You'll Learn...
This course was designed to make getting robust EMDR training easier and more affordable than ever before, with step-by-step instruction, demonstrations, and more for each treatment phase of EMDR
Everything You Need to Know Before Starting EMDR
- How and why the 8-phase model is so effective
- Reorganizing Dissociation to build bridges to our clients
- How to Cultivate Nervous System Regulation
- Practice Exercises: co-regulation, mind-body awareness, and more
Phase 1: The EMDR Protocol: Step-by-Step Instructions for Each Phase
Assessment, History Taking, Conducting the Clinical Interview, and History Taking Tools to gain skills to overcome challenges when working with implicit, explicit, false, and fragmented memories. Know how to conceptualize cases and create treatment plans for any type of trauma (single-incident, chronic, and complex). Get scripts for specific questions to ask during the assessment interview and access to diverse assessments and screens to make the first session of therapy easier and faster.
Phase 2: The Preparation Phase & Resource Development
Learn how to help clients develop skills to begin regulating their nervous systems so they can do trauma processing. You'll learn new interventions from creative arts, parts work, cognitive, somatic, and other interventions to customize resourcing for each unique client. Introduce bilateral stimulation and dual awareness to your clients.
Practice: Virtual bilateral stimulation exercises — visual, sound, & tapping
Skill practice: Relational resourcing, Anchoring the Self, Somatic Skill Building
***Use Phase 1 and 2 tools immediately with clients and instantly upgrade your trauma treatment!
Phases 3 & 4: Developing Targets, Desensitization & Reprocessing
Watch a demo of a full EMDR session so you can start doing deep trauma work that targets and desensitizes clients to traumatic memories, reframes negative beliefs, and moves them toward an empowered trauma narrative. Gain enhanced skills to work with dissociation and heightened emotional dysregulation. Know what to do if clients need to return to an earlier phase of treatment with skills to modify and incorporate somatic interventions into these phases.
Clinical Vignette: Anna, complex trauma, memory of terror at a childhood party
Demo: A Full EMDR Processing Session
EMDR Phases 3-8: Overcoming Challenges and Roadblocks
Navigate the most challenging aspects of trauma treatment with crucial EMDR skills. You'll learn how to cut through blocked areas, keep clients going when they "hit a wall," anticipate what's going to come up in therapy, and know what to do to modify EMDR for time-limited or incomplete sessions — PLUS, get skills to adapt EMDR to chronic pain and other problems.
***Instruction on Phases 3 through 8 is meant to be supplemented by practice and group consultation.
See FAQs: Will I be ready to use EMDR after this training course for more details.
Advanced EMDR Adaptations
Join your trainers as they jump into
real-client sessions and demonstrate single-session work with Kathy (
a survivor of sexual abuse) and ongoing client therapy work with Wendy (diagnosed with
Bi-Polar disorder and a history of self-harm). In these real-world cases, you'll learn techniques and interventions related to
co-regulation,
parts work,
dismantling client defenses,
cultivating dual attention and awareness,
and more.
Self of the Therapist: Build a Commitment to Self-Care & Cultivate Vicarious Resilience
Learn
self-care practices that you can use before,
during,
and after intense client sessions to keep you feeling invigorated, refreshed, and ready for your next clients. Plus, you'll learn how to cultivate vicarious resilience for both you and your clients.
