Stacy Ruse & Arielle Schwartz – EMDR From Start To Finish

Introducing our first ever EMDR Foundations course — a step-by-step training on how to use EMDR therapy to safely and effectively treat any kind of trauma.

Join two of the most sought-after Certified EMDR instructors, Stacy Ruse and Arielle Schwartz, as they teach you a highly empirically validated and rapid treatment…

…so you can help clients gently reprocess trauma and free themselves from their painful pasts — with many clients experiencing significant improvement in just a few sessions.

Learn Stacy and Arielle’s distinctively integrative and client-led approach that will help you create a compassionate and customized healing environment for each unique client you treat.

What you’ll learn in EMDR From Start To Finish

What You Need to Know Before Starting EMDR

• Bottom-up stabilization strategies for bodily connection and alignment
• Practical Polyvagal & Neuroscience
• Trauma symptomology presentations & what they mean
• Why the relationship between “window of tolerance” and dual attention matters
• Impact of intergenerational trauma, ACES, and more
• Integrative somatic, CBT, narrative therapy and EMDR techniques for memory reprocessing
• How to encourage post-traumatic growth early in treatment

Get Started with EMDR Therapy

• Know when and how to start EMDR safety
• Proper assessment for trauma and dissociation
• Methods, forms, use, and set-up of Bilateral Stimulation
• Must-know red-flags in trauma processing
• Determine client suitability & readiness for trauma processing
• Handle crises, suicidality, substance use, etc.
• Identity treatment risks, limitations and potential roadblocks
• EMDR research as evidence-based treatment & comparison research

The AIP Model: How EMDR Incorporates Adaptive Information Processing

• EMDR as an integrative approach
• Harness the power of the active components of EMDR
• Clinical implications of using dual awareness
• Core principles, focus, and clinical understanding
• Know the 3-Pronged Approach

Fundamentals & Demonstrations of the EMDR Standard Protocol & 8 Phases

• Real demonstrations of the 8 Phase Model, complete and incomplete sessions
• Know what to treat first: Single and multiple issues presentations
• Accurate and effective history taking, case conceptualization, and treatment planning
• Expert preparation & safe resourcing
• Practice the effective EMDR interventions (Container, calm place, etc.)
• Setting up the EMDR Protocol for an EMDR Session
• Demos of complete and incomplete EMDR sessions

Step-by-Step Instruction of EMDR 8-Phase Model

• History & Treatment Planning
  • Past, Present, & Future Prongs
  • Preparation & Resources review
  • Assessment & Target Set-up
  • Mechanics and set-up details
  • Stop signal and metaphors
  • Goals & TICES
  • Identifying effective Negative & Positive Cognitions
  • Floatback Technique
  • Channels
• Desensitization
  • Begin processing phase
  • EMDR classic statements
  • When to return to target
  • Taking SUD
  • Titrating target
  • Stuck processing, feeder memories, blocking beliefs, and more
  • Installation
  • Goals
  • Installation of positive cognition & VoC
  • Body scan
  • Goals & Procedure
  • Closure
  • Goals & Instruction
  • Closing completes target & closing incomplete session
• Re-evaluation
  • Goals & other considerations
  • Demonstrations and Practice Reprocessing Phase of EMDR

EMDR Additions, Adaptations & Overcome Challenges

• Overcome Deadlock, Blocking & Looping
• Practice Protocol and Interweaves
• Use Cognitive Interweaves and Parts Interweaves
  • Working with anger, guilt, shame, & other common problems
  • Types, make up, and examples of interweaves
  • Working with Parts of Self & Part interweaves
• Somatic & Attachment-based EMDR for resolving Relational Trauma
• Considerations and adaptations working with children & adolescents
• Best practices for virtual EMDR
• Legal and ethical consideration

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