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A Return to the Walk in the Park:

Twists and Turns Along the Path to Healing with EMDR Therapy

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Virtual
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9 Total Sessions
Clinical
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Registration Fee
$350

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Description

If you are looking for a full review of the foundations of EMDR Therapy, you are in the right place. This course will help guide those who may have drifted away from their EMDR practice or did not get the Basic Training experience they had hoped for. If you want to build confidence in your EMDR Therapy skills and refresh yourself on foundations and basics, this training is for you! This course will review the Standard EMDR Protocol as it is most currently taught and used as a comprehensive psychotherapy. Case conceptualization through the Adaptive Information Processing Model (AIP) as informing treatment planning will be reviewed and illustrated through case material. Case examples will be used throughout to delineate simple PTSD from complex trauma to clearly understand the various treatment options that could unfold at each stage of the VIII phases of treatment. Clinical choice points will be taught regarding how and when to develop a targeting treatment plan and how to choose your entry point for processing. More titrated procedures for processing trauma material will be discussed/taught and included in the treatment options. 

 

This training is divided into eight modules and a bonus content section. The lectures will help therapists consider the following: how to assess current and past trauma, current relational stances, and developmental history; indicators for longer preparation stages with a host of additional, extended resources and tools; how to assist with greater affect regulation tailored to patient’s particular issue(s); building a treatment plan that is individually tailored and knowing when to modify that treatment plan if relevant issues emerge that require modification of the treatment plan. Special attention will be paid to common mistakes and how to avoid them. Each day, time will be spent reviewing/teaching/practicing protocols and procedures that are useful to have in one’s back pocket for clinical use as needed, such as EMD (Shapiro, F., Loving Eyes procedures (Knipe, J.), Constant Installation of Present Safety (Knipe, J), Complex Trauma Resourcing (Fisher, J).

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • EMDRIA® Credits
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • • EMDRIA® Credits
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this course is to review the foundations of EMDR therapy.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the AIP Model as the basis of EMDR therapy (technique vs. comprehensive psychotherapy) and as applicable to case conceptualization and treatment planning.

  • Explain the EMDR Targeting Plan for organizing trauma processing.

  • Assess a client’s dual awareness to determine readiness for EMDR processing.

  • Apply window of tolerance principles to the assessment of client readiness for EMDR processing.

  • Utilize the Standard 3-prong protocol for complex PTSD.

  • Explain 2 or more techniques that can be used to resume blocked processing.

  • Identify dissociative symptoms that can arise spontaneously during processing and describe how to manage them.

  • Assess when to use the “Constant Installation of Present Orientation and Safety” CIPOS method with clients to access and resolve highly disturbing memory material.

  • Identify and apply the Back of the Head Scale to effectively determine a client’s orientation to present safety.

  • Identify 3 or more newer interventions to use when clients are ‘stuck’ in old adaptational/defensive styles and without compassion for their traumatized selves.

  • Apply the AIP Model to case conceptualization and treatment planning.

  • Utilize the Standard 3-prong protocol with simple case presentations.

References

  • Hensley, B. J. (2016). An EMDR therapy primer: From practicum to practice. Springer Publishing Company, LLC.

  • Maxfield, L., & Hyer, L. (2002). The relationship between efficacy and methodology in studies investigating EMDR treatment of PTSD. Journal of clinical psychology, 58(1), 23–41. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.1127

  • Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy: Basic principles, protocols, and procedures. The Guilford Press.

Intermediate
Clinical
Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 12 General continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

EMDRIA® Credits

EMDRIA Credit provider # 12012 is approved by the EMDR International Association to offer 12 EMDRIA® Credits for this program, approval #12012-25. The provider maintains responsibility for the program.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Ethical and Professional Development, Legal

EMDRIA® Credits

EMDRIA Credit provider # 12012 is approved by the EMDR International Association to offer 12 EMDRIA® Credits for this program, approval #12012-25. The provider maintains responsibility for the program.

CE Policy
This training is an on-demand (home study) version of a training that was broadcast live on July 29 - 30, 2022. As such, some information may refer to live events or activities that occurred during that training but that are not included or applicable to the on-demand version. Presenters may refer to products, services or websites from third parties. Presenters have affiliate arrangements with these third parties that may result in a small commission to the presenters. Presenters may refer to their own published literature, materials, or services. Presenters will receive financial support for any sales made of these items. For questions regarding these disclosures, please contact either training at [email protected] or [email protected]
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Carol Miles, MSW, LCSW

Carol Miles MSW, LCSW, a clinical social worker specializing in individual psychotherapy, maintains a private practice with adolescent and adult clients. She also provides training and consultation for therapists developing skills in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR Therapy) under her Three Rivers Training Center. Most of her training and therapy is virtual since March 2020. She currently specializes in offering intensive EMDR Therapy to address trauma and healing.

A graduate of the LSU School of Social Work, Carol specializes in Clinical Social Work, with over 30 years of experience as a social worker in clinical, administration, and marketing with the public and private sectors. Among her areas of expertise are working with clients who have eating disorders and trauma. She is certified in EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy) by EMDRIA (EMDR International Association) and has additional training in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). Carol has often presented at statewide conferences and to general audiences on topics ranging from Eating Disorders, Assertiveness, EMDR Therapy, DBT, and Developing a Private Practice. She taught as an adjunct professor at the Tulane School of Social Work from 1998-2018.

Additionally, she is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and an EMDRIA Approved Provider of EMDR Therapy Training. She has been a member of EMDRIA since 2008, shortly after being trained in EMDR Therapy in New Orleans. As a volunteer for EMDRIA, she served as a member and co-chair of the Conference Committee and chair of the University Special Interest Group. She founded and is the Regional Co-Coordinator of the South Louisiana EMDR Network, stepping down in 2022. In 2017, she was elected to serve on the EMDRIA Board of Directors, 2017-2021. She served a 2-year term as the President of EMDRIA, 2019-2020.

Karen Alter-Reid, PhD

Karen Alter-Reid, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Stamford, Connecticut. She is a clinician, teacher, specialty presenter, and consultant.  Dr. Alter-Reid maintains a private practice providing treatment for individuals with acute traumatic stress conditions, anxiety, and life-cycle transitions. Her most recent work focuses on locating and healing trans-generational trauma, bringing a wider lens to her work with patients. Other specialties include working with therapists and first responders as well as retreat-based experiences integrating psychedelic medicines with EMDR Therapy. Dr. Alter-Reid employs an integrative approach which may incorporate relational psychotherapy, EMDR, hypnotherapy, stress management, sensorimotor psychotherapy and/or biofeedback.  These adjunctive techniques are based on cutting-edge research in neuroscience.

Dr. Alter-Reid is the EMDR Senior Consultant to the Integrative Trauma Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City (www.nipinst.org).  The Integrative Trauma Program oversees the post-graduate 9-month Trauma Certificate Program as well as the EMDR Clinical Affiliate Program.  In addition, Dr. Alter-Reid is on faculty in both the Integrative Trauma Program and in the 4 year analytic program.  Dr. Alter-Reid is an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Institute Regional Trainer, Consultant and Specialty Presenter, training clinicians nationally, teaching therapists and University faculty about trauma and training them in EMDR treatment.

In response to the Sandy Hook shootings, Dr. Alter-Reid coordinated the Fairfield County Trauma Recovery Network’s response. This team of seasoned trauma therapists provided treatment and training to families and first responders impacted by the shootings. She co-led a team of trauma therapists for 12 years  as part of a non-profit, Fairfield County Trauma Response Team.

Dr. Alter-Reid also co-created a program, “Therapy for Therapists” which provides trauma treatment to clinicians working with traumatized populations. This intensive treatment approach was pioneered in New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and used in other settings, including clinicians in Sandy Hook.

Dr. Alter-Reid’s work with first responders includes treatment of firefighters, state law enforcement, and special agents in the wake of disasters.  She was involved in active mental health responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast, and to  the Christmas Day Fire in Stamford, CT.

She lectures to local organizations about how trauma affects brain function and how to seek appropriate and helpful treatment. Dr. Alter-Reid has presented on trauma and EMDR to organizations such as the CT State Police Academy, the Stamford Fire Department and the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.  

Big Oak Institute was developed by Dr. Karen Alter-Reid to bring EMDRIA-approved and general trauma training to clinicians in the Northeast and the Tri-State area. As well, Big Oak presents to local first responders and community mental health organizations. 

Dr. Alter-Reid received her B.A. in Psychology at Barnard College, her M.A. in Psychology at Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She completed a postdoctoral certification program in Relational Psychoanalysis at the Mitchell Center in New York City. Dr. Alter-Reid has been in private practice for over 30 years.

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