EMDR & Beyond

Teaching the heart of EMDR EMDR & Beyond grew out of a shared passion for the healing of suffering. Please inform your therapist if you prefer using masks.

Our Mission is to support and promote the healing of adverse life experiences through therapy, consultation, training and education. We offer psychotherapy specializing in the therapeutic approach EMDR. We also offer education for the EMDR theraputic community, with a range of EMDR topics, resources, workshops and workshop events for the EMDR clinician. Our EMDR Basic training is open to interns

and practicum students at a reduced rate, as part of their educational process. EMDR are following CDC guidelines in that wearing a mask is optional. If you are immune compromised or unvaccinated, masks are available.

09/04/2026

📌 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀!

Ready to invest in your clinical skills this fall and winter? We have three live training opportunities coming your way—each designed to deepen your practice and give you practical tools you can bring directly into your work.

✨ October 16, 2026
𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗼𝘄𝗮
👩🏫 Kenya Rocha, LMHC
• Live Hybrid
• 6-hour training
• $219.99

✨ November 12–13, 2026
𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀
👩🏫 Melissa Benintendi, MA, LPC
• Live Virtual
• 8 CE Credits
• $319.99
🎉 Early Bird Promotion available!

✨ December 3–4, 2026
𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗜𝗜: 𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗥 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸
👩🏫 Kenya Rocha, LMHC
• Live Hybrid
• 12 EMDRIA & CE
• $479.99
🎉 Early Bird Promotion available!

Whether you're strengthening your supervision skills, expanding your understanding of dissociation, or developing your couples work, there's a training to support your next step.

📅 Save the dates and plan your professional development!

🔗 Visit http://www.emdrandbeyond.com for more information and registration details.

09/04/2026

Ethics in EMDR: Strengthen Your Clinical Practice 🧠⚖️

Ethical practice is an essential part of effective EMDR—and navigating ethical questions can become more complex as clinical roles and responsibilities evolve.

Explore two on-demand trainings with Kenya Rocha, MS, LMHC, NCC, EMDRIA Approved Trainer & Consultant, Clinical Supervisor, and Bilingual Therapist.

📚 𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗥 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀: 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
Explore ethical questions related to preparedness, hesitancy to process, and emotional content.
🎓 3 CE Credits | 90-Day Replay Access | Clinical Reference Materials
💗 10% off with code: EEC26

📚 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀
Explore the complex dynamics of transference and countertransference across therapeutic, supervisory, and organizational relationships.
🎓 3 CE Credits | 90-Day Replay Access | Clinical Reference Materials
💗 10% off with code: IC26

Both programs are on demand, making it easy to fit professional development into your schedule.

🔗 Learn more and explore the ethics program: https://emdrandbeyond.com/

09/04/2026

Understanding Dissociation Through a Somatic Lens 🧠💗

Dissociation is often understood cognitively while the body is quietly telling the rest of the story.

What can look like “checking out” may also show up through shifts in awareness, bodily responses, patterns of disconnection, and experiences that can be easy to misunderstand.

Join Melissa Benintendi, MA, LPC, LIVE virtually for an eight-hour exploration of dissociative processes through a somatic and experiential lens. This training offers practical tools to deepen clinical understanding and support greater safety, awareness, and integration in your clients' healing process.

📅 November 12–13, 2026
💻 Live Virtual Training via Zoom
🎓 8 CE Credits
▶️ 90-Day Replay Access
📚 Clinical Reference Materials

💥 Early Bird: $319.99 — save $30!

If you're ready to expand your understanding of dissociation beyond traditional presentations and bring a more embodied perspective into your clinical work, this training is for you.

🔗 Learn more & register: https://emdrandbeyond.com/trainings/understanding-dissociation-somatic-lens/

09/03/2026

Registration Reminder: Iowa Clinical Supervisor Training 📚

Good supervision is structured, developmental, ethical, and human.

Join us LIVE virtually on October 16, 2026, for Clinical Supervisor Training in Iowa with presenter Kenya Rocha, LMHC.

This training will provide practical tools to support effective clinical supervision, including:

✨ Planning and structuring supervision
📝 Documentation
💬 Providing meaningful feedback
⚖️ Risk management
🎓 Supporting clinicians toward independent licensure

You’ll also receive 6 Iowa CE hours while building skills you can bring directly into your supervision practice.

📅 October 16, 2026
💻 Live Virtual Training
🎓 6 Iowa CE Hours
👩🏫 Presenter: Kenya Rocha, LMHC

Ready to strengthen your supervision practice?

🔗 Register now:https://courses.emdrandbeyond.com/clinical-supervisor-training-in-iowa-october-2026

09/02/2026

The best continuing education does more than fill a requirement. It gives clinicians something they can understand, apply, and carry into the room. Explore on-demand learning built for real clinical work.

09/01/2026

Labor Day Weekend = Learn at Your Own Pace 💗

A long weekend can be for rest—and, if it fits, a little learning on your own terms.

Whether you're looking to strengthen your EMDR skills, explore somatic work, deepen your understanding of dissociation and grief, or expand your clinical approach, there’s a training waiting for you.

✨ Choose from 25 on-demand programs covering topics including:

• Ethics
• Couples & families
• Somatic work
• Dissociation
• Grief
• Youth trauma
• Cultural responsiveness
• Supervision
• And more!

No schedule to coordinate. No rush. Just meaningful professional development on your time, at your pace.

📚 Pick the topic your practice is asking for next.

🔗 Explore all 25 on-demand trainings: https://emdrandbeyond.com/training/

08/31/2026

Supporting Grief Without Asking Clients to Leave Love Behind

Grief changes the assumptive world. What once felt known, safe, and continuous may no longer fit.

On National Grief Awareness Day, take a closer look at an approach designed specifically for working with grief—one that adapts the eight-phase EMDR model while honoring the continuing bond with what has been lost.

The EMDR Grief Protocol uses positive memory as a bridge toward integration, meaning, and continued connection, offering clinicians a way to support grief without asking clients to leave their love behind.

💻 On-Demand Training
🎓 6 CE Credits
🧠 EMDR Grief Protocol
👩🏫 Presented by Krista Helman, MSW, RSW, AC

If you're looking to deepen your clinical understanding of grief and expand your EMDR-informed approach, this training is available to watch on demand.

🔗 Learn more: https://courses.emdrandbeyond.com/emdr-grief-protocol

08/28/2026

When working with couples, the relationship is the client.

Everything we do must be in service of the “space between”—the relationship itself.

Join Kenya Rocha, MS, LMHC, NCC, December 3–4 for:

EMDR Couples Framework: Deeper Connections II—Putting the Pieces Together

This two-day hybrid training integrates:

• EMDR therapy and the AIP model
• Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
• Kenya’s COUPLES Framework
• Kenya’s Six Constructs of Intimacy
• Cultural and contextual responsiveness
• Relational resourcing and co-regulation
• Readiness assessment and target sequencing
• Couple-focused clinical practice and simulation

Kenya’s Six Constructs of Intimacy help clinicians evaluate and strengthen the relational conditions that support emotional safety and intimate connection. The COUPLES Framework guides clinicians in determining how to prepare the relationship, manage trauma processing, and deepen connection, accountability, and repair.

Learn to address trauma not only as something carried by each partner, but as something that enters—and can be healed within—the space between them.

📅 December 3–4
📍 In person or live virtual
🎓 Two-day advanced clinical training

Register here: https://emdrandbeyond.com/trainings/emdr-couples-framework-deeper-connections-2/

08/28/2026

1) A Stigma-Free Exploration of Working with Dissociation in Therapy
Dissociation can be easy to miss—and difficult to treat when we rely only on what we can see.

2) Dissociation doesn't always show up as 'checking out' -It can appear in the body, in shifts in awareness, in patterns of disconnection, or in responses that are easy to misunderstand.

3) Dissociation can be easy to miss—and difficult to treat when we rely only on what we can see.

Join Melissa Benintendi, MA, LPC for 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝘀, a live virtual training focused on recognizing dissociation through the body and expanding your clinical understanding beyond traditional presentations.

📅 November 12–13, 2026
💻 Live via Zoom
🎓 Earn 8 CE Credits
📚 Includes Clinical Reference Materials
▶️ 90-Day Replay Access

💥 Early Bird Special: Save $30 and register for $319.99!

Whether you're looking to deepen your clinical skills or expand your trauma-informed approach, this training offers practical insights you can immediately apply in your practice.

🔗 Register today by scanning the QR code or visiting www.emdrandbeyond.com

08/27/2026

In the aftermath of a crisis, the first goal isn't processing—it's stabilization. 💜

In the aftermath of a critical incident, the first goal may be to reduce acute distress enough for adaptive problem-solving to return. CIDP—the “CPR” of psychological trauma—offers practical crisis protocols for schools, hospitals, emergency services, and other high-stress settings.

Join Kenya Rocha, LMHC in 𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗣: 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘀, an on-demand training that equips clinicians with structured, evidence-informed approaches to supporting individuals in the immediate aftermath of critical incidents.

✨ On-Demand – Learn at Your Own Pace
🎓 Earn Continuing Education Credits
📺 Instant Access After Enrollment
🌟 Open to All Clinicians

Build your confidence with practical stabilization strategies that help clients regain balance, reduce overwhelm, and create the foundation for continued recovery.

Enroll today and be prepared to respond when your clients need it most.

Register here: https://courses.emdrandbeyond.com/cidp-cidatip---the-cpr-of-psychological-trauma

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