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From Presenting Issue to Touchstone Memory in EMDR: A Somatic and Attachment-Informed Approach
By Deb Kennard, PTI Founder When clients arrive in therapy, they often bring surface-level symptoms—anxiety, relationship struggles, emotional reactivity—but beneath those symptoms lie deeper patterns shaped by early life experiences. In our recent webinar, “From...
Treatment Planning and Finding the Targets in EMDR: What Every Therapist Should Know
By Deb Kennard, PTI Founder At the Personal Transformation Institute (PTI), our monthly free webinars are designed to help clinicians deepen their understanding of trauma and refine their skills in EMDR therapy. In our latest session—Treatment Planning and Finding the...
Unlocking the Power of EMDR: Highlights from Our Free Webinar
By Deb Kennard, PTI Founder At the Personal Transformation Institute (PTI), we’re passionate about sharing the life-changing potential of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. In our most recent free webinar, attended by clinicians across the...
Effectiveness of Virtual EMDR Therapy and Training
By Deb Kennard, PTI Founder Virtual EMDR Benefits and Considerations In 2020 we experienced a global pandemic crisis threw many into panic mode and it threw some of us into action mode. Crisis is an opportunity for growth and change. The Personal Transformation...
Why SAFE EMDR Approach?
By Deb Kennard, Founder of the Personal Transformation Institute and Developer of the SAFE EMDR approach. SAFE EMDR was developed by me, Deb Kennard, in 2014. I was fortunate to be introduced to EMDR in 1995 and even more fortunate to have been trained by Francine...
Finding the Real Problem in Therapy: The Universal Theme
By Deb Kennard,PTI Founder Freedom is possible. At the Personal Transformation Institute we see amazing transformation happen. We offer a somatic and attachment lens and unique tools that invite an opportunity to access the true experiential root of a problem or...
Embodied Compassion
Principles for Effective Treatment and Living By Deb Kennard, PTI Founder There are some principles I believe are important for effective clinical treatment, these principles are imperative if working with trauma. I will be exploring how some important principles are...
From Surviving to Thriving:Â The Secret to Transformation and Freedom
By Deb Kennard, Founder of the Personal Transformation Institute. Deb offers a free live webinar every month. This will be the topic of her webinar airing on Dec. 1, 2020 from 1:00 to 3:00 EST.    This year has been a difficult time for so many, it is a time of...
The Time is Now. A Call for Change.
Dear Friends and Colleagues in the PTI Community, We at PTI wish to add our voice to the many who are speaking out against the tragic murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and the countless unnamed others who have suffered and died as a result of...
New EMDRIA Accredited 6-Day Online EMDR Training
What has changed in the past 2 months? How have you adapted? What have you learned about yourself in this time of world crisis?  What will be better because of the global pandemic? At Personal Transformation Institute (PTI) we have faced the challenge of adapting...