Virtual EMDR from Start to Finish:
The Complete Guide to Maximize Your Trauma Treatment through Telehealth

The 8 Phases of EMDR and Essential EMDR Resources

• History
• Preparation
• Assessment
• Desensitization
• Installation
• Body scan
• Closure
• Re-evaluation
• Review of resources (calm place, container, ICON, etc.)

Assess the Appropriateness of Virtual EMDR for Clients

• Establishing safety
• Creating Resources
• Dual awareness options
• Informed consent

Common Barriers to Virtual EMDR Treatment

• Keeping a consistent environment
• Distractions
• Checking on physical responses
• Safety in the environment

Ways to Increase Attunement in Virtual EMDR Sessions

• Accounting for cultural differences and physical environments
• How to create close proximity with your camera
• Attuned breathing on virtual platforms

Eye Movement Resources for Telehealth Practitioners Using EMDR

• 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

Addressing Safety in Virtual EMDR:
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

EMDR for Direct Treatment of Traumatic Memories via Telehealth

• 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

Attachment-Based Trauma and Parts Work with Virtual EMDR

• 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

Limitations, Risks, and Further Research

• 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

For years, you have put the power of EMDR therapy to work – successfully helping clients heal from complex trauma, PTSD, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders. But now, more and more people are relying on telehealth services.

Have you adjusted to the transition so you’re treating patients as seamlessly as you did in the therapy room? Then this is the course for you – right now – so you can maximize your EMDR video sessions without sacrificing treatment efficacy or client safety.

Don’t let your trauma clients lose important progress because you’re struggling to adapt and execute this valuable modality in the virtual world. Master EMDR in a telehealth setting… you and your clients deserve it!

We you know can get EMDR anywhere. We want you to have virtual EMDR training that is up-to-date, relevant to your client’s problems today, and affordable to meet the clinical needs of tomorrow.

Megan Boardman & Melissa Westendorf will bring you their decades of clinical research, training expertise, and invaluable practice to teletherapy, EMDR, and other trauma treatments – along with proven clinical solutions for nearly any telehealth setting - in this self-paced, digestible online course.

You’ll walk away with evidence-based strategies, applicable case studies and tools that you can’t get anywhere else.

Don’t make it harder on yourself by piecing together what you know about telehealth with odds and ends of EMDR. Get step-by-step instructions for implementing this incredible and proven clinical tool – even when you can’t meet with your clients face-to-face.

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