Interweave Strategies for Unblocking Blocked Processing (Parts 1 & 2)
We’ll be discussing Clients who have early childhood abuse and neglect or other childhood traumas, often loop in the child memory networks and need interweaves to help get the processing back on track. I have found that they tend to benefit particularly from resource and imagination interweaves enabling them to create healing scenarios, which repair past hurts and places of frozen impulses. Inquiry interweaves can also be helpful to link networks together, and to sort out threads that don’t belong. In this second tele-consultation on interweaves we will discuss:
- several approaches to take if you suspect your client is looping or stuck
- how and when to use interweaves
- how interweaves can be used in attachment-repair
- interweave steps
- common pitfalls
- what to do if the interweave doesn’t work
- the use of rescue interweaves to close sessions
- interweave categories and how to use them, including: inquiry, truth, resource, imagination, sorting, and education
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Working with Abreactions and Dissociation
Many of our clients with early childhood trauma are afraid of the intensity of the EMDR processing sessions. They are easily triggered in daily life and fear becoming overwhelmed in their therapy. Some of these clients feel themselves separate from their bodies and float away when they are overwhelmed by emotions they cannot tolerate. The focus of this consultation will be working with high levels of affect, and techniques for managing dissociation during EMDR sessions. In this tele-consultation we will discuss ways to:
- use somatic resources to ground clients
- determine if the affect is too much for the client and what to do
- discover the cause of the dissociation
- manage countertransference reactions to high affect and dissociation
- help therapists with self-care following intense EMDR sessions
Price: $50.00 USD
This tele-consultation will focus on questions you might have in developing and selecting the best targets. Finding the best target for your EMDR session can be challenging, especially when there isn’t an obvious event linked to the symptoms or presenting problem. I have found that I get the best treatment effect if I can find the target that is most directly linked to the client’s symptoms or problems. A few key points we might discuss are:
- How to find targets when there are no clear memories
- When to use the bridging technique and when to target a current situation
- How to bridge from triggers, transference, emotions, and negative cognitions
- How to develop a target from a physical symptom
- What to do if the target changes mid-session
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Using EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children Part 1 & 2
Using EMDR with adults abused as children can be particularly challenging. These clients who have been harmed by adults are often wary of trusting their therapists, and trusting EMDR to help them through the painful memories. They need more ego strengthening, attachment repair, and tend to get stuck in loops when processing painful early memories. Many clients with childhood abuse dissociate, get flooded, or numb out while processing. Working with these clients requires us to have advanced understanding of EMDR as well as the issues they present with.In this teleconsultation series we will discuss:
- Resource installation for client preparation, ego strengthening and attachment repair
- Tips for successful target development
- Helpful modifications of the standard EMDR procedural steps
- Interventions to help clients who experience problems during EMDR processing including dissociation and memory chaining
- How to recognize blocked processing and find the cause
- Techniques and suggestions for unblocking blocked processing
- Techniques for closing incomplete sessions
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Strategies for Managing Challenging Clinical Situations
EMDR at its best is like a miracle cure, especially for clients with single incident PTSD. But few EMDR therapists work exclusively with this population. Most of us work with clients who have troubled childhoods, and multiple layers of trauma that result in negative self-beliefs, patterns of dysfunctional behaviors and problematic interpersonal relationships. There are times with we hit roadblocks in our EMDR work with clients, or simply don’t know how to make use of EMDR. We may not know how to find our way to the root of the problem and feel lost. We may have clients who process in idiosyncratic ways, like the clients who want continuous bilateral stimulation and want to talk all the time.
This tele-consultation will focus on some of the most frequently asked questions that arise in consultation. Many therapists encounter situations that stymie them, scare them, or confuse them, thus creating roadblocks to their use of EMDR in further sessions.
Questions might include:
- How long do I let my client talk and process?
- What do I do if my client dissociates?
- What do I do for a client who frequently loops and gets stuck?
- How do I know when to do an interweave?
- How do I find EMDR targets for something that is vague?
- How long should I let my client process before I return to target?
- What do I do with a client who can’t follow and/or “resists” the standard protocol?
- How much resourcing and preparation should I do? How do I know if they are ready?
- What do I do with a client who had a great EMDR session, but now doesn’t want to do it again?
- How do I know if my client is a good candidate for EMDR?
- How do I use EMDR with clients who have significant present–day problems, but no obvious precipitating incidents to target with EMDR?
- I can’t tell with some clients how long to go with the bilateral stimulation and when to stop
- How to conceptualize cases when the client presents with “vague issues” such as low self-esteem, with no discernable associated traumas?
Price: $50.00 USD
Case Formulation and Target Development
It is important in EMDR therapy to develop a good working case formulation that will guide your treatment. Although EMDR was developed for treating posttraumatic stress disorder, clients seek EMDR to treat a range of presenting problems. These include difficulties with relationships, employment, anxiety about performance, self-esteem problems, depression, anxiety, phobias, substance abuse, eating disorders, grief or an overriding malaise. EMDR is also effective in treating complex trauma from childhood physical and sexual abuse. In this teleconsultation we will discuss some guidelines for case formulation.
Including:
- Assessing client’s readiness for EMDR trauma processing work
- Ideas about how to take a good history without overwhelming your clients
- How to focus the treatment
- Suggestions for evaluating ego strength, affect tolerance and rapport
- How to create a symptom-focused treatment plan
- How to use the three-part protocol
- How to find targets for EMDR processing when the client reports no memories
- When to use Resource Tapping, and when to do EMDR trauma processing
- How to work with issues or problems that don’t have obvious precipating incidents or traumas
- How to use the bridging technique to find the best EMDR targets
Price: $50.00 USD
Working with Addictions and Problematic Behaviors
Many people who have suffered the effects of trauma, either as adults or as children, find that substances, or behaviors help to relieve some of their pain– if only for a short while. Clients from unstable childhood homes, who have insecure attachment, may also turn to addictions as a way of managing anxiety and providing emotional regulation. EMDR and Resource Tapping™ (or resource installation) can be used to support clients in recovery to better handle urges and triggers to use. They can be used to reprocess the traumas that destabilize and threaten clients’ sobriety, and help to create a more stable internal base from which to build recovery.
In this tele-consultation we will discuss strategies for integrating EMDR and into the treatment of addictions and problematic behaviors. We will discuss ways to:
- Use Resource Tapping™ to manage anxiety, increase ego functioning and self-esteem
- Enhance motivation for recovery
- Deactivate urges and triggers
- Use the bridging technique for locating EMDR targets linked to a trigger
- Connect the consequences of the addiction
Bring in your cases and questions and I will see what I can do to offer you some suggestions. I look forward to our next meeting.
Price: $50.00 USD
Case Formulation and Target Development… Continued
It is important in EMDR therapy to develop a good working case formulation that will guide your treatment. Although EMDR was developed for treating post-traumatic stress disorder, clients seek EMDR to treat a range of presenting problems. These include difficulties with relationships, employment, anxiety about performance, self-esteem problems, depression, anxiety, phobias, substance abuse, eating disorders, grief, or an overriding malaise. EMDR is also effective in treating complex trauma from childhood physical and sexual abuse. In this Tele-Consultation we will discuss some guidelines for case formulation, including:
- Assessing client’s readiness for EMDR trauma processing work
- Ideas about how to take a good history without overwhelming your clients
- Suggestions for evaluating ego strength, affect tolerance and rapport
- How to create a symptom-focused treatment plan
- How to work with issues or problems that don’t have obvious precipitating incidents or traumas
- How to use the three-part protocol
- How to find targets for EMDR processing when the client reports no memories
Price: $50.00 USD