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FREE 2-Day Live Virtual Event

EMDR: A Rapid, Safe, and Proven Treatment for Trauma

30–31 May from 2:00–10:00 PM BST
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the workshop!
*CPD hours and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.

For the first time ever, EMDR trainer and consultant Karee Powers, LICSW, EMDR-C, is giving you this FREE workshop and her nearly two decades of psychotherapy experience to help you discover how this powerful, evidence-based treatment has helped thousands of clients safely and rapidly process their traumas without the need to focus on explicit details!

You'll learn:
  • How EMDR can be used to overcome avoidance in clients
  • EMDR techniques to help clients resolve traumatic memories
  • When and with which clients EMDR should be used
  • Strategies for prioritizing safety during sessions
  • The 8-phase model and how to apply it to treatment
And much more!

The best part is, that you can access this complete workshop absolutely FREE and start using EMDR right away.

This opportunity may not come again, so register today!

FREE 2-Day Live Virtual Event

EMDR: A Rapid, Safe, and Proven Treatment for Trauma

30–31 May from 2:00–10:00 PM BST
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the workshop!
*CPD hours and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
 
  1. Describe the role of the autonomic nervous system in trauma symptomology.
  2. Articulate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
  3. Characterize the potential neurobiological mechanisms of change in the EMDR approach.
  4. Demonstrate EMDR techniques can build dual awareness in clients to treat the avoidance that makes trauma treatment challenging.
  5. Demonstrate the 8 Phases of the EMDR protocol.
  6. Assess clients to determine the appropriateness and potential risks of using EMDR.
  7. Analyze resourcing strategies from EMDR to facilitate the processing of trauma.
  8. Utilize EMDR techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks.
  9. Modify EMDR to work with complex/developmental trauma to directly treat traumatic memories.
  10. Evaluate strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist in EMDR therapy.
  11. Articulate the research limitations and potential risks associated with EMDR.
  12. Establish the order of operations for attachment-based EMDR treatment to resolve relational trauma.
Outline
Trauma and Neuroscience
  • Key brain areas involved in trauma
  • Polyvagal Theory, and types of freeze responses
  • Trauma and insecure attachment
  • The neuroscience of developmental trauma
  • Clinical implications of the freeze response
How the EMDR Approach Works
  • The neuroscience of exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
  • The neuroscience of relaxation exercises
  • EMDR and other “transformative therapies”
  • Why EMDR works so well from a brain perspective
Trauma Symptoms and Assessment Tools
  • Traumatic memories and intrusive thoughts
  • Phobias and anxiety: Insula hyperactivation
  • Emotional hijackings and implicit memory
  • Avoidance cluster of symptoms
  • Why treating avoidance in trauma is critical
  • DSM-5® symptoms in a nutshell
  • Connecting to a diagnosis
    • Simple vs. complex trauma
    • Intergenerational trauma
    • Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
    • CAPS-5 and PCL-5
    • Primary Care PTSD Screen
    • Dual diagnosis
Overcome Avoidance with EMDR
  • Dual awareness
  • What you are thinking about is the network you’re in
  • Activate networks for change
  • Neurons that fire together, wire together (Hebb’s Rule)
  • EMDR as neuroentrainment
When to Use EMDR in Treatment
  • Demonstrations and experiential exercises
  • Single event trauma
  • Anxiety disorders involving imaginal exposure
EMDR Trauma Treatment:
The Original 8-Phase Model
  • Client history and treatment planning
  • How to resource: Create a safe space
  • Assessment: Choose a target, SUDS, connect with the image/emotions/thought
  • Desensitization: Tactile vs. auditory vs. eye movement
  • How to use touchpoints, Theratapper, CDs
  • Positive Cognition Installation: Likert scale 1-7
  • Body Scan: Locate tension and distress in the body
  • Closure: Close the neural network and the 6-hour window
  • Re-evaluation
Demonstration of Original 8-Phase Model
  • Presenter demonstration
  • Attendee dyad practice of the 8-phase model
EMDR Techniques to Resolve Traumatic Memories
  • Client history and treatment planning
  • How to resource: Create a safe space
  • Assessment: Choose a target, SUDS, connect with the image/emotions/thought
  • Desensitization: Tactile vs. auditory vs. eye movement
  • How to use touchpoints, Theratapper, CDs
  • Positive Cognition Installation: Likert scale 1-7
  • Body Scan: Locate tension and distress in the body
  • Closure: Close the neural network and the 6-hour window
  • Re-evaluation
Attachment-Based EMDR:
Strategies to Treat Relational Trauma
  • Strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist
  • Mirror neuron activation
  • How to emphasize safety during sessions
  • Guidance on order of operations
Research Limitations and Potential Risks

Speaker
David Nowell

Karee Powers, LICSW, EMDR-C is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR trainer and consultant. She is a board certified diplomate in clinical social work. She has over 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings including inpatient facilities, and non-profit organizations offering care for children, adolescents and adult survivors of abuse, neglect, combat trauma, sexual trauma, phobias, generational trauma, and interpersonal traumas. She was awarded a state-wide award of "Outstanding Performance" in 2011. Her private practice and training are centered on work with complex trauma and dissociation, using EMDR, CBT, psychodrama, somatic psychology, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with her Master’s in Social Work.

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Frequently Asked Questions

YES! The workshop is LIVE and you'll be able to ask questions of the presenters – though they may not get to all of them, they will try to answer the most relevant and frequent ones.
Yes! This is the perfect first step to getting more aquainted with the process of EMDR and learning who can benefit from it most…and at what stage in their therapy journey.
You'll have access to the recordings for 14 days in your portal.

You can get unlimited access to the recordings for only $99.95 when you select the Recording Package add-on during registration. 
Yes, you will have 14 days of archive access to the event recordings, and you'll have unlimited access to session slides and handouts to add to your clinical toolbox and use with your clients.
Up to 12 CPD hours!
Yes! We're confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected. However, if you're not completely satisfied we will honour our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.
FREE 2-Day Live Virtual Event

EMDR: A Rapid, Safe, and Proven Treatment for Trauma

30–31 May from 2:00–10:00 PM BST
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the workshop!
*CPD hours and certificate of completion are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
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