Rutti Counseling & Consultation

About the Course

EMDR Through an Anti-Oppression Lens is an advanced two-day training designed to support clinicians in deepening their EMDR practice through liberation-centered, culturally responsive, and decolonizing frameworks. Presented by Jasmine Adams, LCSW, PMH-C, EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDRIA-Approved Trainer and Consultant, this training invites participants to critically examine traditional mental health structures while centering therapy participant autonomy, collective healing, and relational accountability. Through collaborative dialogue, positionality reflections, and expressive arts integration, participants will explore how systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, and unrecognized forms of trauma shape clinical conceptualization and EMDR treatment planning.

Across both days, clinicians will engage in applied learning that re-examines all eight phases of EMDR Therapy through an anti-oppression lens, with focused practicum experiences in Phases 1 and 2 and advanced discussion of adaptations across Phases 3-8. The training emphasizes flexible pacing, addressing implicitly held trauma in the nervous system, challenging oppressive cognitions, and honoring ancestral and cultural resources within resource work. Participants will leave with practical strategies to dismantle hierarchy in the therapy space, enhance participant empowerment, and implement EMDR interventions that are ethically grounded, accessible, and aligned with liberation-focused mental health practice.

Objectives

1. Identify 3 examples of decolonizing therapy practices

2. Discuss the impact of white supremacy on intentionally marginalized communities

3. Identify 3 examples of oppression trauma not included in the ACE assessment

4. Identify 3 intersectionalities to broaden Phase 1 assessment

5. Define oppressive cognitions and 3 examples of oppressive cognitions

6. Utilize case conceptualization through an EMDR therapy lense for clients with oppression trauma using Standard Protocol

7. Describe intergenerational trauma

8. Describe thematic targeting and how to incorporate implicit trauma

9. Discuss 2 modifications to the Standard Protocol for implicit trauma

10. Identify 2 new Phase 2 strategies that are connected to ancestral roots

11. Identify 2 common blocking beliefs that impact intentionally oppressed communitieses

12. Identify 3 modifications to the Standard Protocol (phases 3-7) with the anti-oppressive lens

13. Analyze potential causes for dissociation within communities who have oppression trauma and complex trauma

14. Identify 2 ways to deliver EMDR therapy with the anti-oppression framework

Pricing

$400 Generative Access

$350 Traditional/Sustaining Access

$300 Supported Access

For more about our tiered pricing model: visit this link

Access to continuing education can be a financial burden, and RCC feels passionate about making training accessible to all communities.  We also recognize the impact of systemic racism on accessibility to training and education specifically for individuals that identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other traditionally underrepresented persons of color (BIPOC). We are proud to offer a discounted rate for training in an effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in our training and larger EMDR therapy communities.  Please use the coupon code BIPOC at checkout. 

Please note that discounts and scholarships cannot exclude any person from applying.

Need a payment plan? Email us at [email protected]

Joining Live Sessions

Live lecture will be hosted by the video conferencing platform Zoom. In order to join the sessions, please click on the zoom weblink listed in the "Zoom Information and Closed Captioning" section of this course portal. The link will prompt you to download the Zoom software if you have not already done so, and will then connect you to the session. Please plan on joining a few minutes early for troubleshooting if you are not already familiar with the platform. For more information on how to join a Zoom meeting, please read through the following article.

Lecture Sessions: Lectures each day will be hosted live on Zoom. You can find the link to join the lectures by navigating through the course player on the left-hand side of your screen. 

If you are having a difficult time with sound and need to call in via telephone, please consult this help article.

Zoom links for lecture will be visible in the course player closer to the time of the training.

This training will be conducted by Jasmine Adams, LCSW, PMH-C.

 Email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Agenda

Day One: 

9am-9:15am Introductions and Orientation

9:15am-10am Reviewing terms with anti-oppression work

10am-10:30am Decolonizing therapy practices

10:30am-10:45am Break

10:45am-11:30am Explore trauma through the anti-oppression lens

11:30am-12pm Expressive arts reflection project

12pm-1pm Lunch break on own

1pm-2pm Examining EMDR Therapy phases 1 and 2

2pm-4pm EMDR Therapy Phase 1 practicum (break on own for 15 minutes at halfway point)

4pm-4:30pm Wrap up/reflection project/Q&A

Day Two:

9am-9:15am Welcome and morning reflection/Day 1 debrief

9:15am-10:30am EMDR Therapy Phase 2: Advanced application through an anti-oppression lens

10:30am-10:45am Break

10:45am-11:45am Phase 2 Practicum

11:45am-12pm Questions and Reflections

12pm-1pm Lunch break on own

1pm-2pm Decolonizing EMDR Therapy phases 3-7

2pm-2:15pm Reflection and check-in

2:15pm-2:30pm Break

2:30pm-3:30pm Deeper connections in EMDR Therapy Phase 8

3:30pm-4pm Group activity about overall implementation 

4pm-4:15pm Continual committment to anti-oppression and our mental health work

4:15pm-4:30pm Questions/comments/feedback