- Evaluate the biological nature of trauma, i.e., how trauma is stored in the body and limbic system, creating physical and psychological symptoms to better treat your clients.
- Examine Porges’ Polyvagal Theory as it relates to clinical treatment of traumatized clients.
- Differentiate between sympathetic (activated) freeze response and the parasympathetic (deactivated) dorsal vagal immobilization response in your client’s experiences.
- Demonstrate how tone of voice and proximity communicate safety to your client during therapy sessions.
- Distinguish between the following types of traumatic stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental and articulate treatment considerations for each.
- Assess for the clinical implications of traumatic stress symptomology, including hyperarousal, affect dysregulation, dissociation, body memories, and flashbacks.
- Employ three effective somatic techniques to reduce/eliminate client’s body memories, “flashbacks” and dissociation.
- Appraise the landmark study: Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and articulate the ten adverse childhood experiences studied as they related to clinical diagnosis and assessment.
- Determine the relationship between developmental trauma and the inability to regulate both affect and physiological arousal.
- Support the relationship between developmental trauma and “health-risk behaviors” as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Appraise clinical presentation of the following attachment styles: secure vs insecure; insecure; organized vs insecure disorganized.
- Design two clinical interventions based on the clients’ attachment style.
- Diagnose the following disorders based on diagnostic criteria and symptomology: Simple Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Developmental Trauma Disorder, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Differentiate between PTSD and CPTSD to improve clinical assessment of your client’s trauma history.
- Evaluate Janet’s tri-phasic model of trauma treatment and its impact of current treatment methodology.
- Appraise and design strategies for the client to acquire the requisite skills for processing trauma via EMDR, including safety within the therapeutic alliance and skills for self-regulation.
- Construct a treatment plan that incorporates various trauma tools, including mindfulness, guided imagery and meridian-based techniques to decrease client’s arousal levels and modulate affect.
- Employ client-driven imagery for safety, nurture, protection and containment. Utilize imagery in both stage one and stage two of treatment.
- Practice (under supervision) the skill for resourcing a client with imaginal resources prior to processing traumatic material.
- Defend Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing model as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Demonstrate three techniques of altering bilateral stimulation as a mechanism of action for EMDR.
- Analyze the original eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol (Shapiro) as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Evaluate Parnell’s four essential elements of utilizing EMDR in session.
- Justify the clinical applications of Parnell’s modified EMDR protocol for working with complex and developmental trauma.
- Demonstrate the specific EMDR skills utilized in a clinical setting for processing traumatic memories.
- Investigate two contraindications for utilizing EMDR interventions for trauma treatment.
- Formulate two EMDR protocols for working with Addiction.
- Support Millers’ Feeling-State Therapy Addiction Protocol
- Appraise Popky’s urge reduction protocol, Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing (DeTUR)
- Practice (under supervision) a modified EMDR protocol to prepare for work with your clients in-session.
In the field of traumatic stress, there have been considerable updates and advancements designed to improve treatment outcomes. One of those advancements is the trauma processing modality, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Evidence suggests that EMDR is one of the most effective modalities for treating trauma and PTSD. So, if you’ve yet to learn this skill, now is the time.
Join trauma specialist, author and national trainer Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C, at the beautiful Honor's Haven Retreat Center in the Hudson Valley region in New York, where you will spend 7 days filled with skills building and personal transformation!
Leave revitalized with the confidence to fully implement EMDR with your clients as an effective treatment to heal trauma.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn and practice EMDR, do personal work, and take home the education and hands-on experience you need to be on your way to becoming an Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician (EMDR-C).
7-Day Retreat: EMDR Intensive Clinical Training
LIVE at Honor's Haven Retreat
Center:
Sunday, October 9th – Saturday,
October 15th
REGISTER NOW RISK FREE
Single Occupancy: $4,499 $4,499.00 – extended thru October
6th!
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us. For double occupancy or upgrade options, contact us here.
Through lecture, live and videotaped EMDR demonstrations, and supervised experiential practice sessions, this training will provide you with not only the theory and principles, but the specific steps to effectively introduce and incorporate EMDR into your practice.
The tri-phasic stage model remains today’s state-of-the-art treatment approach for all but single incident trauma. During this training, you will learn the goals of each stage, along with the therapeutic tools to reach those goals.
- Learn how to use the evidence-based treatment modality, EMDR. Learn first-hand why it is such an effective treatment for both single incident PTSD and complex trauma.
- Participate in hands-on practice of EMDR in a safe and supervised environment.
- Learn this dynamic, comprehensive skill that will equip you to improve outcomes with traumatized clients right away.
- Join with colleagues in the healing environment of the Hudson Valley to learn and practice skills. After the training, return home with a ready-made cohort for online group consultation.
Sign up today to become a Certified EMDR Clinician to better treat your clients suffering from trauma’s multitude of symptoms.

This special offer includes:
- 7 Day Retreat: EMDR Intensive Clinical Training – Includes practice hours needed for certification!
- Treating Complex Trauma: Beyond Competency online course – Includes the additional educational hours needed for certification!
- Consultation sessions with Linda Curran – Includes the 10 hours needed for certification!
- Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician (EMDR-C) Certification fee – FREE!
Sunday
Monday–Friday
Saturday
All meals listed are included with registration
*CE is awarded during these specified times

The target audience includes:
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Psychiatrists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Mental Health Professionals
LIVE at Honor's Haven Retreat
Center:
Sunday, October 9th –
Saturday, October 15th
REGISTER NOW RISK
FREE
Single Occupancy: $4,499 $4,499.00 – extended thru October
6th!
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us. For double occupancy or upgrade options, contact us here.
- Biological nature of trauma
- Triune Brain, The Autonomic Nervous System and the Stress Response
- The Polyvagal Theory
- Traumatic Stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental
- Specific trauma symptoms
- Primary treatment issues in trauma therapy
- Hyperarousal
- Hypoarousal
- Dissociation, body memories and “flashbacks”
- Affect dysregulation
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study)
- Attachment Essentials
- Baby/momma trauma
- Insecure Attachment Styles Assessment and Primary Treatment Issues of:
- Avoidant
- Preoccupied
- Disorganized type
- Attachment Essentials
- Acute Trauma Disorder
- PTSD and subtypes
- Dissociative
- Preschool
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Proposed Trauma Diagnoses
- Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
- Complex PTSD
- The Stage Model of Treatment
- Stage One: Stabilization and Safety
- Assessment, Rapport, Psychoeducation
- Developing the “Skills to Stay Stable”
- Trauma Tools for Affect Regulation
- Recognizing and regulating affect
- Dissociative episodes and “flashbacks”
- Grounding clients in their bodies and back in the present in the here and now
- Mindfulness/bodyfulness (including somatic exercises)
- EFT (meridian tapping)
- Reduction of physiological arousal
- Recognizing and up & down regulating arousal levels
- Containment and self-soothing
- Multisensory Guided Imagery
- Stage One: Stabilization and Safety
- Live EMDR demonstrations followed by experiential sessions
Under Supervision, Learn and Safely Practice the Skills of EMDR for Both Stage One and Two
- Phase One Work: Imaginal Resourcing
- Containment Imagery
- Comfortable Place Imagery
- Protection Imagery
- Nurture Imagery
Phase Two Work: Reprocessing Traumatic Memories
Working with Special Populations: Children, Addictions, and More
Limitations of Research and Potential Risk
- Contraindications and precautions for reprocessing trauma
- Differences in theory and in the associated neurophysiological model
Check out and depart Honor's Haven

Honor's Haven Retreat Center – Ellensville, NY
If you’re looking for a place to unwind and re-connect with what’s important, restore your spirits and rekindle your energies in a stunning natural setting, Honor's Haven is your destination.
A beautiful refuge in New York’s Hudson Valley region, Honor’s Haven Retreat Center is nestled amongst 260 acres of lush gardens and rolling hills, surrounding a freshwater lake at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountain Range. Experience the beauty, feel the energy, and awaken your spirit.
Retreat Highlights:- Secluded retreat, offering 260 acres of nature
- Nourishing three meals a day
- Private rooms and bathrooms
- Rejuvenate at the spa, sauna, fitness center, and/or indoor and outdoor pools
- Beautiful lake surrounded by trees, flowers, and many wild birds at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountain Range
- Space to meditate in the Kiva Garden
- Peaceful trails to enjoy nature and explore the mountains on your own
- Awe inspiring sunrises, sunsets and stargazing
- Easy drive from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts
- Closest airports:
- Albany
- LaGuardia & JFK
- Newark
- Easy train or bus ride from Port Authority or NJ Transit
*Single standard room rate and meals included with registration. Options available for shared room or upgrades, contact us for rates.
LIVE at Honor's Haven Retreat
Center:
Sunday, October 9th – Saturday,
October 15th
REGISTER NOW RISK FREE
Single Occupancy: $4,499 $4,499.00 – extended thru October
6th!
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us. For double occupancy or upgrade options, contact us here.
Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician (EMDR-C)?
Step 1: Complete the Treating Complex Trauma online course & attend the 7-Day EMDR Retreat
Step 2: Complete the CE test(s) and instantly print your CE certificates.
Step 3: Complete your 10 hours of group consultation with Linda Curran
Step 4: Submit your certification application to Evergreen Certifications.*
This special offer includes all certification requirements! Click here for full certification requirements.
That's it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.
*Professional standards apply. Learn more at www.evergreencertifications.com/emdr
We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.This training is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify towards EMDRIA credits or training.
This seminar focuses heavily on the use of the Theratapper. Other methods of bilateral stimulation are marginally discussed and can be used in practice.

Click here for information about Linda Curran
- Learn and practice EMDR
- Healthful (and tasty!) meals
- Single standard room for 6 nights
- Stylish accommodations, including a spa, fitness center, and indoor/outdoor pools
- Group Qi-gong practice available
- Healing garden, lake, hiking trails, and more to explore at the foot of the Shawangunk Mountain Range
- Covered patios and meditation areas
- Incredible landscapes – 260 acres of nature!

In response to the continually evolving global travel situation due to COVID-19, PESI has put in place a multi-faceted cancellation policy, allowing you to reserve your spot with peace of mind.
Health & Safety
Attendees’ health and safety is a top priority for PESI & Honor's Haven. This retreat requires the group to work closely together as part of the EMDR practice. Due to this, we are asking that customers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and will be asked to show proof of vaccination upon check-in.
If you are not feeling well, please don’t attend the retreat. PESI will be happy to offer one of the following cancelation options:- A full refund, or,
- Full credit toward any future PESI live event, On-Demand Digital Seminar, or Live Webinar
Event Cancellation Due to COVID-19 Or Unforeseen Circumstances
Should the event be canceled, all registered attendees will be notified by PESI of the cancellation policy. Registered attendees will then have the choice of either:- A full refund, or,
- Full credit toward any future PESI live event, On-Demand Digital Seminar, Live Webinar
Travel Advisories
Please check with your local government to see what advisories are in place before you travel.
PESI encourages attendees to purchase travel insurance that includes a cancellation for any reason option to protect your travel plans amid this ongoing uncertainty.
Retreat Location
Honor's Haven Retreat Center
1195 Arrowhead Road
Ellenville, NY 12428
Phone: (844) 469-7829
LIVE at Honor's Haven Retreat
Center:
Sunday, October 9th – Saturday,
October 15th
REGISTER NOW RISK FREE
Single Occupancy: $4,499 $4,499.00 – extended thru October
6th!
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us. For double occupancy or upgrade options, contact us here.