2024 Hybrid EMDR Therapist Training

2024 Hybrid EMDR Therapist Training is organized by Compassion Works and will be held from Sep 27 - Oct 27, 2024 at Courtyard Houston I-10 West/Energy Corridor, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

Dates and Times:
September 27-29, 2024 (First Weekend)
• Friday – 9:00 am to 5:30 pm (CDT)
• Saturday – 9:00 am to 5:30 pm (CDT)
• Sunday – 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (CDT)

October 25-27, 2024 (Second Weekend)
• Friday – 9:00 am to 5:30 pm (CDT)
• Saturday – 9:00 am to 5:30 pm (CDT)
• Sunday – 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (CDT)

Learning Objectives:
EMDR Therapist Training Learning Objectives for Weekend 1
• Identify how to integrate the standard EMDR therapy to psychotherapy
• Use the standard EMDR Procedure to feel competent
• Explain the development of EMDR therapy
• Recognize the current inclusion of EMDR therapy in treatment guidelines
• Distinguish, identify and explain the concepts of the AIP model
• Compare and summarize how to differentiate EMDR therapy and the AIP model from other psychotherapy approaches
• Identify the EMDR’s Eight phase treatment procedure
• Analyze how to describe EMDR’s Three-pronged approach
• Integrate EMDR safeguards.
• Rank the effects of “Big—T” and “Little-T” Trauma
• Summarize how to distinguish how EMDR helps with impairments in social, occupational, health, relational, and other areas of functioning
• Recognize the implicit and explicit memory functioning
• Identify and summarize memory linkage and association
• Recognize how EMDR processing causes an adaptive shift in all components of the memory, including sense of time and age, symptoms, reactive behaviors, and sense of self
• Compare and summarize EMDR from psychodynamic, CBT, experiential, and other therapy models

EMDR Therapist Training Learning Objectives for Weekend 2
• Identify and summarize the 8-Phases of EMDR therapy
• Demonstrate Resource Development & Installation (RDI)
• Recognize how to handle Abreactions
• Explain and identify Strategies for Blocked Processing
• Explain how to recognize Types of Blocked Processing
• Demonstrate how and analyze how to handle looping
• Explain and evaluate how to process and resolve feeder memories
• Distinguish how demonstrate the Appropriate Application of Cognitive Interweaves
• Compare how to recognize the types of feeder cognitive interweaves and how to apply them
• Demonstrate how to apply the Future Template.
• Select Advanced Methodology: Additional protocols and specific populations
• Explain how to identify and evaluate Professional and Legal Issues
• Demonstrate how RDI is used to develop positive introjects, increase affect regulation and adaptive responses
• Contrast how to practice and use the RDI procedure.
• Identify and use the Recent Event Protocol
• Explain and summarize traumatic event protocols
• Recognize how to use EMDR with Complex PTSD