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Our all-inclusive trainings are EMDRIA Approved!
EMDR is a highly effective treatment for simple/complex PTSD, attachment trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, addictive behaviour problems, and many other clinical issues. Enhance your clinical skills with this highly sought-after evidence-based therapy and learn to use it with adults, teens, and children.
Why Train with Us?
- Our in-person trainings are facilitated by two EMDRIA approved trainers with 30 years’ experience combined as EMDR therapists
- All-Inclusive training provides everything you need to complete the EMDRIA Basic Training including:
- 10 hours Consultation at no extra cost
- Small group learning in practicum and consultation
- 3 extra hours of training
- Comprehensive manuals including protocol scripts for easy implementation in sessions
- Additional focus on integrating EMDR Therapy both into your in-person and virtual therapy practice
- Access to our exclusive EMDR Basic Training Online Forum
Dr. Alivia Maric, RPsych, and Eve Wilensky, RCC, weave together two different and complementary teaching styles and approaches to EMDR therapy.
Together, they have decades of experience working within the trauma field, and they are passionate advocates of the healing power of EMDR.
Plus, they have so much fun together! Their energy and enthusiasm help participants to see the wide range of approaches to this work.
About the Trainings
Our trainings are based on Dr. Marshall Wilensky’s curriculum, which has been fine-tuned over the last 25 years, continually incorporating the latest research.
In each in-person training, you will benefit from live demonstrations, small-group practice sessions, and supportive attentive facilitators.
You will stay with the same cohort throughout, allowing for the opportunity to form ongoing supportive connections with fellow trainees.
The latest edition of Dr. Francine Shapiro’s EMDR textbook and hardcopies of training manuals, handouts, and practice workbooks are included at no extra cost.
Consultations
- Ten hours of consultation required to complete the training are included at no additional cost.
- These consultation sessions are scheduled throughout the training process to support you as you begin using EMDR with your in-person and virtual clients.
- You will have access to a private consultation forum for ongoing support from multiple EMDRIA Approved Consultants and a searchable archive of more than 15 years of discussions and 28,000+ posts.
- You will also have access to a library of EMDR resources, such as links to online videos, readings, journal articles, podcasts, and other web resources.
We Are Local!
- This training connects you with trainers and facilitators who are active members of the local EMDR community, EMDR Canada, and EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).
- We provide ongoing support to the local community of EMDR clinicians through consultation, a clinicians’ forum, and other services.
- For almost 20 years, Alivia Maric worked for Marshall Wilensky who trained over 2500 therapists, counsellors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals throughout the Lower Mainland and other British Columbia communities.
- Current projects include working with the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program that offers free therapy and psychological first-aid to refugees in Canada, first responders, frontline workers, and others in-need in Canada.
All of our Vancouver trainings take place on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral homelands of the wməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, Vancouver BC.