Utilize your EMDR skills to help with immediate traumatic experiences.

EMDR Early Intervention (EEI), a specialized approach to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, is designed to help people process and integrate traumatic memories as soon as possible after the event occurs.

Presented by Kevin Anderson and Kate Pieper

Date: Friday, January 26, 2024
8:45 Technical setup and networking
9:00 - 11:00 Presentation

CEs are available after the event for purchase

Register here: https://event-13159-a496.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new

AGENDA:

9-9:30 Check in

9:30-11:00 am PLENARY: Rachel Walker

11:00 -11:45 am BREAK /Lunch

11:45-12:00 Assignment and direction for BREAKOUTS.

12:00-1:00 pm BREAKOUTS

1:00-1:30 pm Wrap up and closure

Plenary Session

Conscious Integration:
The Trauma Therapist’s Role in Shaping the Future of Humanity
Rachel Walker, LMFT

Trauma-informed therapy is an exciting specialty to be involved in right now - bright, alive, and rapidly evolving. This growth is driven by a movement toward integration of vast areas of human knowledge, experience, and expertise including: neurobiology, psychobiology, attachment, epigenetics, chemistry, quantum physics, Indigenous and ancestral knowledge, eco-studies, and theories of mind, learning, and consciousness.

What we are discovering is that no one model, lens, or person is going to lead us home. Instead, the answers lie in our ability to operate as a collective and collaborate. Join Rachel in exploring this hopeful moment in the evolution of trauma treatment by stepping into the field, listening to one another, and experiencing the capacity of our group mind to lead us forward into something greater than the sum of our parts

Rachel will paint an integrative picture of trauma and trauma treatment by linking together desperate pieces of information from multiple disciplines and sources. Along the way, she hopes to inspire you to join the movement, live a more integrated life yourself, and celebrate the capacity of human beings to transform through internal and external collaboration!

Lunch:

Order lunch when you register ($12) or bring your own. There is a refrigerator on site.

Breakout Sessions

#1 More than Just a Tool: the Comprehensive Resource Model as a Conceptualization of the Psyche

We’ve all got parts of self. We have a part that’s a therapist, a part that drives the car, a part that is a son/daughter/child, the part that is a romantic partner, the part that is a friend, the part that is a parent.
Join Alison Papion, LMFT/CCRMP in a discussion and live demonstration about the use of Comprehensive Resource Model as a way to approach your clients with the goal of getting these parts of self to work together.

#2 Two Fascinating Videos On the Neurological Impact of Trauma

In the early 1900s Wilder Penfield, MD discovered that mild stimulation of the brain can elicit complete memories, including sight, sound, and emotion of specific early events. Recently Dr. Greg Dunn (artist and neuroscientist) and Dr. Brian Edwards (artist and applied physicist) created Self-Reflection, a stunningly beautiful rendition of the neuro-architecture of the brain. Join Dean Dickerson, PhD in a discussion of both videos and their implication for the treatment of trauma.


#3 GOT PARTS? Discovering Dissociation In Children & Teens

In today's world children and adolescents are dealing with layers of trauma. Consequently, more children/teens are dissociating as a way to cope. In this breakout, Kim Johnson, LCSW will discuss:

• assessment tools for diagnosing dissociation with youth,

• how to assist parents/caregivers to understand and deal with dissociation in their child and

• treatment interventions for dissociation in kids/teens.

She will present case examples and practical handouts will be provided, so your confidence in treating this population will be enhanced. Teens and Dissociation

#4 “Getting First Things First – An EMDR Briefer on Working with Emergency Personnel” (Firefighters, Law Enforcement & Paramedics)

Kate Pieper, LMFT, CCISM will discuss:

• The importance of being Culturally Competent with First Responders

• History taking with First Responders

• Recognizing & Treating Compassion Fatigue

• The importance of getting your clients back on the road again

Location:

Sacramento County DSA Hall
640 Bercut Drive
Sacramento, CA 95811

The Greater Sacramento EMDR Network is excited to present the 1st Annual Symposium on Trauma. This annual event will be in person in downtown Sacramento and is open to all therapist in our community.

PLEASE JOIN US
INVITE YOUR COLLEAGUES
LETS BUILD THIS COMMUNITY!

Healing Children
Through Integrating
Play & Art Therapy
With EMDR 

Presenter: Kim Johnson. LCSW

Regional Meeting

January 21, 2022
8:45 am Networking | 9:00 - 10:30 am Presentation
1.5 CEUs | Zoom

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Do you want to utilize your EMDR skills to make a difference in children’s lives?

Do you want to learn how to integrate your play and art therapy skills with each of the eight phases of EMDR?

In this seminar, different EMDR protocols, techniques and tools will be provided to integrate with children ages 2 to 12. Educating and including caregivers in treating children with EMDR therapy will be explored. Case studies, videos and art and play methods will be provided.

Presenter:

Kim Johnson, LCSW

Kim Johnson, L.C.S.W. has worked in the mental health field since 1990 in the Sacramento area. She has been employed in both the public and private sectors, inpatient and outpatient settings. Kim has helped people of many ages and backgrounds to overcome past trauma, conflicts, alter dysfunctional patterns and actualize their potentials toward recovery and fulfillment.

She is an EMDRIA-Certified Therapist and EMDRIA-Approved Consultant; EMDR trainer; Volunteer Member of the EMDR International Association Standards & Training Committee since 2014; Featured speaker at 2019 Southern California EMDRIA Conference on EMDR & Children.

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Have you ever been frustrated that your domestic violence client seemed unable to free themself from an abusive situation? Or worse, they have taken the appropriate steps to protect themself, only to return again to the abusive situation. This presentation will help.

Abstract: Stockholm Syndrome, trauma bonding, Childhood Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, pseudo-agency, and inverse attachment describe victims’/survivors’ protection of their abusers. Aligning with the abuser can last long after cessation of the abuse, even after the abuser’s death, and in hidden or subtle ways that can block processing to zero SUDS. Clinicians are caught between urgently wanting clients to be free from the internalized or actual abuser, and knowing that the information must first be identified then adaptively reprocessed before the former can be achieved. Attendees will learn research and theory on this syndrome, barriers to healing, and precise, efficient interweaves to help our clients become unbound. 

Course Objectives:

Objective 1: Drawing from somatosensory, attachment, sociological, cultural, grooming, and family dynamics perspectives, participants will be able to cite three Client History (Phase 1) factors contributing to victims/survivors emotionally and behaviorally protecting their abusers. 

Objective 2: Participants will accrue strategic knowledge and self-knowledge about iatrogenic impediments to healing from trauma bonding, and will be able to recognize potential iatrogenic impediments in a vignette. 

Objective 3: Participants will be able to formulate three appropriate and distinct Desensitization (Phase 4) interweaves to assist clients in eliminating maladaptive attachment to abusers. 

Presenter:

Jonna Fries, Psy. D.

Jonna Fries is an EMDR Consultant EMDR Facilitator Certified Integrative Body Psychotherapist, IBP Instructor I specializing in developmental trauma. She is the Communications Committee Co-Chair of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals; Facilitator, EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs and Trainer-in-Training; and EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs/Trauma Recovery

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https://event-9668-8e0c.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new

Treating Eating Disorders with EMDR
DaLene Forester, Ph.D., LMFT

Eating Disorders affect an increasing number of individuals and can come to consume an individual’s life and the life of their families. Many clinicians struggle to provide effective treatment for Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating. EMDR can help. Increasing numbers of studies make the connection between adverse life experiences, trauma exposure and Eating Disorders.

Join DaLene Forester, PhD as she examines Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating as coping mechanisms that develop as a result of adverse life experiences. Participants will learn how using EMDR to target both big “T” traumas and little “t” traumas can reduce the negative cognitions that lead to Eating Disordered behavior, allowing the client to regain control of their symptoms and develop healthier ways of coping. 

This workshop is for clinicians looking to expand their knowledge on using EMDR and Parts/Ego States work. Therapists will learn interventions through lecture and videos of recorded sessions to prepare parts for processing targets.

Understanding dissociation is vitally important when working with clients with trauma history. When we as clinicians understand the critical role dissociation played when trauma was experienced and how it impacts our clients currently, we can then treat those clients with much greater success.

Having an understanding allows us to educate our clients as to why they are reacting they way they do in life. Instead of thinking they are just “crazy”, our clients can finally comprehend what is happening and begin to have compassion for themselves.

This workshop will help provide understanding, language and examples to share with your clients. Learning how to explore our client's parts and/or ego states can help them heal and integrate these parts to work together instead of in conflict. Often different parts of self are completely phobic to each other and this can cause many symptoms and difficulties in our clients life. Learning techniques to decrease these phobias can calm the inner system allowing the client to often experience immediate relief and be prepared for EMDR reprocessing.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion clinicians will increase their confidence and skills as well as be able to apply these techniques with their clients using scripts provided.

• Learn different ways to explain Parts/Ego State Work to your clients

• Learn Inner Child work to assess readiness

• Learn how to use EMDR to help with your clients phobia to parts

• Learn Meeting Room technique to gather all parts together

Presenter:

Dena Robertson Blackford, LMFT
EMDRIA Certified, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, EMDR Training Staff with Andrew Leeds, PhD. Sonoma PTI

SPECIALTIES: Dena primarily works with adults specializing in PTSD, complex trauma, dissociative disorders, anxiety, depression, codependency and relationship issues.

Register here: https://emdr-dissociation-and-parts-work.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new