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Live Webinar

Integrating EMDR Therapy and ACT Skills: Over 12 Strategies to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Complex Trauma Treatment


Speaker:
Tara Travia, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC059690
Brochure Code:
PWZ93214
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar

Dates

Normal Price:      $324.99 - Now:  $64.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

If you use EMDR therapy with clients, you probably can’t imagine treatment without it.

But many times, our complex clients need additional skills to cope with the process itself so they can fully benefit from their therapeutic journey.

Fortunately, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can provide those skills!

By using ACT skills in your EMDR sessions, you can help even your toughest clients better approach difficult material, remain engaged in the process, re-work coping skills, and reduce the self-judgement that can halt progress.

Now in this 1-day workshop, you’ll join Certified EMDR therapist Tara Travia, PhD, as she gives you a step-by-step guide to using ACT skills in EMDR therapy – complete with a flexible set of skills, interweaves and resourcing techniques – so you can make trauma resolution gentler and more focused on behavior-change outside of sessions.

When you join Dr. Travia you’ll discover how you can:

  • Enhance your confidence with complex trauma cases
  • Develop client histories that seamlessly guide them through all 8 phases
  • Harness the power of interweaves to deepen therapeutic impact
  • Pave the way for smoother healing by reducing self-judgement and dysregulation
  • More easily craft negative and positive cognitions with the client
  • And much more!

Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the full power of EMDR therapy for your clients and yourself.

Register now!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


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Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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This live remote program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval #886759332-4296) for 6.0 continuing education contact hours in Clinical Social Work.


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This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 



Speaker

Tara Travia, PhD's Profile

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Dr. Tara Travia, has been working with clients who have experienced complex trauma for over 15 years using ACT and EMDR in a variety of settings. She is certified in EMDR, is an approved consultant and deeply enjoys the supervision of EMDR practitioners.

Trained in several approaches, Dr. Travia has found that EMDR is by far the most well-tolerated and effective modality for the most complex clients. She has found that integrating ACT skills with EMDR is a natural combination which clients report has helped them heal more fully than other treatments they had tried. Dr. Travia earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Kent State University.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Tara Travia maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Tara Travia is a member of the EMDR International Association.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Questions?

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Objectives

  1. Determine how trauma symptoms are managed with EMDR based on the research.
  2. Integrate EMDR and ACT interventions together to create an integrative treatment plan.
  3. Evaluate how to apply ACT to trauma treatment to reduce experiential avoidance.
  4. Analyze the core concepts and components of the psychological flexibility model within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
  5. Choose ACT strategies to help clients feel grounded in sessions.
  6. Identify how the concept of event centrality and its reduction connects both EMDR and ACT processes.

Outline

EMDR Basics Review and Trouble Areas

  • Dissociation and client disconnection
  • Window of tolerance and inability to “resource”
  • Hopelessness and disintegrating coping strategies for daily life
  • “Unhelpful” narratives about the self and world
  • Research, risks, and limitations
  • Indications and contraindications

ACT as a Practice and Compatibility with EMDR

  • CBT versus ACT
  • Experiential avoidance and its pitfalls
  • The problem with trying to change/fix feeling and thoughts
  • “Distraction” or “fixing” versus mindfulness and acceptance
  • Building the clients capacity to be with emotions
  • Research, risks, and limitations
  • Indications and contraindications
  • Where ACT and EMDR may differ
  • Compatibility with EMDR theory and the standard protocol

A Quick Guide to Using the ACT Model in Treatment

  • The Act model in 6 parts
  • Practice ACT techniques in vivo
  • Simplify using ACT in sessions to improve resourcing
  • Strategies to help clients feel grounded in sessions
  • Somatic language and tools
  • Increase understanding, commitment, and window of tolerance

Integrative versus “Eclectic” Therapists

  • How your theoretical orientation helps you as a clinician
  • Why EMDR is not merely a Phase 4 model or a technique
  • The art of therapeutic “lenses” – gaining deeper insights into client concerns
  • Shaping our treatment plans with an eye toward integration
  • ACT techniques to help clients grow towards new value-laden behaviors

Integrate ACT Techniques into EMDR Therapy Phases

  • Teach ways to “anchor”
  • Value clarification and exploring answers to “why bother?”
  • Access the “observing self”
  • Clarify “negative” and “positive” cognitions
  • Explore our own narratives about EMDR phases
  • Navigate clients who want to rush the process and avoid with daily crises
  • Defusion, Acceptance, and Compassionate Self/Body Awareness
  • Prepare for new targets and the future
  • ACT for self-care as a trauma therapist
  • Worksheets and forms

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Other professionals who work within the mental health fields

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