N. CAL. EMDR Regional Meeting April 12, 2008 at Oakland's Preservation Park |
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Minding the Body: Somatic Interventions for Enhancing EMDR Effectiveness While most of our clients respond to EMDR treatments with ease and surprising success, others are inexplicably resistant or become flooded, numb, sleepy, or blocked. Faced with the client who cannot tolerate affect, who becomes overwhelmed by traumatic targets, who cannot stay grounded, manage self-destructive impulses, differentiate past and present experience, or create a Safe Place insideis there any way that EMDR can be helpful?
The answer is, Yes. Fortunately, the use of simple body-centered interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to modulate autonomic arousal and address somatically-driven trauma responses can often make EMDR treatments accessible even for blocked, de-stabilized and dissociative clients. This workshop will introduce a conceptual model for understanding how EMDR treatments can be made more effective even with dysregulated clients and will offer a crash course in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-centered talking therapy developed specifically to treat post-traumatic symptoms. Participants will be taught simple, body-centered interventions that can be easily woven into both trauma processing and Resource Development protocols. Using lecture, videotape, session demonstration and practice opportunities, the workshop will offer EMDR therapists the chance to integrate these simple but effective approaches into their clinical practice.
Date: April 12, 2008 Instructor: Janina Fisher, Ph.D. EMDRIA-Approved Credit Provider, Faculty, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Bentley College Waltham, MA This facility is in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. If special accommodation is required, please contact Maxine Trent at mtrent@hot.rr.com EMDRIA approval for 6 EMDRIA CE credits applied for CEUs for LCSWs, and LMFTs also available for an additional charge of $5
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: · Diagnose blocks to effective EMDR treatment · Describe body-centered interventions for regulating autonomic arousal · Integrate body-centered strategies into EMDR trauma processing · Increase effectiveness of resource development strategies in preparation for EMDR trauma processing
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