Lunch & Learn Webinars

Available exclusively for EMDR Canada Members!

October 23, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST

Anti-Racist EMDR Therapy: Culturally Responsive Considerations for Complex Trauma and Dissociation

David Archer

Offered in English

This presentation explores Anti-Racist EMDR Therapy, an integrative framework designed to treat complex racial trauma, structural dissociation, and identity-based stress. Clinicians will examine the four cores of Anti-Racist Psychotherapy, learn to construct a Racial Trauma Target History, and explore an essential strategy for working with clients who suffer from complex trauma and dissociation called Resource Integration (RI).

RI is derived from Korn and Leeds’ (2009) Resource Development and Installation but was designed to address limiting beliefs and assist during cognitive interweaves using a culturally responsive process. Through David Archer’s discussion and a short video demonstration of RI, clinicians will learn strategies informed by Anti-Racist Psychotherapy and the Rhythm and Processing framework that they can adapt to the eight phases of EMDR for culturally responsive trauma treatment.

David Archer, PSW, MFT, MSW, is a Black Jamaican African-Canadian father and husband from Montreal, Canada (Tiohtià:ke). He is also a professional social worker, couple and family therapist and EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapy trainer.

He is currently a PhD student at Concordia University and has won several awards which include a full scholarship by the Canadian federal government’s SSHRC doctoral fellowship. With over 16 years of experience, he specializes in treating complex PTSD and complex racial trauma using Africentric principles and memory reconsolidation-based approaches.

David is the recipient of the Emerging Leader Award from EMDRIA as well as the developer of Rhythm and Processing (RAP) Strategies, an integrative therapeutic approach for treating complex PTSD and racial trauma.

David is the author of five books relating to anti-racist psychotherapy, mindfulness, complex trauma treatment, and revolutionary healing methods. He is a keynote speaker and regular conference presenter who offers workshops to help therapists integrate anti-racist principles into their practice and to teach people of all backgrounds to recognize their awesomeness.

November 27, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST

Strategies for Using the EMDR Therapeutic Story Method with Adults and Kids

Debra Wesselmann

Offered in English

Learning Objectives:

1. Conditions in which the EMDR therapeutic story method is advantageous.
2. Steps for creating an effective therapeutic story.
3. Methods for applying the story in sessions.

Debra Wesselmann MS, LIMHP has 35 years experience treating children and adults impacted by attachment trauma. She received her EMDR basic training from Francine Shapiro Ph.D. in 1995 and immediately integrated the approach into her clinical work. In 2008, Ms. Wesselmann co-founded The Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska, where she continues her clinical work. She provides advanced and basic EMDR trainings and is on the faculty of the EMDR Institute of Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., where she helped develop a curriculum for their EMDR basic training with a child focus. She has published research and authored or co-authored several books as well as numerous articles and chapters, including two chapters co-authored with EMDR founder Francine Shapiro. She’s on the board of the Journal for EMDR Practice and Research and presents keynotes and workshops for organizations both nationally and internationally.

January 8th, 2026 | 12 – 1 pm MST

Beyond the Container: EMDR and Tarot

Jenna Burton

Offered in English

This workshop offers EMDR-trained counselors and social workers a specialized framework for integrating Tarot cards into trauma processing as dynamic, symbolic visual projection tools. Participants will begin by exploring a brief history of Tarot, tracing its evolution from Renaissance imagery to its modern psychological applications. By framing the cards through a Jungian and archetypal lens, clinicians can seamlessly align these visual tools with the Phase 2 preparation stages of EMDR therapy with a demonstration of RDI.

Jenna Burton is an LMHC in an online private practice in Orlando, Florida. She was EMDR trained in 2004 and became a Facilitator in 2019 and provides therapy to clients in FL, TX, SC, DE, KS, OH, and VT. She has worked in various settings including community mental health, residential, and child welfare with diverse clients. She works with all ages, treating Autoimmune D/Os with a specialty in PANS/PANDAS, Psychosis/Schizophrenia, Religious Abuse, and Complex Trauma working through an attachment, somatic and spritual wellness lens. She has developed her skills and created the Resetting the Immune System technique and other EMDR interweaves through specialized trainings including working with children, Dissociation, Addictions, Cultural Competency. She is actively engaged in local and international EMDR network trainings, study groups, provides training and consultation to other clinicians. She is also currently an active member of EMDRIA, International Cultic Studies Association and regularly attends specialized monthly consultation groups.

February 12, 2027 | 12 – 1 pm MST

EMDR Affirming Care for 2SLGBTQIA+ Clients: From Research To Practice & Intervention

Shaun/Sienna Bries

Offered in English

Learning Objectives:

1: Explain the Minority Stress Model and its relevance to clinical conceptualization and care for sexual and gender minority clients.

2: Critically assess the impact of heteronormative assumptions, provider bias, and limited research frameworks on 2SLGBTQIA+ client access to affirming care.

3: Demonstrate culturally responsive, AIP-informed assessment strategies, including inclusive documentation and communication practices that reflect diverse identities.

Shaun/Sienna Bries is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and EMDRIA Certified Clinician practicing in Massachusetts, providing individual, family, and group therapy for adolescents and adults. They are formally trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Model, Psychological First Aid (PFA), Post-Traumatic Stress Management (PTSM), and Sensory Motor Arousal and Regulation Treatment (SMART).

Shaun/Sienna is a two-spirited individual who earned their Master of Social Work in Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. In addition to their clinical work, they are an independent researcher trained in Participatory Action Research (PAR), with a focus on joining or developing projects aimed at decolonizing trauma work.

EMDR Basic Training Courses

EMDR Basic Training is provided by a number of EMDR Basic Trainers in Canada and the USA. All of these courses are EMDRIA-approved Basic Training courses provided by EMDRIA-approved Trainers. Training is provided virtually/online and face-to-face at different locations throughout Canada.

Some members of EMDR Canada have completed the EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training course in the United States or virtually/online with a US based EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Trainer.

EMDR Canada provides information on these EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Trainers and Trainings. It is not possible for EMDR Canada to recommend one EMDR Trainer or EMDR Basic Training course over another. All courses listed here will provide you with the required EMDR training to become a member of EMDR Canada upon successful completion of the course requirements.

EMDR Trainers who are EMDR Canada members may email us for details and payment to advertise their EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training course. 

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