The EMDR Podcast

Scripts for these breaths are at: https://emdrthirdweekend.com/posts/dip-your-toe-in-approaches-to-breath-blue-smoke-and-hand-breathing

Assessing for attachment wounding: When you were young, who was really and consistently there for you? At the core of EMDR therapy and the AIP model, the difficult stuff has to connect to and metabolize into right now adaptive information.  Shapiro is clear that enough of the needed adaptive information must be present for the difficult stuff to metabolize into it.  You cannot connect a lie to a l...

Strategies for working with problems visualizing.

Detailed scripts for this approach are at: https://emdrthirdweekend.com/posts/videotape-approach-script-with-complex-trauma-phases-three-and-four

Strategies for a gentler closure when things are heading in a good direction.

This episode focuses on different types of distress that may appear in trauma work and explores the types of distress that are most productive to metabolize. In many transformational trauma therapies, at least part of what we are doing is transforming the distress encoded in the memory.  There is distress in almost any individual traumatic memory. However, that’s not the only distress that may be...

What Do Container Resources Do? Long story short, containers help you expedite the process of returning difficult content to the limbic brain.   Library metaphor. Containers very often are a cognitive strategy or intention not to engage with something right now.  A container can also be a somatic strategy, because if we only address the cognitive aspects of rumination we may be leaving a lot of di...

Strategies for managing flashbacks in session and between sessions.

Effective time management strategies in EMDR Therapy.