EMDR Advanced Training
EMDRÂ Refresher Course
Trainer:Â Rebecca Kase
Available on-demand
The EMDR Refresher Course is designed for clinicians looking to reinforce their understanding and sharpen their skills with EMDR’s transformative power. Whether it’s been a while since your initial training or you’re seeking to deepen your technique, this course offers a comprehensive review of EMDR fundamentals. With a focus on mastery, we’ll revisit essential concepts, protocols, and techniques to enhance your confidence and effectiveness in practice.
This training covers key areas such as the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and phase-specific approaches. By revisiting the AIP model, you’ll understand EMDR’s core mechanism—how trauma and distressing memories are stored maladaptively and how EMDR facilitates their reprocessing. This course reinforces your ability to assess trauma with accuracy and guide clients toward adaptive memory processing and lasting change.
Through targeted practice, we’ll focus on refining your skills in each of EMDR’s eight phases. You’ll learn updated techniques and strategies for managing blocked processing, dissociation, and other challenges that arise in trauma work. This approach ensures that each phase of EMDR is performed with clarity and precision, allowing for smoother, more effective sessions for both therapist and client.
Our refresher course is an opportunity to refine your EMDR practice with expert guidance and peer support. You’ll leave with renewed confidence, an updated skill set, and a deeper understanding of EMDR’s therapeutic power. Join us to reconnect with EMDR’s potential and continue making a meaningful difference in clients’ healing journeys.
This course was recorded on April 11-12th 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
The course begins with an in-depth review of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, the foundation of EMDR therapy. By revisiting this model, you’ll gain renewed insights into how trauma memories are stored and reprocessed, helping you to approach cases with a clearer perspective. This understanding is crucial for recognizing when clients are ready to engage in EMDR and for identifying any blocks to reprocessing.
In addition to theory, we’ll focus on refining your skills across EMDR’s eight phases, with dedicated time for each stage. From the critical preparation and assessment phases to the desensitization and installation phases, you’ll review and practice the specific techniques that make each stage effective. This review helps you maintain fluency in the EMDR process, ensuring that sessions flow smoothly and clients experience the full benefit of the therapy.
The course also addresses common challenges in EMDR, including managing dissociation, working within clients’ windows of tolerance, and handling abreactions. We’ll cover updated strategies to navigate these challenges, ensuring you have the tools to keep clients grounded and engaged. Through practical exercises and case discussions, you’ll learn how to adapt EMDR protocols to meet each client’s unique needs.
Finally, this refresher training emphasizes peer learning and collaboration, offering a supportive space to share experiences and refine your techniques. By the end of the course, you’ll feel empowered to bring refreshed skills and confidence back to your practice. Join us to revisit, refine, and strengthen your EMDR practice, enabling you to guide clients toward healing with renewed clarity and purpose.
AGENDA
- Introductions and Orientation
- Overview of EMDR therapy: definition, AIP, memory storage and BLS
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
- Phase 2 & Treatment Planning
- Phase 3 Assessment
- Videos & Review of the Standard Protocol
- Q&A
- Phase 4
- Reprocessing Video
- Phase 5 & 6
- Phase 7 & 8
- Blocked processing – interweaves and techniques
- The role of the relationship in reprocessing
- Vignettes
- Future Template
- Specialty protocols & populations
- Q&A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe at least 3 principles of Adaptive Information Processing Model (AIP).Â
- List the process for creating an EMDR treatment plan.Â
- Describe the 8 phases of EMDR therapy and at least one objective for each phase.Â
- Explain the three-pronged protocol and applications for EMDR Treatment Planning.
- Identify at least 3 indicators of client readiness for EMDR target reprocessing.
- Explain the steps of Phase 4 Desensitization.
- Describe the intention of interweaves and at least 3 types of interweaves to use with blocked processing.
- Explain what constricted processing is and at least 2 client indicators that constricted processing would be beneficial.Â
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
