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Trauma doesn’t pause when sessions go virtual—and neither should effective EMDR. This course empowers clinicians with the tools to confidently adapt EMDR strategies for online therapy, where clients need them most.
Discover how to bring regulation, safety, and healing into clients’ own environments by mastering the nuances of virtual EMDR. Whether you’re seasoned in EMDR or new to telehealth delivery, this course offers valuable insights for navigating trauma treatment in the digital world.
Taught by Megan McQuary, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C—a nationally recognized EMDR clinician and trainer with decades of hands-on experience—this training translates research-backed strategies into practical techniques you can use right away. Megan’s expertise spans trauma, substance use, and attachment, and her EMDR trainings have equipped thousands of clinicians worldwide to improve treatment outcomes.
Megan’s teaching style is both grounded and highly experiential. Through demonstration, case examples, and step-by-step instruction, she demystifies the process of virtual EMDR and offers actionable strategies that enhance client engagement, safety, and self-efficacy.
Topics covered include adapting bilateral stimulation tools for virtual use, ensuring confidentiality and safety in telehealth environments, building client resources through resourcing activities, managing dissociation, setting up effective stop signals, and using attuned presence even when limited to a screen. You'll also explore unique challenges and opportunities in delivering trauma-informed care remotely, including working with children and clients at risk.
Key Takeaways:
Apply trauma-regulation tools for telehealth: Learn how to use EMDR strategies to help clients manage trauma responses in their environments.
Confidently deliver EMDR online: Explore multiple options for bilateral stimulation and adapt your approach to fit telehealth platforms.
Foster client empowerment: Strengthen resourcing skills to help clients develop coping strategies and feel more in control of their healing.
Why This Course?
Expert-Led Instruction: Learn from Megan McQuary, a trusted EMDR trainer whose clinical expertise ensures you're getting strategies that work in real-world settings.
Focused on What Works: No fluff—just clear, immediately usable tools for today’s virtual therapy sessions.
Trusted by Clinicians Nationwide: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, whose mission is to equip clinicians with practical, high-quality continuing education that improves care.
Learning Objectives:
Utilize tools and techniques to assist clients in regulation and de-escalating trauma associated triggers in a Telehealth setting.
Analyze/Learn different ways to utilize and provide EMDR via a Telehealth
Develop client resources and teach self-efficacy through EMDR resourcing activities via Telehealth.
EMDR doesn’t lose its power online—it simply asks clinicians to adapt. This self-study course gives you the roadmap to do just that, offering both clarity and confidence as you bring healing into the virtual therapy room.
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This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and a post-test.
Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
Megan McQuary, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, is a Certified EMDR Clinician and Trainer, as well as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II through Evergreen Certifications. Megan also is an Advanced Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, who formerly owned and operated one of the largest treatment centers for substance abuse and trauma in Southeast Idaho, which was voted best in practice for 2019. Her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians across the U.S. get the most out of EMDR, trauma and addiction based skills and practices. She has been invited to train internationally at the International Society of Addiction Medicine in India, the International Conference on Addiction Research and Therapy in Amsterdam and at the Psicologia Institute of Italy. Megan has extensively been trained on the use of EMDR as a treatment protocol and uses EMDR in her practice to achieve improved outcomes with a broad spectrum of clients in the areas of trauma, abuse, attachment and substance abuse. She is an expert witness at the State and Federal level for her expertise in areas surrounding trauma.
Ms. McQuary is the author of EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories, and Take Back Your Life set to be released by New Harbinger Publications in late 2022. She earned her master's in Clinical Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University in 2011 and is an active member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers. She currently owns and operates her own Counseling, Consulting and Training Business and is passionate about genuinely changing the landscape of trauma treatment through an authentic, hands on perspective, that she has uniquely made her own.
You can find Megan McQuary by clicking here
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Megan McQuary is the owner of Recoverhe Counseling & Consulting. She receives a speaking fee from Psicologia.io of Italy, Online CECredits.com, and Telehhealth Certification Institute. She is an author with New Harbinger Publications set to receive royalties. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Megan McQuary is a member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers.
You can find Megan McQuary by clicking here.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 3 continuing education hours of credit.
Counselors:
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Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
