Upcoming Advanced EMDR Workshops & Webinars

Live IN PERSON in Cincinnati, October 5-6, 2023
DEALING WITH AVOIDANCE IN EMDR THERAPY: BLOCKING BELIEFS, DEFENSES, AND GETTING UNSTUCK

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Want some help with your toughest cases? Finding yourself stuck, blocked, or looping in EMDR sessions? This workshop will provide skills using Jim Knipe’s EMDR Toolbox and other techniques to help trained EMDR therapists work with stuck clients. Using lecture, video, case examples, and practice sessions, we will explore client avoidance and defenses as EMDR targets. Skills taught in this workshop are useful for newly trained EMDR therapists through advanced EMDR therapists!

Workshop Objectives:
After completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify client defenses
• Identify Blocking Beliefs in clients using the Blocking Beliefs questionnaire
• Prepare client for addressing avoidance/defenses using Preparation skills
• Apply “Levels of Urge to Avoid” using Knipe’s scaling
• Practice targeting client avoidance/defenses safely with EMDR therapy techniques such as Knipe’s CIPOS, various BLS modalities, and somatic interventions
• Apply “Levels of Positive Affect” using Knipe’s scaling
• Recognize and target Idealization and levels of positive affect with EMDR Therapy techniques
• Recognize and target Shame with “Loving Eyes” technique

To be eligible to attend this training, participants must have completed an EMDRIA Approved EMDR basic training course. Clinicians seeking to register must submit their EMDRIA Approved EMDR Training Certificate of Completion issued by their original training provider in order to prove their eligibility. Upload documentation to account page after registering.

**12 EMDRIA credits will be provided** Submitted for Approval
**12 Continuing Education Credits will be provided by CE-Classes**

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Dealing with Avoidance in EMDR Therapy: Blocking beliefs, Defenses, and Getting Unstuck

This workshop will explore client and clinician avoidance in EMDR therapy. Targeting blocking beliefs and defenses with EMDR will be taught, using Jim Knipe’s EMDR Toolbox procedures (see link to purchase book toward the bottom of this page). Clinician avoidance will be addressed through practice sessions with partners in the training to deepen the learning of procedures to use with clients. Workshop will begin with focus on importance of attunement and therapeutic relationship. Affect strengthening exercises and healthy containment skills will be taught. Blocking beliefs will be explored using Jim Knipe’s Blocking Beliefs Questionnaire. Detailed descriptions of common defenses used by clients will be discussed. Specific skills and exercises will be taught to help the clinician target blocking beliefs and defenses in their clinical sessions. Practice sessions will be in pairs as clinicians work on their own avoidance, blocks, and defenses.

*Please note, you must have completed a full EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Basic Training to attend this advanced workshop

Contact Crystal if you'd like to bring this training to your area!

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Buy Jim Knipe's Book

​​Purchase Jim Knipe's book, "EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation." This is the most valuable EMDR book I have ever purchased! The training "Dealing with Avoidance in EMDR Therapy: Blocking beliefs, Defenses, and Getting Unstuck" that I provide is based upon this book.

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