Early in my experience as an EMDR clinician, there seemed to be this common mantra. “Don’t use EMDR with dissociation” or “If they score ___ on this assessment do not move forward”. The problem is, these are the very clients that I was seeing in my therapy room, and these are the very clients that need EMDR! This led me into my unintentional specialization of using EMDR with dissociative disorders.
In this training, we learn how to recognize, assess for, treat, and above all else destigmatize the dissociative experience. Dissociation is not one thing, it is many things. It is this fantastic and often beautiful labyrinth of human experience that is in my bias, not something to fight, but something to team up with as we use EMDR.
In this training, we learn how to recognize, assess for, treat, and above all else destigmatize the dissociative experience. Dissociation is not one thing, it is many things. It is this fantastic and often beautiful labyrinth of human experience that is in my bias, not something to fight, but something to team up with as we use EMDR.
