| 16 EMDRIA Credits EMDRIA Approval #: 01007-71
***MUST HAVE COMPLETED BASIC EMDR TRAINING*** Intended Audience – Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, nurses, & other mental health and addiction professionals EMDR Skill level –Intermediate Attachment trauma negatively impact adults in the development of a strong sense of self, a balanced personality structure and functioning, the ability to form healthy attachments in present-day relationships including the therapy relationship, and the capability to benefit from EMDR therapy.
Part 2 is 2 1/2-day training teaches participants strategies that assist clients in effectively transitioning from AFTT-A protocols that focus on and deepen positive affect to protocols that introduce and titrate experiences of negative affect through the creation of a new bonding contract and therapeutic story. Participants will acquire skills and be offered opportunities to practice assisting clients to utilize reconstructed parts and attachments within their internal personality system and integrate newly acquired adaptive information in order to successfully move into and complete EMDR Phases 3-8. The training instructs participants to implement EMDR therapy Standard Protocol more safely with complex clients through “contained reprocessing” and inverted protocols as well as utilizing cognitive interweaves to access internal support of the restructured personality system. Lecture, films, demonstrations, Q & A, handouts, experiential reflections and practicum sessions will allow participants to apply strategies immediately with their own clients. With adaptations and consideration for the increased complexity of the internal personality system, AFTT-A protocols can be utilized within overall treatment for DID, although such application is not the focus of this workshop.
Ann E. Potter, Ph.D. has worked over 40 years in the mental health field as a psychiatric nurse, educator, therapist, psychologist, evaluator, researcher, writer, presenter, and consultant. She is a certified therapist and approved consultant in EMDR, a certified therapist in RO DBT (Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy), and has training and extensive experience in DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy). She piloted outcome research related to phase-based trauma treatment (DBT/EMDR) for adults and published articles on the roles adults played as children in alcoholic families, books on trauma treatment, and articles on EMDR therapy.
Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP is a member of the faculty of the EMDR Institute, an institute basic EMDR trainer, and is on the editorial board for The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. She has provided EMDR specialty trainings related to attachment trauma in children and adults world-wide. She conducts research and has authored and co-authored articles and chapters, including two chapters co-authored with EMDR founder Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. and books related to attachment and trauma. Dr. Potter and Ms. Wesselmann co-authored a book, EMDR and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults: Reclaiming Authentic Self and Healthy Attachments, Sprnger (2023). |
