EMDR Made Simple: A Practical Approach for Real Clinical Work – Jamie Marich, PhD

EMDR Made Simple: A Practical Approach for Real Clinical Work

Therapists often learn EMDR yet feel unsure about how to use it confidently with real clients in real sessions. EMDR Made Simple cuts through the rigidity and confusion. It provides you with a grounded, flexible way to bring EMDR to the clients who need it most.

A Clear, Grounded Path to Using EMDR with Confidence

In today’s clinical landscape, EMDR is practiced in many ways. This leaves therapists unsure how to apply the model with confidence and clarity. But EMDR Made Simple offers a grounded, practical path forward.
In this 3-hour live webinar, Dr. Jamie Marich introduces a framework that helps clinicians bring EMDR into real-world trauma work without rigidity, overwhelm, or fear.

Drawing from more than 20 years as an EMDR therapist, trainer, researcher, and author, Jamie presents her influential Four Faces of EMDR Model, first developed in 2011. This model organizes the diverse ways in which EMDR and EMDR-related interventions appear in clinical practice. With EMDR Made Simple, Jamie guides clinicians toward using EMDR more intuitively and more adaptively. And clinicians learn how to use EMDR with far greater confidence in sessions involving complex trauma, dissociation, or lived-experience activation.

Understanding the Four Faces of EMDR

Jamie explains how EMDR can function in two ways—as a full psychotherapy model or as a targeted intervention. This depends on the client’s needs and the realities of the setting. Through clear examples and accessible language, EMDR Made Simple helps clinicians understand:

• How the Four Faces of EMDR orient practice across diverse clinical environments
• Why newly trained EMDR therapists often feel intimidated
• How to reduce fear and uncertainty when working with complex presentations
• Where your own practice fits within the model—and how to expand it

This course removes unnecessary complexity and replaces it with grounded clinical judgment.

Applying EMDR with Flexibility and Integrity

One of Jamie’s core teaching messages is that EMDR is most effective when clinicians show up with presence, humility, and responsiveness. In EMDR Made Simple, she demonstrates how to honour EMDR’s structure. And she shows you how to adapt it ethically for diverse populations, complex trauma, and real-time nervous system needs.

Jamie also explores how EMDR integrates with trauma-focused care and how to modify the standard protocol without compromising safety. You also learn how to work effectively when the strict protocol does not fit the moment.

Why Learn from Jamie Marich?

Jamie is internationally respected for her ability to translate EMDR into clear, compassionate, and trauma-informed practice. Clinicians praise her accessible teaching style, depth of expertise, and commitment to demystifying EMDR. Her approach allows therapists to feel both grounded and empowered—even when facing clinical complexity.

Whether you’re newly trained or experienced, EMDR Made Simple gives you a clear, clinician-centred way to deepen your EMDR work with integrity.

1. To define trauma-focused care and describe where EMDR and related intervention fits into the overall practice of trauma-focused care.
2. To articulate the Four Faces of EMDR Model and describe where you see yourself and your practice (both currently and intentionally) fitting into the model.
3. To identify best practices for adapting and modifying the standard EMDR Therapy protocol to address complex trauma and dissociation better and serve populations that may not have been fully considered when the standard protocol was first researched.

This training offers 3 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

Attendees of the original live broadcast receive instructions on how to obtain their Certificate of Participation at the end of the course and in the “recording ready” email, which is sent 1-2 days after the live course has ended.

Attendees watching the previously recorded/on-demand version must complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a passing grade of at least 80% to verify their attendance and receive their Certificate of Participation.

Note: The course recording is available only after the live broadcast has ended.

The Certificate of Participation includes:

• Name of Participant
• Title of Training
• Name of Presenter (plus their credentials)
• Number of Training Hours
• Date of Training
• Confirmation of 100% attendance at the original live broadcast OR a passing grade of at least 80% on the recorded on-demand version post-course quiz

Get details about CE credits for Canadian and non-US international participants.

Get details about CE credits for US participants.

Please check with your regulatory body/organization to ensure that this certificate is sufficient proof for you to claim CE credits.