EMDR Mastery
Master Your Practice
and Lead with Presence
Advanced EMDR pathways for EMDR trained clinicians seeking depth, discernment, and sustained clinical presence without compromising protocol fidelity or ethical standards.
Clinical Consultation, Certification, and Advanced Practice
Head and Heart Institute offers EMDRIA-aligned clinical consultation and certification pathways for EMDR trained clinicians seeking greater confidence, clinical judgment, and embodied presence in complex trauma work.
These pathways support:
✓ Clearer pacing and sequencing decisions
✓ Stronger internal regulation during high-affect sessions
✓ Greater consistency in ethical and protocol-aligned decision-making
The focus is not on adding techniques, but on strengthening the clinician’s internal orientation so EMDR practice remains steady, responsive, and sustainable over time.
Heal the Healer™ map
Supporting Embodied EMDR Practice
All EMDR Mastery offerings are informed by the Heal the Healer™ Map: a capacity-based model that supports therapist regulation, internal coherence, and sustained clinical presence while honoring the mind, body, and emotional truth.
This Map does not replace the EMDR protocol. It supports how clinicians orient internally while practicing EMDR, particularly in complex, prolonged, or high-intensity work, so moment-to-moment clinical decisions remain clear, ethical, and attuned.
Through this lens, clinicians develop:
✓ Greater steadiness under clinical intensity
✓ Reduced self-override during challenging sessions
✓ Improved integration of intuition, cognition, embodiment, and protocol
The Five Core Elements
Earth
capacity & foundation
Earth establishes the base that allows leadership to be sustainable rather than reactive.
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You’ve organized your nervous system around tracking what everyone else needs. Your own signals became the background noise. Earth teaches you to feel your own edges, your own aliveness, what matters to you, and discover those signals are worth trusting.
Water
emotional navigation
Water builds the capacity to remain emotionally present without losing center.
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Your worth has been tied to being useful, which means your emotions have become something to manage or turn into help for someone else. Water teaches you to feel what's actually yours without immediately fixing it or making it productive.
Fire
Identity & Alignment
Fire refines how truth, courage, and direction are embodied.
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The belief that your worth depends on usefulness has shaped your identity. Fire teaches you to recognize where that belief lives in you and distinguish between who you actually are and the role that's kept you safe and valued.
Air
Internal Dialogue & Clarity
Air brings awareness to how meaning, interpretation, and language shape leadership.
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The story you live by is ‘I am valuable when I am useful.’ Air teaches you to notice that story as it runs, recognize it in your body, and have a choice about whether to believe it.
Space
Integration & Coherence
Space integrates all other elements into a cohesive internal system.
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This shift doesn’t happen through understanding it better. It happens through being held and witnessed by people who know this pattern in their own bodies. When you're received without having to earn it, something changes. The pattern becomes conscious, integrated, no longer running you by default.
Multiple Ways to Deepen
Skill, Confidence, and Coherence
EMDR Certification Pathway
Somatic-Informed, Readiness-Focused EMDR Consultation
This structure supports clinicians in developing confidence, clarity, and steadiness across the certification process.
This certification pathway emphasizes protocol fidelity alongside attention to therapist presence and clinical judgment. Consultation is structured as a developmental process that supports ethical readiness and sound decision-making over time.
Includes:
✓ 20 hours of EMDR certification consultation
• Combination of monthly 90 minute small group consultation and required individual or triadic sessions (minimum 10 hours).
✓ Case consultation informed by somatic awareness and nervous system cues
✓ Guidance on pacing, sequencing, and target selection with complex presentations
✓ Support with documentation, ethical readiness, and certification requirements
✓ Clinical frameworks and integration tools supporting sustained practice
Investment: $1,800
Group Consultation
Advanced EMDR Group Consultation
Advanced group consultation for EMDR trained clinicians seeking to refine judgment, therapist presence, and decision-making in complex or high-intensity work.
Includes:
✓ Monthly 2 Hour small group consultations
• 1st Wednesday of the Month, 10:30am-12:30pm ET. Starting May 6, 2026. July off
✓ Case-based learning with facilitated discussion
✓ Advanced focus areas (such as attachment patterns, somatics in EMDR, therapist nervous system capacity, ego states and working with shame.)
✓ Curated handouts and integration tools
✓ EMDR-first language, ethics, and consultation standards
Investment: $95/session
rachel pires
About the Founder
Rachel Pires is the founder of Head and Heart Institute and the creator of Heal the Healer™.
With nearly two decades of experience in psychotherapy, somatic practice, EMDR, and clinical consultation, Rachel brings a grounded, attuned approach to supporting healers and practitioners. Her work integrates clinical depth and somatic awareness to support sustainable practice and ethical presence.
She is known for her calm guidance, depth of knowledge, and the ability to help people connect head and heart with clarity and integrity.