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IFS-Informed EMDR Therapy: An integrative approach for transformative healing of trauma, anxiety, and more

EMDR and IFS therapy are among today’s most used therapeutic trauma treatments. In this course, Stacy Ruse, LPC, a seasoned expert in trauma therapy, will guide you to an approach that integrates these two modalities to access deeper layers of healing and guide clients toward transformation. Learn tools for working with Parts to build emotion regulation during resourcing and foster adaptive connections when unburdening trauma wounds. Discover an integrative approach that empowers clients into an active healing role, where the therapeutic process becomes a collaborative and mutually supportive endeavor, lightening the load and fostering a sense of shared responsibility for growth and well-being.

Program Information

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Cite the concept of Self and explain the Self’s role as a powerful healing force.
  2. Identify and describe the 8 C’s or Self-qualities (curiosity, compassion, calmness, confidence, courage, clarity, creativity, and connectedness).
  3. Learn techniques to facilitate yours and your client’s Self as a mediator with parts.
  4. Experience yourself and help clients develop the healing capacity of Self-energy.
  5. Learn how to assist clients in bringing more inner collaboration, harmony, and balance to body, mind, and spirit.
  6. Learn practical ways to remain in an open-hearted state of Self-energy with clients.
  7. Understand how Polyvagal theory and neurobiology inform EMDR, IFS, and trauma.
  8. Analyze the role of information processing (AIP model) in trauma and how memory malleability impacts the treatment of clients with traumatic memories.
  9. Use and understand bottom-up techniques to increase a felt sense of safety in clients.
  10. Apply tools that help de-escalate trauma associated triggers and symptoms.
  11. Employ somatic techniques to reduce body memories, flashbacks, and dissociation.
  12. Use client-driven imagination and exercises to enhance safety and containment.
  13. Learn and understand the integrative model through 8 dynamic phases.
  14. Learn effective resourcing for emotional regulation and preparing clients for processing traumatic material.
  15. Comfortably share EMDR- and IFS-focused psychoeducation with your clients.
  16. Address protector concerns, blocking beliefs, and other common issues that may arise.
  17. Learn how to help clients and yourself unblend using the 6 F’s from parts.
  18. Differentiate parts from Self, to speak for, as opposed to from, reactive emotional states.
  19. Apply these tools, techniques, and strategies to various clinical populations.
  20. Cite, identify, and embody the 5 P’s and 6 B’s of a Self-lead therapist.
  21. Identify the 3 core categories of parts: managers, firefighters, and exiles.
  22. Uphold the integrity of inclusivity, cultural humility, and competency.

Outline

IFS, the Essential Self, and Self-like Parts

  • Self and parts through an IFS-lens
  • Deep dive into the concept of Self
  • Burdened system vs. unburdened system
  • Protective parts and exiles: roles, traits, and examples
  • 8 C’s qualities of Self-energy

EMDR, AIP Model, & Bilateral Stimulation (BLS)

  • Foundation of EMDR therapy: the AIP model
  • Mechanisms of action of Bilateral Stimulation
  • Active components of EMDR therapy
  • Readiness and safety factors
  • Using Dual Awareness
  • Clinical understanding of Past, Present, and Future

The Self-led Therapist

  • Inclusivity, cultural humility, and bias
  • Self-led Therapist: 5 P’s of Inspired IFS
  • 7 B’s of Indigenous Inspired IFS
  • Therapist embodiment of presence and Self-energy
  • Speak courageously for parts
  • Give Self-led feedback

Latest on Polyvagal and Neurobiology

  • Polyvagal theory in EMDR, IFS, and trauma
  • The 3 brains, and the difference between mind and brain
  • Role of the nervous system, Neuroception, attunement, and heart coherence
  • Felt-sense awareness develops a sense of ‘safe-enough’
  • Trauma’s relationship to Self, Parts, and healing

A Roadmap for IFS-Inspired EMDR: 8 Phase Approach

  • Phase 1: Understanding Your Client
    • Goals, intentions, and expectations
    • History-taking and case conceptualization
    • Attunement is key
  • Phase 2: Engagement and Building Trust
    • Build connection and safety (safe-enough)
    • Stabilize and introduce the model(s)
    • Develop Parts- and Self-detector
  • Phase 3: Resourcing and Unblending
    • Unblend with the 6 F’s: Getting to Know Parts
      • Find, Focus, Flesh out, Feel towards, beFriend & fears
    • Distinguish between Self-energy and parts
    • Map and externalize the internal system
    • Primary communication methods
    • State Change Exercises and Titration
    • Resource Development Installation
    • Common Issues
  • Phase 4: Getting Permission, Trailheads, and Target Selection
    • Getting permission from protective system
    • Blocking beliefs protocol
    • Trailheads and targets
    • Target assessment and set-ups
    • Protector concerns
    • Backlash and polarizations
  • Phase 5: Witnessing, Processing, and Self
    • Client and therapists’ Self-energy
    • Trauma, attachment wounding, and exiles
    • Witness the story from Self
    • Unburdeing process: witness, retrieve, re-do, invite, and integrate
    • Desensitization, processing, and symptom reduction tools
    • Blocking, looping, and protector concerns
    • Exile concerns and issues
  • Retrieval and Unburdening
    • Connect and extend Self-energy
    • Self-lead healing: witnessing, retrieval, redo/rescue missions, unburdening
    • Common issues
  • Body Scan, Somatic, and Unburdening
    • Find residuals and trailheads through body
    • Invitation: fill the space where burdens were
    • Embodiment of gifts
  • Integration and Evaluation
    • Appreciate parts and address concerns
    • Closing techniques that integrate the work
    • Powerful ways for check back and notice changes
    • Integrating other models

Contraindications and Other Considerations

  • Contradictions and risks to IFS therapy, use of Bilateral Stimulation (BLS), EMDR, and to trauma processing
  • Legal and ethical considerations
  • Cultural competency
  • Research (thorough bibliography)

Core Techniques in this course:

  • Tapping in Self-energy
  • The 8 C’s of Self-energy
  • Gathering Space Protocol
  • Unblending with the 6 F’s
  • State change exercises
  • Use of BLS for resourcing and symptom reduction
    • Blocking beliefs protocol
    • Resource Installation Development
    • Attachment-based resourcing
    • Interweaves
  • Steps to the Unburdening process
  • Communication methods: Direct access/In-sight; Implicit and Explicit
  • Speaking from Self
  • Getting permission from protective parts
  • Circling back for integration of work and closing sessions
  • Somatic Embodiment & vagal toning exercises
  • Circling back for integration of work and closing sessions
  • Somatic Embodiment and Vagal toning exercises

Copyright : 03/28/2024

Trauma-Focused Tapping

Tapping is often integrated into many of the most effective trauma therapies today, including EMDR. Simple, evidence-based tools like tapping make trauma therapy more accessible and put the power of recovery directly into our clients’ hands. And because it empowers clients to play an active role in their own treatment, the therapeutic process becomes an even more collaborative process. In this workshop, you’ll learn: 

  • Several tapping techniques, including from EMDR and Emotional Freedom Technique, that can be integrated into virtually any treatment approach 
  • How, why, and when to use them with clients of any age in psychotherapy 
  • Specific uses of tapping techniques in trauma therapy for resourcing  

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Examine the mechanisms of action underlying the effectiveness of acupressure techniques in psychotherapy. 
  2. Describe the integration of acupoint stimulation into exposure and cognitive therapies in the evidence-based form of EFT for the treatment of PTSD. 
  3. Understand the core components of Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) in the context of trauma treatment, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and tactile stimulation. 
  4. Demonstrate at least 3 techniques to help clients emotionally regulate, prepare for trauma work, and enhance positive state changes. 
  5. Describe how tapping intimately assists in polyvagal toning and in balancing the nervous system. 

Outline

  • Types of Tapping and Bilateral Stimulation (BLS) 
  • How Tapping Works: The Science & Mechanisms of Action 
  • Understanding the Distinctions: EMDR, Resource Installation, Resource Tapping, and Meridian Tapping 
  • Setting Clear Goals for Tapping and its Application in Healing 
  • Therapeutic Benefits and Applications 
  • Assessing Client Readiness for Tapping 
  • Step-by-Step Instruction: Using Tapping Techniques from EFT and EMDR in Your Trauma Treatment 
  • EMDR Resource Tapping Techniques 
  • Risks and Limitations of Tapping, Contraindications and other Considerations 

Target Audience

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

Copyright : 03/23/2024