Session 101 - Wendy Ashley, Psy.D, LCSW

Contemporary JEDI’s in EMDR Treatment

Noviembre 6 - 10:00am - 11:30am (1.5 Créditos de educación continuada)

Tema:  Diversity / Equity / Inclusion

Session 201 - Jennifer Madere, MA, LPC-S & D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW

EMDR & Dissociation: Past, Present and Future

Noviembre 7 -10:30am -11:30am (1.5 Créditos de educación continuada)

Tema: Dissociation / Complex Trauma

Session W1 - Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D.

EMDR Therapy for Complex PTSD: An Integrative Approach to Treating Clients

Noviembre 9 - 10:00am - 11:30am (3 Créditos de educación continuada)

Tema:  Dissociation / Complex Trauma

A Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) lens is critical to effectively engaging with clients, facilitating culturally relevant interventions, and effectively addressing trauma. A JEDI approach to clinical practice includes critical consciousness, cultural humility, and courage by practitioners to name, unpack and deconstruct racialized memories, narratives and traumas that may be linked to other trauma experiences. Clients of color may disclose experiences of trauma coupled with individual, interpersonal, systemic, and vicarious encounters of racial trauma, creating a complex, nuanced trauma presentation. Effective adaptations for clients of color necessitates consideration and acknowledgement of historical trauma, intersectional identities, stigma, power, privilege, and shame in clinical spaces. This presentation will provide a framework for clinicians to enhance their EMDR practices, highlight the significance of anti-racist positionality, and provide strategic recommendations for implementation of a JEDI lens and approach in EMDR treatment.

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Early in the development of EMDR therapy, some clinicians observed that reprocessing more often moved clients presenting with dissociative disorders into dysregulated states rather than toward an expected, adaptive resolution. In recent years, EMDR therapists and trainers have become more broadly aware of the incidence and significance of complex trauma and dissociation. With this shift, many have delved deeper into the dissociative disorders literatures, strived to utilize screening and assessment tools more effectively, and grown increasingly interested to integrate their learnings to reinforce foundational learning and improve treatment outcomes. Current research will inform this discussion, exploring the different frameworks for understanding dissociation, the importance of diagnostic evaluation in Phase I: History Taking, and conceptualization and treatment of dissociative presentations within an EMDR therapy frame. The future of EMDR therapy and dissociation depends on clinicians and trainers integrating a comprehensive standard of care with nuanced conceptual, theoretical, and practical treatment considerations.

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Many therapists are trained in the treatment of single traumatic events. However, clients with complex PTSD (C-PTSD) come to therapy with an extensive history of trauma that often begins in childhood and continues into adulthood with layers of personal, relational, societal, or cultural losses. The most common question asked by EMDR therapists treating C-PTSD is, “Where do I start?” In this training, you will develop confidence in your ability to organize and prioritize your client’s treatment goals successfully. You will learn how to effectively work with clients who have experienced multiple traumatic events and prolonged trauma exposure including the chronic stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. You will learn valuable leading-edge strategies that integrate polyvagal theory, relational psychotherapy, Parts Work Therapy, and Somatic Psychology, with EMDR therapy. We will discuss how to successfully stabilize the dysregulated affect and dissociative symptoms that accompany C-PTSD in preparation for traumatic event desensitization and reprocessing.

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Session W2 - Cherilyn Rowland Petrie, MA, LMHC

Legacy of Love: EMDR Therapy for (Wounded) Parents of Wounded Kids

Noviembre 11 - 10:00am - 11:30am (3 Créditos de Educación Continuada)

Tema:  Family / Parenting

Session 301 - Deborah Korn, Psy.D.

EMDR Treatment of Complex PTSD: Lessons Learned Over Three Decades

Noviembre 13 -10:00am - 11:30am (1.5 Créditos de Educación Continuada)

Tema:  PTSD

Session 401 - Ana Gomez, MC, LPC

A Multimodal Approach to EMDR Therapy with Children During Times of Change

Noviembre 14-12:30pm - 4:00pm (1.5 Créditos de Educación Continuada)

Tema:  Children & Adolescents

The transmission of trauma from one generation to the next is an issue that motivates many clinicians to address trauma in their adult clients. Few approaches directly address the impact of childhood maltreatment on current parenting. This workshop guides clinicians to apply the Standard EMDR Protocol to work with parents of traumatized children to improve parenting skills and reduce barriers to parenting. A review of recent research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma will be presented to substantiate the importance of addressing the critical issue of how past trauma underlies parenting responses. Clinicians will hone their case conceptualization skills, learn how to develop resources to improve parenting, and identify targets to reduce past trauma that impacts current parenting and attachment. By focusing directly on the client's maltreatment that impacts their parenting, clinicians will be able to support the creations of a healing home environment.

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Complex PTSD is associated with chronic or prolonged victimization, deprivation, and neglect. Many experts consider it to be a disorder of dysregulation—one that involves difficulties in regulating emotions, behaviors, relationships, attention and consciousness, self-perception, and somatic experience. This dysregulation leads to the development of affect phobias, insecure attachment styles, rigid defenses and avoidance patterns, high levels of dissociation, and the inability to access important internal resources. EMDR therapy adapted to meet the needs of Complex PTSD patients offers the promise of profound transformation and post-traumatic growth. In this plenary address, Dr. Korn offers relevant concepts and guiding principles from the field of traumatic stress studies to facilitate EMDR case conceptualization and effective intervention. She also reflects on the lessons she has learned over the past 30 years treating Complex PTSD patients across inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient settings.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought trauma, adversity and distress to most parents and children. In addition, it has exacerbated previous and generational trauma as they had to endure losses, seclusion, financial hardships, and a lack of social support. The distressed caregiving system and children have been forced to move out of homeostasis, connection and co-regulation into self- preservation, defense, and survival. Children are malleable and resilient and at the same time incredibly vulnerable. How has the biology and nervous systems of our children been impacted by the stresses of such uncertain times? This seminar will offer an overview of the individual and the systemic work needed to help children and their families heal during such unprecedented times. In addition, this plenary will show how to utilize a multimodal approach within the overarching structure of EMDR therapy that includes: Polyvagal focused strategies, parent-child interventions, play, Sandtray and expressive arts, among others.

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