Module II - Live Training

February 21, 2025 to February 23, 2025

Three days via online live interactive webinar format
(9.0 hours didactic, 9.5 practicum) 

Prior to each training module, participants should prepare by completing the following minimum reading from the required materials:

  • Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy: basic principles, protocols, and procedures. New York: The Guilford Press.

Module II Readings

1. Readings from Shapiro (2018)

  • Chapter 5. Phases Two and Three: Preparation and Assessment (pp. 113-135)
  • Chapter 6. Phases Four to Seven: Desensitization, Installation, Body Scan, and Closure (pp. 136-161)
  • Chapter 7. Working with Abreaction and Blocks (pp. 162-190)
  • Chapter 8. Phase Eight: Reevaluation and Use of the EMDR Therapy Standard Three-Pronged Protocol

2. Readings from ISSTD EMDR Therapy Training Manual (see detailed agenda) 

3. Additional required reading

Target Audience

Beginning/Introductory

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to:

Day One

  • Name and describe the seven elements of EMDR Phase III: Assessment
  • Name and describe the purpose of the three reprocessing phases of EMDR therapy
  • Describe the difference between complete and incomplete closure of an EMDR therapy reprocessing session
  • Name at least two potential challenges that can surface in EMDR Phase III: Assessment
  • Name three strategies to link to explicitly held experience to support continued reprocessing in EMDR therapy
  • Name and briefly describe the three domains of experience for Negative and Positive Cognitions in EMDR therapy

Day Two

  • Describe the purpose of EMDR Phase VIII: Reevaluation, and identify when it occurs
  • Name three interventions to help a client manage intrusive/disturbing images during EMDR therapy reprocessing
  • Name at least three signs that client may have exceeded their Window of Tolerance
  • Name at least one intervention to aid a client with simple trauma/wounding remain alert and ‘grounded’
  • Name at least one intervention that can help a client with intrusive dissociative symptoms remain ‘grounded’
  • Recognize and describe the difference between EMDR, EMDr, and EMD
  • Describe the purpose and main elements of a Future Template

Day Three

  • Name and briefly describe three unexpected, and potentially unfavorable, post-processing effects in EMDR therapy
  • Describe the differences between ‘state change’ and ‘trait change’ as it relates to the scope of treatment plan in EMDR therapy
  • Name and describe five target selection approaches in EMDR therapy
  • Name at least three professional or legal considerations when employing EMDR therapy with clients
     
 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 9.00 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 9.00 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 9.00 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
08/01/2024
Course expires: 
07/31/2025
Event starts: 
02/21/2025 - 9:30am EST
Event ends: 
02/23/2025 - 4:30pm EST
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Jill Hosey, MSW, RSW, LICSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDR Trainer
Jill Hosey, MSW RSW LICSW, is a Social Worker, Consultant, Trainer, and Psychotherapist in private practice, providing trauma therapy to children, youth, and adults with histories of complex trauma and dissociation where she integrates a variety of trauma, attachment and dissociation focused theories and modalities. She is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDR Trainer, a facilitator with the AGATE (Ana Gomez Attachment Trauma Education) Institute, and Faculty with the ISSTD’s Professional Training and EMDR Therapy Training Programs. Jill has presented extensively on integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) into EMDR and sits on the Clinical Advisory Board at Unyte. Jill is the lead author of the Clinical Guidelines and considerations for integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol into EMDR Therapy, a chapter on Therapeutic presence and the therapeutic relationship as both trigger and container to healing in E. Christenson’s (Ed.), Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues, and the co-editor and contributing author for the Handbook for Child Complex Trauma and Dissociation: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Routledge, In Press). She is the winner of the 2022 ISSTD Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2023 ISSTD President’s Award, and is a Fellow of the ISSTD.

Available Credit

  • 9.00 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 9.00 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 9.00 continuing education credits.
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