Season 2, Episode 29, Release Dte: 4-28-2024

Healing the Folks Who Live Inside with Esly

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Esly Regina Cavalho as much as I loved having it! Esly holds a Ph.D. in psychology, and she is a Brazilian- American clinical psychologist. She is an EMDR Trainer of Trainers, and she is a trainer with distinction in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy. She offers training to integrate EMDR with Role Therapy. She is an author, and president of multiple agencies. She has been a major impact with bringing EMDR -- and it's integration with Role Therapy --  to Brazil, and around the world!

Registration is open for the Esly's Professional Intervention Program for Adversity (PIPA), group exercises based on AIP theory. Check out more here:  www.traumaclinicinternational.com/courses/pipa

EMDR Basic Training, in English but with an international team: www.traumaclinicinternational.com

You can watch Esly's Youtube video explaining EMDR here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg842qP83yc

It was wonderful speaking with Esly about psychodrama, and how this helps increase:

Our creativity

The ability to think on our feet

Confidence and stage presence

Understanding other perspectives through role reversal

We spoke about surplus reality, and Esly explained how this is a psychodramatic term for an imaginary place where we can create anything we want. This is a place were traumas can find resolutions.

We spoke about two types of time: (1) chronological time and (2) a particular moment in time. Esly shared how EMDR helps us take trauma our of a particularly moment (which is eternally repeating) and bring it to chronological time, and sent back to the past.

Esly's wonderful saying, "Without healing there is no holiness."

Esly also shared her beliefs that, "If you get stuck, look for the trauma."

I love how Esly describes her "psychodynamic interweave" for EMDR. In this way, she allows us to change our story, and help roles develop. 

Esly has brought her work to: Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Columbia, Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia. Esly's PIPA's program has been extremely well received, and very successful. 

Find out more about EMDR and Psychodrama at Esly's websites. As Esly shared, both models are very powerful healing modalities, but could also cause a lot of damage if not done correctly. 

Esly's training are for licensed professionals, and she is creating more for paraprofessionals.