Looking Through The Eyes
Instructor: Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D..
Approved for 12.5 Hours of CE Credit
Fulfills License and EMDR Requirements
High Resolution Video
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.
