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The Nature-Based Approach
Combining EMDR with ecotherapy, the creative arts, and body-based practices has allowed me to offer a more restorative healing experience to my clients and to enhance cultural responsiveness in my approach as a consultant and trainer.
Clinicians beginning their journey in EMDR often find the process overly clinical and complicated. With guidance and practice, EMDR can feel more intuitive and natural, so you can skillfully guide the process as you trust and follow your client’s innate capacity to heal.
I have developed a fresh reconceptualization of EMDR that will help you better understand the core concepts of EMDR and the 8 phases of the standard protocol using metaphors from the natural world. The nature-based language, tools, and visual resources I provide create an intuitive and universally understood reference point so that EMDR can resonate more deeply with you as a therapist and, in turn, with the clients and communities you work with.
When you feel confident and centered in your approach, even with highly complex cases, you can empower your clients to face and resolve the impact of trauma and adversity in their lives.
Enhance your EMDR practice by learning to integrate creative, nature- and body-based approaches into each phase of treatment.
Learning Nature-Based Approaches to EMDR
Take a fresh perspective on the steps and stages of EMDR reprocessing through a comprehensive nature-based framework that will help you and your clients understand EMDR in an accessible and restorative way, including its working mechanisms.
In addition to consultation helping you to internalize the steps and phases of EMDR, you will also learn creative, body, and nature-based strategies to enhance each phase of treatment.
For example:
- Gather histories (such as building visual timelines) in ways that help maintain present orientation to safety and prevent destabilization.
- Bring the body into the healing process as a vital resource for grounding and stabilization, such as through trauma-sensitive yoga, polyvagal theory and nervous system regulation, and the creative arts.
- Offer relational forms of dual attention stimulus that engage the engage the body, use rhythm and sound, and help maintain dual awareness.
- Gain accessible and nonpathologizing nature-based resources to explain trauma responses and dissociation
- Learn to use an art-based preverbal reprocessing protocol for attachment trauma.
- Develop skills to identify and reprocess generational material and implicitly-held memories.
See below for a FREE downloadable PDF to use the 5 Ss with your clients today!
Interested in Learning More?
My approach to EMDR has been shaped by over ten years of experience working in non-Western and Indigenous contexts. I have come to deeply value the integration of creative, body- and nature-based practices to make the process feel more resonant and restorative for both therapists and clients I work with.
I help consultees build their skills in working with acute, complex, and ongoing trauma and the full spectrum of dissociation, from depersonalization to distinct self-states (dissociative identity disorder).
As a creative arts therapist, I keep the process engaged, dynamic, and collaborative – with my consultees as I do with my clients.
I look forward to supporting you in your growth as an EMDR therapist, be it working towards certification, status as an approved consultant, or simply expanding your skillset as a trauma therapist.
Consultation Fees & Packages
- Single session (55 mins): $125 USD/$170 CAD)
- Package of 5 individual sessions ($500 USD/$650 CAD)
Group EMDR consultation is typically offered as 2-hour monthly sessions with a maximum of 8 participants:
- Single group session: $50 USD per group/$68 CAD
- Package of 5 group sessions: $200 USD/$270 CAD)
Group consultation for consultants-in-training (CITs) is typically offered as a full package of 20 hours of consultation-of-consultation (2 to 3-hour monthly sessions with a maximum of 4 participants). Contact me if you are interested in joining a CIT group.
