Continuing Education Credits

18.0 hours
Counselors The Center for Excellence in EMDR Therapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6775. The Center is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. Counselors receive 18.0 hours of credit upon completion of this program.

18.0 hours
Psychologists Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists receive 18.0 hours of continuing education credit upon completing this program.

18.0 hours
Social Workers Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Social Workers. Please visit CES CE Credit to see all states that are covered for Social Workers. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social Workers completing this program will receive 18.0 clinical hours of continuing education credit.

18.0 hours
Social Workers Licensed in Washington DC This course has been approved by the Washington DC Board of Social Work. Social Workers completing this program will receive 18 contact hours of continuing education credit.

18.0 hours
EMDR International Association This program is approved by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) to provide 18 EMDRIA continuing education credit hours.

THE TRIANGLE OF TRAUMA: VICTIM, VICTIMIZER OR RESCUER LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this workshop, you will learn:

• To define Karpman’s Drama Triangle of Victim, Perpetrator and Rescuer
• To identify and distinguish between different variations of the Drama Triangle dynamics, from maladaptive to adaptive
• Identify how and when clinicians can get into the Drama Triangle dynamics when working with complex developmental trauma
• How to understand and identify maladaptive coping styles in response to developmental trauma both in clinicians as well as clients
• The four attachment styles and the implications for EMDR therapy
• How to apply advanced interweave strategies during processing
• The theory of Structural Dissociation and how to identify dissociative processes both in and out of processing
• The Polyvagal Theory of Social Engagement
• To identify “parts of self” using IFS Model principles
• To apply body-oriented strategies to facilitate resolution of thwarted fight-flight responses and other body-oriented phenomena
• To distinguish between trauma repair and attachment repair

Relational EMDR Therapy:  Taking the Journey to the Next Level

Friday-Sunday, July 23-25, 2021

Friday, July  23, 2021

9:00 am – 10:30 am                    Class

• Identify and develop therapist attunement skills by tracking the moment to moment somatic experience, using the resonance between the therapist and client

10:30 am – 10:45 am                  Break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm                  Class

• Identify and develop therapist attunement skills by tracking the moment to moment somatic experience, using the resonance between the therapist and client

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm                    Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:45 pm                      Class

• To understand therapeutic impasse through the AIP Model, and how to use the relationship between the therapist and client to facilitate movement in the work

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm                      Break

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm                      Practice Sessions

• To understand therapeutic impasse through the AIP Model, and how to use the relationship between the therapist and client to facilitate movement in the work

Saturday, July 24, 2021

9:00 am – 10:30 am                    Class

• Identify and develop therapist attunement skills by tracking the moment to moment somatic experience, using the resonance between the therapist and client
• To understand therapeutic impasse through the AIP Model, and how to use the relationship between the therapist and client to facilitate movement in the work
• Recognize the difference between core affective responses versus defensive affective responses both in ourselves as well as in our clients

10:30 am – 10:45 am                  Break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm                  Class

• Recognize the difference between core affective responses versus defensive affective responses both in ourselves as well as in our clients

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm                    Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:45 pm                      Class

• Identify and work with specific psychological defenses such as avoidance, idealization, and shame in and out of processing

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm                      Break

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm                      Practice Sessions

• Identify and work with specific psychological defenses such as avoidance, idealization, and shame in and out of processing
• Effectively apply clinical interweave strategies (CIC) to facilitate reprocessing effects and generate adaptive actions in the future

Sunday, July 25, 2021

9:00 am – 10:30 am                    Class

• Identify and work with specific psychological defenses such as avoidance, idealization, and shame in and out of processing
• Recognize the difference between core affective responses versus defensive affective responses both in ourselves as well as in our clients

10:30 am – 10:45 am                  Break

10:45 am – 12:15 pm                  Class

• Identify memories for processing that inform the relational patterns that are problematic for the client in the context of their current relationships

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm                    Lunch

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm                      Practice Sessions

• Effectively apply clinical interweave strategies (CIC) to facilitate reprocessing effects and generate adaptive actions in the future;
• Apply specific clinical interweave strategies (CIC) to address fears and blocking beliefs

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm                      Break

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm                      Live Demonstration

• To understand therapeutic impasse through the AIP Model, and how to use the relationship between the therapist and client to facilitate movement in the work
• Recognize the difference between core affective responses versus defensive affective responses both in ourselves as well as in our clients
• Identify memories for processing that inform the relational patterns that are problematic for the client in the context of their current relationships

4:15 pm – 5:00 pm                      Debrief and Evaluations

Taking EMDR Therapy to the Next Level: Building on the Basics

Part I

Friday-Sunday, May 14-16, 2021

Advanced Case Conceptualization

• Take a deeper dive into case conceptualization and treatment planning for more complex clinical cases. (“the work before the work”) using video case examples
• Strengthen motivational sets as preparation for processing
• Strengthen access to positive experiences throughout treatment, both in and out of processing, offsetting the client’s negativity bias and promoting a heightened sense of well being
• Generating motivational sets as part
• Therapeutic contracting and treatment planning priorities and considerations.
• Are WE ready? Client and clinician readiness.
• Supervised practice in dyads addressing obstacles to clinician readiness

Part 2

Friday-Sunday, June 25-27, 2021

Memory Work Skill Development

• Getting into the moment-to-moment navigation of the session
• Somatic tracking of non-verbals
• Understanding Polyvagal Theory of Social Engagement applied
• Clinical interweave categories and strategies
• How to navigate blocking beliefs in and out of processing
• How to use parts of self to facilitate greater dual awareness: past & present, adult and child.
• Defensive vs core affects in and out of processing.
• Supervised practice in dyads.

Part 3

Friday-Sunday, July 23-24, 2021

Adaptive Action Systems – Promoting personal growth through the life stages

• Zooming in and out between the big picture and the moment to moment
• Reevaluation over the course of treatment
• Utilizing Future templates to address developmental deficits and needed skills
• Adaptive Action Systems as a conceptual map about survival systems vs life-promoting skills to restore the client’s ability to relate, play, have sex, etc.)
• working with dissociative disorders, complex trauma

EMDR BASIC TRAINING

PART 1: Friday-Sunday, April 23-25, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

Sunday Session

PART 2: Friday-Sunday, May 21-23, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

Sunday Session

PART 3: Friday-Saturday, June 18-19, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

CASE CONSULTATION WEDNESDAYS

July 21, August 18, and September 15, 2021

EMDR BASIC TRAINING

PART 1: Friday-Sunday, April 9-11, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

Sunday Session

PART 2: Friday-Sunday, May 7-9, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

Sunday Session

PART 3: Friday-Saturday, June 4-5, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

CASE CONSULTATION WEDNESDAYS

July 6, August 4, and September 8, 2021

Transformational Healing for the Whole Person

PART 1: Friday-Sunday, September 10-12, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

Sunday Session

PART 2: Friday-Sunday, October 8-10, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

Sunday Session

PART 3: Friday-Saturday, November 5-6, 2021

Friday Session

Saturday Session

CASE CONSULTATION WEDNESDAYS

December 8, 2021, January 5, and February 2, 2022

BASIC TRAINING LEARNING OBJECTIVES

PART 1

• Identify the Three-Pronged Protocol of EMDR therapy
• List 2 hypothesized brain mechanisms utilized in EMDR reprocessing
• List 3 important existing research studies
• List 3 types of client complaints treatable with EMDR therapy
• List 3 examples of small “t” traumas
• List 3 examples of big “T” traumas
• List 3 typical ways people process disturbing life experiences
• Describe the elements of a target memory node
• Describe a processing channel
• Name the 8 phases of EMDR therapy for comprehensive treatment
• List 3 kinds of eye movements used in EMDR reprocessing
• Describe 2 common reasons for blocked processing
• Distinguish between state change and trait change in EMDR therapy

PART 2

• Describe the adaptive information processing system
• Identify the purpose of the Assessment Phase of EMDR therapy
• Identify the purpose of utilizing the SUD scale and what it stands for
• Identify the purpose of the VOC scale and what it stands for
• Identify the reprocessing phases involved in memory reprocessing
• Describe one purpose for Safe/Calm Place utilization
• Describe 3 symptoms suggesting a possible dissociative disorder
• Describe when you would apply the Future Template
• Identify 2 clinical situations where EMD would be appropriate
• Distinguish between adult-onset trauma and developmental trauma
• Describe the protocol for a single traumatic event
• Describe how EMDR therapy can address the impact of racial, religious, and ethnic prejudice and bias
• Distinguish between direct questioning and the Floatback technique

PART 3

• Describe 3 categories of memories used in RDI
• Describe what is meant by a targeting sequence plan
• Describe 3 cognitive interweave strategies for use in blocked processing
• Identify when the Recent Events Protocol would be appropriate
• Describe one important caution for using EMDR therapy with addictions
• Describe what is meant by moral injury in EMDR therapy with combat veterans
• Identify 3 differences in applying EMDR therapy to working with children

PART 4

4.1 Helping First Responders and Health Care Workers

• Name at least two EMDR treatment protocols that could be used to treat this population
• Identify at least two client variables that are unique to this population

4.2 Tackling Addictions

• Identify at least two variables that help determine if a client who has a history of addiction is stable enough for processing
• Identify at least one variable that determines whether to target a present trigger or the underlying trauma from the past

4.3 Treating Complex Trauma

• Identify at least one stabilization technique that can be used with clients who are dissociative
• Identify at least one EMDR treatment protocol that can be used with clients who are dissociative