EMDRIA 2026 Day 2

Three key insights:

1) EMDR is healing all kinds of people in all kinds of settings. Ukraine war, St. Louis police violence, first responders in affluent S. California, school districts impacted by ICE.

Robust, documented, measurable results.

2) We STILL have a perception problem.

As a community, we developed a shorthand that makes it easy to communicate with each other.

Unfortunately, that makes it, pretty annoying for other mental health specialties to include us in the trauma treatment conversation. (HELLO, APA 👋🏾)

3) It's time to shift focus from "get more people trained in EMDR" to sharing the research openly and collaborating across the broader workforce.