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EMDR Advanced Training
Advanced EMDR Interventions for CPTSD
Treatment Planning, Target Sequencing, and Constricted Processing
Some clients walk in with a symptom list that reads like an entire caseload. Flashbacks. Nightmares. Chronic shame. Dissociation. Relationships that keep rupturing. You finish the intake, look at your notes, and think: where do I even start?
If you are EMDR trained, you may also be carrying a quieter worry. What if reprocessing destabilizes this client? What if one target lights up an entire memory network? So you stay in preparation. And stay. And stay. Meanwhile, your client keeps spending everything they have just to get through the week.
This 4-hour advanced training with Rebecca Kase, LCSW was built for exactly that clinical moment. It assumes you know your EMDR foundations, skips the extended theory, and gets straight to the how: how to decide where to start, how to build a treatment plan around the symptoms costing your client the most, and how to use constricted processing to bring real relief without overwhelming the system.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Differentiate the core symptom domains of ICD-11 Complex PTSD from PTSD, and recognize how disturbances in self-organization add clinical complexity and shape treatment planning
- Evaluate preparation, stabilization, and readiness for trauma-focused treatment, so you can make grounded decisions instead of staying parked in Phase 2 out of fear
- Develop an individualized EMDR treatment plan built around presenting symptoms, client capacity, treatment priorities, and real opportunities for reprocessing
- Apply adaptations to EMDR reprocessing that account for symptom presentation, dissociation, and the risk of overwhelming clients with CPTSD
- Run Phase 8 reevaluation to read the results of your work and guide ongoing treatment decisions
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
Use the Preparation Hierarchy
Assess readiness and guide Phase 2 interventions, from safe enough to feel through trusting the process
Build symptom-focused EMDR treatment plans
Prioritize the symptoms draining your client's energy and functioning the most
Apply constricted processing (EMD and EMDr)
Using flexible choice points to contain activation and reduce the risk of overwhelm
Sequence targets using SUDS
Clearer alignment with you and your client to decide together where to start and what comes next
Run Phase 8 reevaluation
Read the results of your work and guide ongoing treatment decisions
Learn on your schedule
On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.
Safe to use with Complex PTSD
Dive into the adaptations that make reprocessing safer, including constricted processing strategies designed to contain activation and reduce the risk of overwhelm.
Free community membership
Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.
Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Rebecca Kase
MSW, LCSW, RYT
Rebecca Kase, LCSW is an EMDR consultant and trainer, and the CEO and owner of the Trauma Therapist Institute. She is the author of multiple books on polyvagal theory and EMDR and the creator of the Preparation Hierarchy, a framework for assessing readiness and guiding preparation work with complex trauma.
Rebecca is known for translating neuroscience into language clinicians can actually use in session, and for teaching in a direct, shame-free style grounded in decades of clinical work, including years in community mental health treating clients with the most complex presentations. She built this training around the question she hears most from EMDR therapists: what do I actually do with this client?
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Know Where to Start With Complex PTSD
When a client presents with flashbacks, shame, dissociation, relationship ruptures, and layers of complex trauma, knowing where to begin with EMDR can feel like a clinical puzzle. This 4-hour advanced training gives you a symptom-focused framework for assessing readiness, prioritizing what needs attention first, and sequencing treatment with greater clarity. You’ll learn how to use the Preparation Hierarchy, build individualized treatment plans, and apply constricted processing strategies to move toward reprocessing without overwhelming your client.
I'm Ready to Know Where to Start
When a client presents with flashbacks, shame, dissociation, relationship ruptures, and layers of complex trauma, knowing where to begin with EMDR can feel like a clinical puzzle. This 4-hour advanced training gives you a symptom-focused framework for assessing readiness, prioritizing what needs attention first, and sequencing treatment with greater clarity. You’ll learn how to use the Preparation Hierarchy, build individualized treatment plans, and apply constricted processing strategies to move toward reprocessing without overwhelming your client.