EMDR Consultation
EMDR is not a difficult protocol to learn. The eight phases are clear. The structure is teachable. Most therapists who complete basic training leave with a reasonable grasp of the model and a genuine eagerness to begin using it.
What takes longer to develop — and what consultation is really for — is learning to trust it. Learning to follow the client’s process rather than manage it. Learning to recognize when less would do more, and when the most useful thing to bring to the session is patience and presence rather than another technique.
That is the kind of EMDR consultation offered here. Not a checklist. A conversation between clinicians, grounded in real cases, aimed at helping you find your footing and deepen your confidence in this work.
Mercy Road Counseling offers EMDR consultation for therapists at every stage of the learning curve.
EMDR Grows Through Use. It Deepens Through Reflection.
There is a difference between knowing the protocol and inhabiting it.
Most therapists who have been using EMDR for a while can identify the moment they stopped following a script and started genuinely following a client. That shift is not something that happens in training. It happens somewhere in the middle of real sessions, usually gradually, and often with a growing sense that the model is capable of more than it initially appeared to be.
Consultation accelerates that process. Not by adding layers of complexity, but by helping therapists develop the clinical confidence to do what the protocol was always asking them to do: stay present, trust the process, and resist the pull to intervene when intervention is not what is needed.
That particular skill — knowing when to wait, when to stay quiet, when the most meaningful response is simply to let what is happening continue happening — is not something training can fully transmit. It develops in practice. Consultation is where it gets examined, refined, and strengthened.
The protocol is the beginning. What you do with it is where the real learning lives.
What Consultation Actually Looks Like Here.
Case-focused, clinically grounded, and genuinely useful.
Consultation at Mercy Road is built around your actual work. Cases you are carrying. Moments that felt stuck. Sessions where something happened that you are still turning over. Patterns you are noticing in your EMDR work that you want to understand better.
The goal is not to evaluate your practice or confirm that you are doing it correctly. The goal is to think through your clinical material together, in a way that helps you leave with greater clarity, greater confidence, and a more settled sense of what the work is asking of you.
This includes supporting therapists who are working toward EMDRIA certification and need consultation hours from an approved consultant. But the value of the work does not depend on that credential process. Therapists who have been practicing EMDR for years and want a space to go deeper are equally welcome here.
Good consultation makes the work feel more like yours.
A Particular Perspective On EMDR.
Suzie’s approach to EMDR is shaped by a deep respect for what the model was originally designed to do. Before the additions, before the integrations, before the growing library of modifications and enhancements — EMDR was built around a remarkably simple and confident premise: that the mind already knows how to heal, and that the therapist’s primary job is to create the conditions for that to happen.
That orientation has practical consequences for how sessions unfold. It means following the client’s associative process rather than directing it. It means staying curious about where a client is going rather than nudging them toward where the therapist expects them to end up. It means recognizing that an unexpected image, a tangential memory, or a moment of apparent digression is often the process working exactly as it should.
It also means resisting one of the most common pulls in EMDR work: the impulse to do something when something feels stuck. Some of what looks like stuckness is actually movement that has not yet become visible. Learning to sit with that uncertainty, and to trust that the work continues even when it does not announce itself, is part of what separates competent EMDR from genuinely transformative EMDR.
This is the perspective Suzie brings to consultation. Not a doctrine or a prescribed method, but an orientation toward the work that she has found consistently produces better outcomes and more confident clinicians.
EMDR at its best is not something the therapist does to the client. It is something the therapist holds space for.
Who Comes To Consultation Here.
Whether you are newly trained or years into the work, there is something useful in stepping back.
Newly trained therapists finding their feet.
Training provides the map. The first months of clinical practice are where therapists discover how differently the territory can look. Consultation during this period helps bridge that gap, building confidence and preventing the early formation of habits that are harder to unlearn later.
Therapists working toward EMDRIA certification.
EMDRIA certification requires consultation hours with an approved consultant. Suzie is an EMDRIA-approved EMDR consultant. Those hours count here. More importantly, the conversation that happens during them tends to be genuinely useful, not just a requirement to fulfill.
Therapists navigating complex cases.
Dissociation, early developmental trauma, attachment disruption, clients with limited window of tolerance — complex presentations ask more of the clinician and more of the model. Thinking through those cases with someone who has worked extensively in this territory is often exactly what is needed.
Therapists who want a different conversation about EMDR.
Not every therapist is looking for more techniques or a new protocol to integrate. Some are looking for a space to think carefully about what they are already doing and how to do it with greater depth and intention. That conversation is available here.
Wherever you are in your EMDR practice, there is ground worth exploring.
A Different Kind Of Professional Conversation.
Consultation is one of the few places where what actually happens in sessions can be examined openly.
One of the things that gets lost in the daily rhythms of clinical practice is the opportunity to step back and look honestly at the work. Supervision ends. Case consultation in group settings is often too brief or too general to go where individual cases need to go. The result is that many experienced therapists carry their clinical questions quietly, working things out as best they can without a dedicated space to think them through.
Consultation is that space. It is one of the few genuinely useful professional relationships available to therapists after licensure, particularly for the kind of nuanced, case-specific thinking that EMDR practice regularly requires.
Suzie takes that seriously. The consultation relationship here is not transactional. It is a real professional relationship, built over time, that becomes more useful as it deepens. The goal is not to answer a question and move on. The goal is to help you develop a clearer, more confident, more grounded relationship with your own clinical work.
Good EMDR consultation is not about getting the right answer. It is about developing a better relationship with the questions.
Suzie’s Background In This Work.
Trained deeply. Practicing actively. Consulting from the inside.
Suzie is an EMDRIA-approved EMDR consultant with years of active clinical practice in EMDR therapy. Her training goes beyond standard EMDR certification — she trained with Dr. Andrew Dobo, one of the field’s most respected voices on what EMDR is capable of when it is practiced with fidelity to its original design.
What that training gave her, more than additional technique, was a clearer and more settled understanding of what EMDR is fundamentally doing and why that matters. It shaped how she sits with clients in session, how she thinks about the therapist’s role in the process, and how she approaches the question of when to act and when to wait.
It also shaped how she consults. Suzie does not bring a single method to consultation or expect every therapist she works with to practice exactly as she does. She brings a perspective, a way of thinking about the work, and a genuine curiosity about what is happening in each unique clinical situation. The goal is always the same: to help the therapist in front of her become more fully themselves in the room.
The best consultation does not produce therapists who practice like their consultant. It produces therapists who practice like themselves, only better.
What Comes Next.
The conversation begins wherever you are.
If you are interested in EMDR consultation — whether for certification hours, case support, or simply a space to think more carefully about your practice — the next step is a straightforward conversation about what you are looking for and whether this is a good fit.
The work you are doing for your clients deserves the same quality of attention you are learning to offer them.
