If these episodes are helpful, see Tom Zimmerman’s EMDR With Complex Trauma book (which is available for free), six-hour EMDR With Complex Trauma trainings, six-hour Flash trainings, or low-cost EMDR Refresher trainings.

Predictive Processing

• Predictive Processing and EMDR Therapy: Updating our Metaphors (Part One) 14 min (Sep 21, 2025)
• Predictive Processing and EMDR Therapy: Updating our Metaphors (Part Two) 8 min (Sep 21, 2025)
• Predictive Processing and EMDR Therapy: Updating our Metaphors (Part Three) 28 min (Sep 22, 2025)
• Predictive Processing and EMDR Therapy: Updating our Metaphors (Part Four) 20 min (Sep 22, 2025)
• Predictive Processing and EMDR Therapy: Updating our Metaphors (Part Five) 5 min (Sep 22, 2025)
• Helping the Predictive Brain Update Bad Memories 16 min (Feb 17, 2025)

Interviews

• Interview with Dr. Jamie Marich about Their Forthcoming Book, Dissociation Made Simple 43 min (Dec 13, 2022)
• David Archer and Thomas Zimmerman, Anti-Racist Psychotherapy and the Rhythm and Processing Technique 55 min (Feb 12, 2024)
• Resourcing and Adaptive Information with Patricia Rotsztain 14 min (Feb 11, 2025)
• Resourcing and Adaptive Information with Jenna Burton 10 min (Feb 11, 2025)
• Getting Doctor Permission to do EMDR Therapy with Leslie Pertz 14 min (Feb 11, 2025)
• More About Grief: Interview with Kathy Couch, LCSW 29 min (July 22, 2023)
• Group EMDR Therapy With Maggie Robbins 11 min (Feb 2, 2025)

Trauma Basics

• Understanding Containment in Trauma Recovery with Clients with Complex Trauma 9 min (Dec 21, 2022)
• Just A Caution About How We Speak About Dissociation in EMDR Therapy 33 min (Feb 13, 2025)
• The Clients Who Most Need to Heal May Be The Clients You Do the Least EMDR Reprocessing With 4 min (Dec 1, 2023)
• The Problems of Too Much Agenda in EMDR Therapy 6 min (Dec 21, 2021)
• The Performance Anxiety of New EMDR Therapists 14 min (Sep 3, 2023)
• Why We Need Healing Strategies that are Non-Intuitive 15 min (Oct 31, 2021)
• Transformative Trauma Therapies are Variations on the Same Dance 22 min (Oct 27, 2021)

EMDR Basics

• Understanding Where the Magic Is (And Is Not) in EMDR Therapy 6 min (June 18, 2023)
• Making Peace with Sensible Modifications in EMDR Therapy 3 min (Feb 12, 2025)
• Effective Time Management Strategies in EMDR Therapy Inside the Standard Clinical Hour 13 min (July 18, 2021)

Case Conceptualization

• EMDR Therapy with Complex Trauma is Almost Always Hard min (July 31, 2024)
• What is Adaptive Information and Why Is It So Important in EMDR Therapy? 6 min (Feb 3, 2025)
• Some Options for Working with Blocking Beliefs in EMDR Therapy 10 min (Jan 15, 2025)
• A Deeper Look at What Blocking Beliefs Are in EMDR Therapy 6 min (Jan 4, 2025)
• Why I Don’t Start With Attachment Wound Targets in EMDR Therapy 12 min (Dec 16, 2024)
• When Complex Clients Insist on Doing EMDR Processing Immediately 2 min (Jan 1, 2025)
• Past Intimate Relationships Don’t Get the Focus They Deserve in EMDR Therapy 1 min (Jan 4, 2025)
• EMDR and Grief: Overview 10 min (Sep 16, 2021)
• Are You Trying to Put Your EMDR/Mindfulness Clients Through a Machine? 8 min (Sep 9, 2023)

Metaphors

• Understanding the AIP Model: The Boat Metaphor and the Mount Everest Metaphor 16 min (Nov 11, 2022)
• The Boat and the Fish Metaphor in EMDR Therapy 5 min (Feb 16, 2025)
• Walking the Prisoner Out Metaphor in Flash Therapy and EMDR Therapy 15 min (Oct 22, 2022)
• The Marathon, Mount Everest, and The Video Game Metaphors for EMDR Therapy 3 min (Feb 16, 2025)

Phase One

• EMDR Phase One: Are You Putting Your Complex Trauma Clients Through a Machine Built for Others? 16 min (Dec 28, 2024)

Phase Two

• Effectively Managing Flashbacks in Session and Between Sessions (EMDR and Flash Technique) 18 min (Dec 15, 2021)
• Mindfulness Doesn’t Work for Me: Teaching it Differently 37 min (Nov 16, 2022)
• A Dip Your Toe In Approach to Body Scan in EMDR Therapy 22 min (July 17, 2021)
• A Dip Your Toe In Approach to Attachment Figure Resources in EMDR Therapy 20 min (Feb 4, 2023)
• Dip Your Toe Into Breath: Hand Breathing and Blue Smoke Breathing in Phase Two of EMDR Therapy 17 min (Aug 8, 2021)
• Hand Breathing (short) 2 min (Feb 5, 2025)
• A Dip Your Toe In Approach to Sensory Grounding with Complex Trauma 14 min (Oct 28, 2022)
• A Dip Your Toe In Approach to Calm Scene for Clients with Complex Trauma 16 min (Jan 31, 2023)
• How to Know When a Client is Prepared Enough to Start Processing Memories in EMDR Therapy? 6 min (Jan 1, 2025)
• EMDR Clients Who Struggle to Visualize 13 min (Dec 27, 2021)

Phase Three

• Trouble Finding an Individual Memory in EMDR Therapy when Trauma was Daily: A Topographic Approach 13 min (April 15, 2022)

Phases Four-Six

• Where Clients with Complex Trauma Tend to Get Stuck in Reprocessing and How to Use Interweaves 56 min (June 19, 2023)
• How Many Sessions Are Too Many for a Single Memory in EMDR Therapy? 5 min (Jan 31, 2025)
• When to Encourage Memories to Connect: Complex Trauma and the Problem of Too Much Memory Content 22 min (Jan 2, 2023)
• When Letting Things Go Where They Go Goes Straight Off a Cliff in EMDR Therapy 27 min (Dec 13, 2023)
• When Already Activated, You Don’t Have to Keep Looking at the Memory in EMDR Therapy 3 min (Jan 18, 2025)
• Managing Activation: Putting a Fence Around the Memory in EMDR Therapy 5 min (Jan 18, 2025)
• Why Options to More Tolerably Interact with the Memory are Helpful with Complex Trauma in EMDR 5 min (Jan 17, 2025)
• When a SUDS of One, Two, or Three May Not be Ecological 3 min (Oct 28, 2023)
• The Client Starts Phase Four and Nothing Comes in EMDR Therapy 9 min (Jan 1, 2025)
• Why Some Clients Don t Want to Do EMDR Therapy After Successfully Doing Some EMDR Therapy 9 min (Dec 20, 2024)
• Understanding the SUDs in EMDR Therapy 4 min (Jan 26, 2025)
• When the Client Narrates the Memory Only in EMDR Therapy 4 min (Jan 3, 2025)
• Using a Bean Bag to Help Manage Activation 1 min (Jan 18, 2025)
• The Client Tells Me Only Thoughts in Phase Four of EMDR Therapy 5 min (Jan 1, 2025)
• Using the Videotape Approach to Put a Gate on the Memory Channel 6 min (Jan 24, 2025)
• Mastering the Videotape Approach in Phases Three-Four of EMDR Therapy with Complex Trauma 26 min (Nov 27, 2021)

Phase Seven

• Phase Seven EMDR Options: Noticing the Rest of the Way Up 6 min (Nov 16, 2021)

Phase Eight

• Why EMDR Therapy Does Not Seem to Quickly Shift Cognitions Broadly for Some Clients 6 min (Dec 21, 2024)

Parts Work

• Parts Work is Central to EMDR Therapy, Not Just an Intervention or Interweave 13 min (Nov 29, 2023)
• Parts are Not the Problem in EMDR Therapy 2 min (Jan 30, 2025)

Flash Overview

• Ten Reasons to Get Trained in Flash-Like Approaches to Trauma Recovery 5 min (May 10, 2023)
• Four Blinks Flash Training (Three Hours) 12/29/2025 174 min (Dec 29, 2025)