The Elephant in the Room: Systemic Racism and Psychotherapy
This has been a year of adversity and increased awareness. We are now awakening to the trauma of white privilege and systemic racism. EMDR therapists are challenged with effectively responding…
Read MoreEMDR Therapy for the Trauma of Downward Social Drift in the LGBTQ+Community
The research on social drift up to this point focuses on the hypothesis that illnesses, both physical and mental, can cause one to have a downward mobility within society. We…
Read MoreHealing the Healer: EMDR-IGTP-OTS & Vicarious Trauma in Black Clinicians
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Integrative Group Treatment Protocol in Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR- IGTP-OTS) has been studied effectively in Latin communities since 1997 (Jarero, 2010), but not yet with…
Read MoreRacial Trauma, Neurons, and EMDR: The Path Towards an Anti-Racist Psychotherapy
Although race is a social construction, it carries great significance and dire consequences in our North American culture. This presentation will explore how Anti-Black racism, racial trauma, and White Supremacy…
Read MoreHealing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation
Self-alienation maintains attachment to abusive caregivers by disowning one’s self as “bad,” a solution made possible by the innate ability of young children to create imaginary worlds. The cost is…
Read MoreUsing EMDR with Fragmented Clients: A Protocol for Overcoming Self-Alienation
Clients’ trauma-related fragmentation presents challenges for the EMDR therapist when dissociative responses complicate or disrupt trauma processing. The processing may appear to be going smoothly but, despite the apparent success,…
Read MoreEMDR Diversity & The Spectrum of Trauma Prevention
Diversity and inclusion of EMDR expands beyond skin color. Simultaneously, trauma prevention must be viewed from working with individuals to creating policies to better protect our communities. This course provides…
Read MoreEgo-State Therapy Interventions to Prepare Dissociative Clients for EMDR
The workshop will introduce a collection of ego state therapy interventions from the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) for stabilizing dysregulated, dissociative, and attachment-wounded clients. It will describe ways to…
Read MoreEMDR Addiction Protocols-Stabilize Addiction, Process Trauma, Avoid Relapse
Research has shown that EMDR may be utilized to assist with recovery from chemical and process addictions. The appropriate use of addiction-focused EMDR protocols can reduce the impact of unprocessed…
Read MoreDemystifying and Humanizing Dissociation in EMDR Therapy Practice
A great deal of fear still abounds about working with clients who dissociate. To address this fear, EMDR therapists are challenged to move beyond the technicalities of theoretical models like…
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