The Craft of EMDR Therapy: Taking It to The Next Level - Spring 2023

The Craft of EMDR Therapy combines what you need to move to the next level. You’ll gain a deeper appreciation of the power and flexibility of EMDR, confidence in doing what’s best for your client in the moment and new skills to help you meet the demands of challenging cases. In addition to teaching, discussion and practice, this training introduces videos of two powerful clinical cases to illustrate critical developments and key choice points in this important work. Among the things we’ll explore in depth together are:

• AIP case conceptualization—one of EMDR’s most powerful innovations—and how it helps you go beyond the client’s symptoms to underlying causes, map out clinical choices with confidence and develop treatment plans for challenging cases  
• the nature of complex trauma and how healing requires the repair of emotional and developmental deficits in addition to symptom relief
• important factors to consider as part of treatment planning—the client’s readiness to approach, the need for agreement about the work in hand, client’s need for strengthened motivation to be ready for processing—just to name a few
• harnessing your attunement and full presence in the moment-to-moment unfolding of the client’s experience for resolution, healing and repair
• use of the Future Template to address developmental deficits and install the skills and patterns of response your client needs to live fully and engage authentically
• how Clinical Interweave Categories facilitate the client’s experience and optimize treatment  
• the necessity of re-evaluating goals for treatment over time as therapy evolves

Over a third of this training is dedicated to practicing the skills you need for the challenging work ahead. With the guidance of The Center's experienced therapists, you’ll work in dyads to fine-tune the skills that can help clients develop the capacity to respond authentically and live a full, rewarding life. Here are a few of the things you’ll practice:

• tracking a client’s somatic experience in and out of processing, so you can respond, redirect, co-regulate—whatever is best for your client in the moment
• tuning into your own sensory experience and the resonance between you and your client to understand your client’s emotional and somatic shifts moment-to-moment
• using your attunement skills to co-regulate the client's experience
• guiding clients in the development of life-promoting skills with Adaptive Action tendencies
• applying Clinical Interweave Categories during processing to maximize treatment effectiveness for your client