- History
- Preparation
- Assessment
- Desensitization
- Installation
- Body scan
- Closure
- Re-evaluation
- Review of resources (calm place, container, ICON, etc.)
- Establishing safety
- Creating Resources
- Dual awareness options
- Informed consent
- Keeping a consistent environment
- Distractions
- Checking on physical responses
- Safety in the environment
- Accounting for cultural differences and physical environments
- How to create close proximity with your camera
- Attuned breathing on virtual platforms
- Bi-lateral stimulation and its importance in the EMDR process
- Dual attention methods (eye movements, tapping, tappers, sound)
- Bilateral stimulation via video
- Butterfly hug
- Congruent tapping
- Sound pulses
- Other eye movement strategies
- Apps and BLS online resources
How to Manage the Potential Risks of Not Being There In-Person
- Establishing a visually safe environment
- Crisis intervention and safety plans
- Managing/assessing for relapse or maladaptive coping
- Attachment-based interventions in a disconnected world
- Interweaves for blocked processing
- Treating grief and loss
- Creating connection through parts work
- Working with isolation
- Creating empowerment and self-efficacy from a distance platform
- How attachment styles impact processing
- Identifying the different roles that ‘parts’ play in traumatic healing and survival
- How to utilize and acknowledge ‘parts’ in EMDR processing
- Interventions and techniques to bring ‘parts’ forward for healing
- Techniques and tools for working with addicted ‘parts’ during EMDR
- Current research on telehealth with EMDR
- Addressing barriers and potential risks with telehealth and EMDR
- Making the most of risks and limitations for successful treatment outcomes