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The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI): Scoring, Severity Levels and Use in Therapy
How to score the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI): the 0 to 100 total, the 40-point cutoff, the five severity levels, and how to use it in therapy.
EMD and Restricted Processing (EMDr): When and How to Narrow EMDR
EMD vs. restricted processing (EMDr) vs. full EMDR: what each does, when narrowing the protocol is clinically justified, and the step-by-step structure of each.
Your Client Keeps Choosing the Old Therapy: How to Explain EMDR So They Say Yes
Clients pick the familiar therapy because they hear your hesitation. Deb Kennard on explaining trauma as physiology, using the Answer to tell the client their own story, and the reframes that turn a maybe into a yes.
Is Your Client Ready for Reprocessing? How to Assess Readiness Before EMDR Phases 3 Through 7
Recap of Deb Kennard’s September 2026 free webinar on how to know when a client is ready for EMDR reprocessing: assessing affect regulation before trauma history, resourcing just enough, predicting the Answer, finding the touchstone, and what to do when a client shuts down mid-session.
What Helped You Survive Is Now What Holds You Back: Working With the Answer in EMDR
Insight alone does not heal trauma. Deb Kennard on the Answer, the adaptations you built as a child to stay safe and connected, why they now show up as blocks in your own work, and how to find the wound underneath them.
When EMDR Gets Stuck: Blocked Processing, Looping, and Feeder Memories
Blocked processing, looping, and feeder memories look alike in the chair but call for different responses. Deb Kennard on telling them apart, the interweaves she actually uses, and how predicting the client’s Answer prevents the block before it happens.
EMDR for First Responders: Treating the Clients Who Were Trained to Feel Nothing
The emotional armor that keeps first responders alive on shift is the same thing that stalls EMDR reprocessing in Phase 4. How the S.A.F.E. framework, The Rock and The Hero adaptations, and a body-based interoceptive pause change the work.
EMDR Basic Training vs. EMDR Certification: What Is the Difference?
Finishing an EMDRIA-approved basic training and being EMDRIA Certified are different milestones. What each one means, whether certification is worth it, and how to plan the path from one to the other.
How to Choose an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training: 7 Questions to Ask Before You Register
Not all EMDR basic trainings are equal. Seven questions that separate a training you will actually use from an expensive certificate, from EMDRIA approval to practicum time and post-training support.
Why Your Own Healing Is the Most Powerful Tool in Your EMDR Practice
Every symptom is an adaptation. Every adaptation points to something unhealed. And for EMDR clinicians, the place to start looking is within. In a recent free webinar hosted by the Personal Transformation Institute, PTI founder and SAFE Approach developer Deb Kennard...