Day One
8:30-9:30am
· Introduction, overview and background of EMDR therapy
· The EMDR approach and evidence base of EMDR therapy
9-30-10:00am
· Overview of the mechanism (BLS), the model (AIP) and the Methodology (8 phases)
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:15am
· Phase One: History Taking and Treatment Planning
11:15am-12:00pm
· Phase Two: Preparation and Stabilization
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00pm
· EMDR therapy case conceptualization vignettes
2:00-3:00pm
· Practice sessions
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5 Practice sessions
Day Two
8:30-9:00am
· Review of prior day material and practicum experience
9:00-9:30am
· How to identify positive and negative cognitions
9:30-10:00am
· Phase Three: Target Assessment
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:00am
· Phase Four: Desensitization
11:00-11:30am
· Phase Five: Installation
11:30-11:45am
· Phase Six: Body Scan
11:45-12:00pm
· Phase Seven: Closure
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00pm
· Target assessment role play vignetts, review target assessment worksheets and NC/PCs
2:00-3pm
· Practice Sessions
3-3:15 Break
3:15-5 Practice Sessions
Day Three
8:30-9:00am
· Review of prior day material and practicum experience
9:00-9:45am
· Strategies for facilitating reprocessing
9:45-10:00am
· Phase Eight: Reevaluation
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:00am
· Reprocessing present triggers
11:00-11:30am
· Future Templates
11:30-12:00pm
· Using EMDR with children
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-1:30pm
· Review reevaluation worksheets and procedural steps for furture templates
1:30-3:00pm
· Practice Sessions
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45pm Practice Sessions
3:45-4:00
· Getting started and wrap up
Day Four
8:30-9:00am
· EMDR as a comprehensive approach – review
9:00-10:00am
· Complex developmental trauma, presentations, symptoms
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:00am
· Resource Development and Installation
11:00-11:30am
· Clinical Themes, case conceptualization and treatment planning
11:30-12:00pm
· Focused reprocessing and the reprocessing continuum: EMD to EMDR
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00pm
· Case conceptualization and Treatment planning vignettes
2:00-3:00pm
· Practice sessions
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5 Practice sessions
Day Five
8:30-9:00am
· Review of prior day material and practicum experience
9:00-9:30am
· Blocked reprocessing
9:30-10:00am
· Cognitive Interweaves
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:00am
· Dealing with strong emotional responses
11:00-11:30am
· Additional obstacles to reprocessing
11:30-12:00pm
· Review of phases and typical problems that arise with complex cases
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00pm
· Cognitive Interweave vignettes
2:00-3:00pm
· Practice sessions
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5 Practice sessions
Day Six
8:30-9:00am
· Review of prior day material and practicum experience
9:00-9:30am
· Phase eight: Reevaluation
9:30-10:00am
· EMDR across cultures and conditions including social based trauma and adversity
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-12:00pm
· EMDR with specific presentations and diagnosis (i.e., working with depression, dissociation, first responders, etc.)
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-3:00
· Practice Sessions
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45pm Practice Sessions
3:45-4:00
· Review of requirements and wrap up