Advanced EMDR training with Robin Shapiro

9am-4:30pm each day with a one hour lunch break each day

Day 1: Mixed Bag: An array of EMDR strategies 

• New EMDR Tools: 2.0, Flash, 4 Blinks 
• MCS, Tinnitus, Pain, Long Covid
• Resourcing Current Safety
  • Why some clients can’t utilize “Safe Place” exercises.

• How to use clients’ current life situations, age, body strength, adult skills, adult support, and time and distance from the past trauma to ground clients in the present and prepare them for trauma reprocessing.
• Facilitating trauma reprocessing and assisting the client to maintain dual awareness of the safe present and the past danger.

• Two-Hand Interweave

• Why and how the somatic exercise of the Two-Hand can be helpful.
• How to use the Two-Hand to differentiate between the past external danger and the present internal fears.
• Using the Two-Hand to differentiate between a projection and the actual other person,
• Using the Two-Hand to differentiate between a destructive cultural or familial belief and a beneficial alternative.

• Anxiety

• Not all anxiety comes from external trauma. How to distinguish between PTSD and body-based anxiety, and how to use EMDR with both.
• A lovely OCD protocol from Marsha Whisman.
• How to lead clients through the past, present and future associations while calming the body, attacking negative cognitions, and leading a full life, despite a having a highly sensitive nervous system.

• Attachment-Focused EMDR

• How to use the therapeutic relationship as a basis for new secure attachment.
• How to utilize attachment-enhancing interventions throughout the arc of the Eight Phases of EMDR therapy, starting with the first client contact, moving through attachment-wise history-taking, and treatment planning, and continuing through appropriate targets, cognitions, and interweaves.

• Jim Knipe, April Steele, Maureen Kitchur
• EMDR for attachment-based Depression

Day 2: Healing Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse & Suicide Assessment and Treatment

Robin Shapiro will guide clinicians to assess and treat the impact of client sexual abuse histories including dissociation, to establish a sense of present-time safety, to free clients from flashbacks, emotions, old sensations, and outdated senses of self so they can live in the present, with new potential for healthy sexuality.

Participants will gain skills in recognizing, understanding, assessing, managing, and treating patients who have suicidal ideation or intent. They will become conversant with the legal and ethical issues surrounding the treatment of suicide. They will gain skills in working with survivors of suicidal family members and the effects of client suicide on providers. They will gain these skills through lectures, videos, discussions, and experiential learning. The outcomes will include more clients with less suicidal ideation and fewer attempts, from clinicians who are competent in bringing this to be.

Cancellation/Refund Policy: To receive a refund in full, participants must cancel no later than 30 days prior to the first day of training. 

Course Materials: Slides and all presentation materials will be emailed to you the day before the training. There will not be any paper copies available at the training.

CEUs

12 EMDRIA CEUs Program Approval Number: coming

12 Alaska LPC CEUs# coming

Certificates will be available at the end of day 2

If you are interested in a non-profit or group discount please email alaskaemdr@gmail.com

WIFI Available 

Feel free to bring your lunch and join us for networking during the break!