No One is Meant to Carry This Alone: An EMDR Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to normalize and process through distress, anxiety, and fear in response to the collective trauma that is happening in our country and around the world. We continue to navigate unprecedented times due to an increase in harmful/hurtful rhetoric targeting marginalized communities, codified bigotry and vitriol, funding meant to support and provide much-needed resources getting slashed, and our country’s continued support of state-sanctioned violence and genocide.

Through EMDR resourcing, processing, and community care, we can move through this together. The country may not be heading in a direction that feels aligned, supportive, or even safe; but at least we have each other to get through it.

The biggest difference this group will make in folks’ lives is the space to process through the horrors of today within aligned and safe community.

Folks who participate will engage in EMDR resourcing and processing, which will allow each participant’s brain to move, process, and experience clarity and resilience. By doing this in community with others, it will decrease feelings of isolation, thereby normalizing and destigmatizing trauma symptoms while also processing through them together.

Workshop schedule: July 15, July 29, August 12, August 26, September 9, September 23

5:30-7:00 pm PST | 8:30-10:00 pm ET

$65/session. Feel free to attend as many sessions as you’d like.

This workshop will take place virtually on PST time. Registrants will receive the link to join 24 hours in advance. Please note this is not a therapy group, though if you are interested in therapy you can contact Empowered Mind Therapy Center to get started.

Workshop provided by Jessica Hernandez, LCSW, through Empowered Mind Therapy Center

Jessica Hernandez, LCSW is a clinical social worker and therapist with Empowered Mind Therapy Center who supports BIPOC and QTBIPOC folks with recognizing their own resilience, exploring intersectional identities, and navigating life’s stressors and challenges. Her identities as a mixed Filipina/Latina, bisexual, first-generation, Fat woman inform a therapeutic perspective of anti-oppression and celebration. She utilizes a mix of EMDR, somatic practice, and talk therapy to support folks with moving through trauma and grief, reintegrating their sense of self, and centering in their inner wisdom and joy. She also facilitates Bayanihan: We Heal Together, group therapy for Filipina/x/o adults looking to move through intergenerational trauma and negatively impactful family dynamics through the spirit of supportive community. She is also the co-lead of the Bay Area Chapter of Therapin*y, a community for Filipina/x/o therapists, healers, and wellness practitioners.