A Place For Real Complexity
EMDR Resource Center is where clinicians come for thorough training and ongoing consultation. Whether you are just starting out or already in practice, there is a place for you here.
Meet Wendy Sue Horn
Clinician, EMDRIA-approved trainer, and consultant
Wendy Sue Horn is an EMDRIA-approved trainer, consultant, and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than twenty years of clinical experience across private and public settings. She has spent over a decade teaching fellow clinicians, and is known for making EMDR clear, practical, and genuinely usable in the room.
Her approach is grounded and paced. She respects the expertise clinicians already bring, and rather than asking them to set it aside, she helps them sharpen it and build the fluency to use EMDR with confidence. Clinicians leave her training not just trained, but prepared.
She teaches and consults because she believes good training changes more than how you use a single modality. It changes how you understand every client you work with, from a clinician's first training through the consultation that turns competence into mastery.
Why This Work Matters to Wendy Sue
People make more sense when their full story is considered.
Trauma rarely shows up in just one part of a person's life. It shapes the body, relationships, identity, parenting, and the way people move through the world. That has been true for every client and every clinician she has worked with over the past twenty years.
EMDR Resource Center exists because that complexity deserves more than a surface-level response. Training and consultation are built for the cases clinicians are actually carrying, not just the straightforward ones.
The Kinds of Work That Require More Than Surface-Level Support
❋ Case Conceptualization
Knowing which memory to begin with, and how to plan treatment that holds up.
❋ Path to EMDRIA Certification
Consultation that supports certification, with or without it as your goal.
❋ Working Across the Lifespan
Adapting EMDR for adolescents and adults, a range many trainings leave out.
❋ Standard Protocol and Fidelity
Building genuine fluency with the eight phases and the judgment to use them well.
❋ Culturally Attuned Practice
Anti-oppressive, trauma-informed teaching woven through everything we do.
Training and Credentials That Support The Depth of This Work
Wendy Sue's professional background brings together clinical practice, EMDR consultation, child development, adoption competence, and perinatal mental health.
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LCSW #27961
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Child Development & Psychology Background
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Providing consultation for therapists applying EMDR therapy and working toward EMDRIA certification.
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Specialized training through Postpartum Support International in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
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Certification from The Happiest Baby.
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Training for Adoption Competence, supporting adoption-informed care for children, parents, and families.
Meet Our Consultants
Alongside Wendy Sue, this training is supported by fellow EMDRIA-Approved Consultants who bring their own years of clinical practice to your consultation hours and practicum. Each trainer offers a distinct lens shaped by their own client work, giving you more than one perspective as you build your skills.
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Dena Robertson Blackford, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Trainer and Consultant. Trained in EMDR therapy in 2013, Dena specializes in helping adults heal from trauma, navigate life challenges, and create lasting emotional change. She maintains a private practice in El Dorado Hills, offering both in-person and teletherapy services.
Dena's primary therapeutic approaches include EMDR therapy and attachment-focused work. She integrates these evidence-based modalities to help clients process current symptoms, triggers, past traumatic experiences, and distressing life events that continue to impact their well-being today.
Clients seek her support for a wide range of experiences, including motor vehicle accidents, abuse, military trauma, sexual trauma, grief and loss, relationship challenges, attachment wounds, emotional neglect, criticism, breakups, humiliation, and other adverse life experiences.
Dena is committed to providing an inclusive, affirming environment and welcomes individuals from all cultural backgrounds, including members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Website: www.denarobertsonblackford.com
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Jessi Maness is an LCSW who is passionate about EMDR therapy, and especially about offering consultation to other therapists. She completed her basic training in 2016 and became certified shortly after. Her journey to offering consultation has been much longer, and she has taken the learning of fidelity and understanding of the premises underlying EMDR therapy very seriously. She feels that every time she engages with other therapists, she is still learning new things, and this is very exciting to her.
Those interested in joining her for any part of this journey can request to be added to her mailing list for upcoming consultation opportunities or other offerings.
Email: jmaness3@icloud.com
Website: jessimanesslcsw.com
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Jacqueline S. Armes, LMFT, is an EMDR Certified Therapist and EMDR Consultant-in-Training (CIT) who specializes in working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. She is trained in EMDR, DBT, DBT-PE, and EFT, and brings extensive experience helping clients navigate trauma, anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation, and life transitions.
As an EMDR Consultant-in-Training, Jacqueline provides individual and group consultation to EMDR-trained clinicians who are working toward certification, strengthening their case conceptualization skills, or building confidence applying EMDR with children, teens, complex trauma presentations, and Spanish-speaking populations.
Learn more at initiativetherapy.com/emdr-consultation-for-therapists
Email: hello@initiativetherapy.com
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Elizabeth "Liz" Langford, LPC, is an EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training who specializes in the integration of EMDR and play therapy with children, as well as developmentally-informed EMDR with adolescents. She also provides EMDR for adults, with a focus on emerging adults navigating a history of developmental, relational, or religious trauma. In addition, Liz offers EMDR intensives at her office in Portland, OR.
Liz employs two therapy animals — a bunny and a dog — to assist with all things therapy-related, including EMDR!
Consultation: Liz currently provides individual consultation, with a child-specific consult group launching in the fall. Consultation is available virtually or in person at her office in inner SE Portland.
Website: darngoodtherapypdx.com
Email: elizabeth.langford@counselingsecure.com
Ready To Take The Next Step?
Whether you are learning EMDR for the first time or deepening a practice you already have, there is a place for you here.