Clinical Perspectives on Conducting EMDR Therapy Remotely: Homestudy

3 CE credit hours


The global COVID-19 crisis has thrust mental health therapists into a new reality of needing to provide services via telehealth and other remote platforms. While this can be challenging for any therapy, especially since training in this area of service has traditionally been scarce, there are special challenges for EMDR therapists. In this course Dr. Jamie Marich (author and founder of The Institute for Creative Mindfulness) speaks to Mark Brayne from the U.K. about his clinical experiences offering EMDR therapy virtually. Mark is seasoned at offering EMDR via telehealth and remote platforms, and has a wealth of clinical insight to share on adapting EMDR therapy. A former BBC journalist whose service in that realm exposed him to humanitarian needs in times of crisis, Mark’s global perspective is invaluable. Mark also offers a clinical demonstration of remote EMDR therapy with Jamie offering an issue from her present life. In the final module, an interview with Paul Miller, MD, a practitioner, researcher, and member of the EMDR Council of Scholars offers his experience with online EMDR therapy and highlights some main considerations related to EMDR therapy’s mechanisms of action. Implications for case conceptualization are discussed in both the Brayne and Miller interviews.

The views expressed in the course content do NOT reflect those of any EMDR therapy organizations (e.g., EMDRIA, EMDR UK-Ireland, EMDR Europe) although we will be discussing and commenting on the newly released EMDRIA guidelines on telehealth and EMDR.

This course and CEs are being offered for free, although if you would like to make a donation to support the work of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness in offering free content at this time, you may do so at: https://www.instituteforcreativemindfulness.com/donate/ 

This is a hybrid, self-paced distance learning course, comprised of reading material and video content. This is an intermediate level course. Completion of all modules, a course evaluation, and post-test is required to receive CE Certificate. Course evaluations are administered after completing all course modules. The post-test is comprised of true/false and multiple choice questions and requires a passing mark of 75%, and is administered after completion of the course evauluation. Upon passing the post-test, participants are able to download their CE certificates.

This course was first published April 2020. Please contact us with any questions or concerns at [email protected]


Objectives

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Summarize the general recommendations of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) regarding the delivery of EMDR therapy via telehealth platforms
  2. Apply/implement a basic yet high-quality technology set-up in one’s office/therapeutic space for the delivery of EMDR therapy via a telehealth platform
  3. Classify the advantages and disadvantages of working with each form of bilateral stimulation online and to make appropriate decisions for implementation based on the individual client
  4. Differentiate between dual attention stimulus (DAS) and bilateral stimulation (BLS) and discuss the importance of both in EMDR therapy
  5. Determine best course of clinical action for addressing situations in delivering EMDR therapy online that may prove challenging for clinicians (e.g., managing abreaction and dissociation; addressing suicidal ideation, internet failure)

Course Completion & CE Certificate Information

Completion of all modules, a course evaluation, and post-test is required to receive CE Certificate. Course evaluations are administered after completing all course modules. The post-test is comprised of true/false and multiple choice questions and requires a passing mark of 75%. Upon passing the post-test and completing the course evaluation, participants are emailed their CE certificates.

After paying for this course you will receive an email from Thinkific to complete your registration and receive access to your course dashboard.

You have 180 days to complete a homestudy course from the time that you sign up. After 180 days, you will be assessed a $25.00 administrative renewal fee to access and complete the course.

Presenter(s)

ICM Founder & Director Jamie Marich

Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they/we) began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Akron, OH. Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. Marich is the author of EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors, Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Marich co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care along with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger in 2018, and their new book with Springer Publishing Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide released in 2021. North Atlantic Books published a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps in the Summer of 2020, and they released The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery in 2022. Her latest release with North Atlantic Book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life came out in January 2023. She has three more projects in the works with North Atlantic Books, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God, due out in Autumn 2024. The Huffington Post published her personal story of being out as a clinical professional with a dissociative disorder in May 2023. The New York Times featured Marich’s writing and work on Dancing Mindfulness in 2017 and 2020. NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate. The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) granted Jamie the 2019 Advocacy in EMDR Award for her using her public platform in media and in the addiction field to advance awareness about EMDR therapy and to reduce stigma around mental health. Jamie also sits on the editorial board of the EMDR Journal of Practice and Research, and she was the 2008 winner of the Poster Research Award at the EMDRIA Annual Conference.

Continuing Education Approvals

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by the following organizations to offer 3 continuing education (CE) credit hours for this course:

As of April 26, 2023, The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is no longer approved to sponsor HOMESTUDY continuing education for psychologists. If you registered for this course before April 25, 2023, you are eligible to receive continuing education for this HOMESTUDY course. Please contact our office at [email protected] if you need verification of registration date.

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness, #1735, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 3/16/24-3/16/27. Social workers completing this course receive 3 general continuing education credits.


The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (OCSWMFT) for counselors, social workers, and marriage/family therapists. Approval: #RCS091306


Course Curriculum

    1. About This Course

    2. Description

    3. Objectives

    4. Continuing Education Approvals

    5. Course References

    6. Additional Resources

    1. Module 1

    2. Module 2

    3. Module 3

    4. Module 4:

    1. Required Course Post Test

    2. Course Evaluation and Certificate Information

    3. Course Evaluation

    4. Closure

    5. Stay In Touch with The Institute for Creative Mindfulness

Course details

  • Free
  • 15 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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