ADVANCED TOPICS IN EMDR
After you complete EMDRIA Approved EMDR Therapy Training, pursuing EMDRIA Certification requires an additional 12 hours of continuing education specific to EMDR.
I offer special topics courses that can be taken in person for EMDRIA credits (which also count towards the 12 required hours for EMDRIA certification). These workshops are designed as advanced training for EMDR Therapists - as well as introductory courses for non-EMDR therapists who want to learn about EMDR and trauma - or to get a better idea of what it might be like to become trained in EMDR. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved education provider with the EMDR International Association (#1002) and approved as a CE provider by the American Psychological Association.
Presently, I offer five special topics courses that can be taken remotely for EMDRIA credits. For the book course, we are proud to partner with Thinkific, an online platform for distance education. Dr. Jamie Marich & The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved education provider with the EMDR International Association (#1002) and approved home-study provider by the American Psychological Association.
This is the official book course for “Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy” featuring exclusive video content from the authors, Dr. Jamie Marich and Dr. Stephen Dansiger. This course allows readers to receive credit for reading and studying the latest book from Dr. Jamie Marich and Dr. Stephen Dansiger, Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide. The exclusive video content from the authors expands on insights from each chapter not available to the general public. This book course becomes the Institute for Creative Mindfulness' official “flagship” advanced topics course for working with addiction in a comprehensive way within EMDR therapy. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by the following organizations to offer 12 continuing education (CE) credits for this course: EMDR International Association, American Psychological Association, National Board for Certified Counselors, Association of Social Worker Boards, and State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board.
Would you like to earn all 12 EMDRIA Credits and 12 APA Home Study CEs after reading the book EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care? For just $65 you can purchase the study guide and post-test and earn those valuable CEs!
The following presentations are available as courses through the EMDRIA on Demand program:
The Role of Spirituality in Trauma Wounding and the Healing of EMDR Therapy
My conference presentation at the 2020 EMDRIA Conference is now available as an Online Course through the new EMDRIA On Demand program. Click HERE to learn more and to register. You will have the opportunity to watch the 90-minute presentation and then take an exam afterward for 1.5 EMDRIA credits and 1.5 NBCC CEs. The cost for EMDRIA members is $50 and for non-members is $75.
Course Description: EMDR therapy clients with Complex PTSD, PTSD, and/or addictions often report that spiritual crises play an integral role in their suffering, and use spiritual terms when describing healing. The AIP model posits that maladaptively processed traumas and adverse life events have a profound impact on a client’s ability to make meaning, which is perhaps the core issue addressed by spirituality. Participants will discover the role of spirituality and spiritual wounds in the etiology and treatment of Complex PTSD, PTSD, and addictions utilizing the 8 Phase Protocol. Case examples will highlight implications for case conceptualization, treatment planning, and specific spiritual interventions.
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It’s Always EMDR Therapy: The Case for EMDR as a Complete Psychotherapy
My conference presentation at the 2019 EMDRIA Conference is now available as an Online Course through the new EMDRIA On Demand program. Click HERE to learn more and to register. You will have the opportunity to watch the 90-minute presentation and then take an exam afterward for 1.5 EMDRIA credits. The cost for EMDRIA members is $50 and for non-members is $75.
Course Description: This presentation reveals the potential for EMDR therapy to be used as a comprehensive primary clinical operating protocol. Past studies have missed the point for EMDR therapy to be used as not just an adjunct therapy, but as a standalone system of healing. Evidence supports each of the eight phases of EMDR therapy and shows it as applicable to treat the whole person. Through case study and research, the overarching systemic use of the Eight-Phase Protocol and Adaptive Information Processing model of EMDR therapy as the primary methodology and theoretical orientation of treatment centers or group practices will be explored. This presentation became the source of a chapter in Dr. Marich’s and Dr. Dansiger’s book, Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide.
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Buddhist Psychology, EMDR Therapy & Addictions – The MET(T)A Protocol
My conference presentation at the 2016 EMDRIA Conference is now available as an Online Course. Please click HERE to learn more about the Mindfulness and the 8 Phase Protocol course and to register. You will have the opportunity to watch the 90-minute presentation and then take an exam afterward for 1.5 EMDRIA credits. The cost for EMDRIA members is $50 and for non-members is $75.
IN PERSON ADVANCED TOPICS COURSES:
A special note about the course EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness: Redefining the Paradigm for Trauma Focused Care -- this course is recommended as advanced training in the synthesis of EMDR and Mindfulness for trained EMDR therapists, as well as an introductory course for non-EMDR therapists who want to learn about EMDR, trauma therapy and Mindfulness, or get a better idea of what it might be like to become trained in EMDR therapy.
EMDR Therapy and Mindfulness:
Redefining The Paradigm for Trauma Focused Care
For the past 2600 years, Buddhist mindfulness and the therapies and practices connected to this system of healing have contributed to psychological and spiritual relief to millions of people.
More recently, our own understanding of the brain and nervous system has brought scientific and therapeutic underpinning to those old understandings of human well being, with Francine Shapiro’s development of EMDR therapy and the AIP model representing a particular highlight.
In this workshop, participants will be challenged to consider how fusing two systems of healing - mindfulness-informed interventions and trauma-focused care guided by the EMDR approach to psychotherapy - can revolutionize the helping professions' delivery of trauma responsive services.
MET(T)A METHOD WORKSHOP
MET(T)A is a new and innovative way to envision and implement Addictions treatment that is grounded in the almost 30 years of research, theory and practice of EMDR therapy, and 2600 years of research theory and practice of the Buddhist psychology of Mindfulness.
This approach leans heavily upon the invaluable work of those who have explored the use of EMDR therapy with PTSD, and then with addictions and a whole host of issues up until this juncture. It leans upon the millennia old wisdom of Buddhist teachers and modern Mindfulness teachers and practitioners.
It honors the current belief that there is a deep need for trauma resolution to be a key focus of treatment in order to strengthen relapse prevention and create sustainable long term recovery.
The name is both META and METTA. META represents the use of the AIP Model and the 8 Phase Protocol of EMDR therapy to design and deliver treatment within a treatment center structure. METTA means in Pali "loving kindness", the spirit and practice of which guides the MET(T)A Method.