Queering EMDR Therapy

EMDR Therapy is a therapeutic game-changer in the treatment of trauma. Now, venture into even more authentic, vulnerable, and liberatory perspectives on the practice in Queering EMDR Therapy. The vision of EMDR Therapist and Trainer Roshni Chabra, the volume editor, Queering EMDR Therapy brings together 27 additional contributors in sharing their voices of lived and learned experience.

This anthology of essays, papers, personal narratives, poetry, and artwork offers the EMDR Therapy community and the larger world something that LGBTQIAA2S+ people have long needed: to be seen and to be validated. Honoring lived experience in professional writing is how we highlight the richness and complexity that has been long missing from academic writing within EMDR Therapy. This book gives a platform for LGBTQIAA2S+ folx to speak their necessary truths about the practice and adventure of EMDR Therapy.

Our book features:

• Practically written chapters that offer EMDR Therapists enhanced insight into navigating the 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy with LGBTQIAA2S+ therapy participants
• Insights into framing EMDR Therapy as anti-oppressive and liberatory healing practices
• Contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender experiences, in addition to voices of intersex, non-monogamous, plural, and kink-affirming EMDR Therapists
• Neurodivergent and neuroqueer lenses for more adaptive implementations of EMDR Therapy
• Never-before-seen levels of vulnerability and sharing from EMDR Therapists who are both doing this work and living this work

Advanced Praise for Queering EMDR Therapy

“The Queering EMDR Therapy collection is a must-read for EMDR Therapists seeking to practice with authenticity, inclusivity, and anti-oppressive intention. This book is a groundbreaking anthology that brings voice, visibility, and validation to LGBTQIAA2S+ experiences in trauma treatment. With unflinching vulnerability and liberatory vision, Roshni Chabra and 26 contributors weave essays, narratives, and art into a resource that is both profoundly human and professionally transformative.”

-Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW
New York Times Best-Selling Author

"Queering EMDR is a necessary, bold, and soul-stirring disruption of the status quo. This collection reclaims EMDR as a tool for liberation—centering voices, bodies, and truths too often sidelined in clinical spaces. It’s not just a book; it’s a call to practice with integrity, creativity, and fierce inclusivity."

-Rebecca Kase, LCSW, EMDR Trainer& CEO of Trauma Therapist Institute
Author of Polyvagal-Informed EMDR and The Polyvagal Solution

“Queering EMDR Therapy distills what I have witnessed in clients, colleagues, and myself: the moment where healing requires not just clinical skill, but truth-telling. It captures the exhaustion of internal division and the urgency of becoming whole. There was a time in my professional life when I stood aligned with frameworks that excluded and pathologised identities now rightfully centred in this volume. Through study, reflection, and the labour of unlearning, my understanding has changed. What has emerged is a more compassionate, inclusive vision of EMDR Therapy and the people it serves. This anthology, edited by Roshni Chabra and shaped by the voices of 26 remarkable contributors, is a bold reclamation. It expands EMDR’s ethical and conceptual boundaries and invites us to practise trauma therapy not only with competence, but with courage.”

-Professor Paul W. Miller, MD, MB, BCh, BAO, DMH, MRCPsych, FRSA
Author of EMDR Therapy for Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses