EMDR Mixed Bag
with Robin Shapiro
Drawn from some of the most-asked questions from her many years running clinical consultation groups, prolific author and veteran EMDR practitioner and consultant Robin Shapiro offers her guidance in the use of a mixed bag of procedures and protocols integrated into the standard EMDR principles and procedures of the eight-phase, three-prong, EMDR approach. Delivered with her characteristic humor, directness and sometimes outside of the box ideas, Robin offers an array of insights and strategies during this 6-hour training to tackle the difficult pain points
LIVE: Dec 16th, 2023 | 9am-4:30PM MTN
This training will be recorded on December 16, 2023.
Available for synchronous-online or asynchronous-on demand learning.
Course Details
Robin Shapiro, prolific author and veteran EMDR practitioner and consultant, offers an array of insights and strategies during this 6-hour training divided into six separate topics.
There will be brief reminders to learn Flash or 4 Blinks techniques, and EMDR 2.0. Then a short review of EMDR and Polyvagal techniques for working with MCS, tinnitus, chronic pain, and Long COVID.
In the first section, participants learn how to install resources of present safety and current strengths in the preparation phase of EMDR. These include powerful alternatives for clients who can’t visualize a “safe place.” The Two-Hand Interweave, developed as a powerful EMDR tool by Robin Shapiro, has multiple applications and is specifically presented in this training as a somatically-informed method of distinguishing between choices, dangers, and other phenomena, generally used in the Preparation Phase.
The EMDR with Anxiety section covers working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Phobias and the “nervous” people who come to therapy with non-trauma related anxiety.
Attachment Focused EMDR introduces ways to work with clients who have deficits, shame, and trauma from lack of secure attachment in their childhood. It includes April Steele’s Imaginal Nurturing, Maureen Kitchur’s clearing of preverbal trauma, and use of the therapeutic relationship to “wire in” healthy attachment.
Finally, in the EMDR with Couples section, powerful applications of EMDR are discussed for assisting those working on relationships- both inside and outside of couple’s therapy sessions – to move out of old habits, clear interpersonal trauma, and use the future template to bring in new adaptive ways to interact. These methods are relevant for therapists working with clients individually on relationship issues as well as for those working with couples.
Live SchedulE
15 minutes: EMDR with Chronic Pain, MCS, Tinnitus, and Long Covid
15 minutes: Resourcing Current Safety
- Why some clients can’t utilize “Safe Place” exercises.
- How to use clients’ current life situations, age, body strength, adult skills, adult support, and time and distance from the past trauma to ground clients in the present and prepare them for trauma reprocessing
- Facilitating trauma reprocessing and assisting the client to maintain dual awareness of the safe present and the past danger.
60 minutes: Two-Hand Interweave
- Why and how the somatic exercise of the Two-Hand can be helpful.
- How to use the Two-Hand to differentiate between the past external danger and the present internal fears.
- Using the Two-Hand to differentiate between a projection and the actual other person
- Using the Two-Hand to differentiate between a destructive cultural or familial belief and a beneficial alternative.
90 minutes: Anxiety
- Not all anxiety comes from external trauma. How to distinguish between PTSD and body-based anxiety, and how to use EMDR with both.
- A lovely OCD protocol from Marsha Whisman.
- How to lead clients through the past, present and future associations while calming the body, attacking negative cognitions, and leading a full life, despite a having a highly sensitive nervous system.
90 minutes: Attachment-Focused EMDR
- How to use the therapeutic relationship as a basis for new secure attachment.
- How to utilize attachment-enhancing interventions throughout the arc of the Eight Phases of EMDR therapy, starting with the first client contact, moving through attachment-wise history-taking, and treatment planning, and continuing through appropriate targets, cognitions, and interweaves.
90 minutes: EMDR with Couples
- How to assess couples, or people in relationships for trauma and attachment issues.
- How to clear those attachment targets and relationship “reflexes”.
- How to use the Future Template to install new, chosen, behavior between partners, using Bader and Pearson’s differentiation model with EMDR’s AIP.
Live attendees will get a lunch break and short breaks between topics.
Format
This course is available for viewing through the Kase & CO learning platform.
If you register before the live recording date, you may attend the live, interactive webinar. Instructions for attending the live, interactive webinar are found in your learner account. You will have access to the on-demand, asynchronous course for 1 year from the live date.
Registrations after the live date, may view this course on-demand, asynchronously for 1 year from your registration date.
What’s This Course Covers
Robin offers an array of insights and strategies during this 6-hour training to tackle the difficult pain points such as:
- Feeling stuck with distressing neurological conditions like tinnitus, chronic pain, MCS, or Long COVID
- Working with clients for whom the imaginary “Safe Place” doesn’t promote a sense of current safety or the ability to have the dual attention necessary to do helpful EMDR.
- Feeling ineffective for not healing clients who are wired for anxiety, and what to do instead.
Feeling frustration of clients who can’t connect or who are constantly projecting “badness” on the therapist. - Feeling overwhelmed in trying to stop couples’ projection on each other, and getting their adult selves in the room.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how to cement clients’ dual attention by resourcing the safe present time, and the strong, skilled present body.
- Describe how to use the Two-Hand Interweave to help clients develop affect awareness, differentiate between past and future, and distinguish reality from projection.
- Distinguish between trauma-based and genetically-influenced anxiety, and use EMDR to treat both.
- Lead clients through the three prongs in the first case, and through having clients practice calming the body, attacking negative cognitions, and having a full life, despite a tendency to have anxiety.
- Describe attachment-enhancing interventions throughout the Eight Phases of EMDR therapy, starting with the first client contact, moving through attachment-wise history-taking, and treatment planning, and continuing through appropriate targets, cognitions, and interweaves.
- Describe methods to assess and plan treatment traumatic and/or attachment disruptions
- Describe how to use the future template within EMDR to install new and chosen behavior between partners.
About Your Trainer, Robin Shapiro
Robin Shapiro, L.I.C.S.W. is an EMDR practitioner (30 years) and EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Seattle, WA. She has presented workshops at eight international EMDR conferences. She is skilled at synthesizing diverse therapy modalities and explaining them, simply, to other therapists. Robin edited EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing (Norton, 2005) and EMDR Solutions II: Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance and More (2009) and wrote Trauma Treatments Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum (2010), Easy Ego State Interventions (2016), and Doing Psychotherapy (2020). She served seven years on the board of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program. Robin loves doing therapy, consultation, and teaching psychotherapists. Her unique presentation style is dynamic, frank, witty, and loaded with creative clinical strategies.
Additional Information
Prerequisites
To register for this course, you must have completed Parts 1 and 2 of EMDR Basic Training.
Continuing Education
6 CEs are available upon completion of all course material.
Kase & CO is an approved continuing education provider. NBCC and EMDRIA CEs are available for this course. This course is not approved for APA CEs.
Participants must complete the full training to receive credit.
Course Completion
To receive a CE certificate, participants must complete the entire course, complete the post-test with a score of 80% or above, and complete the course evaluation. Once completed, a CE certificate will be auto-populated to your online account.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations requested more than 48 hours prior to the live training are eligible for a refund, minus a $20 administrative fee. Cancellation requests can be submitted via email to admin@kaseandco.com. Refunds are not available for cancellations requested after the recorded video is available on-demand.
Course Approvals
NBCC Approved Provider
Kase & CO has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7033. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Kase & CO is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
EMDRIA Approved Course
Kase & CO is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. Kase & CO Courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.
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