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Relational EMDR Experiential Course with Deany Laliotis: Step-by-Step Skills and Consultation

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Employ the core elements of EMDR therapy.
  2. Appraise the AIP model and how it informs case conceptualization and treatment planning.
  3. Utilize EMDR’s three-pronged approach of past, present, and future.
  4. Distinguish one or more negative and positive beliefs about the self using the clinical themes of Responsibility, Safety and Power.
  5. Complete the procedural steps to reprocessing a memory.
  6. Apply one or more procedures designed to strengthen positive changes in between sessions.
  7. Execute co-regulation of the client’s experience using at least one clinical strategy to facilitate dual attention.
  8. Apply the Eight Phases of EMDR therapy.

Outline

  • Introduction to the core elements of EMDR therapy
    • Present-day difficulties are informed by past experiences that are inadequately processed and maladaptively stored.
    • Dual attention bilateral stimulation is administered during memory reprocessing.
  • The AIP model and how that informs case conceptualization and treatment planning.
    • The Floatback Technique is one approach to identifying a past-present connection.
    • Direct questioning is another means of identifying past experiences that are informing the client’s current difficulties.
  • The three-pronged approach of past, present, and future.
    • A comprehensive treatment includes reprocessing past experiences, present-day triggers and ensuring that the client can respond more adaptively to similar situations in the future.
    • Early childhood experiences, present-day situations and anticipatory anxieties about the future can all be potential targets for memory reprocessing.
  • The Eight Phases of EMDR therapy
    • History-taking
    • Preparation
    • Assessment
    • Desensitization
    • Installation
    • Body Scan
    • Closure
  • Clinical Demonstration: History Taking and Determining Readiness to Approach Traumatic Memory
  • Developing a Treatment Plan using AIP
  • Case Demonstration: The Floatback Technqiue
  • Procedural steps to reprocessing a memory
    • Targeting a memory requires the client to bring to mind the memory as they currently experience it.
    • Components of memory that are identified include images, thoughts, emotions and sensations.
    • Baseline measurements are taken in order to track the client’s progress to resolution.
  • Case Demonstration: Reprocessing
  • Co-regulation of the client’s experience using dual attention
    • Using the therapist’s voice, tracking the client’s non-verbal responses, helps keep the client within their Window of Tolerance during memory reprocessing
    • Client is instructed to use Safe/Calm Place in between session to help strengthen self-regulation skills.
  • Case Demonstration: Reprocessing Continued
  • Instillation, Body Scan and Closure
  • Case Demonstration: Reevaluation
  • Working with Present Triggers and Future Templates
  • Case Demonstration: EMDR and Telehealth

Target Audience

  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers 

Copyright : 01/05/2022

Relational EMDR Experiential Course with Deany Laliotis: Q&A Call with Deany Laliotis, LICSW

Copyright : 11/30/2022

Using Relational EMDR to Address Anger, Trauma, and a Violent History

The client in this session, Carlos, came to therapy with a history of violence, anger, and trauma. He wants to maintain a relationship with his son, keep his job, and stay out of prison, but he’s been feeling increasingly triggered and afraid that he might act out in the same violent ways that he did when he was a member of a Hispanic gang in South Central, LA. Watch as Laliotis establishes a genuine connection with him and then helps him work through the painful memories that have been haunting him. In this session, you’ll:

  • Find out what it takes to establish trust and a contract to do the work with a client who has no reason to trust anyone
  • Learn how to ascertain that it’s safe—for both client and therapist—to move forward with work on trauma, rage and violence or when it’s best to walk away
  • Experience how unprocessed secondary trauma—being powerless in the face of violence to another—can be as intrusive and disruptive as primary trauma
  • Get a sense of how EMDR processing continues to work beyond the session itself when Carlos returns after 3 months—a changed man

Program Information

Outline

 

Carlos Clinical Video Demonstration – Creating Connections Client in Treatment for Fears of Losing Control Client with History of Violence as Victim and Perpetrator

  • Now working to adapt – protect a more stable lifestyle and relationship with son
  • Facing aggressive triggers at work – seeking more effective coping abilities
Identifying and Addressing Treatment Impasse – Challenges of Rage
  • Assessment of client inner experience – making a safe connection, frequent checks
  • Approaching relationship with therapist attunement, normalizing affect
  • Particular attunement to nonverbal interaction
Threat or Safety Messages Are Often Nonverbally Communicated The Work Before the Work
  • Assessing client capacity for work and willingness to change
    • Identifying regret and remorse as elements of change
    • Reframing desire for control from control of others to control of self
    • Accurately perceiving client’s current abilities and motivations
  • Utilizing EMDR technology to improve therapist engagement
  • Addressing safety while processing powerful emotional content
Following the Connection and Finding the Memory
  • Identifying nodal memory – rape of cousin
  • Creating a contract to travel together into difficult content
  • Asking permission, checking client status, giving control
Formal Processing – Identifying and Clarifying Current Emotional Experience
  • Modifying standard protocols to enhance cognitive engagement
  • Attending to and releasing sadness
  • Following unexpected connections – utility of repeated checking for permission
Assessing Progress and Outcome – Checking the Work
  • Replacing maladaptive conclusions about self with adaptive conclusions
  • Replacing childhood perceptions of trauma with adult processing

Objectives

  1. Utilize clinical demonstration to inform case conceptualization for client raised in high threat environment
  2. Determine the impact of vulnerability and rage on barriers to treatment
  3. Modify standard EMDR treatment protocols to improve client engagement

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers

Copyright : 05/12/2018

Relational EMDR Therapy: An Experiential Case Consultation

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Conduct an effective history taking session in order to determine treatment targets and readiness to approach traumatic memory.
  2. Determine when to target the past, present or future using the three-pronged approach.
  3. Integrate a relational approach into EMDR protocols.

Outline

  • Introduction to the Case
  • EMDR History Taking
  • Reprocessing of the Target Memory
  • Reevaluation

Target Audience

  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers

Copyright : 01/06/2022