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Minding the Body: Somatic Interventions for Enhancing EMDR Effectiveness

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Most clients respond to EMDR treatments with ease and surprising success, while others inexplicably become flooded, numb, sleepy, or blocked. Still others have symptoms that contraindicate the use of EMDR trauma processing, such as active addiction, recent sobriety, or self-destructive behavior. Faced with the EMDR client who cannot tolerate affect, who becomes overwhelmed by traumatic targets, who cannot stay grounded, manage self-destructive impulses, differentiate past and present experience, or create a Safe Place inside – is there any way that EMDR can be helpful?

The answer is “Yes.” Fortunately, the use of simple body-centered interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that modulate autonomic arousal and address somatically-driven trauma responses can often make EMDR treatments accessible even for blocked, de-stabilized and dissociative clients.

This presentation will introduce a conceptual model for understanding how and when EMDR treatments can be effective even with dysregulated clients. Participants will be taught simple, body-centered interventions that can be woven into both trauma processing and Resource Development protocols.

 

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

Here's What You'll Learn

Challenges to EMDR Processing
  • Effects of traumatic experience on autonomic nervous system
  • Biased neuroception and triggering
  • Phobias of memory and/or emotion
  • Limitations of the research and potential risk
Increasing EMDR Effectiveness
  • Observing autonomic effects of remembering the past
  • Integrating grounding and centering techniques into EMDR processing
  • Capitalizing on information obtained through the body
  • Limitations of the research and potential risk
Somatic Interweaves
  • When cognitive interweaves don’t work
  • Mindfulness-based interweaves
  • Somatic interweaves incorporated into EMDR processing
  • EMDR resource development
  • Traumatic activation and prefrontal shutdown
  • Challenges of resource development
  • Using somatic resources in place of positive experiences
  • Limitations of the research and potential risk

Everything You're Getting

  • 1 Hour 30 Minutes of video content
  • Up to 1.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Janina Fisher, PhD

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press). Janina is the 2024 recipient of the Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059857
Duration:
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Copyright:
Jun 12, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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