The results EMDR produces are often rapid and profound. But if you've worked with complex trauma, you also know exactly where it stalls and how confusing that can be when you know the technique works.
I've sat with these clients and witnessed how processing derailed, targets felt inaccessible and stabilization collapsed under the weight of nervous system overwhelm. For clients with complex trauma, standard protocol alone was not enough.
I became determined to understand why complex trauma required more — and spent years figuring out how to bridge that gap.
What emerged is a framework, grounded in over a decade of immersion in trauma treatment and consultation, that gets complex trauma clients unstuck and moving toward real healing.
In this advanced training, you will learn a clinically grounded, integrative framework that weaves together EMDR therapy, parts-informed strategies, and somatic interventions to effectively treat complex trauma. This is not a departure from EMDR- it is a deepening.
You’ll finish with the tools to:
Clinicians across the country have used this framework to expand their confidence, sharpen their clinical clarity, and finally move forward with their most complex, stuck clients.
Now it's your turn.
This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
Josie Dove, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor specializing in complex trauma treatment and integration of EMDR, sensorimotor psychotherapy, IFS, and mindfulness-based approaches within a somatic framework.
Josie holds a master’s degree in somatic counseling psychology from Naropa University with extensive post-graduate training in EMDR, Internal Family Systems, sensorimotor psychotherapy, applied polyvagal therapy and DBT. Her clinical background includes co-creating and serving as lead clinician fo the intensive outpatient DBT program at Boulder Community Hospital, where she developed expertise treating complex presentations including dissociation and relational trauma.
As both clinician and educator, Josie teaches nationally integrating EMDR with parts work models, nervous system restoration, and somatic body-informed trauma processing. Her approach emphasizes practical adaptations for clients with fragmented trauma histories and is grounded in the understanding that lasting change occurs not only through insight, but through embodied experience. She provides consultation and training for mental health professionals seeking to refine trauma-informed, somatic-based clinical skills.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Josie Dove maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Embody Lab and The Shift Network. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Josie Dove has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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