The companion app your trainees wish they had in the room.
EMDR Assist slots into EMDRIA-approved Basic Training as a protocol-aligned scaffold for new trainees. Visual phase guides during practicum, structured session reports for consultation, and a private cohort hub — all PII-safe and built to stay out of the way during sessions.
EMDR Assist is a clinical companion tool — not a training course or substitute for EMDRIA-approved Basic Training. Independent of EMDRIA and the EMDR Institute, Inc.
Basic Training is a firehose. The room is even harder.
Even the best trainees freeze when their first practicum client lands on a feeder memory. EMDR Assist is the scaffold they reach for when memory fails.
Phase paralysis in the room
New trainees freeze mid-session trying to remember Shapiro's exact wording for Assessment, the 8 steps of Desensitization, or what to do when SUDs stall. EMDR Assist walks them through every phase in real time — visually, never as a chat.
Messy practicum notes
Practicum and consultation reviews suffer when trainees can't reconstruct what happened set-by-set. Built-in structured session data captures NC, PC, SUD, VOC, BLS sets, and body scan — generating clean PDF reports for supervision.
Cognitive interweave anxiety
When a trainee's client gets stuck, panic sets in. EMDR Assist surfaces protocol-aligned interweave suggestions (responsibility, safety, choice) and grounding modules so trainees have something to lean on under their consultant's guidance.
From Weekend 1 to independent practice.
EMDR Assist follows the standard Basic Training arc — phases introduced in order, reinforced in practicum, reviewed in consultation.
Weekend 1 — Phases 1 & 2
Trainees use the History-Taking and Preparation guides immediately during practicum dyads. The visual phase tracker reinforces Shapiro's protocol structure as they learn it.
Weekend 2 — Phases 3–7
Assessment, Desensitization, Installation, Body Scan, and Closure each have dedicated step-by-step guides. The standardized desensitization flow ('Go with that / Return to target / No change / Interweave') becomes muscle memory.
Between weekends — Practicum + consultation
Trainees run real practicum sessions with the app open. They export structured session reports for consultation review. Consultants can be invited into a private group hub to discuss cases without juggling email threads.
After Basic — Continuing competence
Trainees graduate into independent practice already fluent in a tool that grows with them. Cross-session insights, target sequence planning, and parts work support the move from competence to mastery.
Less protocol policing, more clinical mentorship.
A consistent teaching scaffold
Every trainee follows the same protocol-aligned visual flow. You spend less time reminding people what comes next and more time on the clinical art.
Cleaner consultation conversations
Structured session reports replace vague recollections. Consultants review concrete data: target memory, NC/PC, SUD trajectory, BLS set count, what was tried, what stalled.
Private trainee cohort hub
Run your training cohort in a private group with chat, shared session reports, and roster management — separate from the public forum. Each trainee gets a free month of full Clinical access via your invite codes.
Reference library at their fingertips
NC/PC clusters, cognitive interweaves, grounding exercises, parts work modules, and protocol decision trees — all educational paraphrasings written in original language with citations.
PII-safe by design
EMDR Assist is explicitly not an EHR. Trainees use generic descriptors only. Built-in PII warnings and runtime scrubbing protect both clients and your training program from data risk.
Stays out of the way during sessions
All phases are visual step-by-step guides — never chat-based. The interface is minimal so trainees can talk to their practicum client, not a screen.
"My trainees stopped asking 'what do I say next?' and started asking 'why is the SUD stuck?' That's the conversation I actually want to be having in consultation."
Common questions from trainers.
See it through your trainees' eyes.
Spin up a free Clinical trial in 60 seconds. Walk through the visual phase guides, generate a sample session report, and decide whether it belongs in your next cohort.