EMDR therapists and their clients are always influencing each other in the therapeutic relationship. Attention needs to be paid to the subtle nuances of malattunement, its danger, and the opportunities inhent for potentiating healing.
Participants will be able to: 1) identify countertransference issues in an EMDR session; 2) apply knowledge of transference and countertransference during any phase of EMDR therapy protocol; and 3) employ proactive stratgegies such as cognitives…
This experientially based workshop will address clinician issues with clients who are challenging to work with both before and during an EMDR session. Participants will develop greater awareness of these moments and learn strategies to overcome…
The EMDR trauma protocol was based, in part, on Shapiro's early work with combat veterans. In a time of ongoing military conflicts, private practitioners may be encountering the challenges of working with returning veterans for the first time. Using…
I fervently agree with Dr. Zangwlll's wise counsel that "we must accept our limitations and the ambiguities of life." For the last two years, I have provided extensive training for trauma and abuse recovery therapists on the countertransference to…
This paper offers a therapeutic alternative to working with complex client problems, based on a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach, which is informed by a combination of schema-focussed cognitive behavioural therapy (McGinn and Young 1996;…
This workshop will focus on transference and countertransference problems and solutions in EMDR with dissociative clients. There will be a short literature review on procedural modifications in dealing with dissociation in EMDR, and transference and…
This workshop will focus on the types of transference and counter-transference that arise in EMDR with dissociative clients and teach solutions. Procedural modifications have been the focus in dealing with pathological dissociation in EMDR treatment.…
Secondary traumatization and appropriate self care are relevant current topics for psychotherapists, especially when working with complex trauma. During the application of the standard protocol, EMDR therapists are often confronted with reports of…
Decades of research indicate that the provision of therapy is an interpersonal process in which a main curative component is the nature of the therapeutic relationship. Clinicians must remember that this is the foundation of our efforts to help…
Since Ferenczi we know that the understanding and the use of counter-transference can be central in the therapy of persons who are suffering with disorders related to childhood trauma, neglect, or early attachment issues. Counter-transference relates…
Just like any other psychotherapy method, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) should conceptualize the intersubjective phenomena that are active during EMDR therapy, especially in the treatment of complex cases. This article…
Comme pour toute autre méthode de psychothérapie, la thérapie de désensibilisation et retraitement par les mouvements oculaires (EMDR) devraient conceptualiser les phénomènes intersubjectifs actifs durant la thérapie EMDR, en particulier dans le…
L’EMDR est une approche aux aspects techniques indéniables, qui insiste aussi sur la qualité de la sécurité interpersonnelle pendant la thérapie et pendant le retraitement EMDR lui-même. Pourtant on parle peu des facteurs impliqués dans la…
All psychological treatments aim to achieve healing and mental health through the establishment of a therapeutic alliance between the patient and the therapist,But this alliance is built on the basis of communication,The school of psychoanalysis is…
