2-Day EMDR Seminar: A Rapid, Safe, and Proven Treatment for Trauma

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Karee Powers, LCSW, BCD, CCTP-2 EMDR-C Related seminars and products

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Karee Powers, LCSW, BCD, CCTP-2 EMDR-C, is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR trainer and consultant. She is a board-certified diplomate in clinical social work. She has over 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings including inpatient facilities, and non-profit organizations offering care for children, adolescents and adult survivors of abuse, neglect, combat trauma, sexual trauma, phobias, generational trauma, and interpersonal traumas. She was awarded a state-wide award of “Outstanding Performance” in 2011. Her private practice and training are centered on work with complex trauma and dissociation, using EMDR, CBT, psychodrama, somatic psychology, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with her Master’s in social work.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Karee Powers maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Karee Powers is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Karee Powers has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Describe the role of the autonomic nervous system in trauma symptomology.
2. Articulate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
3. Characterize the potential neurobiological mechanisms of change in the EMDR approach.
4. Demonstrate EMDR techniques can build dual awareness in clients to treat the avoidance that makes trauma treatment challenging.
5. Demonstrate the 8 Phases of the EMDR protocol.
6. Assess clients to determine the appropriateness and potential risks of using EMDR.
7. Analyze resourcing strategies from EMDR to facilitate the processing of trauma.
8. Utilize EMDR techniques to reinforce and activate positive neural networks.
9. Modify EMDR to work with complex/developmental trauma to directly treat traumatic memories.
10. Evaluate strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist in EMDR therapy.
11. Articulate the research limitations and potential risks associated with EMDR.
12. Establish the order of operations for attachment-based EMDR treatment to resolve relational trauma.

Outline

Trauma and Neuroscience

• Key brain areas involved in trauma
• Polyvagal Theory, and types of freeze responses
• Trauma and insecure attachment
• The neuroscience of developmental trauma 
• Clinical implications of the freeze response

How the EMDR Approach Works

• The neuroscience of exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
• The neuroscience of relaxation exercises 
• EMDR and other “transformative therapies”
• Why  EMDR works so well from a brain perspective

Trauma Symptoms and Assessment Tools 

• Traumatic memories and intrusive thoughts 
• Phobias and anxiety: Insula hyperactivation 
• Emotional hijackings and implicit memory 
• Avoidance cluster of symptoms
• Why treating avoidance in trauma is critical 
• DSM-5® symptoms in a nutshell 
• Connecting 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

Overcome Avoidance with EMDR

• Dual awareness
• What you are thinking about is the network you’re in
• Activate networks for change
• Neurons that fire together, wire together (Hebb’s Rule)
• EMDR as neuroentrainment

When to Use EMDR in Treatment 

• Demonstrations and experiential exercises 
• Single event trauma
• Anxiety disorders involving imaginal exposure

EMDR Trauma Treatment:

• 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: Locate tension and distress in the body
• Closure: Close the neural network and the 6-hour window
• Re-evaluation

Demonstration of Original 8-Phase Model

• Presenter demonstration
• Attendee dyad practice of the 8-phase model

EMDR Techniques to Resolve Traumatic Memories

• Modifications for Complex/Developmental Trauma
• Do not use standard protocol - Rationale for modifications
• Resourcing strategies
• 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
• EMDR techniques to bring traumatic memories from the limbic system into the prefrontal cortex

Attachment-Based EMDR:

• Strategies to Treat Relational Trauma
• Strategies to foster the critical connection between client and therapist
• Mirror neuron activation
• How to emphasize safety during sessions 
• Guidance on order of operations

Research Limitations and Potential Risks

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psych Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals