The EMDR Podcast

By Thomas Zimmerman

Helping therapists work more effectively with complex trauma. Thomas Zimmerman, Ms.Ed., LPCC, offers EMDR Foundational Training in Cleveland, Ohio, and online throughout the United States. We can also... more

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How many episodes does The EMDR Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.

The EMDR Podcast episodes:

April 25, 2021Intro to The "Dip Your Toe In" Metaphor
Dip Your Toe In Metaphor
Understanding Traumatized Nervous Systems
Bodies Can be Triggering
Inside Can be Triggering
Noticing Can be Triggering
Calming or Slowing Down Can be Triggering
Paying Attention to the Body Before an Audience Can be Triggering
Performance Anxiety Related to All of This Can be Triggering
Resistance Not a Useful Concept

Dip Your Toe In Provides Needed Information

Beware Agendas
Beware Informing Clients What the Should Feel or What Mindfulness Will Do
Therapist Agendas: Back to How we Teach Mindfulness, and the Cinderblock on the Gas Pedal
Many Clients with Complex Trauma Believe that they have Failed Trauma (and are about to Fail EMDR Therapy)
Aspirin for a Headache Metaphor
...more
16min
April 20, 2021Overheating on the Memory Channel in Complex Trauma
Goal is to Move a Memory

Leveraging Generalization

The Difference Between Feeder and Adjacent Memories

Rethinking Abreactions as Events that Take Offline the Client’s Capacity to Notice

A Bit about Dissociation

When a Whole “Heard” of Memories Come

We Have an Important Navigational Role to Play

Existential Loneliness as Abreaction

The Dive Metaphor
...more
8min
April 20, 2021 Understanding Why SUDs May Not Be Decreasing
Potential blocks and problems when working with complex trauma and EMDR.
...more
10min
April 20, 2021A Simple EMDR Checklist for Moving from Phase Two to Three
Does the Client have a Brake?

Is the Client in His Body Enough to Notice?

Does the Client use Benzos or Marijuana?

Does the Client have the Capacity to Feel Worse Today?
...more
7min
April 20, 2021Understanding Some Reasons Why Clients Need Attachment Figure Resources
In EMDR Therapy, You Cannot Connect a Lie to a Lie

Attachment Resources as a Powerful Set of Scissors that Let you Safely Disconnect from “Whales” of Memory

Psychoeducation and Modeling Related to Healthy Attachment
...more
3min
April 20, 2021Potential Blocks to Reprocessing: Trying to Figure Out the Trauma
Reorienting Clients who Are Too Active on the Thought Channel Too Soon

Notice What Stinks

Using Perspective Changes or Channel Changes

“When Healing Comes, It Will Come to You”

What Reprocessing Looks Like
...more
4min
April 20, 2021Introducing Mindfulness/Deep Breathing Using the “Dip Your Toe In” Approach
The Dip Your Toe In Metaphor

Strategies for Approaching a Traumatized Nervous System Carefully and Respectfully

The Lens Metaphor

The Inside and Noticing Can be Triggering in a Traumatized Nervous System

Using Externalized Breathing as a Bridge Technique to Approaching the Body More Safely
...more
5min
April 20, 2021Clients “Not Ready” vs Clients “Needing Preparation” for Reprocessing
Identifying Specific Deficits and Working Every Session to Address those Deficits

What a Resource Means

Accessing and Strengthening Positive Information
...more
3min
April 20, 2021Phases 1-4 Overview: Complex Trauma Modifications
Additional Questions to Consider in Phase One, Including Assessing for Complex Trauma

Conducting a Trauma Sensitive Phase One that Avoids a Detailed or Chronological Trauma Timeline

Starting the Process of Developing Attachment Resources for Attachment Wounding

Metaphor: Difference Between Walking Across Ohio and Riding in Bus Across Ohio

Metaphor: Don’t Tackle Mount Everest First with Clients With Complex Trauma

Events Have a Beginning, Middle, and End… Attachment Wounds are About Everything

Using the Videotape Approach with Complex Trauma
...more
10min
April 20, 2021 Understanding and Normalizing Dissociation in EMDR Therapy
Forms of dissociation relevant to EMDR Therapy.
...more
16min

FAQs about The EMDR Podcast:

How many episodes does The EMDR Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 53 episodes available.

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