EMDR Core Skills Certificate Training Course: A Self-Paced Online Program for Treating PTSD, Complex Trauma and More
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EMDR Core Skills Training
Introducing our first ever EMDR Foundations course — a step-by-step training on how to use EMDR therapy to safely and effectively treat any kind of trauma.
Join one of the most sought-after EMDR trainers Stacy Ruse, LPC, as she teaches you a highly empirically validated and rapid treatment so you can help clients gently reprocess trauma and free themselves from their painful pasts — with many clients experiencing significant improvement in just a few sessions.
Learn Stacy’s distinctively integrative and client-led approach that will help you create a compassionate and customized healing environment for each unique client you treat.
Whether you're new to EMDR or looking for a refresher, this course is the perfect fit. When you register, you'll get:
- A clear clinical roadmap to seamlessly implement all 8-phases of EMDR
- Video demos with real clients and therapist-to-therapist commentary, so you know exactly what to expect in a session
- Printable assessments, scales, scripts, and more to make therapy easier
- Integrative techniques from IFS, somatic, and other in-demand approaches to overcome dissociation and other clinical roadblocks
This is your chance to take the first step in the journey to become an EMDR clinician and change your clients' lives forever.
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify how the neurobiology of trauma informs EMDR as a robust treatment approach.
- Compare the nervous system’s flight, fight, freeze, and fright responses as related to trauma treatment.
- Differentiate between single incident and complex trauma.
- Analyze the role of information processing in trauma.
- Define how memory malleability impacts the treatment of clients with traumatic memories.
- Determine simple and complex trauma using valid self-assessment tools.
- Use bottom-up techniques to increase a felt sense of safety in clients.
- Determine when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
- Develop plans for working with crisis in clients who’ve experienced trauma.
- Analyze EMDR’s placement as an evidence-based treatment used for trauma.
- Evaluate potential risks and limitations in using EMDR therapy.
- Identify how to use cognitive interweaves.
- Choose EMDR techniques to assist clients in de-escalating trauma associated triggers.
- Select somatic techniques to reduce client’s body memories, flashbacks, and dissociation.
- Use client-driven imagery and exercises to enhance a sense of safety.
- Analyze Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing model as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Evaluate the status of EMDR therapy’s evidence base in treating other psychiatric conditions.
- Identify how the original eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol relate to clinical treatment.
- Determine resourcing exercises to use prior to processing traumatic material.
- Identify contraindications for utilizing EMDR therapy for trauma treatment.
- Determine how to share EMDR-focused psychoeducation with your clients.
- Identify how to use the three-pronged approach in clinical practice.
- Determine EMDR skills utilized for processing traumatic memories.
- Identify the basic principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR and its use in the treatment of trauma.
- Determine the appropriateness of using EMDR in virtual sessions.
- Identify risks associated with virtual EDMR that should be included in a clinician’s informed consent documentation.
- Utilize a plan to intervene in crisis level situations when delivering EMDR virtually.
- Determine how to use bilateral stimulation techniques in person and via video in the EMDR process.
- Determine how to adapt EMDR for working with children and adolescents.
- Identify and mitigate potential barriers to progress for in-session and/or telehealth sessions when using the EMDR protocol.
Outline
What You Need to Know About Complex Trauma & Neurobiology
- Practical Polyvagal & Neuroscience
- Trauma symptomology presentations & what they mean
- The relationship between “window of tolerance” and dual attention
- Why ACES is important when using EMDR
Get Started with EMDR Therapy
- Know when and how to start EMDR safety
- Proper assessment for trauma and dissociation
- Methods, forms, use, and set-up of Bilateral Stimulation
- Must-know red-flags in trauma processing
- Determine client suitability & readiness for trauma processing
- Handle crises, suicidality, substance use, etc.
- Identity treatment risks, limitations and potential roadblocks
- EMDR research as evidence-based treatment & comparison research
The AIP model: How EMDR Incorporates Adaptive Information Processing
- EMDR as an integrative approach
- Harness the power of the active components of EMDR
- Clinical implications of using dual awareness
- Core principles, focus, and clinical understanding
- Know the 3-Pronged Approach
Fundamentals & Demonstrations of the EMDR Standard Protocol & 8 Phases
- Real demonstrations of the 8 Phase Model, complete and incomplete sessions
- Know what to treat first: Single and multiple issues presentations
- Accurate and effective history taking, case conceptualization, and treatment planning
- Expert preparation & safe resourcing
- Practice the effective EMDR interventions (Container, calm place, etc.)
- Setting up the EMDR Protocol for an EMDR Session
- Demos of complete and incomplete EMDR sessions
Step-by-Step Instruction of EMDR Standard Protocol & 8 Phase Model
- History & Treatment Planning
- Past, Present, & Future Prongs
- Preparation & Resources review
- Assessment & Target Set-up
- Mechanics and set-up details
- Stop signal and metaphors
- Goals & TICES
- Identifying effective Negative & Positive Cognitions
- Floatback Technique
- Channels
- Desensitization
- Begin processing phase
- EMDR classic statements
- When to return to target
- Taking SUD
- Titrating target
- Stuck processing, feeder memories, blocking beliefs, and more
- Installation
- Goals
- Installation of positive cognition & VoC
- Body scan
- Goals & Procedure
- Closure
- Goals & Instruction
- Closing completes target & closing incomplete session
- Re-evaluation
- Goals & other considerations
- Demonstrations and Practice Reprocessing Phase of EMDR
EMDR Additions, Adaptations & Overcome Challenges
- Overcome Deadlock, Blocking & Looping
- Practice Protocol and Interweaves
- Use Cognitive Interweaves and Parts Interweaves
- Working with anger, guilt, shame & other common problems
- Types, make up, and examples of interweaves
- Working with Parts of Self & Part interweaves
- Somatic & Attachment-based EMDR for resolving Relational Trauma
- Considerations and adaptations working with children & adolescents
- Best practices for virtual EMDR
- Legal and ethical consideration
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psych Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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Trauma-Focused Tapping Techniques
Tapping is part of many of today’s most used therapeutic trauma treatments including EMDR therapy and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).
With simple tools clients can use to self-regulate and manage their emotional well-being, tapping is an accessible therapeutic approach that puts the power of healing directly in their own hands.
And because it empowers clients to take an active role in their healing, the therapeutic process becomes a collaborative and mutually supportive endeavor, lightening the load and fostering a sense of shared responsibility for growth and well-being.
These techniques fit with virtually any treatment approach, making tapping a versatile and adaptable tool to help clients release emotional blockages, reprocess distressing memories, and promote the integration of mind, body, and emotions.
Now in this immersive training, Stacy Ruse, LPC, a seasoned expert in trauma therapy, will guide you through how these techniques can be integrated into your practice to access deeper layers of healing and guide clients towards transformation.
By the end of this training, you will walk away with a toolkit filled with practical techniques that can be implemented immediately in your practice so you can:
- Build in resources with even your most complex cases
- Enhance engagement and adherence to therapy
- Fill in developmental and attachment deficits
- Better prepare clients for deeper work
- And more!
Don’t miss this chance to build the skills and confidence to integrate tapping into your own practice.
Purchase today!
Program Information
Objectives
- Examine the mechanisms of action underlying the effectiveness of acupressure techniques in psychotherapy.
- Describe the integration of acupoint stimulation into exposure and cognitive therapies in the evidence-based form of EFT for the treatment of PTSD.
- Understand the core components of Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) in the context of trauma treatment, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and tactile stimulation.
- Use EMDR resourcing techniques with clients to build and enhance self-regulation, ego strength, and secure attachment.
- Use brief EMDR derived techniques with integrity to core elements of EMDR therapy to increase stability, enhance emotional regulation, and improve relational difficulties for clients.
- Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to assist in decreasing unwanted symptoms from traumatic stress, anxiety, depression & pain.
Outline
Tapping Fundamentals
- Types of Tapping and Bilateral Stimulation (BLS)
- Understanding the Distinctions: EMDR,
- Resource Installation, Resource Tapping, and Meridian Tapping
- Setting Clear Goals for Tapping and its Application in Healing
- Embracing a Holistic Approach to Tapping for Comprehensive Healing
How Tapping Works: The Science & Mechanisms of Action
- The Impact of Polyvagal Theory in Trauma Healing
- Understanding Bilateral Stimulation
- How does BLS Work? Mechanisms of Action
- Inner Workings of Meridian Tapping
- Therapeutic Benefits and Applications
Assessing Client Readiness for Tapping
- Signs of Readiness for Tapping Techniques
- Factors Impacting Readiness: Trauma History, Emotional Regulation, and Resourcing
- Assessing Client Preferences and Comfort Level with Tapping
Resource Tapping for Cultivating Calm, Connection, and Empowerment
- The Role of Resource Tapping in Restoring Emotional Balance
- Fostering a Therapeutic Environment of Safety and Trust
- How to Identify Needed Resources of Your Client
- Integrating Resource Tapping into a Comprehensive Therapeutic Approach
Step-by-Step Instruction: Using Tapping Techniques from EFT and EMDR in Your Trauma Treatment
- When to Do and With Who
- General BLS Instructions
- Eyes Open or Closed: Choosing the Optimal Visual Focus
- Felt-Sense Connection: Tapping into Sensations and Bodily Awareness
- EMDR Resource Tapping Techniques
- Peaceful/Sacred Place
- Protective, Nurturing & Wise Figures
- Safe Enough Now Exercise
- Awaken Self-Energy Resourcing
- Radiate Love-Light
- Meridian Tapping: EFT Strategies to Restore Balance and Release Emotional Blocks
- Tapping for Individuals & Groups
- Pitfalls to Avoid and Common Challenges
- Demonstrations and Practice
Evidence, Research Limitations and Treatment Risks
- Examining the Existing Research on EFT and Tapping Techniques
- Studies and Meta-Analyses Supporting the Effectiveness of Tapping
- Challenges to the Research and Research Limitations
- Addressing Potential Risks in Tapping
- Contraindications and Other Considerations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Substance Use Disorders Counselors
- Psychiatrists
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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