EMDR for Complicated Grief FAQs

This course offers a downloadable Certificate of Completion you can use to show your professional development boards. 12 EMDRIA and CE/CME credits are also available for completing EMDR for Complicated Grief. View the Learner Notification to see learning objectives, speaker disclosures and board approvals.

This on-demand course provides 12 hours of advanced EMDR training. You’ll have 12 months of access to all materials, including video lessons, demonstrations, and downloadable resources, and you can revisit the content as often as you like.

You’ll learn through:

• Beautifully produced video lessons,

• Therapy demonstrations, and case examples that show EMDR in action with clients experiencing loss 

• Interviews with EMDR experts, with insights on attachment and dissociation 

• Rare archival footage of Francine Shapiro

• Downloadable library of resources to keep

EMDR for Complicated grief offers a rich and multidimensional learning experience designed for flexible, self-paced study. The material blends theory and practice, helping you see how EMDR can support both uncomplicated and complicated grief.

This course is designed for EMDR-trained therapists who want to deepen their skills in working with grief, mourning, and traumatic loss. It’s ideal for clinicians supporting clients whose grief is complicated by trauma, unresolved attachment wounds, or sudden life changes. Whether you work with bereavement, relationship loss, or cumulative grief, this advanced-level training expands your ability to use EMDR to restore adaptive processing and help clients reconnect with life after loss.

If you’re new to EMDR, we recommend completing accredited basic training through Francine Shaprio's the EMDR Institute.

Some EMDR grief trainings teach structured protocols that adapt the eight phases of EMDR specifically for bereavement. This course takes a broader and more integrative approach.

Dr Roger Solomon shows how to use EMDR for grief, loss, and mourning in the context of trauma, attachment, and developmental history. Rather than following a fixed grief protocol, you’ll learn to apply the full EMDR framework flexibly across presentations of complicated grief and traumatic loss.

Drawing on decades of experience in trauma and bereavement, and featuring archival footage of Francine Shapiro, Dr Solomon offers a clinically rich and deeply grounded EMDR training for therapists working with grief.

Grief is a natural process, but it can become complicated when the pain of loss is prolonged, overwhelming, or entwined with trauma. Sudden, violent, or intentional deaths can intensify grief and leave clients caught between mourning and the lingering impact of the traumatic event. 

Drawing on Dr Roger Solomon’s EMDR framework for grief and mourning, this course shows how EMDR can address these intertwined layers by processing the trauma surrounding the death as well as past experiences that influence how a person copes with loss. This integrated approach supports resolution, emotional regulation, and reconnection with meaning.