Simple First Steps with Complex Trauma
This 5-minute video blog outlines the simple, yet important task of helping our clients who learned to avoid their inner life, approach. Slowly, but incrementally, we help them touch into a m
This 5-minute video blog outlines the simple, yet important task of helping our clients who learned to avoid their inner life, approach. Slowly, but incrementally, we help them touch into a m
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Deany Laliotis was interviewed on That Relationship Show’s podcast to talk about the healing power of EMDR therapy and how that intersects with EFT, Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples. The podcast is led by two certified EFT therapists, Deb and Naomi.
They talk about how EMDR and EFT can treat...
When Psychotherapy Networker Editor, Rich Simon PhD, wanted to focus an issue of the legendary magazine on teletherapy, he asked Deany Laliotis to write the feature article. It’s called “Trauma and...
While on our career paths, we are always in the process of learning how to become better at we do, while resisting the urge to be hard on ourselves for being imperfect while we continue to grow and develop ourselves and our clinical acumen. You are...
One of the cornerstones of EMDR therapy is the importance of staying out of the way and “letting whatever happens, happen.” That makes sense when you consider that EMDR was originally developed as a desensitization technique with...
How is EMDR therapy different from any other type of psychotherapy? It is unique in giving the brain the opportunity to access an experience as it was encoded at the time, bringing it into conscious awareness. We call that dual awareness—knowing that...
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Citation: Laliotis et al., (2021) What is EMDR therapy? Past...
Deany Laliotis, LICSW, talks about the Relational Way of EMDR Therapy. Deany shares her experience with a new client who was suffering from feelings of depression, isolation and loss after a big move...
Becoming an EMDR therapist is making a commitment to personal and professional growth. It requires us to take a leap into the unknown, to tolerate learning something new that often makes us f
In 1989, Francine Shapiro, originator of EMDR, published a study introducing the positives effects of EMD—Eye Movement Desensitization—a technique that promised to be highly effective at relieving