3-Day Intensive Training on EMDR for Trauma: The Complete Guide to Assessment, Resource Development and Treatment

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Kate Haskell, LMHC, NBCC, EMDR-C Related seminars and products

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Kate Haskell, LMHC, NBCC, EMDR-C, (she/her) is a 30+year clinician, trainer, and public speaker. She has worked with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. For the past 20 years she has primarily been engaged in trauma focused treatment while utilizing EMDR and other modalities. She has created and facilitated services for multiple school districts to address student and staff deaths. Kate brings extensive experience in vicarious trauma and strives to improve human service workers well-being. She demonstrates a warm, compassionate, and direct communication style to engage individuals and allow them to explore their deepest questions.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kate Haskell maintains a private practice and is a consultant for Bellingham School and Mt. Vernon School Districts mobile response team. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kate Haskell has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 

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Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Evaluate the biological nature of trauma and how trauma is stored in the body and limbic system, creating physical and psychological symptoms to better understand your clients. 
2. Differentiate between sympathetic (activated) freeze response and the parasympathetic (deactivated) dorsal vagal immobilization response your clients experience. 
3. Distinguish between the following types of traumatic stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental and articulate treatment considerations for each. 
4. Ascertain the clinical implications of traumatic stress symptomology, including hyperarousal, affect dysregulation, dissociation, body memories, and flashbacks. 
5. Employ effective somatic techniques to reduce/eliminate client’s body memories, “flashbacks” and dissociation. 
6. Examine Porges’ Polyvagal Theory as it relates to clinical treatment of traumatized clients.
7. Summarize the landmark study: Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and understand the ten adverse childhood experiences studied as they related to clinical diagnosis and assessment. 
8. Evaluate the clinical presentation of the following attachment styles as it relates to your clinical assessment: secure vs insecure; insecure; organized vs insecure disorganized. 
9. Demonstrate three techniques of altering bilateral stimulation as a mechanism of action for EMDR.
10. Demonstrate strategies to help clients build skills to be prepared to process trauma via EMDR, including safety within the therapeutic alliance and skills for self-regulation. 
11. Determine when/if your client is prepared to safely process trauma memories via EMDR. 
12. Create and employ client-driven imagery for safety and containment during trauma processing. 
13. Utilize clinical techniques to help with grounding and centering traumatized clients in-session.  
14. Prepare clients with various trauma tools; mindfulness, guided imagery and meridian-based techniques to decrease client’s arousal levels and modulate affect. 
15. Analyze and critique the original eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol (Shapiro) as it relates to clinical treatment. 
16. Evaluate and learn Parnell’s four essential elements of each EMDR session and how it relates to client treatment. 
17. Practice under supervision Parnell’s Modified EMDR protocol to prepare for work with your clients in-session.  
18. Practice under supervision the skill for resourcing a client with imaginal resources prior to processing traumatic material. 
19. Practice under supervision the trauma processing modality and EMDR tools for processing traumatic memories with your clients. 

Outline

• Biological nature of trauma
  • Triune Brain, The Autonomic Nervous System and the Stress Response
  • The Polyvagal Theory
  • Traumatic Stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental
• Specific trauma symptoms
• Primary treatment issues in trauma therapy

• Hyperarousal
• Hypoarousal
• Dissociation, body memories and “flashbacks”
• Affect dysregulation

• The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study)
• Attachment Essentials
  • Baby/momma trauma
  • Insecure Attachment Styles Assessment and Primary Treatment Issues of:
  • Avoidant
  • Preoccupied
  • Disorganized type

• Current Trauma Diagnoses:
  • Acute Trauma Disorder
  • PTSD and subtypes
  • Dissociative
  • Preschool
  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
• Proposed Trauma Diagnoses
  • Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
  • Complex PTSD

• Contraindications and precautions for reprocessing trauma
• Differences in theory and in the associated neurophysiological models are a matter of ongoing discussion

• Stage One: Stabilization and Safety
  • Assessment, Rapport, Psychoeducation
  • Developing the “Skills to Stay Stable”
  • Trauma Tools for Affect Regulation
  • Recognizing and regulating affect
  • Dissociative episodes and “flashbacks”
  • Grounding clients in their bodies and back in the present in the here and now
  • Mindfulness/bodyfulness (including somatic exercises)
  • Multisensory Guided Imagery
  • EFT (meridian tapping)
  • Reduction of physiological arousal
  • Recognizing and up & down regulating arousal levels
  • Containment and self-soothing
• Stage Two: Working Through Traumatic Memories
  • Brief overview of the theory and applicability of three trauma processing modalities:
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) - Ogden
  • Somatic Experiencing (SE) - Levine
  • EMDR - Shapiro/Parnell

• Live EMDR demonstration followed by experiential sessions

• Comfortable Place Imagery
• Protection Imagery and/or Nurture Imagery

Target Audience

• This workshop is intended for masters- and doctoral-level clinicians experienced in working with trauma. In this course, you will learn and practice alternating bilateral stimulation into two distinct types of psychotherapy sessions; development and installation of internal resources; and reprocessing of traumatic material.
• This course assumes requisite knowledge of, and experience with, a traumatized population (i.e., clients with underlying simple or complex PTSD regardless of presenting issues).

Facilitator Details

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Qualifications for Facilitators:
Facilitators should be experienced trauma therapists comfortable processing traumatic memories.

Facilitator Role Description:
Facilitators are expected to attend all days of the workshop. The Facilitator fee for the seminar is $399.99. You will participate in and receive CEU’s for the entire seminar. There is a detailed list of duties, but overall you will be assisting the presenter with A/V needs, distribution of materials, and monitoring portions of the experiential exercises*.

*Following the EMDR session demonstrations, the group will be divided into dyads and triads for the experiential segment of workshop. At that time, those serving as facilitators will be assigned triads to supervise, i.e. facilitating triad creation, moving chairs, distributing materials, then walking from triad to triad assuring participants' safety by making sure that directions are being carried out and that the script is being followed. Your primary role in this assignment is to alert the presenter to any difficulties that triads may be experiencing.

The presenter assumes ultimate responsibility for the safety of the group and each of its participants.

PESI FACILITATOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

You must read and understand the list of Facilitator duties, and agree to comply with the requirements of the position in order to become a facilitator.

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