Description

Using EMDR Therapy with a client struggling with addictive or other compulsive disorders is about more than just learning a few specialty protocols. In this course, you will obtain comprehensive understanding about addiction and human behavior, enhancing your ability to offer EMDR Therapy to such clients. Although some training and experience in the addiction treatment field is helpful, it is not necessary to benefit from this program, as Dr. Marich provides basic orientation to working with addicted clients and those struggling with compulsions and acting out behaviors. Dr. Marich’s unique style of conversational lecturing enhances dialogue about problems that have been traditionally identified in the treatment of addiction, and propose solutions for implementing EMDR Therapy protocols and techniques within the EMDR approach to address such problems. Part 2 of this course focuses on case conceptualization with EMDR Therapy and addicted clients, specifically focusing on Phases 3-6. You may take only this part, only Part 2, or take both parts in sequence, depending on your needs.

Objectives

After this course, participants will be able too...

  • To make the best possible clinical decisions about moving from preparation to processing with the types of clients discussed in this course 
  • To implement effective approaches to reprocessing roadblocks to recovery and unhealed traumas within standard EMDR protocols  
  • To describe the innovative trigger, urge, and feeling state protocols being used within the EMDR community today and make a decision about appropriateness for use with clients 
  • To explain the principle of reintegration within consensus trauma treatment models and describe how it compares to re-evaluation (Phase 8) in EMDR and the concept of maintenance in addiction recovery  
  • To identify any personal or professional issues that may stand in the way of one’s effectiveness in working with addiction, especially within the EMDR approach

About the Instructor

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.

This course meets the requirements for 6 Continuing Education credit hour by the CE approval bodies listed below:

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved provider of continuing education in EMDR Therapy by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). Course Approval: #10002-DL09.

The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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: 03/16/2021 – 03/16/2021.

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/fasle 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 February, 2017.

Please contact us with any questions or concerns at [email protected].

Course Curriculum

    1. Welcome to the Course!

    2. Course PowerPoint (Supplemental)

    1. Trauma and Addiction

    2. Article: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in Addiction Continuing Care

    3. Article: The Perceived Effects of Standard and Addiction-Specific EMDR Therapy Protocols

    4. Article: EMDR Therapy and the Recovery Community:

    1. EMDR Therapy Phases 3-6 for Clients Struggling with Addiction

    2. Logistical Considerations Before Moving into Phase 3

    1. Putting it into Practice

    1. EMDR Therapy and 12 Step Recovery

    2. Supplemental Handouts

    1. Connect with Dr. Jamie

    2. Course Post Test

    3. Course Evaluation & Certificate

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  • $125.00
  • 14 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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