The Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP): Offering Relief and Stability When Recent Trauma Hits 2026
Master an EMDR Protocol for Early Intervention in an Unpredictable World
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Early Interventions Restore Safety, Strengthen Resilience and Reduce the Likelihood of PTSD
With so many people in the world experiencing natural and human-made disasters, community devastation and interpersonal violence, there is a critical need for early EMDR intervention following traumatic incidents. In 2008, EMDR R-TEP (Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol) was developed by Elan Shapiro and Brurit Laub to meet that need. This protocol is now used in disaster areas around the world for ongoing traumatic stress and for recent traumatic events large and small.
R-TEP is Not Only for Headline-Level Disasters
R-TEP is a powerful addition to every EMDR therapist's repertoire. It is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of recent traumatic events, which differ from those of past trauma processing. R-TEP expands your ability to respond to clients blindsided by a recent trauma or caught in an overwhelming event as it unfolds in real time.
Used before a traumatic memory consolidates, R-TEP can reduce connections to past traumas and prevent traumatic memories from accumulating. It is also shown to enhance adaptive associations, resilience, and other measures of post-traumatic growth.
R-TEP gives you a way to titrate the client's experience with an emphasis on safety and containment, minimizing the risk of further destabilization. You can help clients respond adaptively to difficult situations, especially ongoing ones, with a clinical roadmap built around their capacities and circumstances.
How R-TEP Differs From Standard EMDR Processing
The key difference is focus. The three main R-TEP refinements are:
- The "traumatic episode" is tightly defined in terms of images, sensations, feelings, and thoughts directly related to the event itself.
- Processing is limited exclusively to elements related to the traumatic event. This focused processing provides client stability and safety and prevents emotional overload.
- An EMD strategy for processing cognitive, visual, auditory, and other sensory intrusions can permanently dissolve disturbing images, sensations, or thoughts within minutes, before consolidation of the traumatic memory takes place.
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Meet Your Trainer
Renee Eddy
Renee Eddy, LPC, is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant based in Norwich, CT. She is also the founder of Eddy Wellness, a multi-disciplinary wellness center and group practice. As an EMDR therapist, Renee specializes in treating clients who have been exposed to a recent traumatic event using R-TEP and G-TEP as well as offer EMDR Intensives as part of her clinical practice.
Renee has worked in varying roles throughout her career as a counselor to include: an emergency response pediatric therapist, outpatient clinician in a non-profit agency, forensic therapist, clinical supervisor, program coordinator, and college professor. Renee specializes in recent traumatic events (both group and individual) and trauma throughout the lifespan including complex developmental trauma.