Understanding the AIP Model: The Boat Metaphor and the Mount Everest Metaphor
In EMDR Therapy, the pathway for healing is that stuck information has to connect to right now adaptive information. The process that facilitates that linkage is the Eight Phase Protocol. You can c...
21 Touko 202316min
When to Encourage Memories to Connect: Complex Trauma and the Problem of Too Much Memory Content
Understanding the Difference Between A Complexly Traumatized Nervous System and a Non-Pervasively Traumatized Nervous System Via the AIP Lens In the AIP model, the difficult stuff has to connect with ...
21 Touko 202322min
The Problems of Too Much Agenda in EMDR Therapy
Client and therapist agendas are frequent blocks in EMDR Therapy reprocessing.
21 Touko 202314min
Trouble Finding an Individual Memory when Trauma was Daily: A Topographic Approach
Using age, space, and topography to find an individual representative memory related to a presenting issue, theme, current trigger or emotional state. • Identify a negative cognition.• What age do we ...
21 Touko 202313min
Preface to What's So Complex about Complex Trauma: Phase Two
Introduction to the next handful of episodes.
21 Touko 20233min
"Mindfulness Doesn't Work for Me:" Teaching it Differently
Many clients with complex trauma will come to us convinced that they have already failed mindfulness and that they are about to fail EMDR. Some of the approaches that I have seen to teaching mindfuln...
21 Touko 202337min
A "Dip Your Toe In" Approach to Sensory Grounding
Trauma has the potential to promote disconnection from the present, from experience, from the body, from the self, and from more full engagement with the broader world. These responses were in the se...
21 Touko 202314min
A "Dip Your Toe In" Approach to Body Scan
Full script for this is at: https://emdrthirdweekend.com/posts/dip-your-toe-in-approaches-to-body-scan
21 Touko 202322min
