Module III - Live Training

May 16, 2025 to May 18, 2025
Three days via online live interactive webinar format
(9.25 hours live didactic, 9.25 how 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 I Readings

1. Readings from Shapiro (2018)

  • Chapter 9. Standardized Protocols and Procedures for Special Situations (pp. 213-255)
  • Chapter 10. The Cognitive Interweave: A Proactive Strategy for Working with Challenging Clients
  • Chapter 11. Selected Populations (pp. 283-348)
  • Appendix E. Client Safety, EMDR Dissociative Disorders Task Force Recommended Guidelines: A General Guide to EMDR’s Use in the Dissociative Disorders (pp. 498-502)

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

  • Recognize three indicators of blocked processing in EMDR Phase IV: Desensitization
  • Name and describe three interventions to address blocked processing in EMDR Phase IV: Desensitization
  • Articulate the function of a cognitive interweave, and when to use this intervention
  • Describe the difference between first-level and second-level interventions in EMDR Phase II: Preparation
  • Describe the purpose and steps of Resource Development and Installation (RDI)
  • Name the basic steps involved in setting up a 3-Prong treatment plan

Day Two

  • Describe the difference between a future target and future template
  • Describe the process of EMDR Phase VII: Reevaluation within each of the 3 Prongs
  • Describe at least three potential legal and ethical issues that commonly arise in application of EMDR therapy

Day Three

  • Describe at least three strategies to aid recognizing and addressing over-accessing or over-activation of traumatic material
  • Identify when to expand EMDR Phase II: Preparation for more complex client presentations
  • List the basic steps of utilizing the Recent Traumatic Events protocol
  • Describe modifications to treatment planning based on simple PTSD, complex trauma, and dissociative case presentation examples
  • Describe the scope and limitations of self-use applications of EMDR therapy
 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 9.25 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.
  • 9.25 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 9.25 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
08/01/2024
Course expires: 
07/31/2025
Event starts: 
05/16/2025 - 9:30am EDT
Event ends: 
05/18/2025 - 4:30pm EDT
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Jennifer Madere, LPC-S, EMDRIA-Approved Consultant & Trainer
Jennifer Madere is a LPC-Supervisor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant/Approved Trainer in private practice. She is a founding partner of Intuitus Group in Cedar Park, Texas. She has accompanied child and adult survivors of trauma on their journey of healing and recovery in psychotherapy since 2003.

Jennifer has a passion for supervising graduate and post-graduate clinicians and consults and offers training and consultation related to treatment of complex trauma, pathological dissociation, and EMDR therapy. Jennifer is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), co-chair of the ISSTD EMDR Therapy Training Committee, and co-teaches the EMDR therapy training offered by ISSTD. Jennifer also trains fellow clinicians in the ethical integration of faith and spirituality in clinical practice.

In addition to numerous professional presentations in local, national, and international conferences, Jennifer is the published author of several scholarly works on the topics of consultation and screening, assessment, and differential diagnosis for dissociative disorders. She is the primary author for an article focused on best practices in consultation for EMDR advanced designation published in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research in 2020 and served on a working committee within the EMDR Council of Scholars focused on assessing the teaching and learning of EMDR therapy worldwide from 2021-2023.

Since 2015, Jennifer has collaborated with D. Michael Coy, LICSW, and Paul Dell, PhD to update the interpretive manual and associated documents for the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) and make the MID documents and training accessible to clinicians and researchers world-wide. Michael and Jennifer regularly offer training and consultation to support practitioners in learning to interpret and apply the MID in clinical practice.

Available Credit

  • 9.25 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.
  • 9.25 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 9.25 continuing education credits.
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