EMDR With Complex Trauma

While your Phase Four scripts may not capture this nuance, the SUDs is an evaluation of the amount of distress that remains in the memory that you started Phase Three with only. It does not matter that you have had a lot of similar wounds in your life. Those other memories aren’t our right-now target. It does not matter, from the point of view of t

Clients with Borderline tendencies may need enhanced EMDR resourcing related to emotional regulation. Inconsistent childhood attachment is often a key component, and this type of wounding often shows up in EMDR therapy as profound deficits in adaptive information related to human needs.

If something bad happened to you that you don’t remember, I hope that some part of you can appreciate what I know for sure about it: that whatever happened is already over. It is not happening right now. If something does emerge, we can work on it and resolve it. We can use multiple different strategies to do that. I would like to start working on

Trauma work with clients with complex trauma is more than simply treating their trauma and discharging them for having met their goals. It’s helping them launch in ways that are sustainable. It’s helping their new unmortgaged nervous systems have experiences that help clarify who they are, what they are worth, and how they deserve to be treated. It

Healing will give you a lot that is good. It will help you reset the past. It will let you experience the past as something that is objectively over. It may help your immune system settle. Healing settles a lot of the old tax that you have had to pay to wake up each day in this world. It can give ease back to your breath and unheavy your chest. It

Unless something catastrophic is probable, the future template should not be catastrophic. It should target something that is likely to happen in the next few weeks or months.

Future templates leverage past work, often without taking much session time or the client reporting substantial distress, to help the client visualize, experience, and navigate a future scene more effectively. Future templates create instances of learning for subsequent experiences to connect into. We heal when we have disconfirming experiences. Tr

The general structure of this approach is: 1) Identify the negative cognition and recent incident that you would like to float back. 2) Lightly activate the recent incident to get a body feel. 3) Float back the negative cognition and the body feel to an approximate age. 4) Inquire about the context: Home, school, or community. 5) Bring up a floor p

Trauma is stored in ways that are “searchable” using body sensations, beliefs about ourselves, the developmental era that the memory occurred, details of who is in the memory (i.e. memories that happened with my “brother,” “mother,” or “father”), or details of the category of wounding (i.e. sexual abuse, being embarrassed by a parent, or being left