Dr. James Knipe: Advanced EMDR Applications Workshop
March 24, 2013 at East Bay Location TBA

Title: Using EMDR AIP methods to treat adult clients with complex PTSD - Advanced Applications

Presenter: JIM KNIPE

March 24, 2013

Location:  Oakland, CA: James Irvine Foundation Conference Center (two blocks from the Downtown Oakland Marriatt Courtyard Hotel). The conference center is on Frank Ogawa square (Broadway and 15th Street) which is next to the Bart station at Broadway and 13th Street. The entrance to the building housing the conference center is across from SAIGON Restaurant off the square. Registration is from 8:30am to 8:45. PARKING is on the street at no charge or in the City Center Garage ($25 for the day) There is a marathon bike race in the area that day, so leave time, or take BART.

Fee: $150 (Click here to register by credit card) or send checks to Natasha Shapiro at the address below.

Registrants must be EMDR-trained, but the Saturday workshop is not a prerequisiste for this one.

CE's: 6 CA BBS CE Credits and 6 EMDRIA CE Credits will be awarded at no additional charge.

For answers to questions, email to the gmail address: "JimKnipeWorkshop" or in a pinch you can telephone Natasha at 510-612-3800 or write to:

Natasha Shapiro, LCSW, Conference Administrator
POB 193
Corte Madera, CA 94976

Workshop summary:

Topics: (6 CEU hours) Each hour, a Different Video will illustrate the ideas being presented:

First hour– Video example of method of reorienting a client who is experiencing dissociative abreaction – disordered attachment style as an element of dissociative personality structure

Second hour -- – finding EMDR targets with clients with disordered attachment style  -- Methods of assessing dissociative personality structure –

Third hour – With dissociative clients, methods of enhancing client emotional safety and preparing for trauma processing

Fourth hour –The Back-of-the-Head Scale/Constant Installation of Present Orientation and Safety (BHS/CIPOS) method

        Fifth hour – Two videos demonstrating variations of the BHS/CIPOS method.  The treatment of a Vietnam veteran with Complex PTSD (strong avoidance defenses and dissociative personality structure), with a 15-year follow-up to treatment.

Sixth hour  – Using AIP methods to treat shame-based depression in clients with dissociative symptoms –the method of targeting chronic shame as a psychological defense.

EMDR has had a profound positive impact on the lives of  many clients and has been shown in more than twenty published trials to be effective in the treatment of PTSD. However, the DSM IV definition of PTSD is focused on the single traumatic incident, and many clients seeking relief in therapy have a damaging traumatic history that extended over repeated events or over long periods of time. The term, Complex PTSD (Herman, 1992, van der Kolk, 2005) has been proposed to describe a pattern of negative effects of prolonged and extreme stress, particularly during childhood.

The focus of this workshop is to describe an information-processing model for the treatment of Complex PTSD, including specific EMDR-related therapy “tools” which may be useful, at different points in therapy, to assist clients in resolving not only dysfunctionally stored traumatic memories, but also psychological defenses, and dissociative symptoms within the context of a dissociative personality structure. Particular interventions will be described which may be useful in assisting clients with dysfunctional attachment styles, defensive avoidance, and/or high vulnerability to dissociative abreaction, chronic shame, and unrealistic idealization of self or of others.

Important concepts and particular interventions will be illustrated through video examples and transcripts from therapy sessions.

Some brief time will be available for participants to discuss difficult

EMDR cases.

Bio of  PRESENTER-JIM KNIPE, PhD:
Jim Knipe, PhD, has been a licensed psychologist in private practice
in Colorado since 1976 and has been using EMDR since 1992. He
has written chapters for EMDR Casebook (PManfield, 2002), EMDR
Solutions, Vols I and II (RShapiro, 2005, 2007), Healing the Heart of
Trauma and Dissociation (CForgash & MCopeley, 2007),
EMDR Scripted Protocols: Special Populations(Luber, 2009), and EMDR
and Dissociation (Gonzoles &Mosquera, 2012). These writings have
described specific procedures that can be utilized to extend EMDR to
clients who present with self-defeating psychological defenses and/or
dissociative symptoms.

Dr. Knipe is an EMDR-HAP Trainer, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant
and Instructor, and was designated a “Master Clinician” by EMDRIA
in 2007. He was a Keynote speaker at the 2010 EMDRIA conference,
and was an invited guest speaker at the 2006 and 2007 EMDRIA
Annual Conferences, the 2006, 2008 and 2012 EMDR-Europe Annual
Conferences, the 2010 EMDR Asia Conference and national EMDR
conferences in Denmark, Germany, Scotland, Italy, Belgium, Sweden,
Spain, The Netherlands, Turkey, and Japan. He has been involved
with the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, serving on the
Board of Directors and as Research and Training Director, and has
also been involved in HAP programs in Oklahoma City, Turkey,
New York (following 9/11), the Palestinian Territories, Sri Lanka and
Indonesia. In addition, he is a co-author of published outcome research
documenting the effects of EMDR with survivors of 9/11 and with those
traumatized by the 1999 Marmara earthquake in Turkey.

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