Deany Laliotis – The Many Faces of EMDR: Harnessing a Broad-Based Approach to Change

While EMDR is best known for its treatment of trauma, it has developed into a comprehensive psychotherapy approach that treats a broad spectrum of presenting issues across various clinical populations. This workshop is for practitioners who are interested in learning more about this highly effective, evidence-based approach that can treat a wide range of problems from single traumatic events to relationship problems, self-esteem issues, and complex trauma. You’ll explore how to:

• Identify nodal experiences shaping not only clients’ current symptoms, but their lives and identity
• Focus on the predominant themes in clients’ lives that underlie their current difficulties
• Integrate the adaptive information-processing model of EMDR with whatever model of therapy you’re currently using

What you’ll learn in The Many Faces of EMDR: Harnessing a Broad-Based Approach to Change

Outline

• Trauma Often Occurs in Childhood
  • Personal Experiences
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Capacities to Resolve Trauma are Overwhelmed
  • Dissociative Processes
• Complex trauma
  • Affect Dysregulation
  • Self Esteem
  • Difficulty in Relationships
  • Conclusions about the Self
  • Shifting the Way a Memory is Stored
• Images of A Parent’s Denial of Trauma Stored in Brain
  • Inadequately Processed
  • Easily Triggered
  • Lack of Connection Between Information and Feelings
  • Emotional Hijack
• EMDR As Integrative Therapy
  • Clinical Research
  • Present is Informed by the Past
  • State Specific Emotions
  • Adaptive Information Processing System in Brain
  • Orienting Response
  • REM Activity
  • Brain Processes in Present Time while Reflecting on Negative Experience
  • Use of Dual Awareness Increases Capacity to Feel More Stable
  • Creating Appropriate Responses and Exploring Personal Capacities
  • Focus of Present Experiences and Changing These

Objectives

1. Summarize the implications of nodal experiences as they relate to shaping clients’ current symptoms Discuss clinical strategies to identify predominant themes in clients’ lives that underlie their current symptomology.
2. Integrate the adaptive information-processing model of EMDR with other therapeutic interventions used within a clinical setting.

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