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Training Format
Basic Training & Consultation
EMDR Basic Training
Comprehensive, EMDRIA-approved training that covers all eight phases of EMDR and prepares you to confidently apply it in your practice—including with complex cases. Unlike other programs that require additional advanced training, this course provides a strong foundation and the tools to apply EMDR effectively with a wide range of clients, including both adults and children.
Ongoing Consultation
After completing basic training, additional consultation (individual or group) is available as a separate service for those who want to deepen their skills and work toward certification.
Areas of Expertise
- Helping individual adolescents and adults with panic, anxiety, PTSD, Complex Trauma and Dissociation.
- Adoption issues for both adoptive parents, birth parents, and adopted children.
- Working with individuals and couples who are struggling with prenatal and postpartum anxiety, depression, and trauma.
- Parent support, consultation, and education.
- Providing consultation for therapists who are applying EMDR therapy and working towards EMDRIA Certification.
- Consultation and support for educators as they face the community wide effects of trauma and anxiety.
My Certifications
- Child development and psychology with a Masters in social work
- EMDRIA-approved consultant
- Certification from Postpartum Support International in the specialized treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
- Certification from The Happiest Baby as a parent educator
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker — #27961
- TAC (Training for Adoption Competence) Certified mental health provider and trainer
Meet Your Instructor
Wendy Sue Horn
A seasoned clinician, treating children, adolescents, and adults for over 20 years, expert in the field of EMDR therapy, anxiety disorders, PTSD, complex trauma, dissociation, child development, and parent support.
As an EMDRIA-approved consultant and trainer and natural teacher, Wendy Sue has been mentoring therapists in trauma and dissociation for 10 years. Her teaching journey began in 2005 at San Jose State University, she has continued to pursue her love for teaching and training, actively participating as an EMDR consultant in basic training since 2014. Additionally, since 2021, Wendy Sue has been teaching a certification program in trauma and adoption-competent mental health services offered to clinicians by the Oregon Department of Human Services in collaboration with the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.).
Wendy Sue’s approach is practical, accessible, and grounded in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. She maintains her in-person private practice in Portland, Oregon, treating children, adolescents, and adults while also being licensed in California, where she treats clients virtually. She is proud to be partnered with Oregon’s Child Welfare Services to offer free EMDR therapy training and consultation to the therapists treating clients who most need this powerful, integrative, therapeutic approach.
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Take Your Therapy Practice to the Next Level
EMDR therapy is a powerful, research-backed approach that transforms lives. This training goes beyond the standard curriculum, giving clinicians the tools, understanding, and support needed to make EMDR truly effective for their clients.