ADVANCED EMDR TRAINING: INCORPORATING CHRISTIAN FAITH INTO EMDR THERAPY

This workshop is sponsored by the AACC and will be held at the 2023 AACC Know Hope World Conference. 

Date: September 13 from 9am to 12am Central Day Time. 

Location: Opryland Hotel, Nashville Tennessee

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This is an advanced workshop.  A primary focus is on assessing and accessing the client’s AIP in terms of their spiritual identity. A significant amount of time and focus will be spent on Phase I and II. Specifically, trainees will learn to take a spiritual history, and to use RDI to enhance a felt sense of God. Lastly, the complexities of developing strong Negative Cognitions, Positive Cognitions and Cognitive Interweaves with clients’ who are struggling spiritually will be taught. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss how to assess a client’s spiritual trauma. 

  2. Explore the importance of the AIP model from a spiritual perspective.

  3. Examine how to assess the blocks that interfere with the client’s access to a felt sense of God. 

  4. Apply new information to accessing a felt sense of God. 

  5. Learn to develop strong Negative Cognitions and Positive Cognitions and Cognitive Interweaves. 

Skills:

  1. Practice incorporating a felt sense of God into an AIP History Taking. 

  2. Practice acting as therapist and client and Resource an enhanced sense of self and God. 

  3. Examine scenarios and determine strong NC’s, PC’s and Cognitive Interweave 

Eligibility: 

  1. All participants must be licensed Mental Health professionals or pre-licensed Mental Health professionals and are working with a supervising Mental Health professional. 

  2. All participants have taken in its entirety EMDR Basic Training and received a certificate of completion. 

Advanced EMDR and Couples: Attachment is for everyone, the interweaving of EMDR and EFT

Next Course: October 20 and 21 2023 from 9 am to 4:30

This course is virtual and limited to 30 seats.

This is an EFT informed workshop for EMDR trained professionals. 

People are hard-wired for connection.  When attachment longings are not met, couples form painful patterns of interactions. Emotionally Focussed Therapy, EFT, provides a map, making the distressing patterns understandable, and the therapeutic work doable.  EFT teaches therapists to see emotional triggers through an attachment lens, and to slow the couple’s patterns down, and de-escalate them. Couples learn to share their triggers, and emotions, owning their behavior.  

Some couples have attachment trauma.  Their cycles are difficult to slow and de-escalate because people are terrified.  Couples remain stuck and in emotional pain, re-experiencing attachment trauma when their attachment needs are not met.  EMDR is a powerful intervention, used to resolve traumatic memories, allowing people to feel calmer.   

In this workshop, the EFT steps for de-escalating a couples’ pattern of distress are taught and practiced.  EMDR and the Body Protocols designed by Catherine Lidov, and Safe State Protocol by K. O’Shea are taught and practiced.  How and when to weave very slow and short Bilateral Stimulation sets into the moves of EFT will be taught, modeled, and practiced.  

The instructor of this workshop has been weaving EMDR into the steps of EFT, and has found EMDR helps to reduce the immediate stressful re-experiencing of attachment trauma, helping couples benefit from EFT.  Couples are able to de-escalate more quickly and experience a sense of secure bond more fully. 

In this Advanced  EMDR Training the following learning objectives will be taught.  

You will:

  1. Discuss emotional and relational distress from an attachment perspective.

  2. Learn and practice the five steps of EFT Tango. (S. Johnson, 2019)

  3. Apply the Tango to the distressing pattern for de-escalation.

  4. Practice the Container, Orient, and Safe State, by C. Lidov and K. O’Shea.

  5. Examine the difference between reactive and core emotional action tendencies.

  6. Choreograph an enactment interweaving slow, body-oriented BLS.

This workshop is educational and experiential.  

Information will be taught via a powerpoint presentation, modeling, videos, small and large practice and discussion.

In small groups, participants will work together, taking turns being clinician and clients, practicing EFT moves and interventions, EMDR protocols, and weaving the EMDR into the moves of EFT.  

In small groups, you will have time to debrief after each practice session, so you feel supported in your work. 

Upon completion of this EMDR Advanced Training, you will: 

Have been introduced to EFT and practiced the Moves of the Tango.

See unmet attachment needs as the trigger for distress and be able to reframe the distress in terms of attachment. 

Have learned and practiced EMDR and Body and EMDR Safe State Protocols

Have practiced weaving EMDR and the Body slow short BLS into the Moves of EFT

About the Instructors 

In this training, you will be working with EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Certified EFT Therapist Kathleen Fitzgerald. 

Kathleen is a LCMHC and has been a clinician with her own private practice for over two decades. She and her business partner Elizabeth Weinhold, have been working together as a team since 2012. Over the years Kathleen and Liz have been developing, fine tuning and teaching EMDR to others. Kathleen is excited about having the opportunity to work with you!

Course Skill Level: 

This is an advanced training course.  Participants must have completed A full Basic EMDR Training and have received Certificates of completion, and have used and are using EMDR successfully with their clients.  Knowledge of EMDR resourcing and processing protocols is required.  

Sign Up Eligibility: 

All participants eligible for sign up are Licensed and/or Pre-licensed healthcare professionals. All participants have completed and received certificates of completion of basic EMDR Training.