Trainer: Crystal Wildes
Live Training: June 24th | 1:00 PM Central Time | Available for synchronous, live learning
On-Demand: Available one week after the live event
A 1-hour training to rethink trauma through EMDR’s core framework, even if you’re not EMDR-trained (yet).
Curious how EMDR therapists conceptualize trauma? In this free, live 1-hour training, you'll learn the foundational model behind EMDR therapy, the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, and how it transforms the way we understand and treat trauma. Whether you’re EMDR-trained or just EMDR-curious, you’ll walk away with a fresh clinical lens you can start applying right away.
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.
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.
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.
The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model
Learn the foundational model behind EMDR therapy, how it explains the way trauma is stored, and how to align with neurobiology to support integration. You’ll discover how AIP can transform your clinical lens, even if you never pick up bilateral stimulation.
Memory Networks: Adaptive vs. Maladaptive
Explore how the brain organizes experience through memory networks, and what happens when trauma creates disconnection, looping, or shutdown. You’ll learn how these networks shape client symptoms, reactions, and triggers.
How Unhealed Memories Drive Present-Day Symptoms
Understand how trauma shows up in the now. We’ll look at real-life examples of how unresolved past experiences hijack the present, so you can start tracing symptoms back to their roots.
The Floatback Technique
Get an introduction to this EMDR-based strategy that helps uncover the earlier experiences behind current distress. You’ll walk away with a simple, neuro-informed method to use in conceptualization or session work.
How to Use AIP in Your Practice With Any Client
You don’t have to be EMDR-trained to start applying AIP principles. We’ll show you how to use this framework to map client cases more clearly, avoid therapeutic misfires, and plan interventions that align with the brain’s natural drive to heal.
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.
1:00 - 11:10 pm: What is the adaptive information processing model?
1:10 - 1:20 pm: What’s stuck that’s causing yuck? The role of memory storage on symptoms.
1:20 - 1:30 pm: Adaptive vs. Maladaptively Stored Memories
1:30 - 1:40 pm: The Floatback Technique
1:40 - 1:50 pm: How AIP & EMDR help clients heal
1:50 - 2:00 pm: Q&A
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1 CE is available upon completion of all course material.
Trauma Therapist Institute is an approved continuing education provider. ACE and NBCC CEs are available for this course. This course is not approved for APA or EMDRIA CEs.
Participants must complete the full training to receive credit.
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 6 clinical continuing education credits.
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. Kase & CO is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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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