The challenges of ’today’s world are many, and understanding and addressing trauma is essential for building resilient individuals and communities. Complex presentations of trauma can cause challenges for EMDR therapists. Phase-oriented treatment serves as an excellent guide to structure the work with clients suffering from complex trauma-related disorders. Many trauma therapists struggle when it comes to applying the Standard Protocol, especially when deciding how to proceed with trauma work since some cases never seem stable enough. EMDR therapists may implement a progressive approach in working with traumatic memories may safely. This presentation will describe the key aspects that EMDR therapy…
Read MoreThis keynote address will develop a model of a liberatory, intersectional, trauma-informed practice of care for the therapist’s self. Explore the corporatization of this construct and ways in which therapists can take it back from those who have turned it into a cliche and transform self-care into an integral component of our work as trauma healers. Learning Objectives Participants will be able to identify differences between corporatized models of self-care and those emerging from a liberatory model of trauma healing. Participants will be able to identify personal obstacles to self-care arising from internalized and systemic external structures of oppression. Participants…
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