An EMDR Super Resourcing Strategy for Treating Attachment Trauma

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Alison Teal, MFT Related seminars and products

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Alison Teal, MFT, has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years and is certified EMDRIA therapist and consultant who has facilitated EMDR trainings, presented at conferences including the EMDR Canada Annual Conference, and lectured on EMDR and trauma in universities for over 20 years.

In addition to EMDR, Alison is skilled in a variety of therapeutic modalities including expressive arts, psychodrama and somatic psychology. Alison trains clinicians on her Super Resourcing model in a variety of conferences, in-person and online venues as well as providing individual and group consultation.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Alison Teal maintains a private practice and receives compensation as an EMDR facilitator and consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Alison Teal has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Evaluate the historical evolution of EMDR’s Phase Two Resourcing.
2. Employ an integrative approach to EMDR resourcing by incorporating ego state psychology and attachment theory.
3. Utilize a four phase EMDR resourcing strategy for resolving attachment wounds without having to process trauma directly.
4. Develop fully installed positive resources through EMDR’s Accelerated Information Processing (AIP) to promote ego strengthening and development of a new positive narrative.
5. Employ five applications of EMDR resourcing to address different clinical presentations of attachment trauma.
6. Utilize EMDR resourcing to lower the occurrence of resistance, dissociation, looping or stuck processing and open the door to a wider range of clients who struggle with trauma work.

Outline

• Review of the history of EMDR resourcing.
• Review of Trauma, Attachment and Ego State theories
• Review of EMDR
• The power of neurologically installed positive ideation
• The clinical impact of working within a positive resource matrix
• EMDR research, risks and treatment limitations

• Preparation
• Developing and installing positive resources for wounded parts to create an inner experience of safety, nurturance, protection and guidance
• Linking together ego states, resources and their accompanying positive sensations, emotions and cognitions
• Closure and reinforcing new positive narratives

• Preparation for EMDR and other modalities
• Potentiating EMDR Positive Interweaves and Cognitions
• Neurological installation of positive insights, memories, emotions and sensations
• Treating distressing symptoms of attachment wounding
• Special populations/issues (addiction, insomnia, etc.)

• Resource/attachment focus vs. trauma focus
• Transform disturbance in a positive resourced field
• Stabilization and integration of structurally dissociated parts
• Enhancement of present time experience of self
• Development of a new positive narrative; leaving the past in the past

• Case studies
• Client video clips
• An annotated full client session
• Experiential learning through a group guided session

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Addiction Counsellors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals