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ForwardRecorded Webinar - Evolution and Theory of EMDR Therapy & the AIP Model
Abstract
Since the development of EMDR therapy in the early 1990s, a large body of research has shown that it is efficacious for treating PTSD. Clinicians and researchers have also found positive treatment effects beyond PTSD for other mental health conditions. However, clinicians discovered early on that EMDR seemed to move patients with complex trauma into dysregulated states rather than towards the expected, adaptive resolution when targeting traumatic memories. Stories of uncontrolled abreactions, the unanticipated emergence of dissociated self-states, and subsequent destabilization leading to major setbacks or harm prompted some clinicians to dismiss EMDR as a viable treatment option for persons with dissociative features. Although some advanced EMDR therapy trainings and publications consider these complexities and potential risks, initial EMDR therapy training historically has not.
Keeping in mind the importance of appropriate client selection for employing standard EMDR therapy methods, this presentation will offer foundational considerations that can help us understand how to recognize and conceptualize trauma-related presentations. We will begin by introducing the Window of Tolerance model, which will serve as a lens through which we will consider what becomes trauma and why this may be. Additionally, Porges’s Polyvagal Theory will be overlaid upon this frame as a means for contextualizing how trauma may impact one’s capacity for managing day-to-day stressors and face traumatic material directly in therapy.
From here, we will pivot toward EMDR therapy, specifically, as a means for processing traumatic wounding to adaptive resolution. We will discuss the history and evolution of EMDR therapy as an approach; describe the discovery of the interactions between EMDR therapy and dissociation/dissociative disorders and how this has informed the cautious use of EMDR therapy; and, lay out the theoretical tenets and clinical implications of the Adaptive Information Processing model, which informs EMDR therapy practice.
Target Audience
Beginning/Introductory
Learning Objectives
Upon Completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define simple trauma, complex trauma, and traumatic dissociation
- Define the elements of the Window of Tolerance framework and its relevance for understanding autonomic nervous system arousal, survival and defensive responses, and attachment challenges
- Describe the Polyvagal Theory and its contribution to understandings about EMDR therapy and dissociative processes
Jennifer A Madere, LPC-S, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Trainer
Jennifer Madere is an LPC-Supervisor, EMDR Consultant and Trainer in private practice. She is a founding partner of Intuitus Group in Cedar Park, Texas. She has accompanied child, adolescent, and adult survivors of trauma on their journey of healing and recovery in psychotherapy since graduating from the University of Denver with a master’s degree in counseling psychology in 2005. She is trained in EMDR therapy, ego state therapy, deep brain reorienting, the ethical integration of faith in clinical practice, and sexual addiction treatment.
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, EMDR therapy. Jennifer is a Fellow of the ISSTD and co-teaches the EMDR therapy training offered by ISSTD. She received the President’s Award in 2021 (with the team which developed ISSTD's EMDR therapy training), and the Cornelia B. Wilbur award (with D. Michael Coy) in 2022.
Jennifer is also a member of the EMDR International Association, European Society for Trauma and Dissociation, Texas Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors, International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals, and member and past-president of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association. She 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 and Paul Dell 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. Jennifer is the published author of scholarly works on topics including consultation, screening, assessment, and differential diagnosis for dissociative disorders. Jennifer and D. Michael Coy are writing a book focused on EMDR and Dissociation, to be published in late 2025.
D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Trainer
D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW, (he/they) is a 2006 graduate of The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago and currently maintains a private practice in Bremerton, Washington, USA.
Michael is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and has served EMDRIA in a number of different volunteer capacities over the years. He has presented on EMDR therapy and dissociation for EMDRIA, ISSTD, and independently, and serves as lead trainer for ISSTD’s EMDR therapy basic training, which he helped develop. He co-authored the MID Interpretive Manual, 2nd through 4th Editions, and has updated and managed both the MID Analysis and MID website since 2016. Michael has taught and consulted for hundreds of clinicians, both in the US and internationally, on using the MID for diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatment.
Michael was co-author of both an article on screening for dissociation in EMDR therapy that appeared in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research in 2022 and a book chapter on diagnostic instruments for dissociation published in Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future (2nd Edition) in 2022. He is sole author of a chapter on the Autohypnotic Model of Dissociation, which will be part of a forthcoming book on childhood dissociation. Michael is currently co-authoring a book on EMDR and dissociation with his frequent collaborator Jennifer Madere.
Michael was elected to ISSTD’s Board of Directors in 2017, served as Treasurer from 2018 to 2023, was elected President-elect for 2024, and serves as President in 2025. He was named a Fellow of ISSTD in 2019 and has been honored with a number of awards from the Society, including the Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions to the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders in 2022.
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
- 2.00 APAThe 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.
- 2.00 ASWB ACEThe 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 2.00 continuing education credits.