EMDR training
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EMDR Advanced Training
You know EMDR can be life-changing. You also know that eating disorders bring a different level of risk, complexity, and clinical responsibility.
Many EMDR clinicians describe the same stuck point: you meet with a client who presents with an eating disorder or disordered eating.
You can see the trauma history. You know EMDR could help. At the same time, questions start stacking up:
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Is this client medically and psychologically stable enough for EMDR?
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How do I tell the difference between ED symptoms and trauma‑driven survival strategies?
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Which targets and protocols are safe to touch, and which need to wait?
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At what point does this move beyond my scope of practice?
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Build Phase 2 preparation strategies tailored for clients with eating disorders and disordered eating
- Use Healing Place as an ED-sensitive alternative to standard Safe Place
- Apply Compassion-Focused Therapy resourcing to address shame and self-criticism
- Map ED/DE protective strategies through a parts-informed lens, including perfectionistic, controlling, numbing, and parentified parts
- Stabilize and build cooperation with protective parts before reprocessing begins
- Select targets that address shame-based memories, attachment injuries, and identity wounds
- Apply cognitive and somatic interweaves tuned to ED/DE themes like control, worthiness, body shame, and safety
- Use titration, pacing, and fractionated processing to reduce overwhelm and dissociation
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
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Assess readiness with more than checklists
Apply clinical frameworks for evaluating medical, psychological, and nervous system stability before reprocessing begins.
Conceptualize ED/DE through an EMDR lens
Use AIP-informed case maps that recognize eating disorder behaviors as trauma-driven survival strategies, not symptoms to suppress.
Build ED-sensitive Phase 2 preparation
Use Healing Place, CFT resourcing, and shame-attuned stabilization that honor the body and the function of ED/DE behaviors.
Map protective parts before reprocessing
Apply parts-informed mapping to perfectionistic, controlling, numbing, and parentified parts, and build cooperation before targeting trauma.
Select targets that move the work
Focus on shame-based memories, attachment injuries, and identity wounds rather than defaulting to food or body memories.
Apply ED/DE-specific interweaves
Use cognitive and somatic interweaves tuned to control, worthiness, body shame, and safety.
Pace processing to reduce overwhelm
Use titration and fractionated processing to keep the work within the client's window of tolerance.
Know when to pause, refer, or proceed
Apply clear decision-making frameworks for scope of practice, contraindications, and integration with ED treatment teams.
Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Susan Yuen
LMFT
Susan Yuen, LMFT, is an EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant with over twenty-three years of experience specializing in complex trauma, religious trauma, and eating disorders/disordered eating. She integrates EMDR with polyvagal-informed stabilization, parts work, and compassion-focused practices to help clients develop the regulation and internal safety needed for transformational reprocessing.
Susan is the founder of Compassionately Liberated, a therapeutic framework supporting women recovering from shame-based survival patterns and rebuilding trust in their bodies. She provides consultation to EMDR clinicians nationwide and is known for her clear, grounded teaching style and ability to translate complex trauma theory into practical, accessible interventions.
Drawing from both professional expertise and lived experience within a highly controlled religious environment, Susan brings depth, attunement, and authenticity to her work.
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Stop Letting Caution Become Delay
Your clients with eating disorders and disordered eating deserve more than careful avoidance of their trauma. This training gives you the readiness frameworks, the ED-sensitive adaptations, and the clinical decision-making tools to bring EMDR into your work with the outpatient and private practice clients on your caseload.
Lifetime access. EMDRIA, ASWB, and NBCC CEs. Session-ready frameworks for one of the most clinically complex presentations in trauma work.