EMDR with Complex Trauma by Thomas Zimmerman ISBN 9798991782401, 899178240X instant download

EMDR with Complex Trauma by Thomas Zimmerman ISBN 9798991782401, 899178240X instant download

EMDR with Complex Trauma explores each phase of EMDR therapy and explains why many clients with complex trauma struggle. It offers sensible accommodations. Clients with complex trauma often survive by using coping strategies that directly conflict with the core tasks of EMDR therapy. We need to make the tasks of EMDR therapy safer and more tolerable to the client’s nervous system. That takes time and attention. Clients with complex trauma may be harmed if they are shoved through a mindfulness or EMDR machine. This book invites therapists to explore the unique and complex nervous system of each client and adjust interventions to match each client. Topics covered in this book include: doing a sensible and safer client history, options for when clients struggle with mindfulness activities, developing helpful attachment resources, navigating blocking beliefs, assessing preparedness for reprocessing, selecting initial targets, understanding where EMDR therapy tends to break and how to intervene, and helping painful memories content to enter conscious awareness in more tolerable ways.