Course Description

Do you ever find it difficult to organize the treatment plan with complex cases? Do the tools that usually work with other clients fall short? Do you have a hard time setting realistic goals with some clients? Do you ever feel confused about where to start and how to maintain a working structure? Do you sometimes doubt what to do, how and when? Do you feel that there are blockages that are difficult to manage? This presentation will answer these questions and other practical issues related to common challenges in working with trauma and, in particular, with trauma processing with EMDR therapy. Cases with different problems and points of blockage and the tools to organize the work and handle the various challenges that usually arise will be described.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify and identify defenses and how the show up in therapy.
2. Participants will be able to describe at least 5 tools to aid processing in the different phases of EMDR Therapy with Complex Trauma cases.
3. Participants will be able to describe at least 4 complicated issues around trauma processing with Complex Trauma Cases.

Presenter(s)

Dolores Mosquera, Psy.

Dolores Mosquera, Psy, is a psychologist specializing in complex trauma, personality disorders, and dissociation. She is the director of the Institute for the Study of Trauma and Personality Disorders. INTRA-TP) in A Coruña, Spain. Dolores has extensive teaching experience leading seminars, workshops, and lectures internationally. She has published several books, book chapters and articles on personality disorders, complex trauma, and dissociation. She has received the David Servan-Schreiber award for outstanding contributions to the EMDR field in 2017, received the MAM10 Prix David Servan-Schreiber award in 2021 to a foreign researcher who has made a notable international contribution to EMDR.