Upcoming Advanced EMDR Workshops & Webinars

Live webinar June 16-17, 2025 hosted by Multiplicity of the Mind
DEALING WITH AVOIDANCE IN EMDR THERAPY: BLOCKING BELIEFS, DEFENSES, AND GETTING UNSTUCK

INFO AND REGISTRATION FOR JUNE 2025

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, live demos/videos, 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
• Describe preparation skills for addressing defenses and avoidance in EMDR therapy
• Recognize ways to use EMDR with dissociation
• Summarize targeting client avoidance/defenses safely with EMDR therapy techniques
• Discuss EMDR for the positive affect of defenses
• Recognize and target Shame using integration of parts work
• Introduce IFS language of parts work for shame

To be eligible to attend this training, participants must have completed an EMDRIA Approved EMDR basic training course.

**12 EMDRIA credits will be provided
**11 Continuing Education Credits

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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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