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EMDR for Complex Trauma: Step-by-Step Somatic & Polyvagal-Informed Interventions

Many clinicians like you weren’t trained to work with deeply ingrained trauma…

It can lead you to second-guess your most effective trauma treatments, like EMDR.

Treating deeply rooted, complex trauma requires you to have interventions that support healing your client’s mind, body and emotions.

Join renowned EMDR expert Rebecca Kase to learn a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive approach that integrates key somatic and polyvagal interventions with EMDR to get solutions that help your clients with the most challenging and chronic trauma symptoms.

You’ll learn:

•   How & why to integrate polyvagal interventions into EMDR
•   How to overcome the most common client defenses to keep therapy moving forward
•   New and creative strategies to help clients resource, even during the most intense emotions
•   Somatic-based training to support all phases of EMDR treatment

PLUS, get practice exercises, client vignettes and REAL client demonstrations in every module!

Register now and do more than just use EMDR – get strategies to help you treat the most challenging types of trauma with integrative interventions!

Program Information

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses Case Managers
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

Evaluate current research for the treatment of complex PTSD (CPTSD), common clinical symptoms, and treatment guidelines.
Assess the usefulness of EMDR with CPTSD presentations, and review contraindications for EMDR-based interventions.
Analyze core principles of Polyvagal Theory and appraise their application to EMDR Phases 1 & 2 in the treatment of CPTSD.
Utilize mindfulness and somatic-based interventions to resource and stabilize clients with CPTSD.
Utilize ego states interventions to resource clients and improve functioning.
Integrate at least two techniques into your clinical practice with CPTSD clients to increase dual awareness and reduce dissociation.
Appraise the usefulness of EMDR desensitization techniques with CPTSD.
Develop a symptom-focused EMDR treatment plan for CPTSD clients, focused on improving functioning and reducing acute symptoms.

Outline

How It All Works

EMDR & C-PTSD – what and why?
Known contraindications, risks & limitations
How to use neuro-informed counseling
Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, how it works
How memories are felt

Integrating Polyvagal Theory

Neural exercises are and how they apply to work with CPTSD
Importance of therapeutic presence
Why care about the Vagus Nerve?
The 3 Circuits – how they work
- Ventral Vagal
- Sympathetic Nervous system
- Dorsal Vagal
How to tune into nervous system cues
Survival Physiology – protective or problematic?
The pathway to healing: nervous system regulation
Practice: Neural exercises

Strategies to Increase Dual Awareness

One foot in the past, one in the present
Working with types of dissociation – befriending them
Assessing readiness
Grounding in the here-and-now
The role for psychoeducation
Practice: Circuit Mapping, Narrative, Regulation

Creative Resourcing Strategies for Safety

Learn to be “quick on the draw” and how to resource adaptive moments in therapy
C-PTSD specific opportunities for resourcing
Mindfulness and interception work
Ego States: develop the oldest, wisest self
Explore modifications to BLS for CPTSD clients
Practice: Installing safety, Building interoception

Increasing Somatic Awareness

Help clients reclaim their bodies
Build & optimize interoception
Help clients develop vocabulary to notice and name feelings and sensations
Cultivating curiosity
Practice: Describe sensations, Pendulating awareness, Surfing

Treatment Planning & Targeting

Where to start?
Target specific symptoms
Reflexive Orienting to reduce overwhelm
Overcome common client defenses with BLS
Integrate BLS & mindfulness to target emotions
Explore “fractionating” a treatment plan
Where to go next?
Video Demonstration: EMD & EMDr
Vignettes

Copyright : 01/23/2023

Clinical Applications of Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More

After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This effective model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles to heal the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.

Using the IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.

Embracing the transformative IFS therapy approach celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with compassion and respect. It offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to heal the wounded and burdened parts of their internal systems, resulting in:

a way to enter clients’ inner ecology without the overemphasis on containment and stabilization
symptom reduction and improved functioning for clients
deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients

Once you experience this powerful modality, you will want to incorporate it into your practice.

Through instruction, video demonstration, and experiential exercises, Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D., certified IFS therapist, will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFS therapy interventions to help your clients connect with and understand their conflicting parts to facilitate deep, lasting healing.

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine the origins and development of the Internal Family Systems Model, including empirical support for the model and the current status of research using IFS to treat posttraumatic stress disorder.
Prepare an in-depth overview of IFS theory, basic principles, assumptions of the model and its treatment implications.
Propose the three major components of the psyche as outlined by IFS (parts, burdens, and the self) including the characteristics of and assumptions regarding each component as they relate to clinical practice.
Evaluate the goals of IFS therapy and case conceptualization through an IFS lens.
Demonstrate IFS procedures and techniques that can be implemented immediately in clinical and personal work, including the steps for facilitating the development of self-Part relationships.
Practice the steps of healing and unburdening wounded parts of the system in session.

Outline

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Comprehensive, compassionate, non-pathologizing treatment approach
Paradigm-shifting perspective on “psychopathology”
Easily integrated into other therapeutic modalities
Teach clients to access inner wisdom and self-compassion to permanently heal traumatic wounds

Evolution of the Model

Development of the IFS model by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
IFS as an empirically validated treatment: Summary of research support

Composition of the Psyche

Concept of multiplicity: “We are all multiple personalities.”
Components of the psyche:
- Wounded, vulnerable, parts
- Protective parts: proactive and reactive
- Burdens: Negative beliefs about oneself
- The Self: compassionate inner leader and internal source of wisdom and healing energy
Guide clients to access their own inner wisdom and healing potential
IFS-specific techniques for in-the-moment emotion regulation, helpful even with panic, flashbacks, and dissociation

The IFS Model

Assumptions of the model
Goals of IFS therapy
Flow of the IFS model over the course of treatment
Flow of an individual IFS session

Case Conceptualization in IFS

Diversity and cultural sensitivity
How IFS understands personality disorders, dissociative identity disorder, and addiction

IFS Step-by-Step

Step 1: Using Meditative Processes to Identify and Connect with a Target Part

Differentiate the person from the symptom
Access a state of compassion and curiosity essential for healing
Establish a relationship with the target part
Learn the history and benevolent intention behind the symptom

Step 2: Working with Protective Parts

Facilitate internal attachment work
Learn and address the fears/concerns of protective parts
Establish a trusting and appreciative relationship with proactive and reactive protectors
Gain permission to proceed to healing

Step 3: Healing the Traumatic Wound

Develop a compassionate, connected relationship with the wounded part
Witness the pain rather than re-experience it: Learn to be “with”, not “in”, to avoid re-traumatization
Retrieve the wounded part from “trauma time”
Release/unburden thoughts, feelings, and beliefs
Integrate change into the system and use maintenance and troubleshooting strategies

Bringing IFS Concepts to Life

Experiential exercise
Video demonstration of IFS therapy with a real client
Step-by-step commentary to solidify understanding of techniques illustrated in the video session

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychiatrists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Therapists
Physicians
Chaplains/Clergy
Nurses
Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

Copyright : 09/07/2023

EMDR & Internal Family Systems (IFS): Integration Techniques to Resolve Inner Conflicts for Enhanced Trauma Processing

EMDR is one of today’s go-to trauma therapies for clinicians across the globe.

But when you work with complex trauma, you so often see clients getting stuck as their internal conflicts, (like feeling partly responsible, but partly helpless) get in the way of their ability to fully process the trauma.

Fortunately, IFS is the perfect complement to EMDR, giving you tools to work with these conflicting parts and giving your clients an accessible framework to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their experiences.

Now in this training you’ll watch trauma expert Daphne Fatter, PhD, certified in both EMDR and IFS, as she shares a how-to guide on integrating EMDR and IFS in treatment so you can more effectively work with the emotional, cognitive and physical aspects of trauma to reduce your clients’ symptoms, individualize their treatment, and create the sense of coherence and wholeness they need to heal and grow.

Dr. Fatter will give you a step-by-step guide to using non-pathologizing relational interventions from IFS at each phase of EMDR, so you can provide trauma treatment that meets clients where they’re at and skillfully attends to the unique needs of each client’s internal parts.

Watch Dr. Fatter so you can:

Identify and resolve inner conflicts hindering your clients’ healing processes
Understand how EMDR and IFS facilitate the process of memory reconsolidation
Explore clients’ internal parts that may be contributing to their current challenges
Develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-compassion in clients
Provide a foundation for internal relational repair within the client
Decrease the risk of client decompensation
Use self-tapping to promote emotional regulation
And much more

Don’t miss this chance to learn how you can combine these powerful treatments so you can more skillfully work with a wide range of clinically challenging clients including clients with complex trauma.

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Program Information

Objectives

Identify the key concepts and intersecting theoretical principles of both the EMDR and IFS models.
Explain the role of EMDR and IFS in processing and resolving traumatic memories.
Assess and identify appropriate clients for an integrated EMDR and IFS approach.
Use EMDR and IFS techniques to help clients identify and resolve inner conflicts that may be hindering their healing process.
Develop a treatment plan that incorporates trauma targets identified by the client and/or therapist and utilize EMDR and IFS techniques to effectively process these targets.
Guide clients through the EMDR and IFS process to promote a greater understanding of how their past experiences have influenced their current beliefs and behaviors.
Demonstrate how to teach and guide clients in using self-tapping as a form of selfregulation and coping skill both during and outside of therapy sessions.

Outline

EMDR and IFS: Shared Principles and Why Memory Consolidation is Key

EMDR & IFS: Shared Principles & the Differing Lenses of Trauma
Why the Memory Reconsolidation Process is Important to Both Models
Risks & Limitations of EMDR and IFS as Single-Model Approaches
Determining Factors to Integrate EMDR & IFS
Appropriate Client Candidates for Integrating EMDR & IFS

Setting Up Effective IFS-Informed EMDR

Benefits & Risk of Integrating IFS into EMDR’s 8 Phase Protocol
Applying an IFS Paradigm Shift into EMDR
Phase 1: History Taking, Treatment Planning, & Consent for Treatment Plan
Phase 2: Preparation & Resource Development
Introducing Self Tapping for Attachment Readiness and Repair

Inviting Self Presence into EMDR: Enhanced Assessment and More Comprehensive Trauma Processing

Finding Targets for Trauma Processing: EMDR vs IFS methods
Internal Relational Repair for Healthier Relationships with Themselves and Others
Phase 3: Assessment – Using IFS to Help Identify Targets
Phase 4: Desensitization – IFS Techniques for More Comprehensive Traumatic Material Processing

Practical IFS-Informed Interventions to Support Integration

Phase 5: Installing Positive Qualities – Using IFS to Counterbalance Negative Beliefs or Emotions
Phase 6: Body Scan & Future Template – IFS for Enhancing Sense of Safety and Trust in their Bodies
Phase 7: Closure – How Understanding Parts Helps Clients Reflect on Progress
Phase 8: Reevaluation

Integrating EMDR into the IFS Steps

Benefits & Risk of Integrating EMDR into the IFS Steps
How to Integrate Bilateral Stimulation into Steps of the IFS Model
The 2 Choice Points Within the IFS Steps to Integrate EMDR

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Physicians
Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

EMDR Integration with Somatic Therapy and Parts Work: Interventions for Trauma, PTSD, Attachment Injuries and Dissociation

EMDR, parts work, and somatic therapy are three of the most popular approaches right now…

But, the problem is that there is little training on how to integrate these incredibly effective modalities. Here’s the good news for you…

With 30 years’ experience teaching clinicians like you, a premier expert in EMDR, somatic and parts work therapy, Sandra Paulsen, PhD, will guide you through the steps to enhance EMDR by integrating these powerful approaches.

From Sandra’s step-by-step teaching style, you’ll gain the skills to modify and customize EMDR at any stage of treatment, for any type of client trauma. You’ll be able to target your client’s trauma whether it’s stored in the body, memories or present. Walk away with skills and techniques to:

Create step-by-step treatment plans, so you know exactly what to do in each phase of EMDR treatment
Do somatic work with clients that frees their body from trapped pain
Integrate parts work to resolve childhood trauma and other internal conflicts
Harness the power of neuroaffective approaches to calm your client’s nervous system

Get the training to harness the power of three revolutionary approaches to psychotherapy – enhance your practice and offer a path forward for your client’s healing!

Program Information

Objectives

Practice questions at intake point to case formulation and treatment planning.
Evaluate six somatic methods to enhance trauma processing and embodiment.
Conceptualize three critical cornerstones of ego state therapy.
Practice four modifications to the standard EMDR protocol when using the Early Trauma modifications for trauma in the attachment period.
Evaluate four neuroaffective strategies that facilitate trauma processing efficacy.
Practice dialogues to connect with client’s traumatized parts sensitively.

Outline

How & Why to Modify EMDR?

Basics of the initial interview
Tune into client’s unspoken story
The guiding decision process for integration
When to use standard vs modified EMDR

EMDR for Early Trauma & Neglect

Apply main EMDR Strategies
Determine level of “aggressor loyalty”
Spot missed milestones
Birth, attachment & narcissistic parenting trauma
Repair client’s imagination
Specific strategies:
- Containment
- Resource State
- Reset affective circuits

Somatic Empathy & The Body

Is the client embodied?
Test somatic sensation tolerance
Identify implicit memories
Listen to your clients non-verbal “bio-story”
New evidence-based strategies
- Tracking, spontaneous oscillation, somatic micromovements

Parts Work Therapy for High Dissociation

Speak directly to clients’ parts
Dissolve client’s loyalty to aggressor
Visually access client’s “dissociative table/conference room”
Disempower internalized “head honchos”
Be an “ACT-AS-IF” Architect
- Containment strategies, Trauma Accessing, Desensitization & more

Brining it All Together: NEST™ Principles, A Framework for Integration

Assessment and screening
Neuroaffective strategies
Embodiment through Somatic Therapy
Self-System through Ego State Therapy
Integrated Therapy for trauma resolution
Create a NEST™ treatment plan
Know when and how to incorporate each principle
Case Studies:
- Greta – PTSD, anxiety, hears voices, disordered eating
- Frank – Failed relationships, numb, intellectualizes, substance abuse

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Therapists
Art Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals