The EMDR Experience

        • Thank you to Robin, Ines and Marion for the unique, immersive training and experience. What a beautiful spot to do EMDR!!! 
        • I have thoroughly enjoyed this experience. My practice and confidence and knowledge have really improved. Thank you for your kindness and compassion.
        • Thank you for creating a safe space with such care and kindness. One of the best EMDR experiences.
        • I am still buzzing from the EMDR retreat experience, it was amazing!

These are some of the comments made after the first EMDR Experience which took place in 2023.

This three-day retreat-style workshop with Robin Logie will provide an opportunity to enhance and develop your therapeutic skills and attunement to your clients as an EMDR therapist.

Known for his clear teaching style with its blend of warmth, humour and humility, Robin will provide a safe environment in which to experiment with and extend your skills as EMDR therapist.

 

What?

The workshop will include a combination of formal teaching, demonstration, and experience of receiving and practicing EMDR therapy. It will be limited to 18 participants together with one trainer and two facilitators.

The teaching element (4½ hours) of the workshop will include some core elements such as case formulation, target selection, finding the right Negative Cognition and brushing up on the basic EMDR standard protocol. The remainder of the teaching will very much be designed around participants’ individual needs and interests and may include areas in which Robin has a particular interest, such as Flashforwards, OCD, Storytelling, Grief or Complex Trauma.

The demonstration element (4½ hours) will include three sessions of EMDR therapy conducted by Robin with a volunteer, using the group as a consulting team.

The experiential element (9 hours) of the workshop will involve participants working in pairs to provide EMDR therapy to each other, closely supervised by Robin or his facilitators, Ines Santos & Marion Tobin. Each participant will have one session as client and one session as therapist each day and will give and receive a total of three sessions of therapy.

A fourth informal element of the workshop will be a chance to socialise and, if the weather permits, explore the wonderful countryside in the surrounding area on foot individually or as a group. As this a retreat-style workshop, please note that all participants will be asked to ‘engage in building a spirit of community, generosity and co-operation with the house staff and your fellow participants’ through involvement in simple everyday tasks such as washing up and vegetable preparation. This will be a different way of getting to know each other!

Excluding all breaks and informal elements, the workshop will total 18 hours and has, accordingly, been awarded 18 CPD points by the EMDR Association UK.

 

Who?

Robin Logie

The workshop will be organised and run by Dr Robin Logie, Clinical Psychologist and EMDR Trainer.

Dr Robin Logie is a Clinical Psychologist (registered with the Health and Care Professions Council), Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and EMDR Europe accredited Consultant and Senior Trainer.

Robin trained as a clinical psychologist in 1983 at the University of Birmingham and obtained a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bangor in 2005. After working in the NHS for 7 years, he started his own company, providing psychological therapy and medico-legal assessments for both adults and children.

Since training in EMDR in 1996, Robin has steadily developed his expertise in EMDR. For nine years he was at the centre of the UK’s EMDR community as Treasurer of the EMDR Association UK & Ireland and then its President for three years. During this time, he was on the steering committee for two international EMDR conferences and opened the 2014 EMDR Europe conference in Edinburgh in the presence of Francine Shapiro, the founder of EMDR.

For many years Robin has been involved in EMDR training as a supervisor of EMDR therapists. He has taught on EMDR trainings and presenting at conferences, not only those specialising in EMDR but also other events such as chairing as symposium on EMDR at a British Psychological Society conference in Oxford in 2012. He has given keynote addresses at national conferences in Sarajevo and Cologne, as well as workshops and presentations at EMDR Europe conferences in Edinburgh, The Hague, Valencia and Dublin. He has regularly taught on the EMDR Association’s own training course for EMDR Consultants and has been running such courses himself since 2022. In 2023, in Cairo, he also carried out the first Consultants Training for EMDR therapists in the Middle East and North Africa. In July 2023 his book, entitled EMDR Supervision. A Handbook was published by Routledge. Robin is a member of the Accreditation Committees for the EMDR Associations in both the UK and Bosnia & Herzegovina and is advising on the setting up of a new accreditation body for the Arab countries.

Dr Logie has published articles on EMDR in peer reviewed journals including a seminal paper on Flashforwards in 2014. He is actively involved in EMDR research and was a member of a research team at Manchester University, which includes Dr Filippo Varese and Prof Richard Bentall, evaluating EMDR in the treatment of psychosis.

 

Marian Tobin

Robin will be assisted as a facilitator by Marian Tobin, an EMDR Europe-accredited consultant, training facilitator and clinical supervisor. Her professional background is in mental health social work, and she is registered with the Health Care Professions Council. Marian is based in central London where she has a private practice.

She has thirty years’ experience working in the field of adult mental health services in management and as clinical lead, predominately within the context of crisis and community mental health teams, where she has been instrumental in the development and delivery of specialist crisis, trauma and PTSD services. She has clinical expertise in the treatment of complex trauma with adult survivors of childhood sexual, emotional and physical abuse. She is also highly skilled in the treatment of trauma and PTSD using EMDR with refugees, asylum seekers who have been held hostage and experienced torture and abuse.

Marian is contracted to provide EMDR therapy to traumatised service personnel of national & international public and voluntary organisations who have experienced and/or witnessed extreme human cruelty or tragedy in the course of their working lives. Trained in Critical Incident response, Marian is a former member of the pan London psychosocial emergency planning group formed in response to the terrorist attacks in London in 2005. She has continued to be actively involved in the provision of psychological treatment to victims of subsequent terrorist incidents in the capital and to those suffering PTSD associated with national atrocities.

Marian is a trustee and board member of the EMDR Association UK; she is chair of the conference committee and a member of the accreditation committee.

 

Ines Santos

The other facilitator is Dr Ines Santos. Ines is a Clinical Psychologist (registered with the HCPC) and EMDR Europe accredited Consultant and Trainer.

Ines trained as a Clinical Psychologist at Exeter University, qualifying in 2000. Ines initially trained in EMDR in 1999 but completed her EMDR training and started using it as her main treatment modality in 2003, under the supervision of Sandi Richman at the Traumatic Stress Service at the Maudsley Hospital. Ines worked with trauma and complex trauma in the NHS for 20 years and recently left to focus on EMDR supervision and training and has a small private practice. Ines has developed an interest in EMDR case formulation and has published an article and delivered training in this area.

Ines is the co-ordinator of the EMDR Sussex Regional Group with the goal of creating a local community of EMDR therapists through the provision of CPD events and networking.

 

Where?

The workshop will take place on the Sharpham Estate near Totnes in Devon www.sharphamtrust.org. Sharpham is a retreat centre on an estate in a bend of the River Dart which produces its own wine and cheese. Accommodation and meals will be provided. The food is vegetarian but other non-meat and non-fish diets can be catered for.

Sharpham is a 15-minute taxi ride from Totnes station from where there are regular direct trains from London.

 

When?

The workshop will take place from Wed 15th October to Sat 18th October 2025. It will start on the Wednesday afternoon and finish at midday on the Saturday.

 

How much?

The fee for the workshop will be £825 + VAT = Total: £990 per person for the three days. This will include all accommodation, meals and refreshments. The only additional expense will be your travel to and from the venue.

 

Who is eligible to attend?

To attend this workshop, you will need to have completed the basic 7/8-day EMDR training. It is expected that participants will include a mix of different levels of experience as an EMDR therapist from those who are recently trained in EMDR to those who are Consultants or Facilitators and wish to refresh their EMDR practice.

 

How do I apply?

Please complete the application form on this website. Click the button below to go to the booking form.