Integrating Somatic Psychotherapy with EMDR
Natural Processing Trainings: Part One
Tracking Resiliency • Pacing the Work • Deepening Processing
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.
A live interactive online version of this training is also available. 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.
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 Basic Training
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
28 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.