Posts in Creating resources
Video 024 Dealing With Abreactions

Intense affect often accompanies work with complex trauma. These can be a re-enactment of emotions experienced during the trauma and can be shocking to witness. The temptation is to stop processing and move into talking therapy or other mode of operation. Usually, a better way is to enable the client to safely continue to process while you ‘stay out of the way’.

What you will learn:

How to manage yourself as therapist and the client when there is a strong emotional response during an EMDR processing session and several different ways of working with abreactions.

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Video 077 Three Resource Interweaves

This video demonstrates the development and installation of three types of resources that can be very useful for some clients who might benefit from access to sources of nurturing, protection or wisdom during treatment with EMDR. They can be installed prior to or during processing.

What you will learn:

To learn how to stabilise clients prior to using EMDR or during actual processing to overcome blockages or stuck situations.

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Video 050 Reliable way to install a safe place

This is about a man called Tony who in his younger days, was a gang member. Now older, and less able to look after himself, he’s recently received a very bad beating from members of a different gang. He’d heard about EMDR and wanted to know if this could help. He was hyper vigilant, always looking out for enemies (and, of course, the police), showing overactive Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) activity.

What you will learn

Step by step protocol for installing this ‘standard’ safety intervention.

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Video 052 The Light Stream

This is about a woman called Celia, who is in her fifties. She has a history of childhood and teenage bullying and her first husband was arrested for domestic violence. She has never felt truly safe in her life. She remarried and now has two adult children who have left home.

What you will learn

How to help a client manage feelings of severe distress.

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