(HS Freeze 059248 2023) EMDR for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Advanced Treatment Techniques for Insecure

Course overview

Plagued with trauma, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and difficulty regulating their emotions, adult clients who've experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect can be some of your toughest cases. Not only are you facing therapeutic challenges like fragmented self-identity, dissociation and difficulty forming healthy attachments - you're often left trying to identify and reprocess what may be unrealized, absent, or lacking... ...all while trying to attune to experiences for which the client struggles to have words. Fortunately EMDR is up to the challenge, giving you the tools you need to successfully treat these clients so they can move past their traumatic childhoods to achieve lasting healing. Now in this advanced training, you'll watch Sarah Freeze, LCSW, a certified EMDR therapist and consultant who has been working with clients who have experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect for over a decade. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and insight building case studies, Sarah will teach you how to build your clinical expertise with EMDR so you can: Apply adult attachment principles for a fuller understanding of your client's presentation and history Develop skills to better address your client's defenses for gentler and more effective trauma reprocessing Identify and address adaptations to unavailable and dysfunctional caregivers Use creative techniques to process unseen wounds that clients may have trouble verbalizing Help clients feel in control by working with them to stay in their window of tolerance during trauma reprocessing And much more! You'll leave this training with the tools you need to identify targets specific to complex childhood experiences and guide clients toward the trauma resolution and relief they need.