EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing

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Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C Related seminars and products

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Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.

As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, her work is rooted in the positive psychology movement, which is focused on enhancing resources and fostering growth. She offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR therapy, parts work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. Praised by Dr. Stephen Porges, Arielle specializes in applying his polyvagal theory, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions. Her work can be found at the Shift Network, Sounds True, Psychotherapy Networker, Embody Lab, Art of Living, Omega Institute, and more.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz maintains a private practice and is a trainer with Advanced EMDR Therapy Trainings. She receives royalties as a published author and receives compensation as an international presenter and a yoga instructor. Dr. Schwartz is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She receives speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Yoga Alliance.

Objectives

1. Analyze the neurobiology of complex PTSD and dissociation through the lens of polyvagal theory.
2. Apply interpersonal neurobiology through co-regulation strategies that strengthen our client’s social engagement system.
3. Assess for emotional and physiological dysregulation as “parts” of self.
4. Integrate practical parts work therapy interventions to improve treatment outcomes for “resistant” clients.
5. Utilize techniques to help clients to work with shame and develop self compassion for their most wounded parts.
6. Conduct modified EMDR therapy protocols that will allow you to create a safe healing environment for clients with a history of complex traumatization.

Outline

• Nuances of stress, trauma, and complex PTSD
• The impact of dissociation
• Interpersonal neurobiology, somatic psychology, and social engagement
• The polyvagal theory
• Skill: Spacious, Relational Awareness
• Skill: Explore Co-Regulation

• Identify chronic, repeated, developmental and sociocultural trauma
• Overcoming betrayal trauma to resolve insecure attachment
• Assess for dissociation (“fragmentation”)
• How parts, ego states and defences create walls to change
• Compassionate strategies for “Resistant” clients
• Move from shame to empowerment
• Skill: Understand emotional dysregulation as a “part”
• Skill: Connect to the adult self
• Skill: Differentiating from a part

• The 8-phases of EMDR therapy
• Neural networks and “encapsulated” ego states
• Bilateral stimulation and dual attention in EMDR therapy
• Modified EMDR therapy protocols
• Preparation for trauma reprocessing
• Cultivate mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion
• Skill: Choice and containment
• Skill: Build allies for a part of self
• Skill: Facilitate repair scenarios
• Skill: Reprocess a traumatic memory
• Skill: Positive state installation

• Trauma recovery and the bell curve
• Resilience as a process and an outcome
• Move from learned helplessness to learned optimism
• Skill: Create your resilience recipe

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Nurses
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Physicians