Conference 2019 Archives

It’s Always EMDR Therapy: The Case for EMDR as a Complete Psychotherapy

This presentation reveals the potential for EMDR therapy to be used as a comprehensive primary clinical operating protocol.

Participants are guided to normalize dissociation by attuning to the ways in which its parts structures manifest in their own lives.

International guidelines regarding EMDR: do the differences matter? Three separate organizations have released practice guidelines for PTSD.

The presenter illustrates ways to make EMDR therapy more efficient for military service members and veterans transitioning to civilian life.

At times clients are unwilling or unable to process all the neural networks associated with the targeted incident during EMDR processing.

Some individuals over-access trauma outside of the Window of Tolerance, particularly veterans. Standard EMDR therapy may need to be titrated.

EMDR therapists gain an understanding of the neurobiology of chronic pain and how conditions result from repeated disruption of body systems.

The appropriate use of addiction-focused EMDR protocols can reduce the impact of unprocessed trauma that often fuels craving and using.

Integration of play/art therapy throughout each of the 8 phases of EMDR Therapy is a powerful healing process for children with trauma.

A challenge for EMDR is to bridge the gap between knowledge generated from scientific research & application of results in clinical practice.