I have a very high ACE score and have been working with my EMDR therapist for over over a year. We haven't even started trying to process traumatic material yet!

Even now my T still talks about "later, when we start to process trauma, we can work with some of the things that we talked about today."
In my therapy process there seems to be a LOT of preparation for EMDR trauma processing. For the last six months we have been using EMDR for grounding skills an orienting to the present, but that is about it. To me it seems quite odd for your T to expect you to jump right into the deep end on your first try of EMDR. She may have a specific objective or goal in mind though. Can you ask?