Minding the Body: Somatic Interventions for Enhancing EMDR Effectiveness
- Speaker:
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN and FR, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 12, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059857
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Most clients respond to EMDR treatments with ease and surprising success, while others inexplicably become flooded, numb, sleepy, or blocked. Still others have symptoms that contraindicate the use of EMDR trauma processing, such as active addiction, recent sobriety, or self-destructive behavior. Faced with the EMDR client who cannot tolerate affect, who becomes overwhelmed by traumatic targets, who cannot stay grounded, manage self-destructive impulses, differentiate past and present experience, or create a Safe Place inside – is there any way that EMDR can be helpful?
The answer is “Yes.” Fortunately, the use of simple body-centered interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that modulate autonomic arousal and address somatically-driven trauma responses can often make EMDR treatments accessible even for blocked, de-stabilized and dissociative clients.
This presentation will introduce a conceptual model for understanding how and when EMDR treatments can be effective even with dysregulated clients. Participants will be taught simple, body-centered interventions that can be woven into both trauma processing and Resource Development protocols.
This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
Credit
Earn up to 1.5 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Minding the Body (1.99 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Minding the Body - French (1.99 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Minding the Body - Italian (1.99 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Minding the Body - German (1.99 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Minding the Body - Spanish (1.99 MB) | 28 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Janina Fisher, PhD Related seminars and products
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.
She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press). Janina is the 2024 recipient of the Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.
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Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:- Identify dysregulation-related blocks to effective EMDR treatment.
- Integrate body-centered strategies into EMDR trauma processing.
- Utilize body-centered strategies as cognitive interweaves.
- Increase effectiveness of resource development strategies in preparation for EMDR trauma processing.
Outline
Challenges to EMDR Processing- Effects of traumatic experience on autonomic nervous system
- Biased neuroception and triggering
- Phobias of memory and/or emotion
- Limitations of the research and potential risk
- Observing autonomic effects of remembering the past
- Integrating grounding and centering techniques into EMDR processing
- Capitalizing on information obtained through the body
- Limitations of the research and potential risk
- When cognitive interweaves don’t work
- Mindfulness-based interweaves
- Somatic interweaves incorporated into EMDR processing
- EMDR resource development
- Traumatic activation and prefrontal shutdown
- Challenges of resource development
- Using somatic resources in place of positive experiences
- Limitations of the research and potential risk
Target Audience
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
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