Thursday September 6, 2018 8:30-5 PM CST
Friday September 7, 2018 8:30-5 PM CST
Saturday September 8, 2018 8:30-3 PM CST
Participants will learn to employ creative and powerful attachment-based strategies, including internal restructuring of the personality, to assist clients with the preparation/stabiliization and reprocessing phases of EMDR therapy for optimal EMDR therapy outcomes.
Participants will be able to:
Ann E. Potter, Ph.D. has worked over 40 years in the mental health field as a psychiatric nurse, educator, therpaist, psychologist, evaluator, researcher, writer, presenter, and consultatnt. Her bachelor's degree is in Nursing from Creighton University, master's degree in Counseling from UNOmaha, and doctorate in Counseling Psychology fron UNLincoln. She has been in private practice since 1989.
Dr. Potter’s areas of expertise include trauma, attachment, addictions, personality disorders, domestic violence and sexual assault, and she has specialized training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Radical Openness Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT). She is a certified therapist and approved consultant in EMDR. She has piloted outcome research related to phase-based trauma treatment (DBT/EMDR) for adults and published articles on the roles adults played as children in alcoholic families, books on trauma treatment, and articles on EMDR therapy.
Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP is co-founder of The Attachment Trauma and Trauma Center of Nebraksa and has sFrancine Shapiro, Ph.D., and books related to attachment and trauma. Her latest books include a treatment manual for treating attachment trauma in children and accompanying parent guide. As a recognized expert in attachment issues, Ms. Wesselmann presents nationally and internationally. Past conferences and workshops include presentations for the Association for the Treatment and Training of Attachment in Children and EMDRIA as well as invited presentations at the Menninger Clinic, EMDRIA, The European EMDR Conferences in Rome, Amsterdam, Hamburg, the Netherlands National EMDR Conference, Hong Kong, and a specialty EMDR training conference in Costa Rica.