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Sample Documentation for consultants & Consultants-in-training

Sample letter of recommendation

**Note: These forms are intended as examples. Contact EMDRIA or visit their website to ensure you are following their most current rules & regulations. Moreover, these forms should be customized to fit your expectations and experiences with your consultees.

 
 

EMDR RESOURCES

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THERAPISTS

EMDR - FOcused

  • Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy.

    By: Francine Shapiro

  • Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal

    By: Michael Baldwin & Deborah Korn, PsyD

  • EMDR and Dissociation: The Progressive Approach

    By: Anabel Gomez and Dolores Mosquera

  • EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation

    By: Jim Knipe

  • Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma

    By: Laurel Parnell

  • When There are No Words: Repairing Early Trauma and Neglect from the Attachment Period with EMDR Therapy

    By: Sandra L. Paulson

  • Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR

    By: Joan Lovett

 

Black & Brown Experiences

  • The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

    By: Natalie Y. Gutierrez

  • Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto

    By: Tricia Hersey

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

    By: Joy DeGruy Leary

  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    By: Sabrina Strings

  • The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

    By: Sonya Renee Taylor

  • The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve.

    By: Rheeda Walker, PhD

  • Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir

    By: Ashley C. Ford

Trauma-Focused

  • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

    By: Judith Lewis Herman MD

  • Putting Trauma to Sleep: Attachment-Based Neuromodulatory Interventions for Stabilizing the Brainstem.

    By: Jann Reitav & Celeste Thirlwell

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Heats and Bodies

    By: Resmaa Menakem

  • The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

    By: Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW

  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

    By: Stephanie Foo

  • The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

    By: Nadine Burke Harris

  • Sensory Pathways to Healing From Trauma” Harnessing the Brain’s Capacity for Change

    By: Ruth A. Lanuis MD, PhD, Et. Al.

 

Cuture & Diversity Focus

  • Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships

    By: Lambers Fisher

  • Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

    By: Jennifer Mullan, Psyd

  • Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

    By: Renee Linklater

  • Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

    By: Jenny T. Wang, PhD