Free Live Webinar | Thursday, October 22, 2026 | 1:00 PM Central Time

What's Really Behind a Performance Problem?

THREE EMDR CASES, FROM FIRST SESSION TO PEAK PERFORMANCE

Thinking about adding EMDR to your practice? This free 60-minute webinar gives you a real basis to decide, not a training, but real cases from clinicians who use it.

About This Webinar

Three Clinicians. Three Real Cases.

  • A therapist who had failed her licensing exam three times and came in for help with the fourth attempt

  • A college ballplayer who made a costly error on the field and faced ridicule from his teammates

  • A teacher who came in for anxiety at home, and whose confidence in front of a room shifted after early-memory work


Hear what each client thought they needed, what the work uncovered, and how EMDR carried the case toward performance that lasts.

Who Is This Webinar For?

Licensed mental health clinicians who:

  • See performance anxiety, test anxiety, or fear of evaluation on their caseload

  • Work with students, athletes, performers, executives, attorneys, or anyone whose work puts them in front of an audience or an evaluator

  • Have noticed that a client's "small" presenting problem keeps pointing somewhere else

  • Are curious about EMDR therapy but assume it applies only to PTSD and complex trauma

What These Cases Show About EMDR Therapy

  • Where to start with a client who presents with performance anxiety

  • How to tell whether a performance problem is one recent event or has deeper roots

  • How the therapy works across past, present, and future, and why that makes real performance enhancement possible

MEET THE PANEL

All four panelists are EMDR Institute facilitators and consultants.

Wendy Freitag, PhD
(EMDR Institute trainer)

Trauma specialist and EMDR consultant with clinical experience across first responder and military populations.

Ken Vanderlip, PhD
(Panelist)

Works clinically with fire service, EMS, and peer support populations.

Carissa Karner, LMFT
(Panelist)

Works clinically with law enforcement, veterans, and the fire service.

Lynn Smith, LCSW
(Moderator)

SAVE YOUR SEAT

Free. 60 minutes. Live on Zoom. Thursday, October 22 at 1:00 PM CT. Your access link will be sent one week before the event.

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The EMDR Institute, founded by Dr. Francine Shapiro, originator of EMDR therapy, is dedicated to advancing the highest standards of trauma treatment worldwide.

We lead the field through clinical training and a faculty built on the same rigor Dr. Shapiro brought to this work from the very start.

Grounded in excellence, our programs empower clinicians to deliver effective, ethical EMDR therapy with skill and confidence.

For over three decades, we have shaped the evolution of EMDR and continue to guide its future with integrity and innovation.

Origin matters. We've stayed close to the source.

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