Full Course Description
EMDR Mastery Course: Assessment, Resourcing and Treatment Techniques for Trauma and Anxiety
Program Information
Outline
The Neuroscience of Trauma and Anxiety
- Introduction to the autonomic system (ANS)
- Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
- Polyvagal Theory, and types of freeze responses
- Key brain areas involved in trauma and anxiety
- Clinical implications of the freeze response
Mechanisms of Change: How EMDR and Other Treatment Approaches Work
- The neuroscience of exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
- The neuroscience of relaxation exercises
- EMDR and other “transformative therapies”
- Mechanisms of change
- Why EMDR works so well from a brain perspective
Assessment: Connect Symptoms and Presentations to a Diagnosis
- Nervous system switched on/off – PTSD and Depression
- Underactivations and weakened connections
- Trauma memories and intrusive thoughts
- Phobias, anxiety and insula hyperactivation
- Emotional hijackings and implicit memory: Basal ganglia and amygdala
- Why treating avoidance is critical in anxiety and trauma
- DSM-5® symptoms in a nutshell
- Connect Your Client 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
EMDR as Applied Neuroplasticity
- How EMDR builds dual awareness to treat avoidance
- What you are thinking about is the network you’re in
- You need to activate a network to change it
- Neurons that fire together, wire together (Hebb’s Rule)
- EMDR as neuroentrainment
Practical EMDR Techniques and Protocols to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving
EMDR Assessment, Resourcing, Eye Movements and More: How to Work with the Original 8-Phase Model
- Client history and treatment planning
- How to resource: Create a 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: Locating tension and distress in the body
- Closure: Closing the neural network and the 6-hour window
- Re-evaluation
When to Use EMDR in Trauma and Anxiety Treatment
- Demonstrations and experiential exercises
- Single event trauma
- Anxiety disorders involving imaginal exposure
- Demonstration of original 8-Phase Model
- ***Experiential exercises with groups of three: client, therapist, observer
- Preparation and assessment
- Desensitization
- Positive cognition and body scan
EMDR for Direct Treatment of Traumatic Memories
- Modifications for complex/developmental trauma
- Do not use standard protocol - Rationale for modifications
- Resourcing strategies:
- Container
- Comfortable place
- Nurturing figure
- Protective figure
- Circle of support
- 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
- Adaptive Information Processing Theory
- EMDR techniques to bring traumatic memories into the prefrontal cortex
Attachment-Based EMDR for Resolving Relational Trauma
- Strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist
- How to emphasize safety during sessions
- Guidance on order of operations:
- Resourcing with multisensory guided imagery
- Activate trauma network
- Desensitization round
- Ask, “What is coming up?”
- How to install positive cognition
- Identify and resolve remaining tension or distress in the body
- Debrief clients to ensure embodiment
EMDR Modifications for Anxiety Disorders
- Modifications for phobias and generalized anxiety
- Resourcing strategies for self-efficacy and control
- Imaginal exposure and exposure through pictures and videos
- Techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks
- How to build Dual Awareness and reduce avoidance
EMDR Modifications for Other Disorders
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- OCD
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
EMDR vs Brainspotting vs EFT vs Neuromodulation
- When to use each
- Strengths and limitations of each
- Overview of how to conduct a Brainspotting session
- Overview of how to conduct an EFT session
- Integrating neuromodulation and EMDR for faster, more effective treatment
Research Limitations and Potential Risks
Objectives
- Determine the role of the autonomic nervous system in trauma and anxiety 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 and anxiety treatment challenging.
- Employ the 8 Phases of the EMDR protocol.
- Determine which clients you should use EMDR with.
- Appraise the relevance of Polyvagal Theory and early trauma in EMDR work.
- Communicate the central principle of the Adaptive Information Processing Theory and establish how it informs the EMDR approach.
- Analyze resourcing strategies from EMDR that clinicians can use to help facilitate the processing of trauma.
- Specify the steps clinicians must take to emphasize safety during EMDR sessions.
- Determine how EMDR can be modified to treat anxiety disorders.
- Differentiate between EMDR strategies recommended for trauma and EMDR strategies recommended for anxiety.
- Characterize how EMDR techniques can be used to reinforce and activate positive neural networks.
- Defend 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​ EMDR therapy.
- Formulate the order of operations for attachment-based EMDR treatment to resolve relational trauma.
- Articulate how EMDR can be modified to work with Borderline Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
- Differentiate between EMDR and Brainspotting by communicating the strengths and limitations of each.
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22/05/2019