First-Hand Experience of EMDR for Therapists and All Healers
CURA TE IPSUM
Healer, Heal Yourself
Healing, Renewal, and Consciousness Expansion with EMDR
An experiential program created specifically for therapists and helping professionals
Why This Program
You’ve heard about the power of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)— about its evidence-based effectiveness and, at times, almost miraculous outcomes.
And yet, as therapists, we know something fundamental:
We cannot responsibly offer something to our clients without knowing—first-hand—that it truly works.
Before trusting and pursuing EMDR with our clients, there is profound value in experiencing EMDR from the inside—not as a protocol, but as a lived, embodied healing process.
Cura Te Ipsum offers exactly that.
This is a therapist-centered, experiential immersion in EMDR, designed to make us better:
as therapists and healers, as human beings, and as conscious participants in the healing of the soul.
What Makes This Program Different
Cura Te Ipsum is a structured, safe, and meaningful space where healers themselves are held—often for the first time in a long while.
The program is intentionally designed to offer:
A first-hand experiential immersion in EMDR
Regaining the meaning and purpose in doing the work we do
A powerful antidote to burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma
A consciousness-elevating renewal of psychotherapy as soul work
This Program Responds To:
Most therapists are trained to hold others—but rarely given a container to be held themselves.
Many quietly live with:
Emotional exhaustion and compassion fatigue
Vicarious trauma and nervous system overload
Chronic over-responsibility and hyper-attunement
A gradual loss of vitality, curiosity, and joy
A sense of “functioning” rather than feeling alive
A longing to reconnect with the deeper meaning and purpose of psychotherapy
The ancient call Cura te ipsum—Healer, heal yourself—is not a luxury.
It is a personal, ethical, and humanistic necessity.
Please note that this is NOT an EMDR training or supervision program.
Core Intentions of the Program
1. Experience EMDR First-Hand
Participants experience EMDR:
- Embodied
- Somatic
- Emotional
- Experiential
Not as observers or technicians—but as human beings engaging in their own healing.
EMDR becomes:
- something you know from the inside,
- something you trust,
- something that reshapes how you sit with clients.
2. Heal the Healer – Caring for the Caregiver
Research consistently shows that personal life experiences and unresolved wounds are a strong motivator for entering the helping professions.
- Jung named this the Wounded Healer archetype
- Barr (2006) found that ~73.9% of therapists reported wounding experiences that influenced their career choice
- Victor et al. (2022) found that 82% of applied psychology graduate students and faculty in the U.S. and Canada experienced mental health conditions at some point in their lives
Many of us enter this profession—sometimes quietly, sometimes unconsciously—
hoping that by healing others, we might finally heal ourselves.
This program offers a safe, ethical way to do exactly that.
We gently address and process:
- Personal wounds that interfere with transference and countertransference
- Unhealed material that can unintentionally impact clients
- Impostor syndrome, self-doubt, and professional inadequacy
- Burnout and emotional depletion
- Vicarious trauma and accumulated clinical residue
- Chronic over-responsibility and savior patterns
- Personal history activated in the therapy room
- The unexamined healer archetype, which can lead to inflated ego, power imbalance, and self-sacrifice
3. Restore Vitality and Love for the Work
This program asks a fundamental question:
Why do I do the work that I do?
Participants are supported to reconnect with:
- Enthusiasm and aliveness
- A regulated, resourced nervous system
- Sustainable presence without depletion
- A way of practicing that nourishes rather than consumes
4. Reclaim Psychotherapy as Soul Work
We shift the central inquiry from: “What techniques do I use?” to: “From what level of consciousness do I practice?”
At its root, psychotherapy means “the healing of the soul.”
This program invites therapists to practice from that truth again—
with humility, clarity, and grounded power.
Core Intentions of the Program
1. Experience EMDR First-Hand
Participants experience EMDR:
Embodied
Somatic
Emotional
Experiential
Not as observers or technicians—but as human beings engaging in their own healing.
EMDR becomes:
something you know from the inside,
something you trust,
something that reshapes how you sit with clients.
2. Heal the Healer – Caring for the Caregiver
Research consistently shows that personal life experiences and unresolved wounds are a strong motivator for entering the helping professions.
Jung named this the Wounded Healer archetype
Barr (2006) found that ~73.9% of therapists reported wounding experiences that influenced their career choice
Victor et al. (2022) found that 82% of applied psychology graduate students and faculty in the U.S. and Canada experienced mental health conditions at some point in their lives
Many of us enter this profession—sometimes quietly, sometimes unconsciously—
hoping that by healing others, we might finally heal ourselves.
This program offers a safe, ethical way to do exactly that.
We gently address and process:
Personal wounds that interfere with transference and countertransference
Unhealed material that can unintentionally impact clients
Impostor syndrome, self-doubt, and professional inadequacy
Burnout and emotional depletion
Vicarious trauma and accumulated clinical residue
Chronic over-responsibility and savior patterns
Personal history activated in the therapy room
The unexamined healer archetype, which can lead to inflated ego, power imbalance, and self-sacrifice
3. Restore Vitality and Love for the Work
This program asks a fundamental question:
Why do I do the work that I do?
Participants are supported to reconnect with:
Enthusiasm and aliveness
A regulated, resourced nervous system
Sustainable presence without depletion
A way of practicing that nourishes rather than consumes
4. Reclaim Psychotherapy as Soul Work
We shift the central inquiry from:
“What techniques do I use?”
to:
“From what level of consciousness do I practice?”
At its root, psychotherapy means “the healing of the soul.”
This program invites therapists to practice from that truth again—
with humility, clarity, and grounded power.
Program Curriculum
Module 1 – What Is EMDR?
EMDR as a tool for personal healing and professional growth
What EMDR truly is (beyond technique)
Why bilateral stimulation works
EMDR as a consciousness-compatible healing modality
EMDR as self-healing when properly guided
Module 2 – Raising Above
The Map of Consciousness as a compass for our work
David R. Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness
How consciousness level informs:
our therapeutic stance
our boundaries
our outcomes
Practicing from force vs. practicing from power
Reclaiming purpose and meaning
Module 3 – My Personal History Map (EMDR Phase 1)
Where do I come from—and why am I here?
Timeline work: personal history as a living archive
Core wounds and formative experiences
Personal “hot spots” activated in the therapy room
Strengths, resilience, and protective factors
How personal history informs professional identity
Module 4 – Purpose- Driven Therapy and Care for the Caregiver (EMDR Phase 1 & 2)
EMDR from the inside (I): Regulation, protection, renewal
Remembering the purpose in doing our work
Energy protection and boundary restoration
Working with vicarious trauma
Emotional clearing and renewal
Resourcing confidence, trust, and self-worth
“Am I enough as a therapist?”
Module 5 – Our Inner Software System (EMDR Phase 3)
Beliefs that shape our life and our work
Negative and positive belief systems
Core beliefs about:
self
competence
worth
responsibility
Identifying target beliefs for processing
Modules 6–8 – Processing the Core Wounds
Experiencing EMDR First-Hand (EMDR Phases 3–7)
Two full sessions of guided EMDR processing
Processing one personal unhealed core wound
Learning safety, pacing, and containment from the inside
Deepening humility, compassion, and empathy
Module 9 – Processing a Work-Related Trauma
When the work itself wounds
Identifying a draining client or professional experience
Processing relational or institutional trauma
Clearing residue through EMDR-informed writing
Bilateral stimulation and self-directed processing
Restoring energy and presence
Module 10 – Integration
Practicing from a higher state
Integrating personal healing with professional identity
What changes when the therapist heals
Practicing psychotherapy as soul work
Carrying this work forward sustainably
Closing Orientation
This program is not about becoming a better technician.
It is about becoming:
more resourced,
more alive,
more conscious,
and more ethically grounded.
When the healer is regulated, integrated, and aligned,
healing happens naturally.
Cura te ipsum.
Heal yourself—so you may continue to heal others without losing yourself in the process.
PROGRAM DATES: , February 3rd, 2026- April 7th, 2026
10-week program, every Tuesday, 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Cost: $1080 – the cost of the 10-session program is the equivalent of less than 4 individual EMDR sessions (insurance coverage for services offered by R.S.W)
For registrations: contact Sophia Barna: sophia.barna@crossingyourbridges.ca
Whatsapp: +1- 647-608-6615