EMDR Made Simple: A Practical Guide to the Four Faces of EMDR Model for Clinicians
October 2, 2026
9:00am-12:30pm ET
Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT
3.0 CEs approved for NBCC, ASWB, State of Ohio CSWMFT Board.
EMDRIA credits pending
Course Description
Therapists often learn EMDR yet feel unsure about how to use it confidently with real clients in real sessions. Dr. Jamie Marich has spent her career helping clinicians cut through the rigidity and confusion that might be keeping them stuck. Her Four Faces of EMDR Model published in 2011, one of the first known models to attempt to further codify EMDR and its implementations, provides you with a grounded, flexible way to bring EMDR to the clients who need it most. In this 3-hour live webinar, Jamie Marich introduces you to the Four Faces of EMDR model and how it can help you recognize the differences between standard protocol EMDR Therapy and its many specialty protocols, innovations, and spin-offs. This model can help clinicians use EMDR more intuitively and more adaptively while having an open space to asks questions and have candid conversations about “what else” besides standard protocol EMDR Therapy ought to be in their clinical toolboxes. EMDR is most effective when clinicians show up with presence, humility, and responsiveness. In this workshop, Jamie demonstrates how to honor EMDR’s standard protocol AND she shows you how to adapt it ethically for diverse populations, complex trauma, and real-time nervous system needs.
Jamie explains how EMDR can show up in four ways—as a full psychotherapy model, as an integrated/flexible psychotherapy model, as a targeted intervention, or in the form of a new intervention with its roots in EMDR (e.g., EMDR 2.0; Brainspotting, Flash Technique; Attachment-Focused EMDR). Through clear examples and accessible language, the Four Faces of EMDR Model helps clinicians understand:
How the Four Faces of EMDR orient practice across diverse clinical environments
Why newly trained EMDR therapists often feel intimidated
How to reduce fear and uncertainty when working with complex presentations
Where your own practice fits within the model—and how to expand it
This course removes unnecessary complexity and replaces it with grounded clinical judgment. Jamie also brings in 15 years of additional insight and commentary on how EMDR has evolved since she first published the model. She comments on these observations in the webinar and where how she sees the Four Face (and more!) of EMDR continuing to evolve in the modern landscape.
Continuing Education
This is a live, online training. This is a beginner-level course. Attendance at all sessions, and course evaluation is required to receive CE Certificate. Course evaluations are made available after all sessions have been completed within this course portal. Upon completing the evaluation, participants will automatically receive their certificate via the email used to create their Thinkific account. If the certificate is not received within 24 hours, please contact [email protected]
Attendance from 9:00am-12:30pm is required to receive CEs. This course is approved for 3 CE credit hours by the following:
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 National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6998. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. 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 44 general continuing education credits.
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 number for this course is #10002-178.
Instructor
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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