N. California EMDRIA Regional Meeting March 17, 2007 at Oakland's Preservation Park |
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to Return to Regional Meeting Main Page When EMDR Gets Stuck; How, Why and What To Do Harriet Sage, MA, MFT Presentation Description: Program Abstract - Harriet Sage - March 17, 2007 This three hour workshop will address three important advanced EMDR issues: (1) Exploring clinical and personal issues that arise for the therapist when using EMDR, (2) .Exploring when processing gets stuck or slowed down for the client when using EMDR, and (3) Presenting some effective techniques for moving clients through the stuck or blocked processing. Participants with only Level I training are also welcome and will find the workshop beneficial. Program Objectives (1)Participants will identify the therapists personal and clinical areas of concern that inhibit the effective use of emdr with clients. (2)Participants will increase clinical understanding of how and why clients get stuck and developing greater confidence and expertise in managing these moments 3) Participants will enhance their repertoire of techniques for handling blocked or looped processing. OUTLINE (1) Introduction and Part I Exploring personal and clinical issues that arise for the therapist when using EMDR - 9- 10:00 (60 min) a. identify emotional issues such as anxiety about integrating other forms of therapy with EMDR, perfectionism, fear of abreactions, b. old habits from other forms of therapy c. lack of knowledge and comfort with protocol which inhibits processing d. counter transference issues Group practice exercise 10-10:30 (30 min)
BREAK - 10:30- 10:45 (15 min) (2) . Exploring some difficult issues that can slow down processing with the client when using EMDR -- 10:45 11:15 (30 min) a. chronic self-destructive, negative introjects b. past therapeutic experiences c. poor or diffused resources d. undifferentiated ego states (3) Effective techniques for moving clients through blocked or looping processing 11:15 11:45 (30 min) a. working with ego states b refining resources c. techniques for looped or blocked processing
About Harriet Sage: Harriet Sage is one of the pioneers of EMDR. She has lead our no-fee study group several times and the feedback from participants has been excellent. She facilitated at EMDR Institute trainings for a decade until leaving the Institute to provide facilitator support to independent trainers, including Laurel Parnell. During her time at the Institute, she played a central role in developing a training program for EMDR facilitators, and personally trained facilitators in the US, Canada and Europe. She is currently heading the EMDR HAP Project providing EMDR treatment to the staff of the SAGE Project, an organization of x-prostitutes helping working prostitutes to get off the streets and change their lives. (Sage also happens coincidentally to be Harriets last name.) .
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