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EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing

For years I got stuck with my complex trauma clients.

The traditional standalone approaches everyone recommended seemed to fail me as my clients’ unresolved conflicts kept sabotaging our efforts toward healing. Session after session I was met with defensiveness and resistance. It was exhausting…and soon doubt and frustration started to creep in.

But one day the solution became clear -- complex trauma requires complex treatment -- not a standalone therapy.

Now in this one-day seminar I’ll show you how you can more successfully access deeply rooted pain points and move clients past the internal conflicts that hang them up in treatment by integrating elements of EMDR with skills from a parts work approach!

Watch me for this unique, advanced level trauma treatment course, so you can:

More safely gather your client’s trauma history
Manage dissociation and fragmentation in clients using skills from parts work therapy
Create a safe healing environment using modified EMDR therapy protocols
Confidently use relational skills and somatic therapy for improved complex trauma treatment

Making the change to an integrated EMDR and parts work approach turned my treatment completely around. Since that day I’ve found tremendous success with my clients, authored several books on complex trauma and trained thousands of clinicians.

Don’t miss this chance to take your complex trauma treatment to the next level!

Purchase today!

-Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the neurobiology of complex PTSD and dissociation through the lens of polyvagal theory.
Apply interpersonal neurobiology through co-regulation strategies that strengthen our client’s social engagement system.
Assess for emotional and physiological dysregulation as “parts” of self.
Integrate practical parts work therapy interventions to improve treatment outcomes for “resistant” clients.
Utilize techniques to help clients to work with shame and develop self compassion for their most wounded parts.
Conduct modified EMDR therapy protocols that will allow you to create a safe healing environment for clients with a history of complex traumatization.

Outline

Understanding Complex Trauma: The Neurobiology of PTSD

Nuances of stress, trauma, and complex PTSD
The impact of dissociation
Interpersonal neurobiology, somatic psychology, and social engagement
The polyvagal theory
Skill: Spacious, Relational Awareness
Skill: Explore Co-Regulation

How to Assess for a Complex Diagnosis: History Taking and Case Conceptualization

Identify chronic, repeated, developmental and sociocultural trauma
Overcoming betrayal trauma to resolve insecure attachment
Assess for dissociation (“fragmentation”)
How parts, ego states and defenses create walls to change
Compassionate strategies for “Resistant” clients
Move from shame to empowerment
Skill: Understand emotional dysregulation as a “part”
Skill: Connect to the adult self
Skill: Differentiating from a part

Moving Clients Forward: Modified EMDR and Parts Work for Complex PTSD

The 8-phases of EMDR therapy
Neural networks and “encapsulated” ego states
Bilateral stimulation and dual attention in EMDR therapy
Modified EMDR therapy protocols
Preparation for trauma reprocessing
Cultivate mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion
Skill: Choice and containment
Skill: Build allies for a part of self
Skill: Facilitate repair scenarios
Skill: Reprocess a traumatic memory
Skill: Positive state installation

The 6 Pillars of Resilience: For Post-Traumatic Growth and Healing

Trauma recovery and the bell curve
Resilience as a process and an outcome
Move from learned helplessness to learned optimism
Skill: Create your resilience recipe

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Nurses
Marriage and Family Therapists
Physicians

Copyright : 09/30/2021

The Transformation of EMDR: From Technique to Comprehensive Psychotherapy

This recording provides an introduction to EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which is a unique type of psychotherapy proven to help clients recover from trauma and improve the quality of their lives. Trauma is stored in the brain and body, continuing to cause pain and suffering, and EMDR can free clients by repatterning thinking and emotional reactions. This recording will help you understand the evidence to support EMDR and all of its applications. As well as, a look at the evolution of EMDR - from technique to a comprehensive, integrative psychotherapy tool.

Program Information

Objectives

Determine the current status of EMDR therapy’s evidence base in treating PTSD and other psychiatric conditions.
Formulate the basic tenets of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model.
Inspect the goal and function of each prong of the three-pronged approach in EDMR therapy.

Outline

What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy?
- Basic Tenets of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) Model
- Use of Eye Movements/Bilateral Stimulation
- 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy
- Addressing “Big T” AND “little t” Traumas
- Addressing Acts of Commission AND Omission
- Addressing Single, Discrete Events AND Complex/Developmental Trauma
- Three-Pronged Approach – Past, Present Future Targets
- Themes of Responsibility, Safety, and Control
Evidence Base for EMDR Therapy and Range of Applications
- PTSD
- Complex PTSD
- Compared to Other Evidence-Based Treatments
- Most Cost Effective and Time Efficient
- International Treatment Guidelines and Endorsements
- Other Psychiatric Diagnoses
Effects of Eye Movements in EMDR and Proposed Mechanisms of Action
- Eye Movements
  - Reduce negative emotions, imagery vividness, emotional arousal
  - Increase episodic memory retrieval, recognition of true information, de-arousal, positive neurophysiological changes, thinking flexibility
    - Mechanisms – Working Memory, Orienting, and REM Hypotheses
  - Evolution of EMDR – From Technique to Comprehensive, Integrative Psychotherapy
    - Influences from other Psychotherapy Models
    - Integrating Elements form other Models
    - Innovative Applications and Delivery Frameworks

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 05/29/2021

EMDR in Trying Times: How Our Brains Process and Move Through Trauma

During these times of uncertainty, peoples’ anxieties and fears about their health, their families’ well-being and their finances are not without cause. Yet, how we react to these circumstances depends on what we have experienced before, making it easier or harder to adapt to our current situations. EMDR therapy is exquisitely equipped to address these demands by offering a range of clinical options from addressing acute stress symptoms and recent events to a more comprehensive psychotherapy approach. In addition to offering an overview of this approach, we will discuss a couple of clinical vignettes to illustrate how EMDR therapy can offer brief and effective treatment to help our clients restore their resiliency and capacity to respond optimally to these ongoing demands.

Program Information

Objectives

Appraise the Adaptive Information Processing model of EMDR.
Interpret why people respond differently to similar trauma circumstances.
Apply EMDR approaches with clients in response to recent traumatic events.

Outline

Why EMDR therapy is a useful intervention for recent trauma

The adaptive information processing model of trauma

Using EMDR with recent trauma

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses
Psychiatrists

Copyright : 06/05/2020

Relational EMDR as a Transformational Journey: The Power of Attunement

While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive, attachment-based approach that addresses a broad range of clinical conditions. In this recording, you’ll learn how to enhance the power of EMDR by heightening the therapist’s use of self and creating an attuned experience that enables clients to process painful experiences that have been previously avoided or denied. We’ll explore how to assess a client’s readiness for the emotional challenges of bringing the past into present-day awareness and the trust in the therapist required to embark on this difficult journey. You’ll discover:

The Adaptive Information Processing model of EMDR therapy that informs how present difficulties are informed by past experiences
Relational strategies to navigate the moment-to-moment demands in and out of memory processing
How to identify a therapeutic impasse and explore what’s needed to move the process forward
How to negotiate the rules of engagement with clients, making it possible to navigate the uncertain territory of trauma processing

Program Information

Objectives

Assess the Adaptive Information Processing model of EMDR therapy that informs how present difficulties are informed by past experiences.
Demonstrate relational strategies to navigate the moment-to-moment demands of memory processing in sessions.
Investigate how to identify a therapeutic impasse and what’s needed to move the process forward.
Negotiate the rules of engagement with clients processing trauma.

Outline

Describe the Adaptive Information Processing model of EMDR therapy that informs how present difficulties are informed by past experiences.
Explain relational strategies to navigate the moment-to-moment demands in and out of memory processing in sessions.
Explore how to identify a therapeutic impasse and what’s needed to move the process forward.
Explain how to negotiate the rules of engagement with clients, making it possible to navigate the uncertain territory of trauma processing.
Explore ways to co-regulate the client’s experience moment to moment
Identify how to help a client generate new ways of relating that are reparative.

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 03/18/2021

Virtual EMDR: A How-to Guide to Providing EMDR via Telehealth

You can work as an EMDR and trauma therapist via telehealth!

EMDR has been found to be effective when delivered virtually.

And this recording is your how-to-guide on utilizing EMDR through telehealth platforms so you can continue your important work with clients, even when face-to-face sessions aren’t possible!

In just 2-hours you’ll be given safe, simple and straightforward approaches to adapting EMDR techniques to an online-environment so you can stay on the front lines with your clients during times of crisis.

Get the answers to your most pressing questions…

How do I manage potential safety risks when I’m not there in person?
How can I monitor and manage reactions with clients online?
How do I maximize attunement through video sessions?

Program Information

Objectives

Utilize tools and techniques to assist clients in regulating and de-escalate trauma associated triggers via telehealth.
Analyze different ways to utilize and provide EMDR to clients via telehealth.
Develop client resources and teach self-efficacy through EMDR resourcing activities via telehealth.

Outline

Quick EMDR Overview of the Basics

Review of the basic protocol
Review of resources (calm place, container, ICON, etc)
Dual attention methods (eye movements, tapping, tappers, sound)

EMDR and Telehealth: How to Adapt to a Virtual World

Dual awareness and bi-lateral stimulation and its importance in the EMDR process
Bilateral stimulation via video
Eye movement resources for telehealth practitioners using EMDR:
- Bilateral stimulation via video
- Butterfly hug
- Congruent tapping
- Sound pulses
- Other eye movement strategies
Addressing safety – how to manage potential risks of not being there in-person
Identifying and implementing a protocol with a client via telehealth
Limitations, risks, and further research

Target Audience

*In attending this training, it is assumed that you have previous EMDR training and clinical experience using EMDR.

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 04/16/2020

2-Day: Certified Clinical Telemental Health Provider Training: A Therapist Guide for Ethical, Legal and Technology Concerns when Using Teletherapy

Providing telehealth services is a must for today’s clinician, allowing you to effectively expand your practice and reach clients even when they can’t come to your office.
But you’re worried that the quality of your treatment could suffer and your license could be put at risk navigating complicated ethical, legal and technological issues you never thought you’d need to face.
This 12-hour Certification Training Course makes telehealth easy with the skills, knowledge, business advice, and technical guidance you need to get started right away!
Get the solutions you’ve been looking for so you can:

Confidently set up the technology and tools you need to start providing telehealth services
Successfully adapt in-room practices to the telehealth space!
Avoid violating HIPAA and HITECH requirements and protect clients’ privacy
Market your new services and grow your practice
Correctly handle billing and recordkeeping
Make sure you get paid for your telehealth services!
Protect yourself from telehealth mistakes that could cost you your license

Program Information

Outline

Research about Telehealth Services

Here to stay
It works
Benefits

Application of Ethical Codes

Psychologists, social workers, professional counselors
Building competence
Technology appropriateness examples

HIPAA

HIPAA and HITECH
HIPAA and small providers
Violations and why they occur

State Law Applications

State interests for the pros and cons for permitting telehealth
Cohesive incoherence
- Examples of statutory guidance
Risk management guidelines
Interjurisdictional practice

Efforts to Improve Telehealth Interjurisdictional Practice

PsyPact
Others
Checklist of questions to determine if you can practice across statelines

Case Examples for Using Various Forms of Telehealth Best practices for telehealth

Selecting the appropriate tools
Utilizing ATA guidelines
- Clinical – patient and setting appropriateness
- Technical - The setting, camera, microphones, and lighting
Administrative – connectivity, training
Practical solutions for your therapy

Processes & Procedures

The intake process
Informed consent – sample plan, key topics to cover
Emergency and crisis plans – what to include, medical issues, sample plan

Delivery Platforms Keeping Ethics/HIPAA in Mind

Asynchronous platforms
Common elements
Concerns with platform
- Synchronous therapy
- All-in-one services
Email and texting safely
Pros and cons
HIPAA requirements
Encryption
Password protection
VPN
Electronic communication policy
Hardware and software safety

Screening and Suitability of the Client

Benefits of telehealth Services
- Evidenced-based research
- Patient and setting contraindications
The intake, mental status exam, and ongoing Evaluation
Assessment with clients

Professional Boundary Considerations

For the client
For the clinician
- Crossings versus violations
- Recommendations for maintaining professional boundaries
Licensing board complaint examples
Red Flags for Therapist
Strategies to Avoid Red Flags
Recommendations for improving the therapist's telehealth experience
Additional Resources

Multicultural Considerations

Issues to consider
Geography, settings, populations
Seeking guidance

Theoretical Considerations for Telehealth

Evidence-based support
Which models transition well

Self-Care for the Clinician

Ethics application
Causes of burn out
Warning signs in therapists
Characteristics of effective self-care
Strategies and techniques
Resources

Dos and Don'ts of Social Media

Using social media to your advantage
The required social media policy
Social media and boundaries

The Era of Electronic Records

Development of the electronic record
Electronic document storage
Electronic document destruction

Reimbursement

Medicare/Medicaid
Private payer

Target Audience

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

Objectives

Analyze the ethical principles and applications of ethical codes for telehealth services.
Determine the HIPAA guidelines and how they apply to telehealth services.
Assess inter-state issues associated with telehealth and how to stay in compliance.
Determine best practices for creating a good setting for telemental health services.
Evaluate how to implement policies and procedures that are necessary for maintaining an ethical telehealth practice.
Assess electronic services and platforms for delivering ethical telemental health services.
Determine how to screen for suitable clients for telemental health services.
Assess how to effectively manage boundary issues that might arise during telemental health services.
Determine which therapeutic practices are conducive to telemental health services.
Assess the threats that technology poses to the confidentiality and privacy of clients.
Determine how to maintain ethical standards and compliance while utilizing social media technology.
Determine how to correctly manage electronic records in a telemental health setting.