Everything You Wanted to Know About Dissociation and DID But Were Afraid to Ask: Homestudy

12 CE credit hours

Everything You Wanted to Know About Dissociation and DID But Were Afraid to Ask: Homestudy Version

Dr. Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT

12 CE Credit Hours

Description

Dr. Jamie Marich is one of the few members of the EMDR Therapy training community to be fully out and proud about her experience of having a clinically significant dissociative disorder and active dissociative system. In this homestudy course, Jamie shares replays of the original course that she offered when her book project, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life, released (2023-2024) and offers updated commentary and applications for EMDR therapists.

A passionate advocate seeking to tear down the “us vs. them” wall that exists between clinical professionals and those with dissociative disorders, Marich used the research method in which she trained during her doctoral work (phenomenology) to investigate lived experience of people with dissociative experiences of life. Professionals, survivors, and some identifying as both, were asked to answer the same eight questions about dissociation that formed the base of inquiry for the book. In this workshop, you will receive a first-hand tour of what the project is revealing and what the implications are for advocacy and smashing stigma in the helping professionals and society at large. The sixty-one project contributors share valuable insights on what works for grounding/anchoring, and deeper healing. With many people of color and Indigenous individuals offering experience for this project, the norms of Western psychology and its limited view around dissociation are necessarily challenged. Learn how to more effectively conceptualize cases and deliver the 8 Phases of EMDR Therapy with clients who experience dissociative disorders.

The course is organized in 10 modules that you can take at your own pace. Modules 1-3 of the course are foundational, using Dissociation Made Simple contributor insight to help participants conceptualize dissociation and all its manifestations in very human yet clinically relevant ways. We are very grateful that Dissociation Made Simple contributors LS Scarboro+ and The Garden System, who are also both clinicians, join us as discussants. 

Modules 4-10 are more specifically focused on EMDR Therapy, as the lived experiences of many contributors with EMDR Therapy—the positive, the neutral, and the cautionary tales—are explored. Jamie will discuss the learning that can be taken from our contributors on how to more effectively conduct EMDR Therapy case conceptualization in a way that honors dissociative experiences.

Although we cannot engage in small group discussion during a self-paced homestudy, Dr. Marich provides several exercises for your own introspection and growth that you can engage in to further connect with the material. As always with Dr. Marich’s courses, participants will be challenged to look at their own experiences with dissociation as a way to help them better understand their clients.

The course (12 CEs) counts as an elective towards the Institute for Creative Mindfulness’ Advanced Certificate in Dissociation Studies for EMDR Therapists.

This is a 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 evaluation. Upon passing the post-test, participants are able to download their CE certificates.

This course was first published May 2025. Please contact us with any questions or concerns at [email protected] 

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.  


Objectives

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the origins of expressive arts therapy (e.g., indigenous traditions, historical threads in Jungian analysis, person-centered psychotherapy, and Gestalt psychotherapy)
  2. Define expressive arts therapy and explain its nature as a multi-modal, multi-art process
  3. Explain the concept of grounding and why teaching it to clients is relevant in trauma-focused care
  4. Implement an expressive arts process to teach grounding in a clinical setting (individual or group), using at least three creative art forms
  5. Explain the concept of distress tolerance and why teaching it to clients is relevant in trauma-focused care
  6. Implement an expressive arts process to expand distress tolerance in a clinical setting (individual or group), using at least three creative art forms
  7. Develop a treatment plan appropriate for the clinical setting in which the participant works, utilizing expressive arts approaches alongside the participant’s primary approach to psychotherapy
  8. Implement at least three art forms in the expressive arts tradition in Phase 2 for the purposes of grounding and widening affective window of tolerance, strengthening skills with dual attention stimulus as appropriate
  9. Define mindfulness and explain the justification for teaching clients mindfulness skills as part of EMDR therapy preparation
  10. Apply no fewer than 4-6 mindfulness strategies to clinical practice, respecting the idea that expressive arts practices can be done mindfully for added creative variation in adapting to client needs
  11. Explain how mindfully applied expressive arts strategies can assist EMDR therapists in managing abreaction and dissociation within EMDR therapy sessions
  12. Briefly summarize the literature and case studies reviewed in the course on the value of implementing both mindfulness and expressive arts therapy strategies into execution of the standard protocol, especially as an assist in working with complex trauma
  13. Strategize how to include expressive arts therapy approaches into individualized closure (Phase 7) plans for clients, explaining how the process can be vital for managing affect in between sessions and overall distress tolerance/containment
  14. Explain and implement how creativity and expressive arts approaches can be used to developmentally tailor the standard EMDR therapy protocol for children

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 12 continuing education (CE) credit hours for this course:

State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board

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 for counselors, social workers, and marriage/family therapists. Approval: #RCS091306

National Board for Certified Counselors

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness has been approved by National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6998. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Institute for Creative Mindfulness is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Association of Social Worker Boards

Institute for Creative Mindfulness, #1735, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/16/24-3/16/27. Social workers completing this course receive 12 general continuing education credits. 

This course is APPROVED by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved training provider in EMDR Therapy by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) Approval: #10002-DL164.  

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.

A General Note About Approvals

Please also note that APA-approved sponsors are accepted by many state boards, such as California BBS and major licensure boards within the state of Pennsylvania. In both of these cases, separate paperwork does not need to be filled out. Many state boards also accept out-of-state providers, which is why our Ohio approvals appear on every training. In some states, pre- or post-program approval forms must be sent, and you are responsible for checking into the rules of the licensure board in your state as to what is required. Please let the Institute for Creative Mindfulness know if you need support documentation in any way for these pre or post-program approval applications.

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. 

Course Curriculum

    1. Description

    2. Objectives

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Continuing Education Approvals

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Supplemental Reading

    1. Welcome Video and Instructions on How to Use Videos

    2. Module 1: Foundations

    3. Module 2: AIP and Contributor Wisdom

    4. Module 3: Stigma and Media

    5. Module 4: Elizabeth Davis Interview

    6. Module 5: Deep Dive into Skills for EMDR Therapists

    7. Module 6: A Deeper Dive into EMDR Specifics

    8. Module 7: Continuing the Deep Dive

    9. Module 8: Moving Forward

    10. Module 9: Session Demonstration with Jamie as Client

    11. Module 10: EMDR Learning Community Interview

    12. Concluding Thoughts

    1. Required Course Post Test

    2. Course Evaluation and Certificate Information

    3. Course Evaluation (Needed for CEs)

Course details

  • $295.00
  • 19 lessons
  • 9.5 hours of video content

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