Neuroscience and Somatics

Deepening Your Understanding of EMDR and the AIP Model

The Ethical and Profitable Private Practice: Building a Nourishing Practice Worth Investing In

Monday, February 10, 2025
12:00pm - 3:00pm EST
$100, use code EARLYBIRD for $25/off

Wherever you are on the private practice journey (beginning to think about launching a practice to consciously expanding your currently full caseload), private practice should feel full of exciting growth opportunities, not a potential for endless ethical and emotional pitfalls!  In this workshop, we will tackle questions about common ethical complexities such as screening for your ideal client, working within your scope of practice, and referring clients who are not in your zone of excellence to assure both you and the niche you serve are getting the best this field has to offer. 

We will explore how to fashion an anti-burnout practice that is at once effortlessly ethical and positively profitable by focusing on how to sell your skills, not yourself.  Private practice can be incredibly nourishing, especially when we are confident that we are making the best decisions for ourselves as humans, professionals, and business owners.  

N&S Training Series: January

Our N&S Training is an in-depth look at how to deepen your understanding of EMDR through exploring how the neuroscience of stress and healing intersect somatic experiencing practices. Learn new ways to tap deeper into observing and listening to the nervous system with this training.

Continuing Education Credits Available

12 NBCC and EMDRIA credits available.

NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider™
Sydney Rudy | ACEP No. 7594

Sign up for the Training

Pay in Full | $400

One payment up front

Payment Plan | $400

Two payments of $200

Not EMDR Trained? No Problem!

This training is beneficial to any therapist or wellness practitioner who wants to expand their knowledge about somatic experiencing.

This training is open and welcome to anyone who wants to benefit from this education.

WHAT IS IT?

6 Week Virtual Training Series focused on EMDR.

Each week you’ll get access to Laurel & Laura via Zoom, and get access to the materials via Teachable.

Calls are virtual and hosted on Zoom.

WHEN IS IT?

Six weeks in 2025,
11:00am - 1:00pm EST

Jan 14
Jan 28
Feb 11
Feb 25
March 11
March 25

DETAILS

You’ll have forever access to materials on Teachable!

Each session will be recorded for your reference.

At the end of the session, the materials will be turned into a course.

Meet the Educators

Laura Swinford

Therapy, to Laura, is about finding connection to self in a deep and meaningful way that when found, allows for the attachment to others and the expansion of one's life. This sacred journey can be walked in many ways. Therapy is just one way.

Laura is a trauma-informed therapist trained in Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and parts work. She believes that people make attempts at making what's wrong, right for themselves but can sometimes get lost and stuck. She holds space with compassion and acceptance and the message that there must be a good reason. So with curiosity and a deep belief that people innately know the way, her job as a therapist is to help shine one's light back onto their path so they can connect and find their way back to themselves.

Laurel Thornton

Laurel Thornton is the co-founder of the Whole Brain Institute and a lover of neuroscience and EMDR. She was trained by HAP in 2011 while she was a counseling Master's student at West Virginia University. She trained at a specialized private practice where she was mentored to use EMDR with all ages and with complex presentations of stress and trauma-based issues. 

Laurel is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and trainer. She has experience facilitating EMDR basic training and delivering advanced topic trainings that focus on the Neuroscience of EMDR and how to better embrace Neurodiversity in the practice of EMDR. Laurel believes that the AIP model has applications across theoretical models and also provides consultation to practice owners and therapists interested in growing their businesses. 

Sign up for the Training

Pay in Full | $400

One payment up front

Payment Plan | $400

Two payments of $200

“This has improved my EMDR practice in so many ways, and I was able to apply new techniques immediately after the workshop. I have learned how to identify and trust my intuition, attune to my clients, and to be more fluid in my use of EMDR to EMD, to apply interweaves, and to flow between phases instead of following them from phase one to 8 in a linear way. My sessions with clients have been much more graceful, like a dance that ties up and ends in a bow.”

– Autumn