EMDR & Complex PTSD Toolkit
Learn how to integrate EMDR into your work with complex PTSD in this advanced EMDR training.
Are you looking for tools to help stabilize and prepare your clients with Complex PTSD for EMDR Therapy? Do you need more specialized skills for working with Complex PTSD targets? Are you feeling at a loss for what to do with Complex PTSD? We’ve got you covered in this advanced course on EMDR & Complex PTSD with Rebecca Kase, founder of Kase & CO.
Live on Apr 06, 2023
Course Details
Working with Complex PTSD can be, well, complex. It requires a large toolkit to help clients learn ways to regulate and soothe, and to feel feelings and sensations. It also requires advanced skill on the clinician’s part to navigate treatment plans and desensitize targets in a way that doesn’t destabilize or overwhelm the client’s nervous system.
This advanced course will help you fill up your Complex PTSD toolkit. We’ll review Polyvagal Theory-inspired case conceptualization skills that will help you identify treatment goals and plan skillful interventions. We’ll also review a number of useful preparation tools that are commonly needed with Complex Trauma presentations. These will include resourcing scripts, somatic awareness interventions, mindfulness skills, and Polyvagal-informed techniques. Clinicians will learn a variety of skills for assessing and enhancing dual awareness, assessing for dissociation, and using Ego States with CPTSD. EMD and EMDR will also be taught, along with symptom-focused techniques for desensitization to support stabilization and enhanced coping. Participants will learn the method of Reflexive Orienting, a Rebecca Kase-inspired technique for working with highly charged and dysregulating targets.
Some experiential practice is included, however no group work
is incorporated into this course.
Schedule
Q&A will be offered throughout the course. Experiential exercise of resourcing techniques and Polyvagal techniques is also included.
Day 1
9-9:55 Review of CPTSD symptoms, research, and usefulness of EMDR
9:55-10 Break
10-11 Polyvagal Theory & related interventions
11-11:10 Break
11:10-12 Dual awareness & structural dissociation
12-12:30 Break
12:30-1 Ego states & related resourcing techniques
1-1:05 Break
1:05-1:50 Resourcing strategies with CPTSD
1:50-2 Q&A
Day 2
9-9:55 Mind-body & somatic techniques
9:55-10 Break
10-10:30 Treatment Planning & working with defenses
10:30-11 The Reflexive Orienting Technique
11-11:10 Break
11:10-12 Working with symptoms, EMD & EMDr
12-12:30 Break
12:30-1 EMD & EMDr continued
1-1:05 Break
1:05-1:50 Targeting symptoms & Fractionating a Target
1:50-2 Wrap up & Q&A
Format
This course is available for live or on-demand viewing
through the Kase & CO learning platform.
What’s Covered in This Course
- Neuro-informed techniques for case conceptualization
- Basic premises of Polyvagal Theory
- How to map the nervous system
- Techniques for assessing and building dual awareness
- Resourcing techniques for complex trauma
- A brief introduction to ego states
- Techniques for building somatic awareness
- Reflexive Orienting, designed by Rebecca Kase
- Working with defenses
- Constricted processing techniques of EMD & EMDR
- Targeting emotions and symptoms
Learning Objectives
- Assess the usefulness of EMDR with CPTSD presentations and review contraindications for EMDR-based interventions.
- Evaluate research and recommendations for the treatment of CPTSD, common clinical symptoms, and treatment guidelines.
- Analyze core principles of Polyvagal Theory and appraise their application to EMDR Phases 1 & 2.
- Utilize interventions to resource and stabilize clients with CPTSD.
- Determine interventions to increase somatic awareness.
- Integrate at least two techniques into your clinical practice with clients to increase dual awareness.
- Appraise the usefulness of EMD & EMDR techniques for working with CPTSD clients and reducing intrusive and destabilizing symptoms.
- Develop an EMDR treatment plan for CPTSD clients using the fractionated target technique.
About Your Trainer, Rebecca Kase
Kase & CO Founder Rebecca Kase is recognized as one of the foremost EMDR trainers in the U.S. An LCSW, professional EMDR consultant and trainer, and a registered yoga teacher, Rebecca has been practicing in the field of trauma counseling since 2006. She’s an expert in working with complex trauma and dissociation and has practiced in both nonprofit and private settings. In her own therapy practice, Rebecca incorporates yoga therapy, ego states, somatic approaches, Polyvagal Theory and EMDR into her work with clients, which includes veterans and adults with Complex PTSD. Rebecca is known as a skillful, clear and enthusiastic teacher. She’ll keep you engaged and make you giggle, even in an online trauma training course!
Additional Information
Prerequisites
To register for this course, you must have completed Parts 1 and 2 of EMDR Basic Training.
Continuing Education
8 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.
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@rebeccakase.com. Refunds are not available for cancellations requested after the recorded video is available on-demand.
Apr 6-7, 2023 9:00am-2:00pm MTN 20230406 |
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May 4-5, 2023 9:00am-2:00pm MTN Add-on: Practice Groups 2:30pm-4:00pm MTN 20230504 |
EMDR Refresher Course- Live or On-Demand Webinar emdr-advanced-trainings |
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May 17, 2023 12:00PM - 1:30PM MTN 20230517 |
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Jun 2, 2023 9:00am-4:00pm MTN 20230602 |
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Jul 13-14, 2023 9:00am-3:00pm MTN 20230713 |
Polyvagal Theory and EMDR: Unlock the power of the nervous system – Live or On-Demand Webinar Trainer: Rebecca Kase emdr-advanced-trainings |
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Jul 20, 2023 9:00am- 4:00pm MTN 20230720 |
EMDR for Grief and Loss– Live or on-Demand Webinar – July 2023 Trainer: Dr. Crystal Wildes emdr-advanced-trainings |
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EMDR and Disordered Eating- Live or OnDemand Webinar Trainer: Cassie Krajewski emdr-advanced-trainings |
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EMDR & Ego States Winter 2023- Live or OnDemand Webinar Trainer: Jessica Downs emdr-advanced-trainings |
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EMDR Recent Events & Early Interventions – On Demand Webinar Trainer: Rebecca Kase emdr-advanced-trainings |
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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.
Kase & CO is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. Kase & CO Courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.