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In this interview with Rotem Brayer, Craig Penner shares how we can integrate somatic strategies like sensorimotor psychotherapy into our EMDR work with what he calls Natural Processing. Craig shares what inspired him to develop Natural Processing and how to better use the body and the breath with EMDR therapy.
Craig Penner has been a psychotherapist for 40 years. He has been using a process-oriented, somatically-focused approach, utilizing bilateral stimulation and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He integrated all his trainings, personal experience, and lessons he’s learned from his clients to develop an approach he calls Natural Processing. He has been training EMDR therapists in the U.S. and Canada since 2014.