Eating Disorders: What Are EMDR Therapists Missing?
Eating Disorders: What Are EMDR Therapists Missing?
If you are an EMDR therapist, it’s more likely than not that clients with disordered eating will walk through your door sooner or later—even if you are not an eating disorder specialist. There are two main reasons for this: disordered eating is extremely prevalent in the United States, and not all clients with it identify themselves as such or seek treatment focused on that.
Read more in this article from the Fall 2023 issue EMDR Therapy & Eating Disorders of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ by Samantha Sessamen, LMHC.
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An AIP Approach to Disordered Eating
An AIP Approach to Disordered Eating
EMDR therapy offers a valuable adjunctive approach to disordered eating treatment that goes beyond food and behaviors and heals at the root, where maladaptively stored experiences form the core driving force underlying disordered eating.
Read more in this article from the Fall 2023 issue EMDR Therapy & Eating Disorders of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ by Cassie Krajewski, LAC, CST.
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BIPOC Perspective on Group Therapy
BIPOC Perspective on Group Therapy
In the BIPOC Perspective column, EMDR therapists respond to the question “Could you offer a specific example of how some aspect of a client’s culture/race was deeply meaningful as a resource and/or as a challenge in the use of Group EMDR?â€
Contributors include Alejandra Menchaca Guedea, MEd, LPC-S, Lotty Ackerman Mayer, LCSW-S, SEP, and Barbara Banda, M.S., LPC-S, CFRC.
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸.
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Counselor’s Corner on EMDR with Holocaust Survivor
Counselor’s Corner on EMDR with Holocaust Survivor
In the Counselor’s Corner column, EMDR therapists respond to the question of Rimma Gofman, LMFT who asks: “I have a prospective new client who is a Holocaust survivor. She is now in her 80s and was a child during World War II. All I know is that she is struggling with severe depression, and her daughter thought that EMDR might be a good technique to help her mom. What are thoughts of this community on attempting to process something so severe, which had occurred so far back?”
Read responses from Carolyn Colwell, LCSW-R, Anne Reisman, MSW, LCSW, Alicia Avila, LCSW, Esther Bernstein, Clinical Psychologist, EMDRIA Consultant, and Valerie Ashley.
This question and responses originally appeared in the Central Forum online community. The answers have been edited and condensed for clarity and space. To view the entire discussion, members can visit www.emdria.org/emdria-community.
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸.
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Fire in the Belly: The History of the Butterfly Hug, the EMDR-IGTP, and the ASSYST-Treatment Procedures
Fire in the Belly: The History of the Butterfly Hug, the EMDR-IGTP, and the ASSYST-Treatment Procedures
Ignacio (Nacho) Jarero, Ph.D., Ed.D. and Lucina (Lucy) Artigas use the butterfly hug and group interventions to heal those effected by tragedies. The group setting allows for a group administration of individual EMDR treatment, ensuring that many individuals can be treated simultaneously. This is highly valuable in settings where resources are limited. They allow EMDR therapy treatment to be more affordable and accessible to all people, no matter their socioeconomic status.
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸.
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The TEP Suite of EMDR Protocols: The Family of Trauma Episode Protocols Based on EMDR R-TEP and G-TEP
The TEP Suite of EMDR Protocols: The Family of Trauma Episode Protocols Based on EMDR R-TEP and G-TEP
Shapiro & Laub’s 2008 article introduced the term Early EMDR Intervention (EEI), and E. Shapiro’s 2009 article was a wake-up call to examine and define the field as an independent topic, which had not been researched yet as such. Despite Francine Shapiro’s guidelines for applying EMDR to recent events (Shapiro 2001), there were only a few loosely documented case references to its use at that time (e.g., Silver et al 2005) and no controlled trials. The EMDR R-TEP is, however, soundly based on and extended from Shapiro’s EMD and Recent Event protocols, and the EMDR therapy profession has widely adopted it with over a dozen published studies, including controlled trials. R-TEP contains procedures and features that prompted thoughts about a possible group application for greater access to EMDR treatment. The outcome was the EMDR G-TEP (Group Traumatic Episode Protocol, E. Shapiro, 2013, 2014, 2023), which included a scripted protocol and prominent step-by-step G-TEP
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ by Elan Shapiro with contributions from Maria Masciandaro, Psy.D., Ana Gomez, MC, LPC, Judy Moench, Shiraz Ferrand, Reg Morrow Robinson, Ed.S., LMFT, LMHC, Phillip Manfield, Ph.D., Elke van Hoof, Brurit Laub, Keren Mintz-Malchi, Tuly Flint, Yoni Elkins.
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Interview with Anabel Gonzalez: Emotion Regulation and Processing in EMDR
Interview with Anabel Gonzalez: Emotion Regulation and Processing in EMDR
This interview with Dr. Anabel Gonzalez explores emotions’ role in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment. We discuss how a client’s ability to regulate emotions has a major impact on the course of treatment. Using clinical examples, we show that emotion regulation is much more complex than a simple dichotomy (“too much†/ “too little†emotions). The clients who present the greatest challenges to us are those who do not connect with their feelings or have difficulty letting them “flow.â€
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ by Michel Lahaye Artesis.
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Group Therapy (Go With That Magazine™️ Issue)
Group Therapy
Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ Summer 2023
How can group therapy benefit clients? What about remote group therapy, and does it work well? Find out how EMDR Early Intervention is successful in groups. This issue’s authors provide a playbook for EMDR therapists as they consider adding group therapy for their clients who might benefit from it. The authors outline how to put together a group, what you can do with online group therapy, how to implement Early Intervention and how to be effective for your clients when this approach is best.
Articles
This issue includes the following articles:
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Fire in the Belly: The History of the Butterfly Hug, the EMDR-IGTP, and the ASSYST-Treatment Procedures by Ignacio (Nacho) Jarero, Ph.D., Ed.D.
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The TEP Suite of EMDR Protocols: The Family of Trauma Episode Protocols Based on EMDR R-TEP and G-TEP by Elan Shapiro
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Online EMDR Group Psychotherapy by André MaurÃcio Monteiro
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Taking Steps Together Toward Healing: A Remote Group Therapy Intervention by Judy Moench and Olivia Billsten
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Interview with Anabel Gonzalez: Emotion Regulation and Processing in EMDR by Michel Lahaye Artesis
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Taking Steps Together Toward Healing: A Remote Group Therapy Intervention
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. Research into the virtual implementation of EMDR therapy and EMDR group therapy protocols is promising. The Self-Care Traumatic Episode Protocol (STEP) presents another option for remote treatment within a stepped care approach targeted for the client’s level of distress.
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ by Judy Moench and Olivia Billsten.
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Online EMDR Group Psychotherapy
Online EMDR Group Psychotherapy
Due to the increase in demand for therapy and EMDR showing signs of online effectiveness, forming online groups seemed like a natural next step to reach out to a larger expected audience. However, few EMDR therapists have training in group dynamics. In addition, there is already substantial evidence that reprocessing is effective with varied clients at the same time, as in group protocols (Jarero et al., 2014; Shapiro & Laub, 2014), but not multiple clients with simultaneous varied complaints. I shall detail a pilot experience with online group psychotherapy, addressing some of these most recent changes and offering suggestions for an integrative theoretical and practice model.
Learn more in this article from the Summer 2023 issue Group Therapy of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸ by André MaurÃcio Monteiro.
An open access version of this article is available at EMDRIA’s Focal Point blog, published September 25, 2023.Â
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BIPOC Perspective on EMDR with Survivors of Sexual Assault
BIPOC Perspective on EMDR with Survivors of Sexual Assault
In the BIPOC Perspective column, EMDR therapists respond to the question “Could you offer a specific example of how some aspect of a client’s culture/race was deeply meaningful as a resource and/or as a challenge in the use of EMDR with a survivor of sexual assault?â€
Contributors include George Tabb, MSW, LCSW, Oraine Ramoo, B.A.(Hons), M.Ed., CTT, BFRP, CNT and Latasha Burnett, LMFT-S.
Learn more in this article from the Spring 2023 issue EMDR Therapy, Sexual Trauma & Intimate Partner Violence of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸.
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Counselor’s Corner on PTSI
Counselor’s Corner on PTSI
In the Counselor’s Corner column, EMDR therapists respond to the question “Has anyone ever heard of the term PTSI instead of PTSD?â€
Contributors include Mr. Kerry Wallis, LMHC, CASAC-2, SAP, BRI-1, Isaac Moore, Kate Pieper, MFT CCISM, Lisa Donohue-Olivieri, LPC, LADC, CLAT and Jen Leftwich, LMSW, MA, CCISM.
This question and responses originally appeared in the Central Forum online community. The answers have been edited and condensed for clarity and space. To view the entire discussion, members can visit www.emdria.org/emdria-community.
Learn more in this article from the Spring 2023 issue EMDR Therapy, Sexual Trauma & Intimate Partner Violence of Go With That Magazineâ„¢ï¸.
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