EMDR CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING
Intro to EMDR with Couples
Couples therapy can be some of the most meaningful and rewarding work we do—especially when we know how to help partners move from disconnection, blame, and reactivity toward safety, accountability, and deeper connection. In this one-hour introductory training, I share key foundations for effective couples work, including the five constructs of intimate relationships, the cycle of disconnection and reconnection, and the belief systems that often prevent couples from seeing one another with love and empathy. This training offers a high-level overview of essential concepts that can immediately enrich your clinical lens, while also serving as a preview of an upcoming more in-depth 6 hour CE program designed to help you apply these principles with greater clarity, confidence, and depth in your work with couples.
Restore loving connections between your couples, reducing negativity and fear.
An On Demand, intermediate-level EMDR continuing education course for clinicians who have completed
with
Kenya Rocha MS, LMHC, NCC
EMDRIA-Approved Trainer | EMDR Certified Clinician & Consultant | Couples & EMDR Specialist
On Demand
EMDR Basic Training Required
On Demand · Maintain Access as long as you keep your account
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WHEN EMDR COUPLES WORK STALLS
Resentment begins to dominate the relationship dynamic
Empathy and emotional attunement break down
The withdrawal-pursuit pattern becomes more reactive and entrenched
The therapist feels unsure how to address the couple’s resistance or negativity
Sessions start to feel stagnant, frustrating, and unclear in direction
Grounded in the AIP - learn how to recognize key intervention points when couples get stuck, use cycle de-escalating strategies that activate the orienting response, and identify attachment cries or bids for connection that help guide partners back toward safety and reconnection in the present.
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Secure checkout · Instant confirmation • Zoom link in your account • CE Certificate issued upon completion of short quiz
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This intermediate-level EMDR training is designed for licensed mental health professionals who have completed EMDR Basic Training and want to strengthen their effectiveness in working with couples.
If your EMDR work with couples feels stuck, flat, or in need of fresh direction, this training will help you bring new clarity and structure to the process.
You will learn how to de-escalate the emotional cycle, naturally engage the orienting response in the therapy room, and follow the AIP model to help couples move toward the five constructs of intimate relationships with greater connection, empathy, and stability.
This training is not designed for clinicians who have not completed EMDR Basic Training
COURSE OVERVIEW
Bring Clarity to Your Work with Couples Using an EMDR Informed Framework
A high-level introduction to EMDR-informed couples work that explores relational cycles, collaborative resourcing, target sequence planning, and readiness for processing. This one-hour training offers valuable clinical insight while serving as a gateway to my upcoming extended CE program for clinicians seeking deeper application and advanced skill development.
How EMDR applies to couples work
Understand the core EMDR mechanisms—AIP, the orienting response, and working memory—and how they inform relationship-based clinical work.How to identify the couple’s emotional cycle
Learn to recognize the cycle of reactivity and disconnection that keeps couples stuck in blame, distress, and missed bids for connection.How to build safety through collaborative resourcing
Discover practical, relationship-based resourcing methods that help couples strengthen co-regulation, connection, and readiness for deeper work.How to prepare couples for processing
Gain practical guidance for target sequence planning and learn key indicators of readiness before moving into processing within the couple system.
In this one hour lecture, participants will walk away with a clearer, more confident understanding of how to apply core EMDR principles to couples therapy in a way that is practical, relational, and clinically grounded.
EMDR & Beyond is an EMDRIA-approved provider of continuing education.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Participants will learn core EMDR principles needed in couples therapy. By identifying the emotional cycle, using collaborative resourcing to build safety and connection, effective target planning and recognizing when couples are ready for processing.
Integrate somatic interweaves into EMDR Phase 4 reprocessing with clarity and precision
Track activation, shutdown, and embodied cues in real time
Work skillfully with dissociation and stalled processing without destabilizing clients
Strengthen nervous system literacy to guide intervention timing
Maintain fidelity to the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model while deepening embodied integration
Accreditation Learning Objectives (EMDRIA Compliance)
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
* Identify the five core constructs of intimate relationships
* Recognize the cycle of disconnection and reconnection in couples work
* Understand how anger, blame, and reactivity interfere with relational safety
* Explore the belief systems shaped by past experiences that block empathy and connection
* Help couples increase accountability, responsiveness, and emotional attunement
* Strengthen your clinical lens for guiding couples toward greater safety, repair, and closeness
* Gain a stronger conceptual foundation of where to go when barriers present in session.
CLINICAL APPLICATION: USE IMMEDIATELY
This fast-moving, one-hour presentation is designed to give you practical clinical direction you can begin using immediately in your work with couples. While it is not a full-length training, you will leave with a clearer framework for recognizing relationship distress, responding more effectively in the therapy room, and supporting greater safety, connection, and readiness for deeper EMDR-informed work
Recognize when a couple is caught in an escalated emotional cycle and identify key moments for de-escalation
Use simple, relationship-focused resourcing strategies to support safety, co-regulation, and reconnection
Track attachment cries and bids for connection beneath conflict, blame, or withdrawal
Begin thinking more clearly about readiness for processing and next-step target planning within the couple system
On Demand · Maintain Access as long as you keep your account
Secure checkout · Instant confirmation • Zoom link in your account • CE Certificate issued upon completion of short quiz
THE SHIFT IN YOUR PHASE 4 WORK
Go from managing conflict in the room to understanding the relationship system with greater clarity—so you can de-escalate distress, strengthen connection, and help couples move toward meaningful change.
When couples are in pain and you are working to help them see the goodness in their relationship that you do... direction will become clear.
You will leave able to:
Read the body as a source of clinical information
Intervene confidently when reprocessing stalls
Work with dissociation without hesitation
Deepen integration without compromising AIP fidelity
Navigate complex trauma cases with greater clarity and embodied presence
Start with this one-hour introduction to strengthen your clinical lens and gain practical tools you can use right away—then join the full couples program for deeper training in EMDR-informed assessment, resourcing, and treatment planning.
COURSE DETAILS
- FORMAT:
- On Demand
- EMDRIA CREDITS:
- 1
- CE CREDITS:
- 1
- LEVEL:
- Intermediate
- PREREQUISITES:
- EMDR-trained required
- PRICE:
- $44.99
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MEET YOUR PRESENTER
Kenya Rocha MS, LMHC, NCC
EMDRIA-Approved Trainer & Consultant | EMDR Certified Clinician | Relationship Specialist
Kenya Rocha, MS, LMHC, NCC, is a compassionate EMDR therapist, trainer, and clinical leader with decades of experience helping individuals, couples, and families heal from trauma and build stronger, healthier connections. She is known for her grounded presence, relational approach, and deep commitment to ethical, culturally responsive care.
Kenya is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and a national and international EMDRIA Approved Basic Trainer with Roy Kiessling’s EMDR Consulting. She is also the CEO/Owner of Mosaic Family Counseling Center, Inc. and EMDR & Beyond, where she provides therapy, consultation, supervision, and training for helping professionals.
Fluent in English and Spanish, Kenya brings warmth, wisdom, and practical insight to her work. She is passionate about helping people feel safer, more connected, and more confident as they move toward healing and lasting change.
EMDR & Beyond specializes in advanced, trauma-informed continuing education for EMDR clinicians nationwide.
Train with an EMDRIA-approved trainer who specializes in couples and systems integrations.
COURSE AGENDA
This agenda reflects a fast paced 1 hour lecture format.
- 8:30–9:00 AM Registration & Networking
- 9:00–10:00 AM Welcome & Overview
- 10:00–11:00 AM Practice
- 11:00–11:15 AM Break
- 11:15 AM–12:00 PM Lecture
- 12:00–1:00 PM Lunch
- 1:00–2:00 PM Lecture & Practice
- 2:00–2:15 PM Break
- 2:15–4:00 PM Lecture & Practice
- 4:00–4:45 PM Lecture & Activity
- 4:45–5:00 PM Questions & Wrap Up
COMMON QUESTIONS
Is this appropriate if I’m newly EMDR-trained?
Yes — if you’ve completed an EMDRIA-approved Basic Training, this continuing education training is appropriate. It guides your clinical decisions while maintaining fidelity to the standard EMDR protocol and the integration of couples work
Will this conflict with AIP?
No. All EMDR interventions are grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and support fidelity to standard EMDR protocol.
Is this experiential?
No. This is a fast paced one hour lecture on how to infuse EMDR and it's core concepts into the framework of couples and relationship work. This EMDR continuing education course includes lecture and examples, with handouts you can use immediately.
Is this considered advanced EMDR training?
This is an intermediate-to-advanced EMDR training designed for clinicians who have completed Basic Training and want to deepen their Couples/Relationship work. While grounded in foundational EMDR protocol, the course expands your ability to conceptualize the presentation couples bring to the room.
Will this help with dissociation during EMDR?
Although this training is not specific to dissociation with EMDR, it does bring core concepts for grounding and presence in the framework, as well as the use of EMD and assessment of processing readiness, which inherently helps with dissociation.
What makes EMDR with couples work different than with individuals?
EMDR with couples is different from individual EMDR because the therapist is working with the relationship system, not just one person’s internal experience. That means tracking the emotional cycle between partners, building safety and co-regulation, and assessing readiness for processing within the couple dynamic
Do I receive EMDRIA-approved CE credits?
Yes. EMDR & Beyond is an EMDRIA-approved provider, and this course offers 1 EMDRIA credit. Licensed mental health professionals who meet attendance requirements will receive continuing education credits consistent with EMDRIA standards.
EMDR & Beyond is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists
How long will I have access to this On Demand program?
You will have access to this program as long as your account is active with EMDR & Beyond. Although you must use and apply for your CEs within one year of purchase, you may always refer back to it's content as long as you have your account.
Is this appropriate if my clients struggle with regulation?
Yes. If your clients struggle with regulation, this training will help you engage the Orienting Response to naturally help in building the positive neuropathway which effectively increases affect tolerance and management.
Accreditation & Compliance Information
EMDRIA CREDITS: 1
APA CREDITS: 1
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.
EMDRIA Credit Information
EMDR & Beyond is an EMDRIA-approved EC Provider (#15007). This program (#15007-DL107) is approved for 1 EMDRIA Credit. Eligibility for EMDRIA credits is limited to participants who have completed an EMDRIA-approved Basic EMDR Training.
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].
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On Demand Course
On Demand · Maintain Access as long as you keep your account
Secure checkout · Instant confirmation • Zoom link in your account • CE Certificate issued upon completion of short quiz
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.