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Foundations of attachment focused EMDR: Modified EMDR protocol and resource installation

This presentation is an in-depth therapy session employing Attachment-Focused EMDR, with an experienced clinician.  Participants will watch this process applied effectively to guide the client through traumatic experiences in her life.  At the conclusion of this session, there is discussion and assessment regarding the progress the client and therapist achieve.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Defend the use of the Modified EMDR (EMDR-M) protocol over Standard EMDR for improved client-centred treatment outcomes.
  2. Apply the therapist characteristics and skills required for effective attachment repair within treatment sessions.
  3. Categorize the Four Foundational Resources used for resource tapping throughout the EMDR-M protocol.

Outline

Client Interview 

  • Past history and existing diagnoses 
  • Past trauma related to her diagnosis 
  • Past treatment client has received 

Resourcing 

  • Choosing protective resources 
  • Introducing tapping and visualization process 

Treatment Process 

  • Bridging past and more recent traumatic experiences and symptoms 
  • Incorporating resource tapping into visualization process 
  • Utilizing talk therapy to guide or achieve positive outcomes to visualized scenarios 

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Foundations of attachment focused EMDR: History taking, case formulation and target development

Prominent clinician Dr. Laurel Parnell provides viewers with a master class on providing Attachment-Focused EMDR.  Dr, Parnell guides viewers through a step-by-step guide, including the case formulation process, completing an attachment focused developmental history, creating a target map, guiding the client through the EMDR process, and assisting the client in reflecting on the EMDR experience as they emerge from the process. Dr. Parnell discusses ways in which this intervention may be helpful in helping clients to heal from trauma, anxiety, grief, and loss. Mental health clinicians will gain new knowledge and skills from this program to effectively serve their clients.   

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Differentiate how Attachment-Focused EMDR may differ from other psychotherapy interventions   

  2. Evaluate the various stages of Attachment-Focused EMDR in promoting healing    

  3. Analyze the role of the therapist in guiding clients through Attachment-Focused EMDR 

Outline

Understanding the use of Attachment-Focused EMDR with clients facing a variety of presenting concerns 

Learning how the developmental history and case formulation process are conducted in preparation for Attachment-Focused EMDR  

Exploring why a three pronged approach of focusing on the past, present, and future are important when providing Attachment-Focused EMDR   

Learning specific Attachment-Focused EMDR techniques such as target mapping, bridging, resource interweave and imagination interweave 

Learning ways to promote safety during the EMDR process 

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Foundations of attachment focused EMDR: Treatment issues, desensitization and re-evaluation

Join Dr. Laurel Parnell as she walks through the phases of Attachment-Focused EMDR. She will explain why clients often seek therapy, give strategies for the phases of EMDR, and how to end each session allowing the client to leave your office in a calm state. We are sure that this Masterclass will deepen your understanding of EMDR and strengthen your skills as an EMDR clinician.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Apply the necessary phases of an EMDR therapy session in a clinical setting.
  2. Employ various EMDR techniques in a clinical setting.
  3. Theorize possible scenarios that can happen in session.

Outline

The real reasons clients often come to EMDR therapy

  • Primary treatment issues and symptomology
  • Relationships

Important treatment issues in EMDR therapy

  • Strong reactions to longer-term therapy
  • Therapist comfort and confidence

Trauma with a “T” Strategies:

  • Grounding
  • Memory chaining
  • Container

Creating Safety

  • Movie
  • “What do you need?”
  • The Resource team

Steps to the session

  • Preparation
  • Desensitization
  • Do’s and don’ts
  • Goals for the session
  • Installation
  • Body Scan
  • Closing sessions and incomplete sessions
  • Reevaluation

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Foundations of attachment focused EMDR: Working with interweaves to unblock blocked processing

Trauma clients often get trapped in negative thought loops which they cannot recognize on their own. This results in blocked processing. This video is focused on helping clinicians navigate blocked processing which can occur for a variety of reasons. In addition, you will also learn how to help clients repair damaged developmental that may contribute to blocked processing of traumatic events or periods of their life.  

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Formulate a systematic method for assessing block processing when working with trauma clients.
  2. Avoid the three most common therapist errors when using interweaves with trauma clients.
  3. Construct a framework for repairing damaged developmental states.

Outline

Blocked processing: identifying the cause

  • Return to target 
  • Check for blocking beliefs 
  • Check with the child self 
  • Check for feeder memories 
  • Check for ego states 
  • Address client’s fears 
  • Look for blocking images 
  • Look for blocking body sensations 
  • Orient in time and place 
  • Consult their inner advisors or self 


Using interweaves: 

  • When processing is blocked  
  • To close session   
  • To add information that isn't in the system 


Interweaves: Common therapist errors

  • Waiting too long  
  • Intervening too quickly  
  • Forgetting to use rescue interweaves 


Summary of interweave categories

  • Inquiry 
  • Truth 
  • Resource 
  • Imagination 
  • Sorting 
  • Education 


Working with Abreactions


Dissociation during EMDR processing


Attachment focused EMDR with early childhood sexual abuse 

  • Repairing developmental deficits 


Therapy demonstration
 

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Demo and analysis: attachment focused EMDR of man with severe sexual abuse

In this Masterclass, Laurel Parnell, PhD, an internationally recognized clinical psychologist, author, consultant, and Attachment-Focused EMDR expert and trainer, explores the essentials of Attachment-Focused EMDR and its application in working with clients who experienced severe sexual trauma. Dr. Parnell elucidates Attachment-Focused EMDR approach by exploring its key therapeutic foundations and application and by offering an extensive therapeutic demonstration. This session places a high value on and gives attention to creating an attuned therapeutic relationship, resourcing the clients, utilizing interweaves and imagination, and facilitating the clients’ natural healing capacities.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Investigate the use of Attachment-Focused EMDR in healing severe sexual trauma/abuse.
  2. Determine how using the bridging technique and the modified protocol assists with optimizing therapeutic outcomes.
  3. Examine Attachment-Focused EMDR application, protocol, and process for maximizing therapeutic effects for clients who experienced complex sexual trauma/abuse.

Outline

  • Using Attachment-Focused EMDR (the modified protocol) and repairing developmental deficits 

  • Developing new neuropathways 

  • Using a great deal of imagination 

  • Using the modified protocol 

  • Maintaining an attuned therapeutic relationship 

  • Right-brain to right-brain attunement and connection 

  • Working with clients who experienced severe sexual trauma/abuse 

  • Identifying problems, setting goals for treatment, identifying symptoms, and taking good developmental history 

  • Processing sensitivities 

  • Taking history slowly while paying attention to the levels of the client’s activation 

  • Checking in with the client and creating safety 

  • Developing a chronological map of events and attachments 

  • Resourcing clients and cultivating safety 

  • Identifying an inner resilience part 

  • Acknowledging a template for healthy relating and healthy views 

  • Resourcing and strengthening 

  • Identifying and installing a Peaceful Place 

  • Identifying and installing Nurturing Figures 

  • Developing and installing an Ideal Mother 

  • Identifying and installing other Nurturing Figures 

  • Connecting with a sense of an Ideal Mother 

  • Identifying and installing Protective Figures 

  • Identifying and installing a Protective Adult Self 

  • Identifying and installing Wise Figures 

  • Identifying and installing a Resource Team 

  • Establishing a “stop” and a “keep going” signals 

  • Noting the importance of asking a question, “How did you survive?” 

  • Connecting with resilience and attuning to/aligning with the wisdom/resilience network 

  • Activating wholeness 

  • Inquiring about experiences that provide an alternative narrative 

  • Aligning with wholeness 

  • Developmental repairing via creating an Ideal Mother or an Ideal Family 

  • Activating healthy attachments 

  • Developing a target: finding the early link to the client’s problems and setting boundaries 

  • Using bridging technique to find an early target linked to the symptoms 

  • Developing target using the modified protocol 

  • Processing the pattern of having difficulties saying, “No,” and setting boundaries 

  • Using bridging technique and elements of the modified protocol 

  • Activating right-brain network by following back in time to connect to an earlier root of a problem to a somatic experience 

  • The bridging technique itself is not EMDR: the bridging technique is a way to find the target 

  • Offering confidence, “Go back in time as far as you can without censoring it” 

  • Noticing emotions, the body, and the beliefs 

  • Resource interweaves 

  • Checking the target 

  • Taking in the compassion 

  • How the client is doing his own developmental repair 

  • Following the client’s own developmental repair with Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) 

  • Additional developmental repair 

  • Returning to the target to check work 

  • Checking the SUDS 

  • Asking for Positive Cognition (PC) 

  • Installing all the PCs with the childhood incident 

  • Checking the body (the Body Scan) and checking the scene Dr. Parnell bridged from 

  • Enhancing/integrating the client’s spiritual experience and understanding with BLS 

  • Continuing to enhance the positive with BLS 

  • Processing using the modified protocol 

  • Interweaves; using interweaves when the client is stuck, is looping, and/or is dissociating 

  • The purpose of the interweave is to get the client back on track and to allow the client to continue processing 

  • Using resource interweaves and imagination 

  • The reparative value of the imagination 

  • Developmental repair 

  • The role of the therapist is to facilitate the client’s natural healing capacities  

  • Using long sets of BLS 

  • Conclusion  

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 01/15/2018

Demo and analysis: attachment focused EMDR for traumatic bereavement of mother who passes away due to cancer

This program uses demonstration and analysis to guide the therapist through the steps of using Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in processing a traumatic bereavement of a mother who passed away from cancer.  It is led by Dr. Laurel Parnell, a leading expert in Attachment-Focused EMDT.  Dr. Parnell has trained thousands of therapists and has authored five books. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Demonstrate clinical application of the steps of Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). 
  2. Help clients with unresolved trauma recognize and develop internal resources. 
  3. Utilize client’s inner resources and interweaves to enhance client closure of trauma. 

Outline

Outline 

Traumatic Grief 

Introduction to Attachment-Focused EMDR 

Phase 1: Information Gathering 

  • The unfolding process 

  • History and content 

  • Processing events 

Phase 2: Resource Tapping 

  • Peaceful Place 

  • Nurturing Figure 

  • Protector Figure 

  • Wise Figure 

Phase 3: The Modified Protocol Attachment Focus EMDR 

  • Find the picture represents the worst part 

  • Discover the emotional connection to that 

  • Learn how they body exhibits this 

  • Identify the belief that goes with that 

Phase 4: Desensitizing and Reprocessing 

  • Move the movie forward 

  • Focus on the negative thought without censor 

  • Imagine the interweave 

  • Reprocessing  

Wrap-up and discussion 

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 01/15/2018

Demo and analysis: attachment focused EMDR for bridge phobia linked to 9/11

Dr. Parnell is a leading expert on the therapeutic tool, eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing which is more widely known as EMDR. EMDR is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. Dr. Parnell has trained thousands of clinicians in EMDR. Considered a master clinician, Dr. Parnell has produced this video with a volunteer client. EMDR therapy involves a focus on the past, present, and future.  Attention is given to past disturbing memories and related events, and current situations that cause distress. Then resourcing is developed through interactions with clients to develop the skills and attitudes needed for positive outcomes.  In this video, a patient presents with a new phobia of going over bridges. Dr. Parnell demonstrates how to employ the bridging technique to discover the root causes that link to the phobia.  Integrating an Attachment-Focused orientation, she provides encouragement and support to the client as she processes the associated trauma. The client addresses emotionally disturbing events while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. Dr. Parnell demonstrates how she helps the client to unblock processing and develop skills for adaptive functioning. This video is a clear and comprehensive demonstration that will help practitioners master the mechanics of EMDR while learning new tools to assist with complex cases. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Participants will demonstrate how to prepare and assess patients for EMDR.
  2. Participants will develop strategies to assist clients to uncover traumatic events that lead to phobias.
  3. Participants will build the skills and tools to unblock processing and develop adaptive functioning.

Outline

Phases of EMDR 

An Actual Client Interaction 

History Taking and Assessment 

  • Examining the Past 
  • Eliciting Patient Goals 

Resourcing 

Bilateral Stimulation 

Bridging Technique 

Adaptive Processing Model 

Desensitization and Reprocessing 

Modified Protocol  

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 01/15/2018

Attachment focused EMDR for trauma and relational repair

Rachel experiences extreme childhood trauma from an emotionally abusive and cruel mother to being also being sexually abused by her father. She works with Laurel to help repair some of this developmental trauma from her horrific upbringing.

Copyright : 01/25/2018

Attachment focused EMDR for body dysmorphia as a result of trauma and abuse

This presentation is an in-depth therapy session employing Attachment-Focused EMDR, with an experienced clinician.  Participants will watch this process applied effectively to guide the client through traumatic experiences in her life.  At the conclusion of this session, there is discussion and assessment regarding the progress the client and therapist achieve.   

Program Information

Objectives

  1. The successful participant will be able to integrate clinical skills for Attachment-Focused EMDR to clients suffering with varied diagnoses including body dysmorphia.
  2. The participants will improve their treatment outcomes by collecting and formulating successful treatment strategies employed in this presentation.
  3. Upon completion of this presentation the participants will be competent to incorporate resource tapping into their sessions, as well as formulate a treatment plan going forward.

Outline

Client Interview

  • Past history and existing diagnoses
  • Past trauma related to her diagnosis
  • Past treatment client has received

Resourcing

  • Choosing protective resources
  • Introducing tapping and visualization process

Treatment Process

  • Bridging past and more recent traumatic experiences and symptoms
  • Incorporating resource tapping into visualization process
  • Utilizing talk therapy to guide or achieve positive outcomes to visualized scenarios
     

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Attachment focused EMDR for anxiety related to brother’s medical trauma

Client experiences childhood trauma related to her younger brother’s medical trauma. This trauma in her early years has a profound effect on her nervous system. Furthermore, he then had a tricky upbringing.  She experiences anxiety as an adult and carries a lot of sadness for him.

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Attachment focused EMDR for phobia linked to tunnels

A female client has extreme anxiety and fear of tunnels. Dr Parnell uses the bridging technique to cure her of her phobia. 

Copyright : 04/07/2022

Attachment focused EMDR for grief and fear of losing self

Daisy witnesses the loss of her grandmother which brings up memories of losing both her parents when she was young and also her traumatic upbringing. She feels guilty that she let her grandmother down as what not a good granddaughter. However, with the processing of AF EMDR she is able to forgive herself as well as realize her agency in the world.

Copyright : 01/24/2018

Attachment focused EMDR for sudden loss of a loved one

A female client experiences the grief, loss and trauma of the sudden death of her boyfriend. He had an enlarged heart but thought smoking “spice” aka fake marijuana was part of the problem. This women now blames herself for his death.

Copyright : 04/07/2022