Five sessions. One arc. Begin trusting your own judgment.
This cohort is built for the moment your training ends, and you begin prepping for clients with a lot of trauma to process.
You won't be carrying the risk alone.
The fear that one wrong move could hurt a client is secretly held by many.
You'll work from a phase-by-phase readiness framework, so you're not guessing whether a client can tolerate what's next, and understand how to pivot. Decisions are rooted in fidelity scales that guide good judgment when things don't go as planned — no perfection needed.
Complex cases stop feeling like a fire hose.
A map across all eight phases shows you exactly how the pieces connect.
History and case formulation, resourcing, assessment, judgment under uncertainty, and closure. And if things don't go as expected, you'll know exactly where to look to tweak the treatment plan, instead of guessing where it broke down.
Built on a published standard, not a personal opinion.
Ever wonder what actually separates a rigorous EMDR certification from just accumulating hours?
The fidelity scales were tested against standards from EMDR Europe and EMDRIA's own research committee. They're a documented method calibrated for symptom resolution, not one person's opinion.
Structure that holds who you are as a therapist, not one that replaces it.
Maybe you came to this work because you're highly empathetic — and structure feels like it could dial that down.
It doesn't. The framework welcomes your attunement and responsiveness while guiding through history taking and reprocessing. You don't have to stop being an empath, but you'll be better prepared to read blocks and stay grounded when feeling isn't enough to tell you what to do next.
Join the waitlist to get full program details when the next cohort opens.
Who You'll Learn With
Donna Hunter, M.A., CMHC
EMDR Approved Consultant · AEDP Level 2 Therapist · TC-TSY & Polyvagal-Informed Therapist · Assessing and Treating Sex Issues in Psychotherapy, Level 1 · Author of The 51st Minute
Donna has spent her career in the deep end—complex trauma, dissociative disorders, and the religious, gender and race-related wounds that don't fit neatly into protocol. As an EMDR Approved Consultant, she's the one who signs off your certification hours and the consultant other therapists return to when a case has them stuck.
Her approach is the same one she writes about each month in The 51st Minute: meet you where you are, name what's actually happening in the room, and help your clinical judgment grow its roots—so your reach grows with it.
- ◆ Complex trauma & dissociation
- ◆ Developmental trauma
- ◆ Small, paced group format
- ◆ Real-time case consultation