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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

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