Course Description

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 African American communities. As anti-racism awareness grows, a need arises to resource black clinicians who absorb stories of racism from their clients. Previous research focused on preventing secondary trauma in therapists mostly by increasing coping skills. Little research exists on race-related secondary trauma and the treatment of race-related trauma in therapists. These presenters (Quandra Chaffers, LCSW and Karla Brown, MA, LMFT) will detail the use of EMDR-IGTP-OTS in decreasing traumatic stress in black clinicians.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to list at least three potential stakeholders in a continuum of care model in order to provide EMDR IGTP-OTS.
2. Participants will be able to define vicarious trauma, secondary trauma, or secondhand trauma.
3. Participants will be able to list at least 3 ways to adapt the IGTP-OST model for cultural sensitivity with black clinicians considering ethno-culture and gender.

Presenter(s)

Quandra Chaffers, LCSW

As a trauma specialist, Quandra helps teenagers and adults overcome intimate partner violence and sexual abuse. Quandra is also a kink & poly knowledgeable sex therapist. She specializes in areas of sexless marriages, painful sex, and problematic sexual behaviors. For 4 and half years, Quandra treated on average 90 survivors per year as a Case Manager-Therapist at the YWCA St Louis Regional Sexual Assault Center. As a volunteer of Rape and Violence Ends Now (RAVEN), She co-facilitated batter’s intervention programming for 6 years, working to rehabilitate men who have been abusive.

Karla Brown, MA, LMFT

Karla Amanda Brown, MA, LMFT, is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Consultant-in-Training. She is the Founder of the Northern California based Soul Centric Counseling and Healing Center, which trains pre-licensed clinicians to serve people with a diverse range of identity presentations and trauma histories. In addition to helping people heal individually, Karla is interested in the use of group therapy to facilitate the reduction of shame, hopelessness, and the impact of racialized trauma while increasing clarity, a felt sense of belonging, and compassion for self and others.