For Complex Trauma

Found in Personality, Addictive and Dissociative Disorders

Prerequisite:

Participants for the workshop need to have full completion of an EMDRIA approved Basic EMDR Training in order to be eligible.


For the past few years, many clinicians trained in the EMDR Basic Training have voiced a need for additional information on complex trauma cases. During follow-up consultation done after the basic training, therapists have expressed how they had found their clients stuck in schemes that did not readily change with standard processing with EMDR.This has created frustration in treatment for both client and therapist. Working with personality, addictive and dissociative disorders presents a special treatment challenge for even the most experienced therapist.


The EMDR standard protocol requires modifications in timing, additional focus on resource development, and strategies designed as to not overwhelm the client. The purpose of this training course is to present an overview of strategies--combined within the eight phases of EMDR-- to help therapists work with difficult populations to get improved results. This is a fourteen hour EMDR application training for therapists that have completed the EMDR Basic training. It has been developed from research applications and clinical case studies reported by myself and other EMDR therapist.


Course Learning Objectives

14 CEU’S

  • Increase the therapist skills in processing EMDR with complex trauma.

  • Provide tools so the therapist can quickly assess the emotional needs of their patients and develop personal resources designed for that patient.

  • Learn the inner psychic experiences of their patients through schema testing for targeting and processing core beliefs that interfere with functioning and happiness.

  • Learn how to stabilize addictive disorder patients and weave EMDR into their treatment plan.

  • Address the phobia of attachments and affect that interferes in developing healthy relationships with complex trauma and dissociative clients.

  • Learn to use a phase oriented approach in processing with bi-lateral stimulation traumatic memories.

  • Learn modifications to the standard protocol in EMDR, and maintain stability in your client, while processing trauma with complex cases.