- Evaluate the biological nature of trauma and how trauma can create physical and psychological symptoms.
- Examine Porges’ Polyvagal Theory as it relates to clinical treatment of traumatized clients.
- Differentiate between sympathetic (activated) freeze responses and the parasympathetic (deactivated) dorsal vagal immobilization response.
- Analyze how tone of voice and proximity communicate safety to clients during therapy sessions.
- Identify distinguishing factors of the following types of traumatic stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental.
- Determine the clinical implications of traumatic stress symptomology, including hyperarousal, affect dysregulation, dissociation, body memories, and flashbacks.
- Select three somatic techniques to reduce symptoms of body memories, “flashbacks,” and dissociation.
- Describe the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.
- Analyze the relationship between developmental trauma and the inability to regulate both affect and physiological arousal.
- Evaluate the relationship between developmental trauma and “health-risk behaviors.”
- Compare the clinical presentations of insecure, avoidant, preoccupied, and disorganized attachment styles.
- Select clinical interventions based on the client’s attachment style.
- Differentiate between PTSD and CPTSD to improve clinical assessment and treatment of client trauma history.
- Compare Judith Herman’s tri-phasic model of trauma treatment to current treatment methodology.
- Choose strategies to aid clients in acquiring the requisite skills for processing trauma via EMDR.
- Utilize stabilization and safety techniques to help with grounding and centering traumatized clients in-session.
- Use client-driven imagery for safety and containment during trauma processing.
- Utilize imagery in both stage one and stage two of treatment.
- Practice imaginal resourcing skills in preparation for trauma processing.
- Evaluate Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing model as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Identify the current research regarding the efficacy of EMDR.
- Utilize three techniques of altering bilateral stimulation as a mechanism of action for EMDR.
- Define Shapiro’s original eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol.
- Evaluate Parnell’s four essential elements of EMDR sessions and how they relate to client treatment.
- Select EMDR protocol treatment tools to decrease client arousal levels and modulate affect.
- Identify one absolute contradiction and three precautions for utilizing EMDR.
- Choose two EMDR protocols for working with addictions and compulsions.
- Summarize Millers’ Feeling-State Therapy Addiction Protocol.
- Appraise Popky’s urge reduction protocol, Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing (DeTUR).
- Practice tactile EMDR tools for processing traumatic memories.
Join trauma and EMDR specialist Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C, in beautiful Sedona, Arizona and spend 7 days filled with hands-on skills-building and personal transformation!
Leave revitalized with the confidence to fully implement EMDR with your clients as an effective treatment to heal trauma.
PLUS, earn up to 33 CE Hours!
Leave revitalized with the confidence to fully implement EMDR with your clients as an effective treatment to heal trauma.
PLUS, earn up to 33 CE Hours!
Evidence suggests that Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most effective modalities for treating trauma and PTSD.
As clinicians, we constantly treat trauma. We are constantly striving to stay up to speed on the considerable updates in the field of traumatic stress and advancements designed to improve treatment outcomes.
So, if you鈥檝e yet to learn this skill, now is the time. This is your opportunity to experience hands-on, immersive EMDR training in a safe, supportive environment.
Join a cohort of colleagues in the transformative desert of Sedona for this intensive, interactive learning experience that will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to use EMDR safely and effectively.
Through multiple days of supervised, experiential practice sessions and live EMDR demonstrations this training will provide you with not only the theory and principles, but the specific steps to effectively introduce and incorporate EMDR into your practice.
Sign up today to become a better therapist for your clients suffering from trauma鈥檚 multitude of symptoms.
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7-Day Retreat: EMDR Intensive Clinical Training
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Sunday, September 21st – Saturday, September 27th
Single Occupancy: $3,599.00
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Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
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The tri-phasic stage model remains today鈥檚 state-of-the-art trauma treatment approach. During this experiential training, you will learn the goals of each stage, along with the therapeutic tools to reach those goals.
- Learn first-hand why EMDR is such an effective treatment for both single-incident PTSD and complex trauma.
- Participate in hands-on practice of EMDR in a safe and supervised environment.
- Learn this dynamic, comprehensive skill that will equip you to improve outcomes with traumatized clients right away.
- Join with colleagues in the healing environment of the desert to learn and practice skills. After the training, return home with a ready-made cohort for online group consultation.
This training opportunity is a MUST if you work with traumatized clients 鈥 an opportunity in a serene setting to safely do personal work.
And there鈥檚 more! The Sedona Mago Retreat Center offers an exquisite landscape, waterfalls, garden walks, and healthful cuisine.
Past participants rave about how wonderful it is to stay at Mago鈥aking time to unwind, rejuvenate and connect with themselves and their community of colleagues鈥ll at this remarkable place. The daily schedule is designed to allow ample personal time to enjoy the beautiful surroundings and amenities. And, with all-inclusive pricing, your lodging, meals, and training are all covered in one simple price.
Are you ready! Register today and we鈥檒l see you in Sedona!
Retreat Schedule
All Times Listed in Local Time
Sunday, September 21, 2025
4:00–5:30 pm
Check-In
5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner
7:00–7:45 pm
Introduction and Overview Content*
Monday, September 22 - Friday, September 26, 2025
7:00–8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 am–12:15 pm
Training*
12:15–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00–5:30 pm
Restoration and Relaxation
5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner
6:30–8:45 pm
Training*
Saturday, September 27, 2025
7:00–8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30–9:30 am
Farewell
9:30 am–12:00 pm
Check Out and Depart Retreat Center
*CE is awarded during these specified times. Licensing boards require full attendance to all CE training sessions to receive any credit for the entire retreat. Please plan travel accordingly.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is intended for masters- and doctoral-level clinicians experienced in working with trauma. You will learn and practice alternating bilateral stimulation into two distinct types of psychotherapy sessions; development and installation of internal resources; and reprocessing of traumatic material.
The target audience includes:
The target audience includes:
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Mental Health Professionals
See What Others Have Said...
鈥淏y far the best training experience I have ever had. I would not recommend a single change to the content or delivery. [She] Demonstrated genuine respect for the material and continuously maintained focus on the best interest of clients鈥 I would sign up for any trainings with her name on it.鈥
—Erika M, Counselor
鈥溾 The whole experience was transformative for me. I thoroughly enjoyed her teaching style.鈥
—Deborah B, Counselor
鈥淓xcellent, professional, personable, knowledgeable, highly recommend.鈥
—Jeanne K, Social Worker
鈥淟inda Curran is very knowledgeable and skilled in delivering the content in a way that accommodates different learning styles. Linda was very responsive to questions and provided real life examples.鈥
—Jessica C, Psychotherapist
鈥淟inda was an amazing and very knowledgeable presenter. Bravo!鈥
—Natali K, Social Worker
7-Day Retreat: EMDR Intensive Clinical Training
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Sunday, September 21st – Saturday, September 27th
Single Occupancy: $3,599.00
Interested in a payment plan? Get started for just half down today!
Click here for Payment Plan Information
Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
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Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
Plus, earn up to 33 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
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Retreat Content
Neuroscience of Trauma, Effective Assessment and DSM-5® Diagnostic Criteria
Neuroscience’s Current Trauma Paradigm
- Working definition of trauma
- Biological nature of trauma
- Flight, fight, freeze response (sympathetic response) vs. collapse/dissociate (parasympathetic response)
- Triune Brain, The Autonomic Nervous System and the Stress Response
- Stress: Eustress, manageable, normal vs. Traumatic Stress: prolonged, complex and developmental
- The Polyvagal Theory as it relates to trauma
- Research limitations on differences in theory and in the associated neurophysiological model
- Specific trauma symptoms
- Primary treatment issues in trauma therapy
- Hyperarousal
- Hypoarousal
- Dissociation, body memories, and “flashbacks”
- Affect dysregulation
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study)
- Attachment Essentials
- Baby/momma trauma
- Insecure Attachment Styles Assessment and Primary Treatment Issues of:
- Avoidant
- Preoccupied
- Disorganized type
Assessment and Diagnosis of Trauma Disorders
Current Trauma Diagnoses:
- Acute Trauma Disorder
- PTSD and subtypes: Dissociative and Preschool
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
- Complex PTSD (Currently in the ICD- 11)
- Tri-Phasic model of trauma treatment
- Overview of The Stage Model of Treatment
- Assessment, Rapport, Psychoeducation
- Prerequisites to processing memories
- Developing the 鈥淪kills to Stay Stable鈥
- Trauma tools for stabilization:
- Recognizing and regulating client (and clinician鈥檚) physiology (co-regulation)
- Recognizing and regulating emotion and affect (self-regulation)
- Recognizing and interrupting dissociative episodes and 鈥渇lashbacks鈥
- Grounding clients in their bodies~in the here and now
- Mindfulness/bodyfulness, including:
- Somatic and sensorimotor interventions
- EFT (meridian tapping)
- Reducing or increasing physiological arousal
- Recognizing the necessity up & down regulating arousal levels
- Containment and self-soothing
- Multisensory Guided Imagery
- Research and limitation of research
- Live Demonstration: Development & installation of imaginal resources
- Practice: Resourcing and stabilization exercise in pairs
- Single incident vs. complex trauma: Completely separate approaches
- Overview of several trauma processing modalities
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP)
- Somatic Experiencing (SE)
- EMDR
- Contraindications and precautions for reprocessing trauma
- Current research and limitations of the research
- Shapiro鈥檚 EMDR 8-Phase Protocol
- Parnell鈥檚 Modified Protocol for Complex Trauma
- Shapiro鈥檚 Adaptive Information Processing
- Steps to EMDR
- EMDR modified script for sessions
- Quick Assessment for EMDR readiness
- Bilateral Stimulation
- Types/options: Visual, auditory & tactile
- Considerations and further resources for EMDR with children
- Considerations and available protocols for working with addictions/compulsions
- Millers鈥 Feeling-State Therapy Addiction Protocol
- Popky鈥檚 DTUR ( Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing)
- Next steps for continued practice and training
Putting It All to Practice: Intensive EMDR Demos and Practice
EMDR for Both Resourcing and Trauma Processing
Under Supervision, Safely Practice the Skills of EMDR for Both Stage One and Two
Practice in Triads: Stage Two Work - Reprocessing Traumatic Memories
Wrap Up with Group Discussion
- Demonstrations: Live EMDR session demonstrations & discussion
Under Supervision, Safely Practice the Skills of EMDR for Both Stage One and Two
- Practice in Triads: Stage One Work - Imaginal Resourcing
- Containment Imagery
- Comfortable Place Imagery
- Protection Imagery
- Nurture Imagery
- Triumph Imagery
Practice in Triads: Stage Two Work - Reprocessing Traumatic Memories
- Use the Modified EMDR script in practice sessions as client and therapist
Wrap Up with Group Discussion
This training is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify towards EMDRIA credits or training.
This seminar focuses heavily on the use of the TheraTapper鈩. Other methods of bilateral stimulation are marginally discussed and can be used in practice.
7-Day Retreat: EMDR Intensive Clinical Training
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Sunday, September 21st – Saturday, September 27th
Single Occupancy: $3,599.00
Interested in a payment plan? Get started for just half down today!
Click here for Payment Plan Information
Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
Click here for Payment Plan Information
Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
Plus, earn up to 33 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Click here for cancellation policy details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
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Meet Your Retreat Instructor
Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDPD, EMDR-C, is president of Integrative Trauma Treatment, LLC. She provides clients with an integrative approach to trauma, and treats PTSD in adolescent and adult populations, including clients with eating disorders, sexual trauma, and self-injury. An international speaker on the treatment of trauma, Linda has developed, produced, and presented multi-media workshops on all aspects of psychological trauma. Linda is the author of best-selling Trauma Competency: A Clinician’s Guide (PPM, 2010), 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions (PPM, 2013), and the soon-to-be-released book set Trauma Treatment: Beyond Competency~Clinician Playbook/Client Workbook. She is the producer of the best-selling Master Clinician Series, in which she collaborated with the world’s leaders in trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Peter Levine, Ph.D., Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, Stephen Porges, Ph.D., Janina Fisher, Ph.D., and many more.
Click here for information about Linda Curran
Click here for information about Linda Curran
What does Tuition Include?
- Learn to use EMDR safely and effectively to heal your clients suffering from trauma
- Multiple days of live demos and supervised, hands-on practice sessions
- Education & practice hours to start your journey to becoming a Certified EMDR Clinician (EMDR-C)
- Up to 33 CE Hours, CE certificate & course manual
- Healing vortexes, meditation areas, & labyrinth
- Peaceful lake & trails 鈥 surrounded by magnificent red rock mountains
- Healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine
- Lodging, with private bathrooms, for the duration of your stay
Interested in Becoming EMDR Certified?
This retreat gets you well on your way to becoming a Certified EMDR Clinician (EMDR-C) through Evergreen Certifications by fulfilling all EMDR educational and clinical practice hours.
This retreat covers the following requirements:
- 18 EMDR Educational Hours
- 6 Trauma Educational Hours
- 6 EMDR Practice Hours
PLUS! Attendance to this retreat gives you access to exclusive discount offers on additional trauma training hours and the Evergreen certification fee!
Don鈥檛 pass up on this opportunity to become recognized as an Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician, instill confidence in your patients and be recognized by your peers as an authority on EMDR!
*Professional & clinical standards apply. See additional certification requirements .
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If you鈥檙e looking for a place to unwind and reconnect with what鈥檚 important, what better environment than one of the most beautiful deserts on the planet?
The Sedona Mago Retreat Center is located in Sedona, Arizona, an area long known for natural healing and spiritual awakening. It is surrounded by red monoliths, Native American ruins, and majestic mountains. Experience the beauty, feel the energy, and awaken your spirit.
Retreat Highlights
- Secluded retreat, offering 173 acres
- Private or shared casitas with private bathrooms
- Healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine (3 meals daily)
- Beautiful lake surrounded by trees, flowers, aromatic herbs, and many wild birds
- Covered patios, meditation areas & labyrinth
- Healing vortexes - experience healing and deep awakening
- Peaceful trails to enjoy nature
- Awe-inspiring sunrises, sunsets and stargazing
- Direct shuttle service available from Phoenix Sky Harbor (additional fees)
Retreat Location
Sedona Mago Retreat
3500 E Bill Gray Road
Sedona, AZ 86336, USA
Phone: (928) 204-3391
Shuttle Services
Shuttle services are available from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Sedona Mago, such as Groome Transportation (928-350-8466). For more information, please visit Sedona Mago鈥檚 website . Note that transit times may take longer than the geographical distance from the airport. Please review the retreat鈥檚 schedule above, inquire regarding transit times with the shuttle services, and plan flights/travel accordingly.
Accessibility
Sedona Mago Retreat Center has been mindfully set in nature 鈥 the grounds and roads are a mixture of dirt, gravel, and pavement. The general guest areas are spread out over many acres, so getting to and from various points will require walking moderate distances and traversing stairs and hills. If mobility is a concern, please contact the retreat center before registering with 小蝌蚪视频.
Non-Participating Retreat Guests
Sedona Mago is an all-inclusive retreat center. All reservations are per individual, not per room. All individuals staying at the retreat center incur a room and board charge whether or not they are participating in the 小蝌蚪视频 educational training. If you are considering bringing a guest with you who will not be participating in the 小蝌蚪视频 educational training, please contact 小蝌蚪视频 at 800-844-8260.
CE Information
Please review the retreat鈥檚 credit information by clicking any of the 鈥淐lick here for CE credit details鈥 links found above.
PLEASE NOTE: Most licensing boards require full attendance to the entire program to receive any credit.
Please review the retreat鈥檚 schedule above and plan your travel accordingly to ensure full attendance to the program.
Travel Advisories
All attendees are advised to purchase travel insurance that includes a cancellation for any reason option to protect your travel plans.
If for any reason you are unable to attend, please contact us immediately:
Email: retreatinfo@pesi.com 鈥 Phone: 800-844-8260
Please check with your local government to see what advisories are in place before you travel. All flights are subject to the terms and conditions of your airline carrier鈥檚 policy travel plans.
From Purchase Date until August 21, 2025: Cancellation results in a full refund less a $100 administrative fee
From August 22, 2025 until September 21, 2025: Cancellation results in a 50% penalty of the total purchase amount
7-Day Retreat: EMDR Intensive Clinical Training
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Sunday, September 21st – Saturday, September 27th
Single Occupancy: $3,599.00
Interested in a payment plan? Get started for just half down today!
Click here for Payment Plan Information
Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
Click here for Payment Plan Information
Payment Plan available through 7/21/25
Plus, earn up to 33 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Click here for cancellation policy details
Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Click here for cancellation policy details