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EMDR therapy is a remarkable evidence-based approach to psychotherapy. However, it is not easy to do with many clients with complex trauma. Clients with complex trauma often struggle to develop the essential resources, have difficulty tolerating distress, and may initially lack much of the adaptive information that is needed for EMDR therapy to be effective. This book explores each of the phases of EMDR therapy and explains why many clients with complex trauma struggle. It offers sensible accommodations. Clients with complex trauma often survive by using coping strategies that directly conflict with the core tasks of EMDR therapy. We need to make the tasks of EMDR therapy safer and more tolerable to the client’s nervous system. That takes time and attention. Clients with complex trauma may be harmed if they are shoved through a mindfulness or EMDR machine. This book invites therapists to explore the unique and complex nervous system of each client and adjust interventions to match each client.
Topics covered in this book include: Doing a sensible and safer client history, options for when clients struggle with mindfulness activities, developing helpful attachment resources, ways to navigate blocking beliefs, assessing preparedness for reprocessing, selecting initial targets, understanding where EMDR therapy tends to break and how to intervene, and strategies to help memory content come into awareness in more tolerable ways.
ASIN : B0DLJSQHB4
Publisher : EMDR Training Collaborative (October 29, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 210 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8991782401
Item Weight : 10.2 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches
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S. babcock –
Practical, inspiring, and easy to read
I’ve had a focus on complex trauma for most of my 10 years in practice, but am new to offering EMDR. I bought this book during my foundational training in EMDR with the author, and after finding his other resources helpful (such as his podcast, blog, and Flash training). I’ve skimmed the whole book and fully read part one so far, and it is clearly going to be a valuable reference that captures many, many, many of his valuable lessons.Thomas’ writing style is warm, personable and personal, and he concisely expresses complex information in understandable ways. He uses many metaphors, and they are concretely explained for those who might not intuitively sense their meaning–the book even includes an index + summary of the metaphors he references throughout. There are meaningful bits of his personal experience that I appreciated, but it’s not the kind of book that overwhelms with anecdotes.Thomas clarifies the key elements of EMDR, including how to concretely adjust for complex trauma–phase by phase, including scripts–so we can promote effective healing, and avoid harm. The troubleshooting chapters are going to be like a consultant on my bookshelf, as Thomas has boiled down common issues in complex trauma work (such as memory voids, flooding of not only individual memories but the crowds of them that complex clients have, and client difficulties with noticing) and provides concrete, simple guidance with explanations as to what the intention is in each strategy. I appreciate that he focuses not on rote application of scripts, but on the functions of how we facilitate real healing for our clients, avoiding over-complicating it, but also not over-simplifying.
Kim Simpson –
Very helpful. Thank you
Great information
Linda –
The best EMDR book Iâve ever read! (And I have a LOT of them!)
If you do EMDR therapy -or are scared to do it- you should read this book.Iâve read a lot of books over the years, and this one is, by far, the best.He covers ways to do EMDR with complex trauma that are clear, easy to follow (lots of scripts of what to say in here!), and even gives clear ways to explain various things to clients. So many great metaphors that will really help clients digest and understand what is happening with their nervous system and the EMDR process.I read the book and then went through it again to write down all of the things that I want to change about how I do my sessions â- questions to ask in intake, ways to explain things in each phase, ways to modify things to be gentler for people with complex trauma.He even covers all of the, âthis didnât work for my clientâ topics.The things I gleaned from this book will be helpful to ALL of my clients -not just people with complex trauma.This book should be assigned to every clinician when they finish training. I wish I had had it years ago!!