clients break cycles of inherited pain and unlock resilience in themselves and their lineage, this advanced EMDR training is designed for you.
Led by acclaimed trauma therapist and educator Erica Bonham, this course will equip you to recognize, process, and transform generational traumas, even when stories are fragmented, memories are lost, or wounds are collective.
Leave with protocols, scripts, and a holistic, polyvagal-informed approach for honoring pain, reclaiming gifts, and building new neural pathways to healing, at every layer of the family tree.

EMDR Refresher Course with Rebecca Kase LCSW, trauma therapist and EMDR trainer, offering clinicians a review of EMDR fundamentals and trauma processing strategies.
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Practical Interventions You’ll Learn

  • Learn to map family trauma and uncover hidden patterns of ancestral lines that shape clients' lives.
  • Harness ancestral ally visualizations with bilateral tapping to build resilience and unlock wisdom from supportive lineage.
  • Use a modified EMDR float back to trace intergenerational “embers” of trauma through body sensations, images, and metaphors.
  • Open new healing pathways through somatic and energetic reprocessing when clients lack consolidated trauma memories.
  • Apply a polyvagal-informed generational assessment to reveal how trauma reshapes baseline nervous system states across family lines

What You’ll Learn in This EMDRIA Approved Advanced Training

Family wounds are seldom just personal. Trauma transmitted through ancestral and systemic lines often shapes symptoms, relationship patterns, sense of belonging, and body-level threat responses.
 In this intensive, participants will discover how to:

  • Recognize generational trauma in client presentations, and skillfully differentially diagnose its origin
  • Apply the eight phases of EMDR therapy specifically to generational and family line trauma cases
  • Use specialized EMDR reprocessing and resourcing techniques for fragmented or non-verbal trauma
  • Engage clients in cultural reclamation, ritual, and somatic practices to access both wounds and wisdom in the lineage
  • Navigate ethical, historical, and social justice complexities with practical frameworks, including decolonizing teachings and non-appropriative rituals
  • Support clients not just in healing pain, but in carrying forward ancestral gifts and strengths

You’ll gain rigorous tools, experiential learning, and advanced protocols to transform how you treat trauma that truly “didn’t start with” your client, so they can change what gets passed forward.

Ready to break cycles, honor lineage, and change the story for generations to come?
 

Register now and join Erica Bonham for a transformational training in EMDR for generational and ancestral trauma.

Enroll and empower your practice!

Who is this course for? 

This course is designed for EMDR-trained clinicians who want to:

  • Confidently address generational, ancestral, and collective trauma in clients.
  • Go beyond standard protocols to integrate family, cultural, and systemic context into EMDR work.
  • Support clients with inherited anxiety, complex trauma, or multi-generational grief, even when stories are fragmented or unspeakable.
  • Use ritual, somatic, and polyvagal-informed tools to deepen resourcing and healing across generations.
  • Bring more humility, creativity, and courage to conversations about ancestry and nervous system repair.

Whether you practice in private therapy, agencies, schools, or community settings, if you’re committed to transforming cycles of suffering for individuals, families, or entire communities, this course will equip you with the advanced tools and confidence you need.

About Your Trainer, Erica Bonham, LPC

Rebecca Kase LCSW, EMDR consultant, trauma therapist, and Polyvagal Theory expert, founder of Trauma Therapist Institute and author on complex trauma healing.

Erica Bonham is a licensed professional counselor, somatic and attachment EMDR clinician, consultant, trainer, bestselling author, speaker, ketamine-assisted psychotherapist, and nervous system regulation coach. She’s passionate about redefining leadership as a practice of presence, resilience, equity, and joy. Erica supports individuals through the messy, beautiful work of healing and remembering their true nature: that we are always and already enough and still have work to do. Her work bridges personal healing with collective transformation.

Additional Information

Price:

$210

  • Lifetime access to the course - Refresh your skills anytime at your own pace. Get on-demand access after the live date.
  • Immediate clinical application - Walk away with tools you can use in your next session.
  • Flexible payment plans - Options to fit your budget.
  • CEs - Earn EMDRIA, ASWB, and NBCC CEs.
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