EMDR and Somatic Therapy

Live: Oct. 24-25th, 2024

Struggling to help your clients attune to their bodies? Ready to overcome the roadblocks in your EMDR practice? Join Alison Leslie in our EMDR and Somatic Therapy course, which is designed specifically for therapists like you who are eager to deepen their skills and enhance their clients’ healing processes. This course addresses the critical pain points you face: understanding and implementing titration and pendulation, integrating somatic therapy into your sessions, and moving beyond cognitive interweaves that aren’t working.

Imagine guiding your clients through their internal experiences with more ease, helping them connect with their bodies and heal more effectively. This course offers practical, hands-on skills to witness the body in new ways, understand memory networks’ impacts, and support clients in navigating both comfortable and uncomfortable sensations. You’ll leave with a robust set of tools to boost your confidence in using body-based interventions and achieve better outcomes for your clients. Join us and transform your approach to EMDR therapy, unlocking new levels of healing for those you serve.

This course will be recorded on Oct. 24-25th, 2024.

Available for synchronous-online or asynchronous-on demand learning.

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Brief overview of training from Alison Leslie:

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Course Details

Understanding the deep connection of how trauma is held in the body can allow clinicians new and essential tools to support their client ‘ s healing.
Combining the power of somatic therapy throughout the 8 phases of EMDR can aid in the therapeutic process and allow clients to come in touch with their internal experience with less fear, more compassion, and increased curiosity in order to heal in powerful ways.

Specific skills and practices will be introduced, including how to witness the body in new ways, a deeper understanding of how implicit and explicit memory networks impact our day -to-day experience, and the importance of pendulation and titration skills. We will put these skills together to help clients lean into their internal experience with more ease, coming into greater connection with sensations that are both comfortable and uncomfortable.

Lastly, we will explore how self-protective mechanisms can be thwarted in overwhelming experiences and how to help the body move toward resolution.
You will walk away from this course with new insights and clinical tools to support yourself and your clients during the therapeutic experience.

Schedule

Day 1

  • 9:00 – 9:15 – Welcome, Overview of Day 1, Creating a Nest
  • 9:15 – 9:30 – History of Somatic Therapy and quick overview of EMDR
  • 9:30 – 10:00 – Defining Trauma
  • 10:00 – 10:05 – Break
  • 10:05 – 10:40 – PVT and How the Body Remembers
  • 10:40 – 11:15 – Threat Response cycle, video, and experiential activity
  • 11:15 – 11:20 – Break
  • 11:20 – 11:40 – Explicit/Implicit Memory and experiential exercise
  • 11:40 – 12:00 – Faux Window of Tolerance, Co Regulation, joining vs. merging
    dynamics
  • 12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
  • 1:00 – 1:40 – Phase 1 History Taking, through the eyes of the clinician, experiential
  • activity
  • 1:40 – 2:30 – Phase 2 Preparation and Somatic Therapy – Helping the body prepare for EMDR therapy and gaining a connection to the internal state with curiosity and more
    ease

Day 2

  • 9:00 – 9:10 – Welcome back, overview of the day, Q and A

  • 9:10 – 9:30 – Phase 2: Healthy Touch

  • 9:30 – 10:00: Phase 2 Somatic exercises to support increase capacity, video examples

  • 10:00 – 10:15: Coupling and Uncoupling dynamics in Phase 3

  • 9:45 – 10:30 – Phase 4: Observing the Body in Phase 4 and supporting completion through interweaves

  • 10:40 – 11:00 – Phase 4: Helping the Body know it Survived

  • 11:00 – 11:30 – Phase 4: Completion

  • 11:30 – 12:00 – Phase 5: Installation

  • 12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch

  • 1:00 – 1:10 – Somatic Exercise

  • 1:10 – 1:30 – Phase 6, body Scan and Phase 7 Closure with Somatic techniques

  • 1:30 – 1:45 – Phase 8 Re-evaluation; continuing to witness the body as a marker of change

  • 1:45 – 1:50 – Break

  • 1:50 – 2:30 – Working through stuck points: When clients override the body; extra support for increased safety with dissociation, and Q and A

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.

Learning Objectives

  • Integrate somatic therapy techniques throughout the eight phases of EMDR.

  • Evaluate embodiment exercises to support clients coming into contact with the body in new ways

  • Appraise the use of pendulation and titration techniques to expand a client’s window of tolerance.

  • Apply somatic therapy interventions in Phase 4 Desensitization to facilitate target reprocessing.

  • Support clients in developing interoception and somatic awareness as a vital Phase 2 Preparation technique.

  • Identify how implicit memory, somatic cues, and patterns are held and experienced in the body.

  • Apply the threat response cycle to case conceptualization and where a client is stuck in this cycle.

  • Evaluate healthy strategies for self-touch with clients and how these skills can add to healing and preparation phases.

  • Apply tracking of the internal experience and channels of processing to support a client’s healing process.

Pricing

Fee: $280

Payment is accepted via credit or debit card.

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techniques covered:

  • Titration

  • Pendulation

  • SIBAM, a cornerstone of Somatic Experiencing to support completion of somatically held trauma

  • Tracking of sensations

  • Completion of thwarted motor movements that were incompleted in the moment of the overwhelming experience

  • Invitational language and how this supports safety while enhancing and deepening into the language of sensation

  • Somatically designed phase 2 preparation activities

  • Somatically supportive interweaves to support looping and blocked processing

  • Increased access to the body to ensure phase 6 body scan is complete and accurate

  • Self Touch exercise

concepts covered:

  • Polyvagal theory

  • Faux Window of Tolerance

  • Shock Trauma and Developmental Trauma

  • How trauma is held in the body and gets “stuck”, leading us out of the rhythm of life

  • Inviting how to get back into the rhythm of life

  • The experience of using titration and pendulation together to support finding the edge of distress without overwhelm

research covered:

  • Polyvagal Theory

  • Somatic Therapy/Somatic Experiencing

  • Bottom up Processing
    EMDR

  • Importance of touch in healing trauma

  • Faux Window of Tolerance

Alison Leslie

About Your Trainer, Alison Leslie

Alison is a licensed clinical social worker who lives in Bloomington, IN and owns her own private practice, Empower Healing.

Alison approaches therapy through the lens of presence and attunement and believes in being a guide to help clients find their own internal healing powers. She has a background in animal-assisted services and includes the human-animal bond and nature in the therapeutic experience. Alison Leslie is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Transforming Touch Therapist as well as an EMDRIA-approved therapist and consultant, advanced trainer, Basic Training facilitator, and EMDR Basic Training trainer-in-training with Kase and CO.

In consultation, Alison likes to meet the consultee where they are at and support helping the consultee become embodied in the work they are doing and lean into their own internal guide as she supports growth in EMDR skills and Somatic Therapy through openness, curiosity, and compassion.

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. ACE, 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. You may retake the post-test as needed. Once completed, a CE certificate will auto-populate to your online account.

Cancellation Policy

Refunds are not available for on-demand courses.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

ACE Approved Provider

Kase & CO, #1869, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/16/2024 – 1/16/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6 total credits clinical continuing education credits.

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 Provider

Kase & CO is an EMDRIA Approved Training Provider. Kase & CO courses are individually approved. CE Certificate will contain course approval number.