Eating Disorders, Ego States and EMDR: Inviting the Power of Resourcing into the Therapeutic Dance Towards Healing
Marnie Davis, MA, LMHC, CEDS-S, Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant
"Eating Disorders, Ego States and EMDR: Inviting the power of resourcing into the therapeutic dance towards healing"
This training is intended to enhance the EMDR therapist’s understanding of the development of an eating disorder mindset and the many purposes it serves to protect and defend an internal system of parts. It outlines comprehensive client history and treatment planning and explores the relationship between trauma, attachment and dissociation. The training discusses effective resource development installation throughout the 8 phases of EMDR. It explores methods to enhance collaboration with parts, decrease fragmentation, foster healing, and increase self-energy. It outlines effective protocols for desensitizing positive feeling states, urges, triggers, and defenses of the eating disorder and assists with compassionately accessing and healing the disowned/rejected parts of self.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to summarize the factors involved in the development of an eating disorder and identify the relationship between eating disorders, trauma, attachment injuries, and dissociation.
- Participants will be able to describe how to complete a comprehensive client history and treatment planning process and explain the importance of collaborating with ego states.
- Participants will be able to identify at least five effective resource development strategies for the treatment of eating disorders.
- Participants will be able to describe at least three ways to utilize resource development and other affect management skills with ego states and throughout the 8 phases of EMDR.
- Participants will be able to describe how to interweave RDI’s while using standard protocol for touchstones.
- Participants will be able to summarize protocols for desensitization of positive feeling states, urges, triggers, and defenses related to eating disorder ego states.
- Participants will be able to describe at least two methods helpful in decreasing defenses and compassionately accessing disowned/rejected parts of self.