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EMDR for Survivors of Interpersonal Violence: Restoring Safety, Self-Worth & Autonomy

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In order for your clients to heal from the deep sense of shame, powerlessness, and self-blame of experiencing interpersonal violence, they need to be able to process their traumatic memories while also repairing their internal self. This workshop, led by international presenter and trainer Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, will show you how to utilize the structured and empowering pathway of EMDR to better help your clients reclaim their internal safety, develop self-compassion, and cultivate agency in their healing journey.

 You’ll get: 

  • Tools for prioritizing stabilization and nervous system regulation
  • Trauma-informed pacing strategies
  • Resourcing and grounding interventions for clients experiencing shame, dissociation, or internal conflict 
  • Interwoven cognitive and EMDR strategies for fostering self-worth and autonomy 

 

This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Here's What You'll Learn

How Interpersonal Violence Reshapes the Self

  • Explore how chronic threat and coercion disrupt the nervous system, undermine self-concept, and distort relational patterns
  • Examine the role of shame, powerlessness, and identity fragmentation in survivors of interpersonal violence
  • Highlight a survivor-centered treatment stance that fosters choice, attunement, autonomy, and internal safety

Trauma & EMDR Framework

  • Review core EMDR concepts in the context of complex trauma and interpersonal violence
  • Explore attachment disruption, dissociation risks, and trauma-bonding dynamics in assessment
  • Apply trauma-informed pacing, consent, and readiness markers before reprocessing
  • Identify readiness markers and clinical indicators for delaying reprocessing and continuing stabilization

Phase-Based EMDR for Interpersonal Violence Survivors

  • Preparation & Stabilization
    • Establish nervous-system safety through grounding, breathwork, and mindful emotion-regulation tools
      • Establish stop signals and pacing agreements to promote client safety, agency, and empowerment
  • Targeting & Reprocessing
    • Identify appropriate targets linked to shame, coercion, betrayal trauma, and self-blame
    • Address trauma bonding dynamics, ambivalence, and emotional attachment responses
    • Apply interweaves to reinforce self-worth, agency, and internal power
  • Closure & Integration
    • Develop future templates emphasizing autonomy, boundaries, and secure connection
    • Incorporate identity repair, self-compassion, and empowerment-focused practices

Ethical & Cultural Considerations

  • Prioritize survivor agency and autonomy rather than directing decisions or outcomes
  • Honor pacing and ambivalence as adaptive and protective, not resistance
  • Attend to cultural, systemic, and contextual realities that influence safety, access, and decision-making (e.g., identity, immigration status, finances, community ties)

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • Up to 1.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT

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Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Maine where her areas of expertise include domestic violence, abuse, trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, personality disorders and relationship issues.

Her clinical experience includes working for ten years in various roles as a case manager, child and family therapist, and trauma therapist for several agencies and Native American reservations. Ms. Baxter-Musser served as the Trauma Healing Services Clinical Coordinator for La Frontera Arizona, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing behavioral health counseling, crisis intervention and support to families and individuals facing domestic violence, abuse, hate crimes and other issues.

Ms. Baxter-Musser is certified in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and EMDR. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the National Center for Crisis Management and EMDRIA. She sits on the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee and part of the Southern Maine EMDR Coalition.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Katelyn Baxter-Musser is the owner, operator, trainer of Inner Awakening Counseling & Consulting and receives royalties a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Katelyn Baxter-Musser is a member of EMDRIA, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the National Center for Crisis Management, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
PESI and Katelyn Baxter-Musser are not affiliated or associated with Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, or her organizations.

 

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150747
Duration:
1 hour, 5 minutes
Copyright:
Mar 06, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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