N. California EMDRIA Regional Meeting
March 25, 2006 at Oakland's Preservation Park
JIM KNIPE
Jim Knipe, Ph.D. has been using EMDR since 1992. He is an EMDRIA Approved
Instructor and Regional Coordinator for Colorado Springs and has a special
interest interest in the application of EMDR to complex client
presentations. He has written chapters in Philip Manfield's EMDR Casebook,
Robin Shapiro's EMDR Solutions, and a forthcoming compilation on EMDR and
Ego State Disorders, and has been involved in published EMDR outcome
research, as well as EMDRIA Annual Conference presentations. In addition, he
has served on the Board of Directors and as Research and Training Director
of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program, and has been involved in HAP
programs in New York (following 9/11), Oklahoma City, Turkey, the
Palestinian Territories, and Indonesia.
Typically, clients come to therapy with a mixed presentation, not only of
difficult life experiences (big T and little t traumas), but also a history
of conscious or unconscious choices about how best to soothe, contain or
avoid the emotional disturbance that has resulted from those experiences. In
this presentation, I will describe some specific methods of using bi-lateral
stimulation to assist clients in "disinvesting" from defensive processes,
particularly avoidance and idealization defenses, so that unresolved
traumatic material may become more accessable to standard EMDR processing.