Somatic & EMDR Therapy for Anxiety and Trauma in Fort Worth
5 Training Days | 10 Hrs Consultation | In-Person + Virtual
Not just trained. Grounded, confident, and ready.
Whether you're new to EMDR or have completed a basic training and want to go deeper — this is the experience that bridges clinical knowledge and embodied skill. Over five immersive days, you won't just learn EMDR. You'll practice it, feel it, and integrate it in a way that changes how you sit with clients
Clinicians new to EMDR
EMDR-trained therapists seeking integration
Licensed therapists and counselors
Graduate-level clinicians in supervised practice
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WHY THIS TRAINING
This is not your typical
EMDR training.
Most trainings teach you the 8 phases. This one teaches you what to do when your client's body says something the protocol doesn't account for — and how to stay grounded, confident, and clinically effective when that happens
You practice every single day
This isn't a lecture series with a practicum tacked on at the end. Every training day includes structured experiential practice — you'll leave each day having actually done the work, not just watched it demonstrated.
You're EMDR-trained and want to go deeper
You completed your basic training, you know the phases — but something still feels mechanical. You want to understand what's happening underneath the protocol, and how to bring more of yourself and your other skills into the work.
Trauma-informed from the inside out
Your clients don't fit neatly into a standard EMDR protocol. They dissociate, they shut down, they have parts that fight the work. You need clinical tools that are flexible, relational, and trauma-sensitive — not just procedural.
HOW THIS COMPARES
Most EMDR tranings
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Protocol-focused, phase-by-phase
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Limited practicum time
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Little guidance on stuck processing
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One modality, one lens
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Consultation sold separately
EMDR, Embodied
Clinician-centered, integrative approach
Practicum built into every day
Explicit training in abreactions & blocks
IFS, somatic, attachment, yoga woven in
10 hrs consultation included
WHO IS THIS INTENSIVE FOR
This intensive training was designed for clinicians who want more than a protocol — who want to understand trauma from the inside out and bring that understanding into every session, with every client.
You might be exactly
who we had in mind.
You're new to EMDR
You've heard about EMDR, maybe seen it transform clients, and you're ready to learn it — but you want to start with an approach that's integrative, embodied, and built for real clinical complexity. Not just the textbook version.
You're EMDR-trained and want to go deeper
You completed your basic training, you know the phases — but something still feels mechanical. You want to understand what's happening underneath the protocol, and how to bring more of yourself and your other skills into the work.
You work with complex trauma
Your clients don't fit neatly into a standard EMDR protocol. They dissociate, they shut down, they have parts that fight the work. You need clinical tools that are flexible, relational, and trauma-sensitive — not just procedural.
You work across the lifespan
Whether your clients are children, adults, couples, or older adults — the framework you'll learn here is built to adapt. Trauma doesn't look the same across a lifetime, and neither should your approach to treating it.
You want to build real confidence
Not just the confidence that comes from knowing the steps — but the kind that comes from having practiced, received feedback, and discovered that you can actually hold this work. That's what this training is built to create.
You're an integrative clinician
You already draw from multiple modalities — somatic work, IFS, attachment theory, mindfulness — and you want to learn how EMDR fits into and enhances everything else you do, rather than replacing it.
This training might be calling to you if...
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You freeze when a client dysregulates mid-session and aren't sure what to do next
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You've been doing trauma work for years but sense there's a deeper level of skill available to you
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You know EMDR is evidence-based but want to understand the neuroscience behind why it works
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You want a training that takes the body seriously — not just the narrative
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You've felt like something was missing from other trauma trainings you've attended
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You want to leave a training feeling ready — not just informed
A note on who this training isn't for
This training is designed for licensed mental health clinicians and supervised graduate-level trainees. It is not a coaching certification or a personal development program. To participate in the clinical practicum components, you will need to be currently working with clients in a clinical capacity.
EVENT DETAILS, PRICING, REGISTRATION
EARLY BIRD
$1,499
Limited spots at this rate
Register before early bird closes
STANDARD
$1,799
General registration
Available until spots fill
Payment plan available
FINAL PRICE
$1,999
Last call registration
Final Weeks before intensive
Payment plan available
WEEKEND ONE - DAYS 2 & 3
Friday & Saturday ​
September 18 & 19, 2026 ​
In-Person- DFW​
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WEEKEND TWO - DAYS 4 & 5
Friday & Saturday ​
September 25 & 26, 2026 ​
In-Person - DFW​
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Post-Intensive Consultation
10 Hours​
Virtual · 4 sessions × 2.5 hrs
Multiple dates
Required - Virtual
Presented by ,
Ashley Stafford, LCSW-S, EMDR-C
I didn't set out to become a trainer. I became one because I kept meeting clinicians who had completed their EMDR training and still felt unsure — unsure of their instincts, unsure of how to adapt the protocol when a client's body was screaming something the SUDs score couldn't capture. I had felt that way too. And I knew there had to be a better way to learn this work.
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Over more than 20 years in the mental health field, I've had the privilege of sitting with people across the full span of human experience — children navigating what they couldn't yet name, families trying to find each other again, adults carrying decades of unprocessed pain, couples on the edge of breaking, and elders making sense of a lifetime. That breadth taught me something essential: trauma doesn't look the same in every body, at every age, or in every relationship. And neither does healing.
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My own training eventually led me to EMDR — and then to the work of deepening it. I'm certified in EMDR and have spent years integrating it with Internal Family Systems, somatic interventions, attachment-informed approaches, and self-compassion practices because I believe that the most effective trauma work happens when we bring the whole person into the room — not just their cognitions, not just their history, but their nervous system, their parts, and their body.
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This training is what I wished had existed when I was starting out. It's experiential by design, integrative by conviction, and built to give you not just knowledge — but the kind of embodied confidence that changes how you show up for your clients.
