Susie has amazing knowledge and skills! So much new learning...it will make my practice more efficient, effective, robust and safe. THANK YOU

FJ - Therapist in San Diego

Course material was phenomenal!

It focused on the safety and readiness of the client while providing the trainee with helpful worksheets to begin using EMDR in a safe, well organized way.

In comparing with other colleagues who have taken other EMDR trainings, this course focused more on EMDR readiness of the client which I believe to be extremely valuable knowledge!

This knowledge will inevitably restructure my practice to lean towards EMDR treatment rather than talk therapy.

ABJ - Therapist in San Diego

Overall, having the training online was a positive experience, in that it allowed to apply the concepts and strategies via telehealth more easily.

DCL - Therapist in San Diego

This was a refresher course for me.  It was an amazing way to get re-acquainted and up-to-date with the current changes with EMDR since I was trained back in 2000.

I enjoyed the evidence presented to back up how successful EMDR has become over the years.

DZ - Therapist in San Diego

The team was supportive and encouraging, Susie's approach felt very well researched, supported, and thorough. 

FLB - Therapist in San Diego

Susie Morgan presents with such a beautiful balance of strong, gentle, knowledgable, and nurturing qualities. She has pulled together the best of the best (and then some) and presented it in such a cohesive and meaningful way.

I absolutely love the Course and am confident it will make me a better and more thoughtful therapist. The Course is a must for any therapist wanting to use EMDR in their practice. The videos are priceless!

I wish I could have taken this course in conjunction with basic training or during basic training consultation.

Susie covers the readiness/resourcing component of EMDR – particularly how to protect against possible harm to a client with Complex PTSD – in a way basic training did not.

This Course would be beneficial for therapists at any level even those who do not use EMDR. This data so rich, there is something for all therapists.

Kim Forgette, LMFT

EMDR Therapist

This course is indispensable for EMDR therapists at all stages of training. For those new to EMDR therapy, it provides them with an understanding of some of its building blocks. For those who have completed the basic EMDR therapy training, it gives them a framework via which to work with clients with complex trauma, who are the majority of clients seeking treatment. For seasoned EMDR clinicians, it allows them to “fill in the gaps,” guiding them through a more fluid, organic approach to preparing clients for trauma processing.

Susie has synthesized her years of experience as an EMDR therapist and consultant to provide a highly effective way of preparing clients for EMDR therapy that is organic and straightforward in its presentation, yet incredibly rich in its content. Susie’s warm demeanor and approachable manner is coupled with clear, concise, in-depth instructions and explanations throughout.

Drawing on the work of key figures in the field of EMDR Therapy such as Jim Knipe, Dolores Mosquera, April Steele, Laurel Parnell, and Kathy Martin, in addition to her years of experience, Susie guides the participant in important work such as developing resources; working with defenses; identifying important negative and positive memories and the images, cognitions, emotions, and physical sensations associated with them; and using slow bilateral stimulation. Susie has made sure that the course is as universally applicable as possible, while providing safety precautions when appropriate, and emphasizing self-evaluation and self-care.

I wish this course had been available when I was going through my basic EMDR training, as it builds awareness and provides information about working with complex trauma that I really needed to know.

I’ve incorporated so many of Susie’s approaches and turns of phrase from this training (just this morning I used her words to explain to a client that dissociation means that “the brain has done something sophisticated with trauma”). I am very excited to have this resource!

Ghada Osman, PhD

EMDRIA Certified Therapist

I am a psychiatrist in private practice and have been an EMDR certified therapist for almost 10 years. The main sticking points I have run into are being able to identify and stabilize the dissociative and over accessing aspects of more fragile clients, as well as the armory of defenses that cause under accessing in my high functioning clients. The relevant and practical pieces of information in this course have made a big difference in my ability and confidence to work thru these issues with clients.

I have not gone to all the conferences or taken part in all the advanced supervision that Ms. Morgan had attended. But I get the benefit as she has distilled many of the main points of years of conferences and then has spoon fed the “pearls of wisdom” that we usually come away with.

She has also added some of her own techniques that add depth to the more traditional “resourcing” and target identification I was taught. So, without reservation I highly recommend this course.

Rosemary Wilson, MD

Psychiatrist, EMDRIA Certifed Therapist

I loved how friendly and warm the presentation was with good, simple explanations for difficult concepts. 

The illustrations, both verbal and literal, really helped make the concepts clear to me and I think it would be for beginning EMDR therapists, as well.

I find it so helpful myself to read through this and find new and inventive ways to explain some of these ideas to my own clients.

Kathleen Phelps, LCSW

EMDRIA Certified Therapist

Having completed the course, I have nothing but good things to say.

As a therapist still working towards certification in EMDR it is incredibly helpful to see a seasoned clinician explaining this complex work in straight forward, easy to understand language.

Overall this course has helped to solidify my knowledge and helped clarify how to visualize how the brain manages trauma. This would be a good introduction to other therapists thinking of training in EMDR or working towards certification. Excellent work!

Colette Lord, PhD

EMDR Trained Therapist

As an EMDR Certified Therapist, I am very grateful for Susie Morgan's Course. As a therapist in private practice, I tend to seek out consultation and collaboration, and as such, I have found this course very validating for the work that I am doing with my EMDR clients, and was helpful to spark new ideas and language during the readiness stages of EMDR therapy.

With my more challenging cases with complex trauma, I have found Susie's tools powerfully beneficial to thoughtfully and safely prepare during the history taking and readiness stages, and even further during reprocessing when clients become stuck.

I love how Susie so skillfully describes all of the various nuances of EMDR therapy while maintaining a compassionate stance; she has provided language that is easy for both clinicians and the general public unfamiliar with EMDR to follow.

This Readiness Course would be beneficial for newly trained clinicians working on becoming more proficient on their EMDR skills as well as more seasoned clinicians to refer their clients to as an adjunct resource when preparing a client for EMDR therapy.

The accompanying written notes, take home exercises and Susie's visuals in the video are so helpful for any learning style and a bonus cameo by a precious Sophie dog is easily my favorite part. :)

Beth Warren, LCSW

EMDRIA Certified Therapist

The Course is, in a word, Amazing. Susie Morgan’s command of the subject is thorough and well presented. For years I have struggled with alcoholism stemming from issues I could not identify.

This course helped me identify the source of my issues and, more importantly, identify a path to heal and grow from them.

 I strongly recommend this course for anyone interested in healing past trauma through a safe and effective process. For me, it opened the door to further EMDR therapy, a phenomenal technique. I wish I had been introduced to EMDR therapy decades ago.

JS

Susie Morgan makes understanding complicated personal psychological concepts easy to understand, and she engages the listener in a user-friendly process of self-understanding and personal growth. It was really easy to watch. I loved it! Much better than a self-help book.

A very innovative way to engage in personal growth!

DaLene Forester, PhD

EMDRIA Certified Therapist, Approved Consultant & Trainer

Past-President, EMDR International Association

I highly recommend this course! My issues of self-criticism, procrastination, co-dependent relationships, and passive aggressive behavior seemed impossible to stop. After coming to the end of trying harder and psychoanalyzing myself and those around me, I decided to give this course a try.

Through Susie's gentle and thoughtful videos, I received empathic skills and savvy tools to address the ways trauma had negatively impacted me.

In the videos Susie invites participants to document their journey through drawing and writing their experiences. Drawing and writing about experiences of pain as well as victory was incredibly empowering. I have become more accepting of myself and others through this process and my ability to respond to conflict has improved tremendously. The change that came from practicing these exercises is amazing!

These videos in conjunction with my own personal therapy helped me identify and move through traumatic memories that I would never have been able to face alone. I am so much more free in talking about my life and responding to my own and other people's limitations. I am so thankful I found this resource.

MK

Spending time to prepare for EMDR therapy can greatly streamline the process. There are a series of short videos that explain how EMDR works, and resources are provided to bump up the level of readiness.

The presentation is at once warm and welcoming, science informed, and pristinely clear.

I highly recommend Susie Morgan’s Course. It can reduce anxiety regarding EMDR therapy, allow clients to help clarify the process and to take foundational steps so that they can get the most out of their EMDR therapy.

Deborah Nielsen, LMFT

EMDRIA Approved Consultant

San Diego EMDRIA Regional Coordinator

The EMDR Readiness Course is a one-of-a-kind educational and therapeutic tool for prospective EMDR clients.

Susie Morgan expertly guides the viewer on a tour of the human brain and the EMDR process. Through easily-understood explanations, visual representations, and examples, Susie educates course participants on how past experiences can affect their present life.

The healing approach of EMDR is explained as the participant is prepared to gently explore their own readiness for transformation.

This course is extremely helpful to clients that are considering starting the EMDR process or are beginning the journey with their own therapist. This unique course is not to be missed!

Danielle Heistand,
PsyD

EMDRIA Approved Consultant