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2-Day Training: EMDR Certificate Course: Rapid, Safe and Proven Skills and Techniques for Your Trauma Treatment Toolbox from Jennifer Sweeton

2-Day Training: EMDR Certificate Course: Rapid, Safe and Proven Skills and Techniques for Your Trauma Treatment Toolbox from Jennifer Sweeton

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Watch this 2-Day EMDR Certificate Course recording and discover how this powerful, evidence-based treatment has helped thousands of clients safely and rapidly process their traumas so they can reclaim their lives!

You’ll learn:

How EMDR can be used to overcome avoidance in clients
How EMDR techniques can help clients resolve traumatic memories
When and with which clients EMDR should be used
How to emphasize safety during sessions
How the 8-phase model is used in treatment

Learn how EMDR can help clients who desperately need relief from trauma!

***This training is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does NOT qualify towards EMDRIA credits, training, or certification

Establish the role of the autonomic nervous system in trauma symptomology.
Articulate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
Characterize the potential neurobiological mechanisms of change in the empirically validated EMDR approach.
Specify how EMDR techniques can build dual awareness in clients to treat the avoidance that makes trauma treatment challenging.
Communicate the 8 Phases of the EMDR protocol.
Determine which clients you should use EMDR with.
Analyze resourcing strategies from EMDR that clinicians can use to help facilitate the processing of trauma.
Characterize how EMDR techniques can be used to reinforce and activate positive neural networks.
Communicate how EMDR can be modified to work with complex/developmental trauma to directly treat traumatic memories.
Evaluate strategies that can help foster the critical connection between client and therapist in EDMR therapy.
Articulate the research limitations and potential risks associated with EMDR.
Establish the order of operations for attachment-based EMDR treatment to resolve relational trauma.

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 (Hebbb’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 as 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

Modifications for Complex/Developmental Trauma
Do not use standard protocol – Rationale for modifications
Resourcing strategies
Techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks
Relevance of Polyvagal Theory, early trauma, and EMDR
Sensory motor modifications and somatic approaches
How to build Dual Awareness
EMDR techniques to bring traumatic memories from the limbic system into the prefrontal cortex

Attachment-Based EMDR: Strategies to Treat Relational Trauma