Schedule
Below is your personalized schedule beginning January 2024
Week 1 & 2 | Everything You Need to Know to Start EMDR
Explore different types of trauma from the perspective of EMDR treatment and healing.
Week 3 & 4 | How the 8-Phase Model Works
Gain the foundational building blocks of effective EMDR therapy by learning skills to prepare clients and yourself to take the EMDR healing journey.
Week 5 & 6 | Phase 1: Assessment, History Taking & Clinical Interview
Conduct clinical interviews that help conceptualize clients from a non-pathologizing perspective and create collaborative client-led treatment plans. Learn essential EMDR skills like co-regulation, mind-body awareness, and more.
Week 7 & 8 | Phase 2: Preparation, Grounding & Resourcing Exercises
Learn fundamental EMDR skills to help clients develop strong internal resources they can come back to again and again, even after therapy ends.
Week 9 & 10 | Integration of Phases 1 & 2: Resourcing & Demonstrations
Synthesize what you've learned and be able to deliver enhanced early EMDR sessions that combine grounding and resourcing skills with history taking, assessments, and other aspects of beginning treatment.
Week 11 & 12 | Phases 3: Assessing and Creating Treatment Targets
Collaborative work with your clients to develop traum targets and treatment goals.
Week 13 & 14 | Phase 4: Desensitization & Reprocessing
Begin using your bilateral stimulation to help clients reduce their trauma symptoms and triggers for good!
Week 15 & 16 | Working with Dissociation in Phases 3 & 4: Interweaves & Blending Other Modalities
Gain specific training on how to work with clients who are prone to dissociation through the use of “interweaves” and by blending other modalities into EMDR sessions.
Week 17 | Overcoming Challenges, Roadblocks & Using Restricted Protocols
Learn strategies to make it easy to troubleshoot and manage time-limited therapy by using restricted protocols – allowing you to use EMDR in almost any setting or therapy duration.
Week 18 & 19 | Real Client Sessions: Complex Trauma Clients
See the power of EMDR in a single session of trauma healing transformation with client Kathy, a sexual abuse survivor. Then, see how on-going EMDR therapy works in action with real client Wendy, diagnosed with Bi-Polar & self-harm history.
Week 20 | Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth
Learn how to help your clients long after therapy ends, and help them build a strong inner foundation of resilience and growth they can tap into for the rest of their lives.
Week 21 | Self-of-the-Therapist
Build a strong foundation for yourself to return to during intense trauma work with clients that helps to create compassion and foster resiliency to combat burnout.
Week 22 | Trauma & Addiction Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Gain specific strategies to help safely use EMDR therapy with clients who have any type of addiction, so you no longer have to separate addiction and trauma treatment.
Week 23 | Skills for Virtual EMDR
Create a truly integrative and personalized approach to your EMDR therapy by learning how to blend popular approaches into your sessions.
Week 24 | EMDR for Grief and Mourning
Develop specialized skills and nuanced treatment planning to help clients who are stuck in prolonged grief and mourning.
Week 25 | Integrating Parts Work & Somatic Techniques
Create a truly integrative and personalized approach to your EMDR therapy by learning how to blend popular approaches into your sessions.
Week 26 | Practice Day – July 17, 2024
Join your colleagues and consultants live online to practice your new skill set.
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