🎓 Why Take Both?

When taken together, these two trainings offer a comprehensive upgrade to your EMDR therapy toolkit—from the very first intake session to the final phases of treatment.

  • Save 10% when you register for both courses together

  • Live training access + recordings for review

  • Interactive learning with Dr. Jamie Marich

  • 12 CE credits available (when combined)

Self-selected Pricing

We allow our clients to select the price that is appropriate for their current financial sitatuation.

  • $261.00

    Standard Price for thriving organizations or private practices.

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  • $189.00

    Some assistance.

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  • $135.00

    Extra assistance.

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Course Descriptions

Thematic Client History in EMDR Therapy: Enhancing Your Clinical Effectiveness with Complex Trauma & Dissociation (Online)

Presented by Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT

August 14, 2025

9:00am-4:30pm ET Each Day

Dr. Francine Shapiro, the founder of EMDR Therapy, indicated that there are many ways to conduct Phase 1 Client History. For clients who experiences complex trauma and clinically significant dissociation, engaging in a history taking process that is too chronological or too list-oriented might be overwhelming or impractical. In this workshop, Dr. Jamie Marich brings in her experience as a phenomenological researcher to assist EMDR therapists in thinking more thematically. Thematic thinking begins in Phase 1 Client History, which is the focus of the workshop, and it can also expanding to more complex trauma-focused case conceptualization in the other phases of EMDR Therapy. Participants are oriented to the phenomenological principles of theme. They will then learn how to conduct a client history thematically for optimally target selection and case conceptualization, with opportunities for practice and discussion.

Cost of workshop: 

  • $125.00: Thriving organizations or private practices
  • $95.00: Private practice clinicians or professionals in need of assistance at this time
  • $65.00: Public agency or organization professionals in extra need of assistance at this time; students at any level of graduate or undergraduate education

The course (6 CEs) counts as an elective towards the Institute for Creative Mindfulness’ Advanced Certificate in Dissociation Studies for EMDR Therapists.

See the breakdown of the objectives below.

Attendance at all live sessions is required. No partial credit can be awarded.

Objectives:

After this workshop participants will be able to:

(a)   To explain the principles of phenomenology and its connection to the word theme and the term lived experience

(b)  To list and critically evaluate three major approaches in the EMDR Therapy community other than thematic client history for conducting Phase 1 Client History

(c)   To conceptualize a client case in the EMDR approach to psychotherapy using the thematic client history approach

(d)  To select targets for EMDR Therapy reprocessing and develop an ideal “order of operations” in a client-centered manner




The Forgotten Phase: Making the Most Out of Phase 8 in EMDR Therapy (Online)

Presented by Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT

August 15, 2025

9:00am-4:30pm ET Each Day

Phase 8 Re-Evaluation often gets glossed over in EMDR Therapy Basic Trainings, or students find that they don’t get sufficient time to practice it and grasp the full power of the phase. In this advanced topics training we will approach Phase 8 as the art of checking back in and organically planning your next steps in EMDR Therapy. Skills like target rechecks, future templates, and treatment planning with a special attention to the unique needs of people with complex trauma and those navigating dissociation.

Steeped in the teachings of Dr. Francine Shapiro’s (2018) core text, this training will review a variety of ways to approach Phase 8 more thematically and holistically. Improve your understanding of case conceptualization by weaving together the principles of Phase 1 and Phase 8 which learning to redefining your usage of a treatment plan to guide EMDR Therapy with more complex cases.  

Cost of workshop: 

  • $125.00: Thriving organizations or private practices
  • $95.00: Private practice clinicians or professionals in need of assistance at this time
  • $65.00: Public agency or organization professionals in extra need of assistance at this time; students at any level of graduate or undergraduate education

The course (6 CEs) counts as an elective towards the Institute for Creative Mindfulness’ Advanced Certificate in Dissociation Studies for EMDR Therapists.

See the breakdown of the objectives below.

Attendance at all live sessions is required. No partial credit can be awarded.

Objectives:

After this workshop participants will be able to:

(a)    To articulate the main functions of Phase 8 in EMDR Therapy

(b)    To implement three major ways to recheck targets (for completed sessions and incomplete reprocessing sessions) that are aligned with the standard protocol and allow for variations in individual lived experience

(c)    To implement the Future Template strategy throughout the course of EMDR Therapy treatment 

(d)    To conceptualize a client case in the EMDR approach to psychotherapy in a more thematic way that allows for more informed treatment plan reviews

(e)    To select targets for EMDR Therapy reprocessing and develop an ideal “order of operations” that is informed by ongoing EMDR Phase 8 work

(f)    To contextualize how EMDR Therapy Phase 8 corresponds with and complements other forms of therapy (e.g., client-centered, DBT, CBT, 12-step facilitation, IFS or other forms of parts work) that you may use

Continuing Education Approvals

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by the following organizations to offer 6 continuing education (CE) credit hours for each course:

State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for counselors, social workers, and marriage/family therapists. Approval: #RCS091306

National Board for Certified Counselors

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6998. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Association of Social Worker Boards

Institute for Creative Mindfulness, #1735, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/16/24-3/16/27. Social workers completing this course receive 6 general continuing education credits.

This course is APPROVED by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved training provider in EMDR Therapy by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) Approval: #10002. EMDRIA is not a provider of continuing education, although they do authorize training providers in EMDR therapy after a rigorous approval process. The EMDRIA approval numbers for these course are #10002-165 and #10002-166. 

A General Note About Approvals

Please also note that APA-approved sponsors are accepted by many state boards, such as California BBS and major licensure boards within the state of Pennsylvania. In both of these cases, separate paperwork does not need to be filled out. Many state boards also accept out-of-state providers, which is why our Ohio approvals appear on every training. In some states, pre- or post-program approval forms must be sent, and you are responsible for checking into the rules of the licensure board in your state as to what is required. Please let the Institute for Creative Mindfulness know if you need support documentation in any way for these pre or post-program approval applications.

Your Facilitator

ICM Founder & Director Jamie Marich

Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they/we) began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Akron, OH. Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. Marich is the author of EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors, Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Marich co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care along with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger in 2018, and their new book with Springer Publishing Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide released in 2021. North Atlantic Books published a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps in the Summer of 2020, and they released The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery in 2022. Her latest release with North Atlantic Book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life came out in January 2023. She has three more projects in the works with North Atlantic Books, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God, due out in Autumn 2024. The Huffington Post published her personal story of being out as a clinical professional with a dissociative disorder in May 2023. The New York Times featured Marich’s writing and work on Dancing Mindfulness in 2017 and 2020. NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate. The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) granted Jamie the 2019 Advocacy in EMDR Award for her using her public platform in media and in the addiction field to advance awareness about EMDR therapy and to reduce stigma around mental health. Jamie also sits on the editorial board of the EMDR Journal of Practice and Research, and she was the 2008 winner of the Poster Research Award at the EMDRIA Annual Conference.

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