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A Six-Session Course for EMDR Clinicians

EMDR with Couples and Families

Two nervous systems. One protocol.

You know the eight phases. This is how they work when there are two people in the room, two histories, and a relationship that is often the thing most in need of repair.

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  • Six sessions
  • One Wednesday a month
  • Led by Jen Savage, LPC
Fit

This course is for you if…

  • You are trained in EMDR and feel steady working with one person in the room.
  • You are seeing, or preparing to see, couples and families.
  • You are unsure how to take a history when two people are telling it.
  • You are not certain what to target, or how each person's history feeds the pattern between them.
  • You have watched reprocessing go sideways because the other partner was present.
  • You want to stop switching between a couples model and an EMDR model mid-session.
The course

Teaching, case examples, and clinical tools throughout.

The course runs over roughly six months. Each session combines teaching with worked case examples and tools you can take straight into your next appointment.

Six live sessions

90 minutes each, one Wednesday a month, live on Zoom. Recorded so you can catch up.

Bonus recording

A four-hour recorded training, yours at registration. Not required curriculum, just extra depth.

Clinical tools

A couples treatment planning tool and worksheets from our EF-EMDR Clinician Companion.

Case examples are welcomed and encouraged. Bring the couple who stalled in Phase 4, the partner who cannot stay regulated while the other reprocesses, or the case that is working when you are not sure why.

Framework

The framework

The eight phases, with two people in the room.

  1. History and treatment planning

    Understanding how each person's experiences shape and influence the pattern, or dance, the couple keeps repeating. Identifying which individual and shared targets are meaningful enough to disrupt engrained patterns and build a new way of relating.

  2. Preparation

    Resourcing two nervous systems, and building the couple's capacity to witness each other.

  3. Assessment

    Selecting targets that hold both the individual wound and the relational pattern.

  4. Desensitization

    Learning the many variations of processing, and how each influences the degree of connection and healing possible. Processing a personal experience affecting the relationship, processing a shared experience, and joint processing.

  5. Installation

    Strengthening what is adaptive in the individual and in the relationship.

  6. Body scan

    Tracking two bodies, and what co-regulation makes possible.

  7. Closure

    Ending so the couple leaves safe with each other, not just individually settled.

  8. Reevaluation

    Measuring change in the relationship, not only in the SUD.

Dates

The shape of it

Six sessions, one Wednesday a month.

  1. Wednesday, October 7, 20261:30 – 3:00 PM Central
  2. Wednesday, November 4, 20261:30 – 3:00 PM Central
  3. Wednesday, December 2, 20261:30 – 3:00 PM Central
  4. Wednesday, January 27, 20271:30 – 3:00 PM Central
  5. Wednesday, February 24, 20271:30 – 3:00 PM Central
  6. Wednesday, March 24, 20271:30 – 3:00 PM Central

We break over the holidays, so the fourth session picks up in late January.

Format
Live on Zoom, all sessions recorded
Length
Six sessions, 90 minutes each
Instructor
Jen Savage, LPC
CE
9 NBCC continuing education hours
Prerequisite
A basic training level understanding of EMDR
What’s included

Everything you need to bring this into your practice.

  • A four-hour recorded training, yours at registration. Bonus material to use before the course or alongside it.
  • A couples treatment planning tool built for this work.
  • Worksheets from our EF-EMDR Clinician Companion, to use directly in session.
  • Recordings of every live session.
  • 9 NBCC continuing education hours for the six live sessions.

Prerequisite: a basic training level understanding of EMDR. We build on the eight phases rather than teaching them from scratch. This course is not submitted to EMDRIA for advanced training hours.

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Tuition

EMDR with Couples and Families

Six sessions · Oct 7, 2026 – Mar 24, 2027 · 1:30 – 3:00 PM Central

Save $25

Pay in full

$650

$25 off the $675 tuition, charged once.

Payment plan

$112.50× 6

Six monthly payments, $675 total.

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You will choose your payment option at checkout. Your bonus recording and clinical tools are sent as soon as you register.

Questions about cancellation or refunds? Reach out and we will help. Read the policy.

For clinicians ready to work with the whole relationship

Ready to bring EMDR into the room with both of them?

Six sessions of teaching, case examples, and clinical tools for the work you are already being asked to do.

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