Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy with EMDR
Natural Processing Trainings: Part One
Tracking Resiliency • Pacing the Work • Deepening Processing
Our trainings are limited to 27 participants, to keep them intimate. We have daily practicum sessions with personalized feedback, that builds on itself each day. Our intention is to provide a rich experience such that each participant can leave with understanding, skills and experience to begin to integrate this work into their practices immediately. This training asks for your full engagement in order to help you to become a better therapist.
This training is offered live interactive online . To accommodate for sitting in front of a computer, we have adapted this to a 6-day format, with shorter days, extended over 3 weekends. This also gives time for integration of the work into your practice as we go. During presentations, participants can ask questions live or via chat, and there are times when questions are expressly invited. There is discussion after each live demonstration session. The practicums are in groups of 3 with an assistant in each group to provide highly personalized feedback throughout and after each session, as needed.
This training was offered in-person before COVID, and may be offered again. In this intensive in-person over 4-days, therapists will learn to assess and intervene from a somatic perspective while using EMDR, to enhance the therapy process. Heightened awareness of the functioning of the body and nervous system aid the therapist in pacing the work well. This approach taps into our natural inclination towards completion, integrating well with the EMDR AIP model. Therapists can increase their skills in tracking and developing resiliency, crucial for the many moments in therapy when our clients struggle to stay regulated.
There are 4 pre-training videos, between 15-30 minutes, that you will receive the links to after you have registered, a few weeks before your training. These are an important introduction to the work. No CE credits are offered for these videos.
Prerequisite: EMDR training. If you do not have prior EMDR training, we will help you make a personalized assessment of your pre-training needs, and offer prior training so you are ready to take advantage of this training. Please contact us to discuss your situation.
This training is relevant for beginning through advanced therapists, including Psychologists, LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPC’s and LMHC’s. The content begins with fundamentals of working from a somatic approach with EMDR, and expands into more nuanced tracking and interventions.
24 CE Credit Hours approved by EMDRIA
38.5 CE credits are offered for LCSW’s, and CA LMFT’s & LPC’s. Some states accept accreditation from other states. Check with you local board for details. Click below for details:
This workshop is limited to 27 participants to enhance the personal nature of learning process-oriented work.
Participants will be able to:
Closely assess momentary levels of activation
Demonstrate pacing the work with attention to resiliency and the “window of tolerance”
Identify dynamics of internal processing not available from client self-reporting
Utilize the power of “sustained awareness”
Explain and work the inherent dilemmas between drives for completion and protection
Identify and track subtleties of dissociative dynamics
Identify and reprocess early survival strategies
Assess the integration of shifts that emerge in each moment of the therapy process
Create experiences to enhance existing and new resources
Demonstrate approaches for the development of discernment and self-awareness skills
Foundational to this work is the therapist learning to deeply “trust the process,” and fully engage in the client’s “nature of completion.”
This training includes lecture, presentation and discussion, handouts, video of client sessions, live demonstrations, short skill-building practicums, and daily practicum sessions with feedback.
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After this training, therapists describe new awareness and practice in their therapy with immediate positive effects that they implement with their first session back in the office.
This is a stand-alone training, so there is no requirement to take subsequent trainings. It is foundational for the Natural Processing approach. NP Parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are described on the website, and may be taken after NP 1. Consultation and practicums in this approach are available.