EMDR for Anger, Shame, and Depression: Neuroscience-Informed Training for Trauma Therapists
Join Joel Kouame, LCSW, MBA, CAMS, for a full-day TTI Advanced EMDR Training on one of the most common and most misunderstood emotional clusters in trauma work.
Your clients don't experience anger, shame, and depression as separate problems. They move through them. This training gives you the clinical framework and the EMDR tools to meet them there.
By the end of this training, you will be able to:
- Describe the relationship between shame, rumination, and trauma-related psychological symptoms, and map where clients sit on the anger-depression continuum
- Explain how traumatic experiences disrupt memory processing and drive the dissociation that keeps clients stuck
- Identify how the anger-shame-depression cycle contributes to emotional dysregulation and complex trauma presentations
- Describe how large-scale brain networks, including the Default Mode Network, Central Executive Network, and Salience Network, shape emotional regulation and trauma responses
- Explain the neurological mechanisms underlying trauma processing and why EMDR works the way it does across this emotional cluster
- Analyze the role of shame and self-conscious emotion in maintaining posttraumatic stress symptoms, and apply that understanding to EMDR case conceptualization and target selection
Joel weaves EMDR across all eight phases with REBT, Ego State Therapy, IFS-informed approaches, and CBT, walking you through how to work with secondary emotions, shame-based blocking beliefs, and dissociated parts, phase by phase.
Course Details:
Live Training | Friday, July 17 | 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM CT | 6 CEs EMDRIA approved | NBCC | ACE | Prerequisites: Prior EMDR training required