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Virtual EMDR: Safe, Simple and Straightforward Approaches to Adapting EMDR to Telehealth

Virtual EMDR: Safe, Simple and Straightforward Approaches to Adapting EMDR to Telehealth

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Let’s face it, as the demand for effective virtual therapy continues to climb, the need to update and enhance your skills and tools has never been more crucial.

That’s where this training comes in.

With practical guidance, detailed instruction, and expert tips you’ll end this program ready to make your online EMDR sessions more impactful than ever before.

From creating a secure space to adapting bilateral stimulation online, this training turns must-have concepts into easy-to-follow steps that can boost client engagement and enhance your trauma treatment in every phase of the protocol. 

Whether you’re new to using EMDR online or have already been trained and are looking to refine your work, you’ll get safe, simple and straightforward strategies for mastering EMDR in the virtual environment so you can:

  • Fully immerse clients in the EMDR process – even when they can’t be in the room with you
  • Skillfully adapt the 8-phase protocol for telehealth
  • Discover easy to use bilateral stimulation tools for remote sessions
  • Improve your virtual presence to maximize attunement in each and every session
  • Feel fully prepared to handle crisis level trauma reactions 
  • Implement creative ways for remote resource installation
  • Quickly troubleshoot common challenges you face in virtual sessions
  • And much more!

In a world where online therapy is the norm, this program ensures you're not just keeping up – you're leading the way in delivering impactful and transformative online EMDR sessions.

So don’t wait.

Register now!

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

Here's What You'll Learn

The 8 Phases of EMDR and Essential EMDR Resources

  • History
  • Preparation
  • Assessment
  • Desensitization
  • Installation
  • Body scan
  • Closure
  • Re-evaluation
  • Review of resources (calm place, container, ICON, etc.)

Assess the Appropriateness of Virtual EMDR for Clients

  • Establishing safety
  • Creating Resources
  • Dual awareness options
  • Informed consent

Common Barriers to Virtual EMDR Treatment

  • Keeping a consistent environment
  • Distractions
  • Checking on physical responses
  • Safety in the environment

Ways to Increase Attunement in Virtual EMDR Sessions

  • Accounting for cultural differences and physical environments
  • How to create close proximity with your camera
  • Attuned breathing on virtual platforms

Eye Movement Resources for Telehealth Practitioners Using EMDR

  • Bi-lateral stimulation and its importance in the EMDR process
  • Dual attention methods (eye movements, tapping, tappers, sound)
  • Bilateral stimulation via video
  • Butterfly hug
  • Congruent tapping
  • Sound pulses
  • Other eye movement strategies
  • Apps and BLS online resources

Addressing Safety in Virtual EMDR:

  • How to Manage the Potential Risks of Not Being There In-Person
  • Establishing a visually safe environment
  • Crisis intervention and safety plans
  • Managing/assessing for relapse or maladaptive coping

EMDR for Direct Treatment of Traumatic Memories via Telehealth

  • Attachment-based interventions in a disconnected world
  • Interweaves for blocked processing
  • Treating grief and loss
  • Creating connection through parts work
  • Working with isolation
  • Creating empowerment and self-efficacy from a distance platform

Attachment-Based Trauma and Parts Work with Virtual EMDR

  • How attachment styles impact processing
  • Identifying the different roles that ‘parts’ play in traumatic healing and survival
  • How to utilize and acknowledge ‘parts’ in EMDR processing
  • Interventions and techniques to bring ‘parts’ forward for healing
  • Techniques and tools for working with addicted ‘parts’ during EMDR

Limitations, Risks, and Further Research

  • Current research on telehealth with EMDR
  • Addressing barriers and potential risks with telehealth and EMDR
  • Making the most of risks and limitations for successful treatment outcomes

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 12 hours of video content
  • Up to 12.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts

Sarah Freeze, LCSW

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Sarah Freeze, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and recognized specialist in the treatment of complex trauma, attachment wounds, and the psychological impact of childhood abuse and neglect in adulthood. She holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she completed the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute’s child trauma specialization. Sarah currently maintains a private practice in Denver, Colorado, providing individual and group psychotherapy, EMDR intensives, and consultation for psychotherapists. Her integrative approach draws from EMDR, psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, ego state theory, sand tray therapy, and self-compassion frameworks – modalities uniquely suited to the layered, identity-level wounds that childhood trauma produces. An Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician and an Evergreen-status EMDR Consultant, Sarah provides both individual and group consultation to therapists with a specialized focus on attachment, dissociation, ego states, and complex trauma.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice. She is a consultant with Evergreen. Sarah Freeze receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and EMDR International Association.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059689
Duration:
12 hours, 27 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 20, 2023
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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