The Center

Training, Certification, Community

The Center

Training, Certification, Community

Deany Laliotis

Founder and Director

Deany Laliotis,

Founder and Director

Deany Laliotis,

Founder and Director

Our EMDR Journey Together

As therapists, we are all dedicated to helping our clients. And we are committed to refining our craft. In pursuit of excellence, we sign up for trainings, work toward certifications and seek to expand our knowledge, resources and capacities as a healer. We want to bring our best selves to the work as well, so we look for opportunities for personal and professional growth. To date, there has been no EMDR training program that combines all the wisdom the field offers as a comprehensive and coherent psychotherapy. And there’s never been a EMDR training program that seamlessly integrates the therapist’s personal growth with professional development. But we’re changing that.

Introducing The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy

This training institute combines all the wisdom the field offers as a comprehensive and coherent psychotherapy. And it’s the only training program that seamlessly integrates the therapist’s personal growth with professional development.

This is a unique EMDR training institute that integrates interpersonal neurobiology, somatic processes, parts work and attachment theory within an EMDR therapy framework. At every level of EMDR training— from basic to EMDR Master-level—we teach an integrative psychotherapy. The Center’s goal is preparing you to work with a broad range of clinical life experiences and with clients from different cultures, in various countries; online from our offices and in the field. So whether your client is a frontline healthcare worker working long shifts during this pandemic, struggling with self-esteem and relationship issues, dealing with the daily life stress of managing competing demands. With more limited sources, dealing with a natural disaster, suffering from addictions or a client who has sustained a lot of trauma over the course of their lifetime, this training program will help you help them alleviate their symptoms and restore their spirits.

The Power of EMDR Training and Therapy

EMDR memory processing taps into our systems’ inherent ability to move towards health and healing. It works with the neurophysiology of memory by bringing our present awareness to past experiences that continue to be disturbing. Using EMDR, we can reprocess traumatic memories in a way that lets clients relate to what actually happened in the past while staying in the present and most importantly without being triggered. So instead of being triggered or reliving old hurts, when a current experience resembles a past traumatic situation, your client can stay in the present. That leaves the past in the past, makes the present easier to navigate and opens a future filled with new possibilities for our clients.

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Deany Laliotis shares examples from clinical practice to illustrate the challenges of working with trauma through teletherapy…

"The best training I’ve attended in my 14 years with EMDR! I had huge insights into my clinical work as well as my own self."

"An EXCELLENT presentation and seminar! Ms. Laliotis is clearly an expert – I greatly appreciated the detail and her skill at teaching."

"Deany’s passion for her work and clients (and EMDR) is palpable. I have never attended a seminar in which the presenter was so greatly skilled and also so patient and open-minded – no question was too simple."

"I gained significantly from this training! I am eager to integrate new knowledge and awareness with my clients and to share it with my fellow therapists."

"I appreciate Deany’s experience, expertise, and enthusiasm in helping others. I’m so glad she makes time in her calendar for trainings and consultation experiences."

"The training and information was inspirational! I believe that I will be able to incorporate the information and tools into my existing skill set and start using it immediately with clients."

"I have seen Deany present several times and I continue to learn from her expertise. I love the way she relates and connects to her audience. I imagine that it is very similar to how she connects with her clients."

"Deany is very real and authentic and vulnerable in a strong way. I greatly admire and respect her. My goal is to be as good as she is at interweaving someday. She truly has a gift!"

"I’ve never seen any presenter respond to questions as kindly and effectively as Deany does. I’ve been working on understanding attachment styles and this training has given me the chance to consolidate and integrate what I know. I will do better work as a result. Thank you!"

"This workshop was a powerful and instrumental part of my professional development. It offered me profound insight into the work I do."

"The workshop was just fantastic – not just the content but the overall experience! It expanded my growth both professionally and personally. I feel like I will be a better therapist as a result."

"Deany is a phenomenal speaker, presenter, and truly a healer. It was such an honor to learn from and her transparency in her work is amazing. I will take so much from this training into my own work with clients."

"Deany is just amazing! I got a glimpse of this during my first weekend of Basic Training, but I learned so much with this workshop; going so much deeper. I had a personal breakthrough in the dyad work that will serve me well both personally and professionally."

"Amazing! I really appreciated everything, but most of all the videos, examples, and discussions about specific cases and clients. I got indispensable input that relates to my own clients and new techniques that will help in the future. It was an unbelievable experience."

"So much more than a professional training! I will absolutely leave here with so much more for my clients but I have also gained so much personally. It’s been transformative. Thank you!"

“The retreat was an excellent experience in terms of learning and personal growth. I would love to attend more of Deany’s workshops. She is a wealth of knowledge and superb presenter.”

“Deany is such a gifted teacher and mentor. It was very helpful to have the opportunity to weave together in real-time what we were learning in the lectures, discussions, and videos while being facilitated and facilitating each other in dyads."

"This was amazing. I’m really glad I came to this – just what I needed to review my clinical attachment knowledge and put it in the context of the great therapeutic framework of EMDR. Deany was organized, personable, and super engaging/easy to listen to. I’ve never been to a conference where the time flew by and I felt a little sad it was ending."

"Best conference – I can’t say enough about how much I learned and what a powerful presenter and educator Deany is. The most adept clinician I’ve probably ever seen!"

"This is one of the best trainings I’ve been to! Clarity in the process is much improved for me. Thank you for what you bring to the profession and all of our clients as a result!"

"Deany is able to teach technical information with a caring and grounded feeling. I appreciate her skill and intuition – very beneficial to me and my practice."

"Most useful training I have attended in years! I feel a new sense of direction with my clients and a confidence that I will be able to apply the principles in practice."