Advanced Training and Consultation

Personal Enhancement for Therapists

Note. All information related to this Advanced Training is located on this page, including the course schedule, fees, and online registration request (see below).

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Prerequisites:

Participants must have completed an EMDRIA Approved Basic Training in EMDR (both Part 1 and Part 2).

Learning Objectives:

• to process through personal blocks, which are obstacles to working with difficult clients
• to learn subtle advanced EMDR skills

Course Objectives:

This workshop aims to help therapists save themselves and the traumatized. A main concern of therapists is how to keep both themselves and the client safe and protected from retraumatization. It is more difficult for the clinician to provide safety and protection if they are feeling unsafe themselves. Clinicians tend to feel overly responsible and may slip into feeling ineffective, helpless or incompetent when confronted with what appears as the unfixable suffering of their clients. Associated with a failed attempt to protect the self from danger, the therapist’s early unprocessed trauma is retriggered by repeatedly hearing the traumatic stories of clients. Working with the skills they have already mastered, therapists can clear out the blocked process in their own work, which encourages relaxation, spontaneity, and renewed enjoyment of their practice.

Continuing Education Credits available.

Format:

• Lecture, discussion, and demonstrations
  followed by practicum to help therapists prevent vicarious traumatization by enhancing their skills at handling clients’ blocked process, incomplete sessions, and looping.

Instructors:

Marshall Wilensky, Ph.D., R.Psych., B.C.E.T.S.
EMDRIA Approved Instructor

Patricia Wilensky, Ph.D.

Training Date:

• November 17th, 2007 (9:00am-4:30pm, 6-hours)

Advanced Training Workshop Registration Request:

Name: Firstname Lastname Street Address: City, Province: Xxxxxxxx, XX Postal/Zip Code: Phone: ### - ### - #### Email: Yes I have taken the EMDR Basic Training Course (both Part 1 and Part 2) Pressing Submit is the first step in notifying us of your intent to take the course. To reserve your place, your payment must be received at the office according to the tuition particulars below.

Tuition:

• $250 (fees must be paid in full by November 3, 2007)
• Group size is limited to 18 participants
• Please make cheques/money orders payable (and send) to:
  BCSPP
  406 -1168 Hamilton
  Vancouver, BC V6B 2S2

Location:

3026 Arbutus St (2nd floor)
(at 14th Avenue)
Vancouver, BC

For more info:

Alivia (Scalzo) Maric, Ph.D., R.Psych. Telephone: 604-251-7275 Email: