I hope you've been getting some downtime over the holiday season. Before we close out 2025, I wanted to share this year's most read articles with you!

The top 5 are:

1. ​AIP Foundations in EMDR - Discussed the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, which views symptoms like depression, anxiety, personality style, or relationship pattern as the result of maladaptive memory networks. By focusing on understanding these networks and clearing the obstacles that block natural processing, therapists can achieve better outcomes than by relying solely on strict protocol adherence.
2. ​An EMDR Therapists Guide to Ethical Psychedelic Integration - Explored how EMDR therapists can ethically support clients’ psychedelic experiences by using the Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration (PHRI) model, providing preparation and post‑experience integration without handling substances. Reviews how core EMDR skills naturally translate to these phases while meeting legal and ethical standards.
3. ​Guest Writer: Using EMDR for Couples Therapy - Shared how couples EMDR applies the EMDR framework to relational trauma, using tailored models to help partners process shared or individual wounds together, fostering safety, empathy, and lasting connection.
4. ​Does the state of mental healthcare have you burned out? - Critiqued the corporate, profit‑driven model of mental‑health care that forces therapists into high‑volume, low‑autonomy work, leading to burnout and shallow client treatment, and calls EMDR clinicians to join Helicon’s therapist‑centered community that aims to empower depth, clinical freedom, fair compensation, ongoing mentorship, and ethical, sustainable practice.
5. ​Building a Public Benefit Corporation for EMDR - An update outlining Helicon’s mission as a public‑benefit platform that equips EMDR therapists with tools for consultation matching and tracking, community chat, and more -- all aimed at boosting therapist autonomy, income, and the accessibility of EMDR while reinvesting profits into research and access.

That's a wrap. I'm excited to share more EMDR insights, tools, and opportunities in the new year! See you again soon.

In gratitude,

Chris

PS- If you want to take a look at the rest of the articles written this year, you can find all of them here.

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