EMDR Advanced Training

EMDR for Grief, Loss, & Mourning

Honoring the Past, Healing the Present, Creating Neuropathways Forward

Trainer: Crystal Wildes, PsyD, LP

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?

I'm Ready to Apply EMDR to Complex Grief

Why TTI

Built for Learning. Designed for Belonging.

Shame-Free Space for Learning™

Because the best learning happens when you feel safe. Ask freely, show up fully, and learn in a relational, non-judgmental environment built for practitioners like you.

Expert Clinical Training

Expect real case examples, clear guidance, and a teaching style that makes even complex topics feel approachable so you can confidently use what you learn in session right away.

Where Learning Meets Community

Join a community of clinicians learning side by side, sharing real case insights and peer support so you can grow your skills with confidence alongside your peers in meaningful connection.

Practical Skills

Practical Interventions You'll Learn

The Recent Event Protocol (REP) for acute bereavement.
Techniques to access fragmented autobiographical memories and uncover grief targets.
The Excessive Grief Protocol
Grief-specific interweaves to unblock stuck processing.
Attachment-informed processing for complicated grief.
Techniques for working through survivor guilt, shame, responsibility, and self-blame linked to loss.
Methods for working with ambiguous/disenfranchised loss processing, including perinatal, suicide, and adoption-related grief targets.

I'm Ready to Unblock Stuck Mourning

What You Get

What's Waiting for You Inside This Training

Apply the Recent Event Protocol

Use REP to support clients in the acute phase of bereavement, when standard protocols don't yet fit the clinical picture.

Apply the Excessive Grief Protocol

Bring a structured EMDR-specific framework to clients whose grief has stalled, intensified, or become entrenched.

Access fragmented autobiographical memories

Use targeted techniques to surface grief targets even when memories are non-linear, incomplete, or held primarily in the body.

Process attachment-informed complicated grief

Adapt EMDR to address the relational dimensions of loss, including ruptures, ambivalence, and unfinished bonds.

Work with ambiguous and disenfranchised loss

Apply EMDR to perinatal loss, suicide loss, adoption-related grief, and other losses that often go unrecognized in standard bereavement frameworks.

Address survivor's guilt and self-blame

Move clients through the shame, responsibility, and guilt that often block grief processing.

Move clients through blocked processing

Apply grief-specific interweaves to unblock stuck reprocessing and support sustainable integration.

Stabilize through a polyvagal lens

Use polyvagal-informed safety and attunement strategies across the arc of grief treatment, from preparation through integration.

Is This For You?

Who Is This Training For

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

Skillfully support clients navigating bereavement, ambiguous, cultural, or disenfranchised grief.
Integrate trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and culturally inclusive practices into grief and loss work.
Help clients move through blocked mourning, avoidance, or complicated relationships with loss.
Confidently apply Polyvagal Theory, continuing bonds interventions, and practical EMDR modifications for grief.
Work with children, adults, or families experiencing loss - whether in private practice, agencies, schools, or community settings.

If you are passionate about honoring the complexity of grief, empowering clients to move from pain to integration, and becoming a more agile, compassionate EMDR therapist, this training is for you.

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Meet Your Trainer

About Your Trainer

Crystal Wildes

PsyD, LP

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.

Investment

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Course 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.

Additional Information

Course Details

Agenda

Overview of grief, loss, and mourning (definitions, neurobiology of grief, phases and tasks of mourning, and therapeutic framework)
Research on EMDR and grief (review of studies, AIP model, when EMDR can be used, and contraindications)
12:20 pm - 1:30 pm: Phase 1: History Taking and Case Conceptualization (integrating case conceptualization & Rando's 6 R's of Mourning, attachment considerations, cultural influences, disenfranchised grief, myths of grief, prolonged grief disorder)
Phase 2: Preparation and Treatment Planning (incorporating preparation hierarchy, resourcing, RDI, treatment planning using the three-pronged approach, constricted processing considerations)
EMDR Interventions and Protocols for Grief (recent event protocol, excessive grief protocol)
Phases 3–7: Processing and Integration (targets through the phases of mourning, client stuck points, interweaves, therapeutic adaptations, and integrating EMDR with the 6 R’s, and case examples)

Learning Objectives

Differentiate between various types of grief (e.g., uncomplicated, complicated, disenfranchised, and ambiguous) and describe how these presentations impact EMDR case conceptualization.
Use the 7 P’s framework to construct case conceptualizations for grief and loss that integrate attachment dynamics and culturally responsive perspectives.
Identify at least three EMDR preparation-phase strategies that are effective for clients experiencing grief, including Polyvagal-informed and culturally responsive interventions.
Develop an EMDR treatment plan that integrates target selection and reprocessing strategies for clients experiencing grief and loss.
Implement EMDR protocol modifications to address common challenges in grief reprocessing, such as avoidance, idealization, or blocked access to positive memories.
Evaluate post-reprocessing outcomes by assessing for adaptive meaning-making, continuing bonds, and indicators of post-traumatic growth.

Prerequisites

EMDR Basic Training

Continuing Education

Trauma Therapist Institute is an approved continuing education provider. ACE, NBCC, EMDRIA, and APA CEs are available for this course.

Participants must complete the full training to receive credit.

ACE Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute, #1869, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/16/25 - 1/16/28. Social workers completing this course receive clinical continuing education credits.

NBCC Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7033. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Trauma Therapist Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

EMDRIA Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. TTI courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.

APA Approved Provider

Trauma Therapist Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education to psychologists. Trauma Therapist Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Course Completion

To receive a CE certificate, participants must complete the entire course, complete the post-test with a score of 80% or above, and complete the course evaluation. You may retake the post-test as needed. Once completed, a CE certificate will auto-populate to your online account.

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