EMDR Basic Training
The Thrive Centre
My name is Tory Baker-Reed and I am a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW). As a social worker, parent, partner and ally, I strive to continuously unlearn the many systems of oppression in society and apply an anti-oppression lens to my life and work.
My professional background includes working for 21 years in the Child Welfare system. During that time, I supported children, youth and their families through their difficult life paths. While the ‘child welfare’ system has its significant challenges, I worked consciously to help children, youth and families access services, become empowered with skills to self-advocate and navigate systems, always with a focus on rights and self-efficacy.
In 2015, I began both a personal and professional journey with Psycho-dramatic Body Work™, which is a modality that uses “dramatic action methods to free and help unblock trauma held within the body. Bodywork uses various emotional releases (e.g., Anger and fear releases) to help connect with and release the messages that are held in the body as pain, numbness, negative messages and/or illness.
In 2017, I began studying Psychodrama at the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute (HVPI) in Highland, New York. I attended three full years with the Core program at HVPI, which teaches the principals of Psychodrama, Sociometry, Sociodrama and Experiential Therapy (www.hvpi.net). Due to Covid-19, my studies were placed on hold. However, I look forward to returning to HVPI in 2025 and I look forward to many more years at HVPI to continue to learn these highly creative and healing methods.
In 2020, I trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR is a phased focused approach to therapy, that helps clients reconnect to the past and unresolved traumas. This is done safely by exploring the images, self-thoughts, emotions and sensations in the body that surface when bilateral stimulation (e.g. eye movements, bilateral sound and/or tapping etc.), is used. It is an internationally recognized and accepted form of therapy. It has been researched extensively and has been shown to be highly effective with survivors of complex trauma. war veterans/survivors, accident victims, people with phobias, survivors of violence …etc.
In 2024, after three years of EMDR involvement with clients, additional trainings, learning new protocols and an ongoing commitment to maintaining supervision with a trained EMDR Consultant, I became certified as an EMDR practitioner. These additional trainings and protocols provide me with additional skills to support my work with clients.
I look forward to meeting you!
25 DANIEL STREET , SMITHS FALLS, Ontario, Canada, K7A 1J4
Phone: (613) 283-6094
Email: torybakerreed@gmail.com
Population Served:
Adult
Languages:
How EMDR is Offered:
Both online and in-person
Areas of Expertise:
Addictions
Anxiety
C-PTSD
Critical Illness
Depression
Dissociation
Eating Disorders
Grief & Bereavement
Medical Trauma
Military
PTSD
Panic Attacks
Physical Abuse
Road Traffic Accidents
Sexual Abuse
Social Anxiety