3 Great Things to Consider About EMDR Training Online
These days a lot of potential clients prefer online EMDR therapy to office visits. Likewise, many therapists prefer to complete their EMDR training online. The move to offer virtual training instead of in-person only was one had to make. Our biggest concern was...
Attachment Theory, Ego State Therapy and the Dangers of Integration with EMDR
Should you be integrating attachment theory with EMDR? Well, we in the EMDR community know that Francine Shapiro thought of EMDR as an integrative therapy. She observed that other models could strengthen EMDR and help understand what was happening during EMDR...
Fully Embracing Virtual EMDR and Its Benefits
Embracing Virtual EMDR Is virtual EMDR legit? Can you do EMDR on Zoom? Before COVID, there were some rumblings of EMDR therapy being administered over the internet via Skype. As a child of the industrial age and an eye movement desensitization and reprocessing...
EMDR Training Cost: 5 Ways to Save Money
Has the EMDR training cost stood in your way, preventing you from learning how to do EMDR? You want to become an EMDRIA-approved therapist. As long as you aren't one, you, your clients, and your practice are missing out. Of course, your clients can just go see a...
EMDR asks, “Are You an I Don’t Matter Person or an I’m Not Good Enough Person?”
A closely held secret about EMDR is that when you take a close inner look at the process it really has nothing to do with trauma at all. The transformation goes much deeper than healing PTSD. Healing symptoms just gets the client to the starting point. Let’s take a...
REM and EMDR: Are Eye Movements Necessary in EMDR?
The debate as to the importance of the eye movement aspect of EMDR has been put to rest long ago, and yet there is still confusion about this aspect of EMDR. Eye movements are a signature aspect of the treatment. Many argued in the early days of EMDR that the eye...
Top 3 Most Intriguing EMDR Therapy Uses
The mental health community still has a long way to go in understanding the power of EMDR therapy. That's why EMDR Educators is working to help it expand through training therapists to use EMDR in their work with their clients. We want more clients to experience the...
Being Therapist with Training in EMDR: The Benefits
Being a therapist with training in EMDR has its benefits. Unlike hypnosis, there’s no argument that this is a specific type of treatment method. EMDR isn’t just a therapy, it’s a theory about the way the brain perceives, stores, and retrieves information. It continues...
The Cost of EMDR Training
How Much is the Cost of EMDR Training? One of the biggest excuses graduate students, nurses, and therapists use for not adding EMDR therapy to their repertoire is the cost of EMDR training. Some do this without even knowing what they would have to pay. As with most...
EMDR Therapy Training: 7 Crucial Facts You Need to Know
If you want to make more progress with clients who suffer from anxiety, abuse, and trauma, consider EMDR therapy training. EMDR is a treatment designed by Francine Shapiro to alleviate the distress of past traumatic events. The treatment continues to grow in...
How to Get Training in EMDR
Has the way that EMDR transforms lives caught your attention yet? You want this powerful and effective therapy working in your practice. Figuring out how to get training in EMDR is the first step. There are some requirements. Some mental health professionals aren’t...
Larry ‘Bulldog’ Jones was my friend: a look back
Larry 'Bulldog' Jones was my friend This blog entry was originally posted in July of 2014. The headlines read, Aliquippa Grid Star Larry Jones Dies. That was in Saturday’s paper on August 26, 1972. Larry died on August 25th. People that knew Larry, his friends,...
Emma’s hair
Emma's hair Embracing symbols of change There’s a saying among therapists. We ask the question: What is the opposite of love? Everyone responds “hate” immediately, thinking, that’s a stupid question; everyone knows the answer to that question. It’s a trick question,...
Loss of identity in Stage Four of EMDR: A client’s experience
Stage Four: Loss of Identity This client was kind enough to write what stage four of the EMDR process was like for him. It was hard and painful work to dismantle the self-defeating beliefs and actions that were no longer working for me. I had come to Dr. Dobo in sheer...
The Anatomy of the Dream
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Dobo’s work in progress, Transformational EMDR: A Death Rebirth Sequence in Six Stages. It continues the discussion begun in the post DREAM AMPLIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION The Anatomy of the Dream (The Components) Symbols Signs...
Dr. Dobo to sign books at September conference
Dr. Andrew Dobo will be signing his book Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought and offering information about EMDR Educators of Florida's training programs at the National Conference of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association. The conference takes place Sept. 21-23...
Dream amplification and interpretation: an ancient skill for the new millennium
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Dobo's work in progress, Transformational EMDR: A Death Rebirth Sequence in Six Stages. Dream work is much like other lifelong artistic endeavors: One lifetime is not enough. Fortunately, in this six-stage transformational EMDR...
The Power of EMDR an Astrological Perspective
Leslie McGuirk, internationally renowned astrologer, author, and artist discusses why EMDR is such a powerful tool for many of her clients. She agreed to be a guest blogger on my site. Her thoughts are below: As a professional Astrologer, the number one thing I...
“Did You Say Your Astrologer Referred You To Me?”
As a psychologist, a scientific-practitioner, imagine my surprise when a parade of new clients arrived at my door and stated that they were referred to me by their Astrologer. Who? Huh? What? Most of them are very knowledgeable about Astrology and speak that language...
Jung, EMDR, Soul, and Other Four Letter Profanities
I am proposing the possibility that perhaps psychology has lost its way. But so has just about everything else. We are all somewhat a slave to someone’s bottom-line. As one trained as a composer in the 70s, I tend to get much of my inspiration from artists. Let me...
What Is EMDR?
What is EMDR? Well, the acronym is short for what is quite a mouthful; it stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. That’s why we use the acronym. It is an accelerated and adaptive model of therapy that can sometimes resolve very severe problems in a...
Book Notes, Vol. 6
My goal here is to help you, the reader, to view psychology as the rich and powerful process that it is. Perhaps you will see it for the sacred work that I am privileged to do rather than a sitcom version of a therapist as a buffoon. When a client says, “No one...
Unburdening Souls: Science and Mystery
My book is not about Thomas Merton. I discuss him here because the book is about combining and looking at the work of psychology through a spiritual and even mystical lens. I am moving into territory that I should not enter much like Merton. I can’t help myself, I...
Book Notes, Vol. 5
I’m not sure when the view of my work began to change; it was a slow process. I stopped seeing my patients as clinical entities. St. Gregory stated, “A soul in trouble is near unto God.” I started to see my patients as souls in trouble and to sense that they were...
Book Notes, Vol. 4
He was always one with a story. He had spent most of his career treating Vietnam Veterans with PTSD and doing research with this group. He said, with his soft voice and subtle southern accent, “Did I ever tell you ‘bout the time I was pick’in up leaves out by the...
Book Notes, Vol. 3
I helped Sam heal and become whole. He began to trust enough to date women again. He had lived alone for years. Now his life was no longer riddled with fear and doubt, but instead he was feeling more confident and relaxed. I’m not sure who benefited more from our work...
Book Notes, Vol. 2
Sam was the first patient I treated who expressed extremely violent emotional discharges during EMDR sessions. In the initial sessions, I acted as if I was accustomed to this process. In reality, I was terrified, saying to myself, “Holy shit! What am I supposed to...
Book Notes Perils of Weight Loss: Stage Four Stuff
The previous posting briefly laid out the six stages that many of my clients progress through during EMDR therapy. The EMDR process has a rapid and multi-level effect on the client, both during the treatment and out in the world. The person changes in many ways. It is...
Six Stages of Psychological Transformation and The Christian Parallel
Ok here are the six stages of transformation. This is a bare bones look. These will be compared to six moments that Christ lived that parallel this six stage psychological process. Christ seemed to be concerned with our souls and our psyche’s. Later, we will see what...
Book Notes, Vol. 1: Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought
She was ready, so I began. Immediately, in less than fifteen seconds, she began to shiver, to shiver as if she had just been dragged out of an icy river in the middle of winter. The temperature in my office was a comfortable seventy-four degrees. Her teeth began to...
Unburdening Souls: Science and Mystery
This book is not about Thomas Merton. I discuss him here because the book is about combining and looking at the work of psychology through a spiritual and even mystical lens. I am moving into territory that I should not enter much like Merton. I can’t help myself; I...
About the book: Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought
In my work, there is a certain amount of intellectual territorialism. This is when one model of psychotherapy is viewed as better than every other and never shall one model meet another. You either follow the cognitive-behavioral gods, or the psychodynamic gods, or...
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