Precision EMDR - Susie Morgan, LMFT

If “just start somewhere and find your way” has ever felt unnerving with complex trauma - same.

So here’s my favorite alternative. And what I love is that it’s built on something you already know: TICES, the way you light up a memory for reprocessing. We just decode with it.

Decode the present triggers down to the core negative belief driving the symptom.

Decode a spattering of past memories the same way - kept low and unactivated - and look for the pattern in their meaning.

Then find where they link, how the past is echoing into the present.

And the symptoms that matter most show you exactly which memories to target to create change out into present time.

Chaotic becomes strategic.

📌 Save this for the next time you’re not sure where to start with a complex trauma client.

💌 Send it to the therapist you think through your hardest cases with.

🎈 Follow for more on decoding before you begin. And if you’ll be at the 2026 EMDRIA Conference, come find me Friday - I’m speaking on this and so much more!

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