Beyond the Target™ An Interactive EMDR Guide & Session Companion

Beyond the Target™

An Interactive EMDR Guide & Session Companion

Follow the phases. Stay connected to the person.

Bring phase guidance, therapist scripts, client activities and documentation together in one colorful, interactive workspace.

Created for EMDR-trained professionals, Beyond the Target™ offers practical support throughout all eight phases. Find wording for a conversation, explore a resource with a client, organize relevant history, revisit connected targets and print selected supports.

Inside the interactive tool

·      Guidance across all eight phases: Original step-by-step companion guidance, suggested wording, documentation prompts and considerations for continuing or revisiting the work.

·      Therapist script PDFs: Open, download or print individual scripts, phase collections, resourcing scripts and direct phase guides.

·      History and phase documentation: Capture deidentified history, observations, client responses, clinical decisions and follow-up.

·      Interactive Target Network: Visually organize earlier experiences, present triggers and future situations. Revisit targets and record ratings as the work develops.

·      Comprehensive Resourcing Studio: Eleven pathways, including calm or neutral place, container, wise adult, nurturing, protection and resource-team supports, with guidance on when each may be useful.

·      Cognitions by category: Explore 156 negative and possible positive cognition examples across 13 categories while preserving the client’s own language.

·      Support when processing feels stuck: Explore blocking beliefs, concerns about change, cognitive interweaves, looping, responsibility and other processing difficulties.

·      Dissociation-screening support: Access instrument-source references, record screening responses and findings, and document interview follow-up and clinical decisions. Third-party questionnaires are obtained separately from their sources.

·      Client worksheets and clinician forms: Use activities collaboratively in session and selectively print blank or completed materials.

·      Coded client workspaces: Keep separate browser-saved entries, save session snapshots, export backups and reset selected sections.

·      Instruction manual: Read setup and operating instructions within the tool or open the printable PDF.

Included: A separate 12-page Therapist Quick Companion

Keep this printable PDF beside you for clinical orientation at a glance. Each phase includes its purpose, numbered core steps, what to listen and notice for, brief prompts, documentation reminders and considerations for continuing or revisiting.

Additional pages support resource selection, processing difficulties, cognitive interweave considerations, closure and continuity between sessions. Pointers connect you with the relevant sections of the interactive tool.

The Person Within the Process

Beyond the Target™ adds an original layer of reflection around agency, connection, meaning and integration. These prompts help keep the client’s voice, relational experience, personal context and everyday life visible throughout the work.

What you receive

·      A downloadable HTML tool with 91 embedded therapist-support PDFs and an embedded instruction manual.

·      A separate 12-page Therapist Quick Companion PDF.

Open the saved HTML file in a desktop browser to use its interactive features. No subscription is required. External reference links require internet access.

Professional use

For EMDR-trained professionals working within their competence. This educational and practical companion supplements EMDR training, established protocol materials, consultation and clinical judgment. It is not an EMDR training program or standardized protocol manual.

Use generated client labels and deidentified entries only. Browser saving is local to your device and browser; the tool is not an EHR or encrypted clinical record system.

Single-clinician professional use, including use of client-designated worksheets with your own clients. Redistribution and resale are not permitted.

Created by Shanita Wade, MA, LPC

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