3-Day EMDR Intensive Training: Neuroscience, Diagnosis and State of the Art Practices to Treat Complex Trauma 1/8/2020-1/10/2020
Join trauma specialist, author and national trainer, Megan Howard, LCSW, CCTP, for this intensive 3-day EMDR training that will provide you the knowledge and skills needed to use EMDR safely and effectively. Through lecture, live and videotaped EMDR demonstrations, and supervised experiential exercises, this training will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of trauma theory, principles, diagnosis and EMDR treatment.
The stage model remains today’s state-of-the-art treatment approach for all but single-incident trauma. During this training, you will learn the goals of each stage, along with the therapeutic tools to reach those goals.
You must be present for all 3 days of EMDR training to receive the hours of training certificate. CEUs will be emailed by PESI after paperwork has been processed.
Cost is $700.00 per ticket
Schedule:
Wednesday January 8th, 2020
- Registration 7:30am-8:00am
- Training 8:00am-11:50am
- Lunch 11:50am-1:00pm (Lunch on your own)
- Training 1:00pm-4:00pm
Thursday January 9th, 2020
- Training 8:00am-11:50am
- Lunch 11:50am-1:00pm (Lunch on your own)
- Training 1:00pm-4:00pm
Friday January 10th, 2020
- Training 8:00am-11:50am
- Lunch 11:50am-1:00pm (Lunch on your own)
- Training 1:00pm-4:00pm
Program Outline:
Neuroscience of Trauma, Effective Assessment and DSM-5® Diagnostic Criteria
Neuroscience’s Current Trauma Paradigm
Biological nature of trauma
- Triune Brain, The Autonomic Nervous System and the Stress Response
- The Polyvagal Theory
- Traumatic Stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental
Specific trauma symptoms
Primary treatment issues in trauma therapy
Trauma’s Somatic and Sensorimotor Sequelae
- Hyperarousal
- Hypoarousal
- Dissociation, body memories and “flashbacks” Affect dysregulation
Trauma and Attachment
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study)
Attachment Essentials
- Baby/momma trauma
- Insecure Attachment Styles Assessment and Primary Treatment Issues of:
- Avoidant
- Preoccupied
- Disorganized type
Assessment and Diagnosis of Trauma Disorders
Current Trauma Diagnoses:
- Acute Trauma Disorder
- PTSD and subtypes
- Dissociative
- Preschool
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Proposed Trauma Diagnoses
- Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
- Complex PTSD
Trauma Treatment: Effective Tools, Treatment Modalities, and an Introduction EMDR
The Stage Model of Treatment
- Assessment, Rapport, Psychoeducation
- Developing the “Skills to Stay Stable”
- Trauma Tools for Affect Regulation
- Recognizing and regulating affect
- Dissociative episodes and “flashbacks”
- Grounding clients in their bodies and back in the present in the here and now
- Mindfulness/bodyfulness (including somatic exercises)
- Multisensory Guided Imagery
- EFT (meridian tapping)
- Reduction of physiological arousal
- Recognizing and up & down regulating arousal levels
- Containment and self-soothing
- Stage One: Stabilization and Safety
Stage Two: Working Through Traumatic Memories
- Brief overview of the theory and applicability of three trauma processing modalities:
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP)
- Somatic Experiencing (SE)
- EMDR
Practice EMDR for both Resourcing and Trauma Processing
Live EMDR demonstration followed by experiential sessions
Under Supervision, Learn and Safely Practice the Skills of EMDR for Both Phase One and Two
Phase One Work: Imaginal Resourcing
- Containment Imagery
- Comfortable Place Imagery
- Protection Imagery and/or Nurture Imagery
Phase Two Work: Reprocessing Traumatic Memories
Limitations of Research and Potential Risk
- Contraindications and precautions for reprocessing trauma
- Differences in theory and in the associated neurophysiological models are a matter of ongoing discussion
Objectives:
1. Evaluate the biological nature of trauma and how trauma is stored in the body and limbic system, creating physical and psychological symptoms to better understand your clients.
2. Differentiate between sympathetic (activated) freeze response and the parasympathetic (deactivated) dorsal vagal immobilization response your clients experience.
3. Distinguish between the following types of traumatic stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental and articulate treatment considerations for each.
4. Ascertain the clinical implications of traumatic stress symptomology, including hyperarousal, affect dysregulation, dissociation, body memories, and flashbacks.
5. Employ effective somatic techniques to reduce/eliminate client’s body memories, “flashbacks” and dissociation.
6. Summarize the landmark study: Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and understand the ten adverse childhood experiences studied as they related to clinical diagnosis and assessment.
7. Evaluate the clinical presentation of the following attachment styles as it relates to your clinical assessment: secure vs insecure; insecure; organized vs insecure disorganized.
8. Designate two different treatment strategies, once attachment style has been ascertained, based on your clients’ attachment style.
9. Demonstrate strategies to help clients build skills to be prepared to process trauma via EMDR, including safety within the therapeutic alliance and skills for self-regulation.
10. Determine when/if your client is prepared to safely process trauma memories via EMDR.
11. Create and employ client-driven imagery for safety and containment during trauma processing.
12. Utilize clinical techniques to help with grounding and centering traumatized clients in-session.
13. Prepare clients with various trauma tools; mindfulness, guided imagery and meridian-based techniques to decrease client’s arousal levels and modulate affect.
14. Analyze and critique the original eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol (Shapiro) as it relates to clinical treatment.
15. Determine Parnell’s four essential elements of each EMDR session and how it relates to client treatment.
16. Practice under supervision Parnell’s Modified EMDR protocol to prepare for work with your clients in-session.
17. Practice under supervision the skill for resourcing a client with imaginal resources prior to processing traumatic material.
18. Practice under supervision the trauma processing modality and EDMR tools for processing traumatic memories with your clients.
19. Utilize and practice two “cues for safety” with your clients based on Steve Porges’ Polyvagal Theory.
Continuing Education Credits – all 3 days
Addiction Counselors: This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 19.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
Counselors: This intermediate activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Montana Counselors: The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of instruction.
Marriage & Family Therapists: This activity consists of 1140 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
Montana Marriage & Family Therapists: The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute
(MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of instruction.
EMDRIA: This training is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify towards EMDRIA credits or training.
Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists: PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- Nurses in full attendance will earn 19.0 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.
Psychologists: This live activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline and the certificate of completion you receive from this live activity. Contact us for more information on your state board or organization specific filing requirements. American Psychological Association credits are not available.
Montana Psychologists: This live activity is designed to meet the criteria requirements of the Montana Board of Psychologists and is a PESI-approved continuing education and qualifies for 1140 instructional minutes. Please save the certificate of completion you receive from this live activity.
Social Workers: PESI, Inc., #1062, 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. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 – January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 19.0 Clinical Practice continuing education credits. Course Level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation.
Montana Social Workers: The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level activity consists of 19.0 clock hours of instruction.
Other Professions: This activity qualifies for 1140 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
Speaker Megan Howard, LCSW, CCTP was trained on the use of EMDR as a treatment protocol through EMDRIA and uses EMDR in her practice to achieve improved outcomes with a broad spectrum of clients in the areas of trauma, abuse, and substance abuse.
She is certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional through the International Association of Trauma Professionals and currently owns and operates one of the largest treatment centers for substance abuse and trauma in the state of Idaho.
She has been invited to train internationally at the International Society of Addiction Medicine in India and at the International Conference on Addiction Research and Therapy in Amsterdam.
Ms. Howard earned her Masters in Clinical Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University and is a member of EMDRIA and the International Society of Addiction Medicine..
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Megan Howard is the owner of Addiction and Trauma Recovery Services. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Megan Howard has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.