Precision EMDR - Susie Morgan, LMFT

This is the story of how Precision EMDR complex trauma mapping started.

I didn’t set out to create something different. I was trained during a time when target sequence planning was not really being taught the way EMDR therapists understand it now.

So I started trying to find the patterns myself. A sample of past memories. A decoding process. The meanings that kept showing up again and again.

And then later, when I learned Roy Kiessling’s schema-based target sequence planning, I loved it. But I also loved the larger map I had already been using with clients.

So I kept both. And wove them together.

I did not realize for years that this combination was something unique. But I knew clients felt deeply seen by it. They could look at the map and say: “Yes. This captures everything that would make the difference.”

It wasn’t until recently that it fully landed: no one else was target sequence planning this way.

So I’m excited to speak on the EMDRIA stage again this year. To share a way of mapping complex trauma that lets clients see more than one memory, one symptom, or one schema at a time.

The whole lay of the land.
The trees.
The forest.
The life the client has been trying to survive.

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🤓 Coming to the 2026 EMDRIA Conference? Come find me. I’m speaking on this Friday afternoon.

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