The New Practice of Neuro-informed Counseling for Toxic Stress
- Seamlessly integrate polyvagal techniques into EMDR therapy
- Tap into the nervous system and let it conduct therapy
- Spot the key differences between toxic and non-toxic stress to know what to target
- Make therapy easier by mastering the skills to tame your clients nervous system
Polyvagal Therapy in Action & the Social Engagement System (SES)
- Practical exercises to harness the power of the vagus nerve for healing
- Do intuitive trauma work with neuroception-informed strategies
- Strategies to target 3 circuits of the nervous system
- Understand the role of evolution as it applies to your therapy
- Build a resilient nervous system in your clients to prevent triggering trauma
- How the SES operates in the therapy room
- Exercises to do with your clients
The Polyvagal-Informed EMDR Perspective
- Improve connection by reframing EMDR as relational therapy
- Get clients ready for EMDR with new polyvagal exercises
- “The Therapeutic Soil” - a metaphor for connection
- Create a stronger therapeutic presence to create safety and trust
- Help clients reset emotional dysregulation
- Research, risks and limitations
Polyvagal-Informed EMDR in Practice
- See and experience exercises that integrate the modalities
- Disempower trauma memories with Adaptive Information Processing (AIP)
- Know when to use polyvagal exercises while doing bilateral stimulation (BLS)
- Meet clients where they’re at with the right BLS speed for customized recovery
Strategies to Individualize EMDR Phases 1-3 for Each Client
- Help your clients see their problems as solutions
- Increase your client’s dual awareness to decrease dissociation
- Take your client’s history across multiple domains simultaneously
- Create individualized treatment plans to target specific trauma and goals
- Case vignettes and practice exercises
Create More Intuitive Healing in EMDR Phases 4-8
- Easy-to-implement strategies to track client progress
- Overcome blocked processing with PV-EMDR interweaves
- Create a new narrative for clients trapped in the past
- Conduct micro and macro re-evaluation to see change across domains
- Case vignettes and practice exercises
The Embodied Therapist
- Stay embodied when sessions become intense
- Exercises to do before, during and after therapy to stay regulated
- Expand your perspective of the impact of therapeutic embodiment





