Most EMDR training stops at the individual. But trauma doesn't stay in one nervous system, and couples therapy makes that impossible to ignore. If you've ever felt stuck deciding when to proceed, when to pause, and how to hold two clients at once during EMDR, this training gives you the framework you've been missing. EMDR with Couples is a full-day, Polyvagal-informed training for therapists who want clinical clarity, practical protocols, and real decision-making tools for the couples room.

What You'll Learn:

• How to adapt EMDR Phases 1 through 7 for couples, including history-taking, dyadic resourcing, and reprocessing setup with two partners present.
• The Polyvagal framework that explains what's happening when one partner floods and the other shuts down, and exactly how to respond.
• Conjoint witnessing: how to coach the observing partner to become a Compassionate Witness during reprocessing, turning the session into a corrective emotional experience.
• Dyadic resourcing techniques and Positive Pro-Attachment Timelines to stabilize the couple before trauma processing begins.
• How to externalize relational conflict by helping couples recognize survival responses as autonomic reactions, not intentional attacks.
• Future Template work to address anticipatory anxiety around communication, co-parenting, and forgiveness after reprocessing.

You'll leave with protocols, scripts, and a clear clinical framework you can bring into your next couples session.