Looking Through The Eyes
Looking Through The Eyes (12.5 EMDRIA CREDITS)
This new 12.5-hour course is available 24/7 in Online Video format, and requires a High-speed (cable, dsl) connection to the Internet.
This course has same-language subtitles. You will have access to both the subtitled and non-subtitled videos when you purchase this course.
Program Description:
Dr. Paulsen will review key assessment issues in which EMDR practitioners should be alert. Additionally, the workshop will elaborate on the key phase of stabilization, before ever conducting EMDR for a dissociative client. It will describe ways to increase affect tolerance, (employ somatic resourcing, and other somatic methods, for the second workshop), reconfigure ego states. A key focus is on working directly perpetrator introjects or other “monstrous” disowned or shameful parts, to minimize resistance and internal conflict. Leading Edge methods for resetting affective circuits and clearing very early attachment trauma will be touched upon.
The workshop will highlight how, once readiness for EMDR has been achieved, a clinician can use relevant ego state strategies and imagery to ensure that the client’s self-system is engaged and informed about the process, has sufficient internal resources to process through traumatic material while maintaining dual-attention awareness. The workshop draws on hypnotic tradition for strategies for pacing and fractionating trauma work, and allowing consolidation of gains and synthesis between pieces of work. Dissociative table (conference room) methods are discussed in the context of use within and outside of EMDR. Ego state, (somatic, for the second workshop) and Imaginal Interweaves are suggested for “looping” or stuck EMDR processes. Pseudoseizures, headaches, and mutism are also discussed in terms of ego state work within EMDR. Finally, we’ll touch on EMDR assisted skills building, integration and fusion methods in the later stages of the work.
Goals & Objectives:
- Explain why and when to assess every client for degree of dissociation prior to doing EMDR and choose an appropriate protocol.
- Utilize a phased approach to therapy, including EMDR when and where appropriate, for complex dissociative clients.
- List six tactics of stabilizing clients, prior to doing EMDR for dissociative clients to increase rapport, increase soma tolerance, contain affect, orient to present circumstances, reduce inner conflict, and build coping resources.
- Prepare for EMDR processing using ego state and other methods to clarify roles and plan the work.
- Structure EMDR session using imagery, ego state interventions (and somatic methods, for the second workshop) for pacing, fractionating and troubleshooting the work.
After purchasing the course, you will instantly be taken to to your Online Classroom page containing instructions and all course materials. You may begin the course at any time. When you've finished taking the course, you will complete an online program evaluation and post-test, and print your Certificate of Completion to receive CE credits. For detailed purchase instructions, please click here.
Looking Through The Eyes of Trauma And Dissociation
This book is created with over 100 original cartoons so that not only therapists can understand the treatment of traumatic dissociation, but their clients can as well. It describes the use of ego state therapy in preparation for trauma work, especially EMDR.
This book can purchased on Amazon.com through the link below:
On Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation – by Sandra Paulsen
“Among clinicians who value EMDR one often discovers a curious tendency to discuss the treatment of various conditions from what may not be appreciated to be a patient-remote perspective -- “How do I use EMDR to treat this?” Searching for “the right protocol” at times overrides the search for a more nuanced understanding of the individual patient for whom EMDR treatment is proposed. In Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation Sandra Paulsen avoids these traps. She has written an incredibly accessible book that offers clinicians straight-forward assistance in understanding and undertaking the treatment of complex chronic dissociative disorders. Wisely, Paulsen works within the frame of Jack and Helen Watkins’ ego state therapy, itself a clear and user-friendly paradigm with universal applicability. The deceptive simplicity of Paulsen’s style and cartoons is a virtue in discussing such complex matters. It provides a wonderful platform not only for conveying cognitive material and technical advice, but also for communicating constructive attitudes respectful to the patient, the condition, and the requirements of the therapeutic process. While this book is subtitled “An Illustrated Guide for EMDR Therapists and Clients,” its ego state framework offers perspectives far more universal than the EMDR model. Therefore, it has much wider applicability that its subtitle would suggest. Its valuable remarks about the stance of the therapist toward various problems and issues permit me to recommend this book for any therapist beginning to work with DID/DDNOS patients, even if that therapist has no interest whatsoever in EMDR.” Richard P. Kluft, MD.