EMDR Basic Training soon coming to Windsor-Essex: Fall 2024 More Information Coming
Individual and Group Consultation for EMDR Therapists
I have been an EMDR therapist since 2001.
I am a certified EMDR Therapist (2008) and an Approved Consultant (2022).
I am currently in the process of applying to become an EMDRIA approved trainer licensed under the Institute for Creative Mindfulness founded by Dr. Jamie Marich.
I am passionate about anything EMDR especially when it is trauma and dissociation focused and artfully informed by: somatic psychology; parts work; attachment theory; polyvagal theory; yoga; mindfulness meditation and rooted in an intersectional abolitionist feminist anti-oppressive lens.
I teach all consultees a comprehensive case conceptualization model based on Somatic and Integration Processing Case Conceptualization Model developed by the Beyond Healing Center: Home - Beyond Healing Center's podcast: Somatic Integration and Processing (Repost) - Notice That (emdr-podcast.com). I have adapted this model so that it is trauma & dissociation focused and rooted in antiracism, anti-oppression, feminism and queer affirming therapy.
I also encourage my consultees to purchase the EMDR Supplement from Beyond Healing Center which is a refresher course that includes 12 EMDRIA approved CEUs. With respect to issues of race and marginalization, I encourage consultees to listen to "Doin' The Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change" podcast: https://dointhework.podbean.com/ and consider training with Resmaa Menakem: https://www.resmaa.com/ and/or Selam Debs: https://www.selamdebs.com/
If you are interested in meeting with me to complete the hours required for certification with EMDRIA, or to work toward becoming an approved consultant or are simply wishing to engage in ongoing individual or group consultation please contact me to see if we would be a good match.
For EMDR therapists working toward certification please have a look through this page to fully understand the requirements EMDR Certification - EMDR International Association (emdria.org). You can also download a consultation package from this page Consultation Packet - EMDR International Association (emdria.org)
If you are an EMDR therapist working toward becoming an approved consultant please look through this page https://www.emdria.org/emdr-training/emdr-consultant-in-training/
The Nature of EMDR Consultation and/or Consultation-of-Consultation
Consultation is a collaborative relationship in which the consultant reviews the consultee's EMDR client case material and provides feedback to the consultee regarding their use of standard EMDR therapy
Getting the Most of EMDR Consultation
I am a certified EMDR Therapist (2008) and an Approved Consultant (2022).
I am currently in the process of applying to become an EMDRIA approved trainer licensed under the Institute for Creative Mindfulness founded by Dr. Jamie Marich.
I am passionate about anything EMDR especially when it is trauma and dissociation focused and artfully informed by: somatic psychology; parts work; attachment theory; polyvagal theory; yoga; mindfulness meditation and rooted in an intersectional abolitionist feminist anti-oppressive lens.
I teach all consultees a comprehensive case conceptualization model based on Somatic and Integration Processing Case Conceptualization Model developed by the Beyond Healing Center: Home - Beyond Healing Center's podcast: Somatic Integration and Processing (Repost) - Notice That (emdr-podcast.com). I have adapted this model so that it is trauma & dissociation focused and rooted in antiracism, anti-oppression, feminism and queer affirming therapy.
I also encourage my consultees to purchase the EMDR Supplement from Beyond Healing Center which is a refresher course that includes 12 EMDRIA approved CEUs. With respect to issues of race and marginalization, I encourage consultees to listen to "Doin' The Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change" podcast: https://dointhework.podbean.com/ and consider training with Resmaa Menakem: https://www.resmaa.com/ and/or Selam Debs: https://www.selamdebs.com/
If you are interested in meeting with me to complete the hours required for certification with EMDRIA, or to work toward becoming an approved consultant or are simply wishing to engage in ongoing individual or group consultation please contact me to see if we would be a good match.
For EMDR therapists working toward certification please have a look through this page to fully understand the requirements EMDR Certification - EMDR International Association (emdria.org). You can also download a consultation package from this page Consultation Packet - EMDR International Association (emdria.org)
If you are an EMDR therapist working toward becoming an approved consultant please look through this page https://www.emdria.org/emdr-training/emdr-consultant-in-training/
The Nature of EMDR Consultation and/or Consultation-of-Consultation
Consultation is a collaborative relationship in which the consultant reviews the consultee's EMDR client case material and provides feedback to the consultee regarding their use of standard EMDR therapy
- Establish clear expectations of the consultation process between consultant and consultees.
- Connect the dots between personal issues (ie sexual abuse; sexual assault; racism; chronic illness...) with larger systemic issues.
- Enhance the mastery and integration of standard EMDR therapy in practice.
- Operate within the ethical standards and scope of practice of our respective professional licenses.
- Provide guidance and feedback to consultees regarding their use of standard EMDR therapy.
- Since this is NOT supervision, Consultees maintain full responsibility and autonomy for the decisions involving their clients' treatment.
- Consultants evaluate the consultee's ability to implement the standard EMDR therapy's eight phase protocol, three-pronged approach, awareness of situations in which modifications to standard EMDR therapy are necessary.
- Consultants communicate concerns as early as possible and provide direction and input regarding the consultees ability. e during the consultation process so that appropriate corrective measures can be taken by the consultee. Case review
- At least two client video sessions will be required: one at the beginning of our work together and one several months later.
- Ethical issues, including boundaries
- Transference and Counter-transference
- Intersubjectivity
- Reflective consultation
- Relational Consultation http://www.relationalchange.org/pdf/MAC-SDV-LO_2017_RelationalMatrixSupervision.pdf
- Use of self in clinical work
- Somatic Integration and Adaptive Information Processing Case Conceptualization Somatic Integration and Processing (Repost) - Notice That (emdr-podcast.com).
- Skill building
- Writing effective case notes, assessment, reports, letters (only for consultees reporting to me)
- Combining macro and micro approaches in the consultation room
- Effective anti-oppressive interventions and ongoing training
- Current events and policies
- Relationships with colleagues and management
- Providing advocacy
- Work-related stressors
- Career goals and identifying ongoing training goals
- Developing confidence
- Self-care
Getting the Most of EMDR Consultation
- Come prepared and have an agenda, files, client list
- Ask questions about all aspects of the profession, not just about your clients
- Allow yourself to be vulnerable and be willing to discuss areas of struggles and counter-transference
- Ask for feedback
- Provide feedback
- Ask for support
Click here to upload a chapter I wrote for "The Use of the Creative Therapies with Sexual Abuse Survivors" edited by Dr. Stephanie L. Brooke
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