Tips for EMDR Therapists Holding Space in Divisive Times
Susanna Kaufman addresses practical answers to the question: “As EMDR therapists, we feel an obligation to serve, but how do we continue to best serve our clients when we feel activated ourselves?”
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EMDR Therapist Self Care
EMDRIA member Suzanne Rutti shares why it is important for EMDR therapists to care for themselves.
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Political and Social Stress and EMDR therapy
EMDRIA member Viviana Urdaneta Melo discusses the stress of political and social division and shares ways that clients and EMDR therapists can care for themselves amid the stress.
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EMDR Therapy for Vicarious Trauma
What is vicarious trauma, and how can EMDR therapy help? Find out from EMDR UK Accredited EMDR Therapist Lee Anna Simmons in this episode.
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Taking Steps Together Toward Healing: A Remote Group Therapy Intervention
EMDR therapy group protocols can help increase the capacity to meet client needs and decrease exposure to overwhelming material that may contribute to clinician burnout or vicarious traumatization.
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Reducing the Cost of Caring: Indirect Trauma Exposure on Mental Health Providers (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Some mental health clinicians may experience symptoms of indirect trauma or vicarious traumatization due to exposure to traumatic details.
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Using Your Values and Sense of Engagement and Accomplishment to Keep You Centered and Balanced in an Uncertain World
The combination of EMDR therapy and Positive Psychology, each evidence-based treatment, may be the treatment of choice for our turbulent time.
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Staying Centered in an Uncentered World (Go With That Magazine Issue)
What defines “staying centered”? How can EMDR therapists take care of themselves? Does positive psychology play a role?
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Effects of EMDR Group Traumatic Episode Protocol on Burnout Within IAPT Healthcare Professionals: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
This study explores the effectiveness of EMDR Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (EMDR G-TEP) at reducing distress and burnout in therapists.
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Is There Still Steam in that Pressure Cooker: What Needs to Happen Now?
During COVID-19, therapists faced similar challenges as their clients. Many were burned out. How can we let steam out of that pressure cooker?
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Staying Centered in an Uncentered World: Lessons Learned from Perinatal Mental Health
What lessons can we learn from perinatal mental health about staying centered when things do not go as planned?
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Perspective in a Disorienting World
EMDR therapists are at even greater risk for burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Learn how to take time to renew.
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