EMDR Advanced Training
Advanced EMDR Skills
Strategies for Enhanced Trauma Processing
Trainer:Â Rebecca Kase
Available on-demand
As an EMDR therapist, you are dedicated to facilitating profound healing for your clients. However, working with complex trauma and challenging client presentations often requires advanced strategies beyond the standard EMDR protocol. Our Advanced EMDR Skills training is designed to equip you with these advanced techniques, enabling you to enhance your therapeutic practice and achieve more successful outcomes.
In this course, we will delve into sophisticated strategies that address the nuances of EMDR therapy, providing you with a robust set of tools to tackle even the most intricate cases. From the foundational principles of the Preparation Hierarchy to advanced treatment planning techniques to skillful reprocessing strategies, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to navigate and alleviate your clients’ most persistent and troubling symptoms.
Our approach is hands-on and practical, ensuring that you can immediately apply what you learn to your practice. You will explore symptom-focused and fractionated treatment plans, how to work with preverbal trauma, discover the power of constricted processing strategies, and master the art of interweaves. Additionally, the course will cover innovative methods to utilize the social engagement system, enhancing your ability to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship while supporting effective reprocessing.
Whether you are dealing with clients who have limited ability to process trauma or those who experience overwhelming symptoms, this course will provide you with the skills and confidence to facilitate deeper healing and resilience. Join us in this transformative journey and take your EMDR practice to new heights.
This course was recorded on October 10-11th, 2024.
Available for asynchronous on-demand learning.
Free resource from Rebecca Kase
Designed to help you evaluate your client’s readiness for EMDR therapy!
COURSE DETAILS
This course is for any EMDR therapist looking for advanced strategies to facilitate successful reprocessing. We will begin with an orientation to the Preparation Hierarchy, a tool for assessing reprocessing readiness.
A variety of treatment planning techniques will also be covered, which can be used to work with complex targets and tricky present-day symptoms. Trainees will learn how to create a symptom-focused treatment plan, which can be used to decrease destabilizing symptoms and widen the window of tolerance. Learn the fractionated treatment planning technique to work with cluster experiences. And learn how to work with preverbal trauma with our implicit memory treatment planning technique.Â
Trainees will learn how to implement the constricted processing strategies of EMD & EMDr, which are useful techniques for working within the client’s window of tolerance. We will also do a deep dive into interweaves and explore how taxing working memory can reduce client overwhelm and result in a quick reduction of SUDS.
Therapists will also learn how to employ the power of the social engagement system to support target reprocessing without getting in the way of the process.
This course is useful for any EMDR therapist working with complex trauma and complicated client presentations. Therapists will walk away with enhanced confidence and a variety of strategies to support trauma healing.
AGENDA
Day 1
- Orientation and mindfulness
- Assessing client readiness & the Preparation Hierarchy
- 3 pronged-protocol and treatment planning for success
- Q&A
- Symptom-focused treatment planning & fractionating a target
- Preverbal treatment planning techniques
Day 2
- Q&A
- EMD & EMDr
- The art of the interweave
- Taxing working memory
- The social engagement system & EMDR
- Q&A and wrap up
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Describe at least two domains of the preparation hierarchy.
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Identify at least two reprocessing techniques for clients with limited ability to flex and feel.
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Analyze the three pronged protocol as it relates to treatment planning.
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Apply treatment planning techniques for creating a symptom focused treatment plan.
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List two constricted processing techniques and how they differ from the full standard EMDR protocol.
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Describe the intention of interweaves and list at least three types of interweaves to use with stuck processing.
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Assess the technique of taxing working memory as an interweave option.
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Describe the role the social engagement system plays in supporting the therapeutic relationship and successful target reprocessing.
ABOUT YOUR TRAINER, REBECCA KASE
Trauma Therapist Institute founder Rebecca Kase is recognized as one of the foremost EMDR trainers in the U.S. An LCSW, professional EMDR consultant and trainer, and a registered yoga teacher, Rebecca has been practicing in the field of trauma counseling since 2006. She is the author of Polyvagal Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing, and the Applied Polyvagal Theory Flipchart. She’s an expert in working with complex trauma and dissociation and has practiced in both nonprofit and private settings. In her therapy practice, Rebecca incorporates yoga therapy, ego states, somatic approaches, Polyvagal Theory, and EMDR into her work with clients, which includes veterans and adults with Complex PTSD. Rebecca is known as a skillful, clear, and enthusiastic teacher. She’ll keep you engaged and make you giggle, even in an online trauma training course!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
