Everybody get ready, this episode is filled with so much insightful information about EMDR, working as an EMDR practitioner, relationships between therapist and client, and laying to rest misconceptions about what it means to be living with OSDD/DID. 

Today I'm diving deep with Dr. Jamie Marich. 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. Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy.

We talk about the origin story of EMDR, and how it doesn't ease traumatic memories, but helps them shift how they are stored in the brain. You will hear us passionately speak about the following: how working with trauma is like working with lava and you need to be prepared. The safety and rapport that must be established between a client and a practitioner. The misconception that healing only occurs if there is a full integration of PARTs. We disabuse the notion that you can't talk to your PARTs, and how the meaning of dissociation is a different level of separation.

TikTok: traumatherapistrants; IG: @drjamiem
 https://www.drjamiemarich.com/books--media.html
http://www.redefinetherapy.com; http://www.instituteforcreativemindfulness.com

Marich is the author of: EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client;Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement; Creative Mindfulness; Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors; Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation; EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care (co-author); Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery; Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide;The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery; Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life. She is working on 3 projects currently, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God.

This episode is proudly sponsored by: Pasadena Trauma Therapy a group practice located in Pasadena, CA that focuses on providing individual and group psychotherapy to trauma survivors. They specialize in working with the whole trauma spectrum, but predominately with CPTSD, sexual abuse, and dissociative disoders. The therapists at Pasadena Trauma Therapy work from a variety of trauma informed modalities, including but not limited to EMDR, Brainspotting, Parts Work/IFS, Somatic therapies, etc. For more information, please visit www.pasadenatraumatherapy.com
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