27/09/2026
Are you thinking about adding another valuable tool to our clinical toolkit.
Dr Button - EMDR Training recently asked our delegates what motivated them to train in EMDR, and their responses highlighted just how many different paths can lead to the same goal: being better equipped to support clients affected by trauma.
Some of the reasons included:
🔹 Expanding their therapeutic toolkit and developing their clinical skills.
🔹 Gaining a trauma-focused approach to complement existing models such as CBT and DBT.
🔹 Supporting clients when traditional talking therapies aren't enough, or haven't been effective.
🔹 Seeing the benefits of EMDR through personal experience or observing it in practice.
🔹 Being encouraged by supervisors and colleagues who had trained in EMDR.
🔹 Responding to the needs of the clients and services they work with, including oncology, inpatient, crisis and bleeding-disorder settings.
🔹 Continuing professional development and developing a new area of practice.
🔹 Bringing EMDR into their teams alongside existing trauma-focused approaches.
One theme came through particularly strongly: relevance to the people we work with.
For many clinicians, EMDR isn't about replacing the approaches they already use. It's about adding another evidence-based option to their toolkit and offering a different therapeutic route for clients working through trauma.
For us, that's one of the most valuable aspects of ongoing professional development continuing to learn, reflect and expand the ways we can support the people we work with.
What has motivated you to expand your clinical toolkit?
