Consultation to Help You Queer Your EMDR

~offered by horizon greene (they/she)~

I am a trauma worker, a somatic therapist and a culture builder. I mentor EMDR therapists in the deeply embodied, open-hearted work of somatic trauma healing. And by this I mean our birthright ability to heal our individual and collective traumas, griefs, ecosystems and futures. And by this I mean healing in ways that are rooted in love, that unlock what is possible.

We are living in a time when we know SO MUCH about the relational field of healing. I practice EMDR because I know it to be an exquisitely beautiful trauma healing modality that consistently helps my clients to sustainably metabolize past traumas and griefs instead of reliving them. EMDR reminds us what our bodies already know (and what neuroscience continues to reaffirm), that we have an innate wisdom and a deep capacity for healing and transformation. This is both magic and science.

Who I Work With
I love supporting folx who feel like they still aren’t sure how to fit EMDR into their practice after basic training. If you finished basic training and weren’t sure if you even wanted to bring EMDR into your practice, or if you feel stuck with how to start, I’d love to work with you. If you want to figure out what intuitive practice means to you within a standardized model that seems too rigid, or if you were cautioned not to use EMDR with complex trauma/dissociation and don’t know where to start with your real clients, I’d love to talk.

I also work with queers and liberation-aligned EMDR practitioners. Therapists and healers who understand that oppression is trauma and who want to practice in ways that create more safety with their clients. I help folx develop an EMDR practice that is anti-racist, queer/trans-affirming, neurodivergent affirming, fat/body celebratory, anti-ableist, anti-oppressive, magical, intuitive and liberatory.

EMDR Certification 
There are many folx who work with me for supervision or consultation and who don’t want to work on certification. That’s totally fine! But I do love supporting folx who want a relational consultation container to work toward EDMR Certification.

The process of becoming EMDR Certified is a journey of learning to practice open-heartedness, attunement and deep listening while working to reliably create the conditions of safety with your clients—all while cultivating a deep somatic understanding and intuitive practice of EMDR. As a dedicated student and practitioner of the relational neurosciences, I will support you in cultivating a fluent understanding of what polyvagal theory and interpersonal neurobiology continue to teach us about creating the relational conditions for healing—so that the artistry of your EMDR facilitation shines through your heart and practice.

Complex Trauma and Dissociation
I am a complex trauma specialist and have been practicing for over 23 years. I have advanced training and am experienced in supporting folx recovering from complex developmental (and historical) trauma, addictions, eating disorders and complex (structural) dissociation. As an EMDR Therapist, I help clients learn to listen to the wisdom of their bodies out of a deep believe that our clients systems know the exact right way to heal. As an EMDR Consultant, I will help you learn to do the same. With a truly intuitive understanding of EMDR in our bones, we find a softness that flows through our practice, inviting healing to follow.

I use and teach a non-pathologizing approach to conceptualizing treatment and supporting the trauma survivors we work with. I approach eating disorder treatment from a Body Trust, Body Liberation lens. And in the words of Dr. Gabor Mate, I believe in asking “not why the addiction, why the pain.” I believe all behaviors are an attempt at regulation and I seek to identify and treat the underlying trauma beneath any behavioral attempt to regulate.

~IFS & QTIFS Aligned EMDR~
My practice is deeply informed by the wisdom of (Queer and Trans) Internal Family Systems* which teaches us to compassionately understand our client’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors and feelings as a response to systemic wounding and protection rather than the result of pathology. In this way, we help our clients work within their inner world by honoring and collaborating with their body’s protective system (parts) rather than fighting or overriding them. IFS is a beautifully queer healing lineage that invites the practices of deep witnessing, trust-building, nurturing and self-attunement (the relational practices of safety and love) to help us feel whole and free.

I am a Level 2 Trained IFS Therapist. I blend EMDR with IFS because I understand healing through the lens of parts, because bringing a parts lens to EMDR increases safety and effectiveness, and because both of these lineages—particularly when used together—offer us access to powerful healing. I offer consultation in IFS-aligned EMDR, so you can reliably help your clients to access the powerful healing that is their birthright.

Ego State Trauma Therapy
IFS is an ego state/parts therapy modality. I also offer consultation in other ego state EMDR integrations and believe our clients systems are very wise in telling us what they need to heal. My influences in these workings are Virginia Satir, Bonnie Badenoch, Robin Shapiro, Resmaa Menakem, Janina Fisher, Jim Knipe, Joy DeGruy, Esta Porter, Jamie Marich and Deb Dana.

Queer Affinity, EMDR Consult Groups:
~every other Wednesday, 11am-noon PT (waitlist)
~every other Wednesday, 4pm-5pm PT (waitlist)

Queering EMDR Therapy
I am proud to be a contributing author to the newly released Queering EMDR Therapy Anthology. My chapter is called “quEerMDR as a practice of love and liberatory healing.” Order your copy here.

about horizon
I am a queer fat nonbinary femme who practices at the intersections of oppression, grief, trauma and liberation. My EMDR and trauma healing practice is deeply woven within liberatory practice culture and I come from a lineage of healers dedicated to justice for all people with a lived experience of oppression.

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*QTIFS, Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems, is a beautiful, liberatory body of work, co-created and co-held by IFS therapists Sand Chang & Nic Wildes. You can learn more about their offerings here. (I am often a teaching assistant for this beautiful program).

**quEerMDR is the way I have come to understand queer healing as it flows through the artistry of EMDR, using the fluidity, authenticity and vastness of queerness to invite healing and transformation. You can learn more about this offering through consultation and continuing education opportunities with me.