Jennifer Sweeton – EMDR Certificate Course: Rapid, Safe and Proven Skills and Techniques for Your Trauma Treatment Toolbox

Watch this 2-Day EMDR Certificate Course recording and discover how this powerful, evidence-based treatment has helped thousands of clients safely and rapidly process their traumas so they can reclaim their lives!

What You’ll Learn EMDR Certificate Course

• How EMDR can be used to overcome avoidance in clients
• How EMDR techniques can help clients resolve traumatic memories
• When and with which clients EMDR should be used
• How to emphasize safety during sessions
• How the 8-phase model is used in treatment
• Learn how EMDR can help clients who desperately need relief from trauma!

Objectives

• Establish the role of the autonomic nervous system in trauma symptomology.
• Articulate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
• Characterize the potential neurobiological mechanisms of change in the empirically validated EMDR approach.
• Specify how EMDR techniques can build dual awareness in clients to treat the avoidance that makes trauma treatment challenging.
• Communicate the 8 Phases of the EMDR protocol.
• Determine which clients you should use EMDR with.
• Analyze resourcing strategies from EMDR that clinicians can use to help facilitate the processing of trauma.
• Characterize how EMDR techniques can be used to reinforce and activate positive neural networks.
• Communicate how EMDR can be modified to work with complex/developmental trauma to directly treat traumatic memories.
• Evaluate strategies that can help foster the critical connection between client and therapist in EDMR therapy.
• Articulate the research limitations and potential risks associated with EMDR.
• Establish the order of operations for attachment-based EMDR treatment to resolve relational trauma.

Rapid, Safe and Proven Skills and Techniques for Your Trauma Treatment Toolbox

Trauma and Neuroscience

• Key brain areas involved in trauma
• Polyvagal Theory, and types of freeze responses
• Trauma and insecure attachment
• The neuroscience of developmental trauma
• Clinical implications of the freeze response

How the EMDR Approach Works

• The neuroscience of exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
• The neuroscience of relaxation exercises
• EMDR and other “transformative therapies”
• Why EMDR works so well from a brain perspective

Trauma Symptoms and Assessment Tools

• Traumatic memories and intrusive thoughts
• Phobias and anxiety: Insula hyperactivation
• Emotional hijackings and implicit memory
• Avoidance cluster of symptoms
• Why treating avoidance in trauma is critical
• DSM-5® symptoms in a nutshell
• Connecting to a diagnosis
  • Simple vs. complex trauma
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
  • CAPS-5 and PCL-5
  • Primary Care PTSD Screen
  • Dual diagnosis

Overcome Avoidance with EMDR

• Dual awareness
• What you are thinking about is the network you’re in
• Activate networks for change
• Neurons that fire together, wire together (Hebbb’s Rule)
• EMDR as neuroentrainment

When to Use EMDR in Treatment

• Demonstrations and experiential exercises
• Single event trauma
• Anxiety disorders involving imaginal exposure

EMDR Trauma Treatment: The Original 8-Phase Model

• Client history and treatment planning
• How to resource: Create as safe space
• Assessment: Choose a target, SUDS, connect with the image/emotions/thought
• Desensitization: Tactile vs. auditory vs. eye movement
• How to use touchpoints, Theratapper, CDs
• Positive Cognition Installation: Likert scale 1-7
• Body Scan: Locate tension and distress in the body
• Closure: Close the neural network and the 6-hour window
• Re-evaluation

Demonstration of Original 8-Phase Model

• Presenter demonstration
• Attendee dyad practice of the 8-phase model

EMDR Techniques to Resolve Traumatic Memories

• Modifications for Complex/Developmental Trauma
• Do not use standard protocol – Rationale for modifications
• Resourcing strategies
• Techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks
• Relevance of Polyvagal Theory, early trauma, and EMDR
• Sensory motor modifications and somatic approaches
• How to build Dual Awareness
• EMDR techniques to bring traumatic memories from the limbic system into the prefrontal cortex

Attachment-Based EMDR: Strategies to Treat Relational Trauma

• Strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist
• Mirror neuron activation
• How to emphasize safety during sessions
• Guidance on order of operations

Research Limitations and Potential Risks

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