Dr. Andrew Dobo

08/19/2026

You can learn another technique. You can memorize another protocol. You can go to another training.

All of that is useful.

But eventually, every therapist runs into themselves.

Can you sit with a client who is experiencing enormous emotion without becoming afraid of it yourself? Can you tolerate not knowing what is going to happen next? Can you recognize when your own anxiety is telling you to intervene when the client is exactly where they need to be?

Those things aren't on a script.

When I began practicing EMDR, I had to learn them too. Trusting the process took time. Developing a tolerance for intense emotion took time. Learning to stop thinking and simply wait, watch, and listen took time.

The interesting thing is that the better I became at those things, the less I needed to do.

There will always be another technique to learn.

But some of the most important advanced training happens in the therapist.

08/19/2026

We still have a few seats available for our EMDRIA-approved EMDR Training in North Carolina. The hotel is minutes from the airport. See more details at the link below: EMDReducators.com

08/17/2026

Many therapists are trained to think primarily in terms of interpretation, insight, or explanation.

EMDR shifts the focus toward helping the nervous system actually process unresolved material.

That distinction changes the entire feeling of the work.

Clients are no longer simply understanding their experiences intellectually.

They are moving through them differently.

Morrisville, North Carolina
5-Day Intensive EMDR Training
Sept, 14 - 18, 2026

Train with us. emdreducators.com

08/14/2026

Change is not incidental to the work. It is the work.

Jung understood psychological development as an ongoing process of becoming. We are not meant to arrive at some finished version of ourselves and remain there. New awareness changes us. Experience changes us. What was once unconscious becomes conscious, and we begin to see ourselves and our lives differently.

This is one of the places where Jung and EMDR meet.

EMDR can do much more than reduce the distress attached to a traumatic memory. When the work reaches the beliefs that have quietly organized a person's life, something larger can begin to move. The person sees differently, responds differently, relates differently. The old understanding of self may no longer fit.

Transformational EMDR™ recognizes this larger movement and allows EMDR to do what it is capable of doing: accelerate change that might otherwise unfold much more slowly.

The goal is not simply to feel better.

It is to become more fully who you are.

08/11/2026

Francine Shapiro’s work has shaped decades of Dr. Dobo's clinical practice, teaching, writing, and exploration of what becomes possible when therapists trust the EMDR process and learn to recognize the extraordinary material that can emerge from the unconscious.

The Hero’s Journey grew from that exploration. The book examines the parallels Dr. Dobo discovered between Shapiro’s EMDR therapy and Jung’s understanding of the psyche, and the transformational journey he witnessed repeatedly in his own clinical work.

To now see that work preserved within a library dedicated to Francine Shapiro’s legacy is a meaningful honor.

We’re very proud to see Dr. Dobo's contribution become part of this collection, and grateful for the work that began with Dr. Shapiro and continues through the clinicians, teachers, researchers, and writers carrying EMDR forward.

View it here: https://francineshapirolibrary.omeka.net/items/show/27834

08/11/2026

08/10/2026

Many therapists spend years hearing about EMDR before finally deciding to pursue the training themselves.

Then something interesting happens.

The model begins organizing clinical work differently:

patterns become easier to recognize,
processing becomes easier to follow,
and difficult cases often start making more sense.

For many clinicians, EMDR becomes one of the most meaningful shifts in how they understand therapy itself.

North Carolina EMDR Training
EMDR Parts I & II
5-Day Intensive
Sept. 14 - 18, 2026

Train with us. emdreducators.com