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A Customizable Client Workbook for EMDR Therapy Intensives
Support client preparation, reflection, session-to-session tracking, and post-intensive integration within one thoughtfully structured workbook.
EMDR Intensive Workbook Package | $97
More Than a Collection of Worksheets
Preparing for an EMDR intensive involves more than gathering a history or identifying treatment targets. Clients benefit from opportunities to recognize existing resources, notice patterns, clarify what they hope will change, and reflect on what they experience throughout the intensive process.
The Customizable EMDR Intensive Workbook provides a structured starting point for this work while leaving clinical decision-making where it belongs: with the treating clinician.
The activities are grounded in EMDR and informed by attachment theory, parts-informed approaches, somatic mindfulness, affect regulation, nervous system concepts, and other trauma-informed perspectives. Together, these approaches invite clients to consider connections among their experiences, beliefs, emotions, body responses, protective patterns, relationships, resources, and treatment goals.
The Workbook follows a three-part intensive model:
- Before the Intensive: Preparation, reflection, resource identification, and treatment-goal development
- During the Intensive: Tracking experiences, responses, insights, resources, and changes
- After the Intensive: Evaluating progress, supporting integration, and identifying next steps
The Workbook is customizable so you can select, adapt, or remove activities based on your intensive structure, clinical approach, areas of competence, and the individual needs of each client.
An Integrative Approach to Intensive Preparation
EMDR provides the foundation for this Workbook, but the activities extend beyond identifying targets and negative and positive cognitions.
The Workbook is also informed by attachment theory, parts-informed approaches, affect regulation, somatic mindfulness, nervous system concepts, and other trauma-informed perspectives. These approaches support clients in noticing how different areas of their experience may connect.
Across the Workbook, clients may be invited to explore:
- How past experiences continue to influence present responses
- Negative and positive beliefs connected to their experiences
- Body sensations and nervous system patterns
- Parts, protective responses, and coping strategies
- Attachment experiences and current relationship patterns
- Existing strengths, resources, and supportive qualities
- Emotional, relational, cognitive, and functional changes
- What they hope to experience differently through treatment
Rather than treating these as separate areas, the Workbook helps clients notice how beliefs, emotions, body responses, protective patterns, relationships, and resources may influence one another.
What Is Included
Clinician's Guide
The Clinician’s Guide includes information addressing:
- The intensive model within which the Workbook was developed
- Clinical scope and competence
- Individualized activity selection
- Voluntary client participation
- Pacing and containment
- Privacy and electronic transmission
- Customization instructions
- Preparing a client-specific Workbook
- A pre-send clinician checklist
- An Activity Selection Guide outlining each activity’s purpose, potential clinical considerations, estimated completion time, and relevant dependencies
The Workbook itself is client-facing and fully customizable, allowing clinicians to select, adapt, and remove activities before providing it to an individual client.
Part 1: Before the Intensive
Part 1 includes activities that help clients prepare for their intensive and identify information relevant to treatment planning.
Available activities include:
- Somatic mindfulness and body-awareness practices
- Understanding nervous system patterns
- Identifying supportive personal qualities
- Positive Belief Inventory
- Identifying supportive experiences and present-day resources
- Negative Belief Inventory
- Trigger Inventory
- Exploring parts and protective responses
- Attachment and childhood reflection
- Current relationship patterns
- Developmental history
- Relational responses under stress
- Moving toward greater choice in relationships
- Integrating nervous system patterns with beliefs, parts, and relational responses
- Treatment-goal development
Part 1 is intentionally comprehensive. It is not intended to be assigned in its entirety to every client. Clinicians are encouraged to select only the activities that are clinically appropriate, useful, and manageable for the individual client.
Part 2: During the Intensive
Part 2 offers optional activities clients may use during and between intensive sessions to notice:
Available activities include:
- Emotional and nervous system responses
- Thoughts, beliefs, memories, or connections that emerge
- Changes in familiar responses
- Parts or protective responses
- Significant experiences and triggers
- Resources used between sessions
- Relationship changes
- Dreams or other experiences that feel relevant to treatment
These activities are designed to support communication and reflection without requiring clients to document or interpret everything they experience.
Part 3: After the Intensive
Part 3 supports reflection before the post-intensive assessment. Clients are invited to consider:
Available activities include:
- Changes related to their original treatment goals
- Emotional, physical, cognitive, relational, and functional shifts
- Positive beliefs and supportive qualities that feel more accessible
- Areas that remain difficult or are still developing
- Resources that may support continued progress
- Additional treatment goals or support needs
- Priorities for the post-intensive assessment
Together, these activities help clients reflect on what has changed, identify what may still need attention, and prepare to discuss continued progress, remaining concerns, and next steps during the post-intensive assessment.
Individualized by Clinicians, Guided by Client Choice
Designed for Individualized Clinical Use
This Workbook is not a standardized protocol, readiness test, diagnostic instrument, or replacement for clinical judgment.
You decide:
- Which activities to provide
- When to provide them
- How much preparation is appropriate
- Which terminology reflects your training and approach
- How clients return completed activities
- How Workbook content is reviewed and incorporated into treatment
- Which pages should be adapted or removed
Highlighted placeholders and clinician instructions identify areas requiring customization. The included Activity Selection Guide helps you build a more focused Workbook for each client.
Grounded in Client Choice
Workbook participation is intended to remain voluntary.
Client-facing instructions explain that clients may:
- Complete as much or as little as feels helpful
- Skip questions or activities
- Respond briefly
- Take breaks
- Stop an activity that feels uncomfortable
- Choose not to complete the Workbook
The Workbook is intended to support preparation and reflection, not ask clients to independently process traumatic or distressing experiences.