2-Day Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Workshop: EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving

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Megan Salar, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C Related seminars and products

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Megan McQuary, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, has spent her career studying, researching, and treating trauma related disorders and has a special interest in treating gender issues specifically men's trauma and the impact and relativity to ongoing substance abuse. Megan has quickly built one of the largest specialty clinics in the state of Idaho. She continues to own and operate this intensive outpatient treatment facility that has remained one of the largest substance abuse and specialized trauma clinics in their state region. Megan works as a consultant in the development of substance abuse facilities in Idaho and the surrounding areas. In addition to her consulting work, she maintains an active schedule if international lectures. She is a member of EMDRIA and the international Society of Addiction Medicine, and received training from the late John Southworth, Ken Seeley, and other leaders in the field.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Megan McQuary is the owner of Recoverhe Counseling & Consulting. She receives a speaking fee from Psicologia.io of Italy, Online CECredits.com, and Telemental Health Summit. Ms. McQuary receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Megan McQuary is a member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers. She is an author with New Harbinger Publications, her book will be published in late 2022.

Objectives

1. Analyze the brain regions involved in trauma.
2. Assess the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
3. Determine how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
4. Evaluate how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety in clients.
5. Analyze methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
6. Determine how narrative therapy exercises can be employed in session to help clients talk about hotspots.
7. Justify how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma survivors.
8. Determine how exposure, titration and pendulation can be used to “slow” emotions in clients.
9. Support how EMDR-based techniques can be used with clients to resolve traumatic memories.
10. Differentiate between EMDR, EFT and neuromodulation approaches.
11. Develop plans for working with anger, resistance, and suicidality in clients who’ve experienced trauma.
12. Debate the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.

Outline

• Key brain areas involved in trauma
• Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
• Clinical implications of the freeze response
• The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy

• Simple vs. complex trauma
• Intergenerational trauma
• Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
• CAPS-5 and PCL-5
• Primary Care PTSD Screen
• Dual diagnosis

• Trauma treatment roadmap – order of operations
• Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
  • Self-soothing techniques
  • Grounding strategies
  • Breathwork
• Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work

• Somatic Approaches: Address Physical Symptoms of Trauma
  • Relevance of Polyvagal theory and early trauma
  • Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
  • Teach body awareness
  • Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
  • Resourcing strategies to create a safe space
• CBT Coping Skills: Manage Emotions
  • Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
  • Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
  • Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
  • Memory reconstruction techniques

• Resolve Traumatic Memories
  • Adaptive Information Processing Theory
  • EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
  • Resourcing strategies
  • Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
  • Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma
• Narrative Therapy Exercises: Rewrite Traumatic Experiences
  • Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
  • Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
  • Awareness and closure - create life stories

• How to handle the angry client
• Strategies for the resistant trauma client
• Boundary concerns
• Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use

• Better than normal - the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
• The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
• The power of forgiveness in moving forward
• Meaning making exercises

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals