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Polyvagal Informed EMDR Practitioner Program
Deepen Your EMDR Practice. Integrate the Science of Safety and the Wisdom of Polyvagal Theory
Every moment of healing begins with safety. When we listen to the body’s cues and respond with compassion, EMDR becomes more than a protocol; it becomes a pathway to regulation, connection, and wholeness.
This program helps you bring the nervous system fully into the room, blending the evidence-based precision of EMDR with the embodied wisdom of Polyvagal Theory so your clients can move from survival to safety, and from safety to true transformation.
This program helps you bring the nervous system fully into the room, blending the evidence-based precision of EMDR with the embodied wisdom of Polyvagal Theory so your clients can move from survival to safety, and from safety to true transformation.
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
What changes when you bring polyvagal theory into your EMDR work:
Read the nervous system in real time
Track autonomic states as they shift in session, so you know what the body is telling you before the client can put it into words.
Work with the vagal brake
Build and strengthen client safety through targeted interventions that engage the body's natural regulation system.
Expand all 8 phases of EMDR
Layer polyvagal-informed interventions across the full protocol, from history taking through reevaluation.
Stay inside the window of tolerance
Adapt the protocol to what the nervous system can hold, so clients stay engaged without flooding or shutting down.
Conceptualize cases autonomically
Move beyond cognitive and memory-based case formulation to understand what the nervous system is organizing around.
Recognize what's driving the stall
Identify when dorsal shutdown, sympathetic flooding, or mixed states are blocking reprocessing, and respond accordingly.
Pace to the client, not the protocol
Match the speed of the work to the client's regulatory capacity instead of pushing through phases on a fixed timeline.
Work with dysregulation and dissociation
Bring more confidence and clinical precision to the populations that often feel hardest to treat.
Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Rebecca Kase
LCSW
Trauma Therapist Institute Founder Rebecca Kase is recognized as one of the foremost EMDR trainers in the U.S. She is an LCSW, professional EMDR consultant and trainer, registered yoga teacher, and author of Polyvagal Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing (2023).
Rebecca has been practicing in the field of trauma counseling since 2006. She’s an expert in working with complex trauma and dissociation and has practiced in both nonprofit and private practice settings. In her own therapy practice, Rebecca incorporates yoga therapy, ego states, somatic approaches, Polyvagal Theory, and EMDR into her work with clients, which includes veterans and adults with Complex PTSD.
Rebecca is known as a skillful, clear and enthusiastic teacher. She’ll keep you en
Rebecca has been practicing in the field of trauma counseling since 2006. She’s an expert in working with complex trauma and dissociation and has practiced in both nonprofit and private practice settings. In her own therapy practice, Rebecca incorporates yoga therapy, ego states, somatic approaches, Polyvagal Theory, and EMDR into her work with clients, which includes veterans and adults with Complex PTSD.
Rebecca is known as a skillful, clear and enthusiastic teacher. She’ll keep you en
Free Resource
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Free CE Course: Polyvagal Theory for EMDR Therapists: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing
You’ve probably noticed it. Some clients simply can’t stay regulated enough to work through EMDR targets. They dissociate, shut down, or flood, and no matter how well you follow the protocol, things stall.The missing piece?Their nervous system isn’t ready, and that changes everything.This free one-hour CE workshop introduces Polyvagal-Informed EMDR (PV-EMDR), a neuro-informed approach that helps you recognize and work with your clients’ physiological state to prepare them for effective memory reprocessing.You’ll walk away understanding how the science of safety and stress (Polyvagal Theory) intersects with Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, and how to apply this integration directly to your EMDR practice.
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Bring the Nervous System Into the Room
Your clients' nervous systems are already telling you what they need. This program gives you the framework, the language, and the in-session tools to actually respond to what you're seeing.Twelve CEs. Lifetime access. Two live Q&A sessions with Rebecca. Practice-ready interventions you can use in your next session.