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November 12-13, 2026 · Live Virtual
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EMDR CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING
Updating Your Understanding of Dissociation through a Somatic Lens
Develop practical skills for working with dissociation using body-based, relational, and evidence-informed interventions.
Deepen your clinical understanding of dissociation and learn how to work with it more effectively in psychotherapy. Through a somatic and experiential framework, this training offers practical tools to foster safety, awareness, and integration in your clients' healing process.
A live, intermediate to advanced-level EMDR continuing education training for licensed mental health professionals
with
Melissa Benintendi MA, LPC
EMDRIA-Approved Trainer | EMDR Certified Clinician | Somatic EMDR Specialist
NOVEMBER 12-13, 2026 · Live Virtual
EMDR Basic Training Required
Live training · 90-day replay access
Secure checkout · Instant confirmation • Zoom link in your account • CE Certificate issued upon attendance verification
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Registration closes NOVEMBER 10, 2026 (central)
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Early Bird ends OCTOBER 30, 2026 (central) · Registration closes NOVEMBER 11, 2026 (central)
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This intermediate to advanced-level EMDR continuing education training is designed for licensed mental health professionals who have completed EMDR Basic Training and want to strengthen their clinical work with updating their understanding of dissociation through a somatic lens.
It is especially relevant for therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and marriage and family therapists working in trauma-focused settings.
Please note: The morning session is open to all licensed clinicians. The afternoon session assumes completion of EMDR Basic Training and is not designed for clinicians without that foundation.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Learn to understand and treat dissociation through a somatic, trauma-informed lens that emphasizes safety, embodied awareness, and the integration of overwhelming experiences.
Updating Your Understanding of Dissociation through a Somatic Lens provides clinicians with an integrative, trauma-informed framework for understanding and treating dissociation across the lifespan. Moving beyond traditional pathology-based perspectives, this course explores dissociation as a normal, adaptive neurobiological response to overwhelming experiences that affects the flow of information processing, perception, sensation, and awareness.
Understanding dissociation through a somatic and trauma-informed lens
Recognizing dissociation across the clinical spectrum
Identifying signs, symptoms, and embodied experiences of dissociation
Applying safety-focused and body-based treatment strategies
Integrating memory, sensory, and ego state interventions in therapy
Enhancing therapeutic attunement when working with dissociative clients
The training combines lecture, clinical case examples, experiential exercises, and guided discussion to move from conceptual understanding to applied clinical strategy.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
After this training, clinicians will be better prepared to:
Define dissociation as a normative, adaptive neurobiological process that alters the flow of information processing in response to perceived overwhelm.
Differentiate dissociative experiences across the clinical spectrum, from common
everyday phenomena to complex presentations such as dissociative identity disorder.
Describe the phenomenological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying dissociation, including changes in perception, sensation, and awareness.
Evaluate the limitations and appropriate use of DSM-based diagnostic categories when conceptualizing dissociation in clinical practice.
Identify common subjective and observable indicators of dissociation, including distortions in time, space, perception, memory, and embodiment.
Apply core treatment principles for working with dissociation, including increasing safety, enhancing embodied awareness, and expanding tolerance for dissociated material.
Compare and integrate memory-focused, body/sensory-focused, and ego state–focused interventions in the treatment of dissociation within an attuned therapeutic relationship.
Apply the above objectives through live consultation and discussion.
TAKE THIS INTO YOUR NEXT SESSION
The strategies in this training — from assessment and inclusive documentation to AIP-informed case conceptualization — are designed to be applied in clinical work right away, starting with your next client session.
Live training · 90-day replay access
Secure checkout · Instant confirmation • Zoom link in your account • CE Certificate issued upon attendance verification
HOW THIS CHANGES YOUR CLINICAL WORK
This training helps clinicians recognize and respond to dissociation with greater accuracy, confidence, and compassion by understanding it as an adaptive response to overwhelm rather than simply a symptom or disorder. Participants will gain practical, somatic, and trauma-informed tools to enhance safety, attunement, and integration in their clinical work with dissociative clients.
This is not an add-on technique — Understanding Dissociates becomes part of how clinicians understand memory networks, client experiences, and therapeutic attunement.
MEET YOUR PRESENTER
Melissa Benintendi, MA, LPC
EMDRIA-Approved Trainer | EMDR Certified Clinician | Somatic EMDR Specialist
Melissa Benintendi is an EMDRIA-approved trainer and consultant, EMDR Certified Clinician, and specialist in EMDR and somatic therapy for trauma, PTSD, and dissociation. She is the Owner and Senior Trainer at The Body in Mind, where she provides EMDR Basic Training, advanced EMDR workshops, and certification consultation for mental health professionals nationwide.
Melissa previously served as Director of Clinical Embodiment at Beyond Healing Center and Institute, where she co-developed integrated EMDR and somatic therapy training models. She is also co-creator of Notice That – An EMDR Podcast and Beyond Trauma.
Her work focuses on advancing embodied EMDR practice through neurobiologically informed, trauma-centered continuing education for clinicians.
Train with an EMDRIA-approved trainer who specializes in embodied Phase 4 integration.
COURSE DETAILS
- DATE:
- November 13-14, 2026
- TIME:
- 9AM (CST) / 7AM (PST) / 8AM (MST) / 10AM (EST)
- FORMAT:
- Live Virtual
- LOCATION:
- Zoom link (found in your account)
- REGISTRATION:
- Join 15 minutes early
- REPLAY ACCESS:
- 90-day access to the raw event recording (on-demand version released separately)
- CE CREDITS:
- 8 (under review)
- LEVEL:
- Intermediate to Advanced
- PREREQUISITES:
- EMDR Basic Training Required
- PRICE:
- $319.99
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COURSE AGENDA
This agenda reflects a balance of lecture, experiential practice, and clinical integration.
- 8:45-9:00 AM Registration
- 9:00 AM Instructions & Overview
- 9:30-10:30 Lecture
- 10:30–10:40 AM Break
- 10:40 AM–12:30 PM Lecture & Practice
- 12:30–1:00 PM Questions & Wrap up DAY 2
- 8:45-9:00 AM Registration
- 9:00 AM Instructions & Overview
- 9:30-10:30 Lecture
- 10:30–10:40 AM Break
- 10:40 AM–12:30 PM Lecture & Practice
- 12:30–1:00 PM Questions & Wrap up
COMMON QUESTIONS
Who is this training for?
This course is designed for licensed mental health professionals who have completed an EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Training and want to strengthen their understanding of dissociation through a somatic, neurobiological approach.
Do I need prior EMDR training?
Yes. Participants should have completed an EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Training, as this course builds on foundational EMDR knowledge and skills.
What will I learn?
You'll gain practical strategies to recognize and respond to dissociation, integrate somatic-informed interventions into EMDR therapy, and improve clinical confidence when working with complex trauma.
Is this training practical or mostly theoretical?
Both. The course combines current research, clinical theory, case examples, and practical interventions you can begin using in your practice right away.
What makes this training different from other dissociation courses?
Rather than viewing dissociation solely through diagnostic categories, this course explores dissociation as an adaptive neurobiological process. You'll learn practical, somatic-informed strategies for recognizing and responding to dissociation during EMDR therapy.
Will this help me work with clients who become dissociated during EMDR?
Absolutely. A primary focus of the training is recognizing dissociation in real time and learning somatic-informed approaches that support safety, regulation, and continued therapeutic progress.
Will a recording be available?
Yes. Registrants receive 90-day access to the event recording after the live training. To receive EMDRIA or CE credits, participants must attend the live virtual training in full and meet completion requirements. An on-demand version is typically released separately 20–30 days after the live event.
Do I receive EMDRIA-approved CE credits?
EMDR & Beyond is an EMDRIA-approved provider of continuing education. This course has been submitted for 8 EMDRIA credits, currently under review. Licensed mental health professionals who attend the full live training and meet completion requirements will receive continuing education credits consistent with EMDRIA standards once approved. CE credit count will be confirmed prior to the training date.
Is this training APA-approved?
EMDR & Beyond is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. This course has been submitted for 8 APA credits, currently under review. Credit count will be confirmed prior to the training date.
Accreditation & Compliance Information
APA CREDITS: 8 (under review)
Accreditation Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Define dissociation as a normative, adaptive neurobiological process that alters the flow of information processing in response to perceived overwhelm.
- Differentiate dissociative experiences across the clinical spectrum, from common
everyday phenomena to complex presentations such as dissociative identity disorder.
- Describe the phenomenological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying dissociation, including changes in perception, sensation, and awareness.
- Evaluate the limitations and appropriate use of DSM-based diagnostic categories when conceptualizing dissociation in clinical practice.
- Identify common subjective and observable indicators of dissociation, including distortions in time, space, perception, memory, and embodiment.
- Apply core treatment principles for working with dissociation, including increasing safety, enhancing embodied awareness, and expanding tolerance for dissociated material.
- Compare and integrate memory-focused, body/sensory-focused, and ego state–focused interventions in the treatment of dissociation within an attuned therapeutic relationship.
- Apply the above objectives through live consultation and discussion.
Continuing Education & Credit Information
EMDR & Beyond is the provider of continuing education (CE) credits for this program and remains fully responsible for the program and its content.
EMDR & Beyond is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
This training is intended for doctorate- and master’s-level mental health professionals, including Psychologists, LMFTs, LMHCs, LPCs, LISWs, LMSWs, and other master’s-level practitioners who have successfully completed an EMDR Basic Training.
Licensed professionals are responsible for contacting their regulatory board to determine individual course approval.
Certificate & Attendance Requirements
Certificates are issued electronically after attendance verification and completion requirements are met.
To receive CE or EMDRIA credits for live in-person or live virtual attendance, participants must attend the entire program in real time. Partial credit is not available, and viewing a recording does not qualify for live credit.
For the on-demand version (typically available 20–30 days after the live event), participants must complete the full curriculum and pass a post-quiz with a minimum score of 75%.
Certificates are automatically released once the quiz is successfully completed.
Course Evaluation & Support
Completion of the course evaluation is encouraged but not required to receive CE or EMDRIA credits. Participants who prefer not to complete the evaluation may contact Kenya Rocha at [email protected] to request certificate release.
For assistance with the learning platform, CE or EMDRIA credit attainment, or accommodation requests, please contact Kenya Rocha at [email protected].
Grievance Policy
EMDR & Beyond is committed to equitable treatment of all participants and to resolving grievances in a fair and timely manner. Written grievances should be submitted to Kenya Rocha at [email protected]. Grievances will be reviewed and, when appropriate, corrective action will be taken to prevent future occurrences.
Cancellation Policy
Refunds are available within three (3) days of course purchase, less a $50 processing fee. Purchases made after this period are non-refundable.
Conflict of Interest Policy
There is no known commercial interest or conflict of interest related to this workshop.
ADA Compliance
This course complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Participants requiring special accommodations should contact Kenya Rocha at [email protected] in advance.