According to the U.S. Census 2019, there were an estimated 22.9 million Asian Americans, 1.6 million Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders (AANHPI), together accounting for 7.2 percent of the nation's population. The percentage of Asian alone-or-in-combination military veterans in 2021 was 2.4 percent. While the population numbers might seem small, the AANPHI community has also been touched by trauma. Enter EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant-in-Training Sherry Yam, LCSW, to discuss ...
Mar 15, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 6
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention , suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. In 2021, 48,183 Americans died by suicide and 1.70 million attempts. The numbers tracked by the World Health Organization are more staggering: more than 700,000 people die each year by suicide. How can EMDR therapy help those considering or who have attempted and the family/friends they leave behind? EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant Marlene Kenney talks to us about how EMDR...
Mar 01, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 5
What is moral injury, and who can it impact? Moral injury, as defined by this episode's guest is: It is an existential and or spiritual crisis. that can be the consequence of having been trained to override the intrinsic and instinctive aversion to the taking of human life, that it is about killing, which is an act that can't be undone. And that humans are not prepared for the aftermath of that. It can also be the consequence of having engaged in combat operations, however necessary at the time,...
Feb 15, 2024•30 min•Season 3Ep. 4
What does it mean to create an anti-oppressive EMDR therapy practice? It means that EMDR therapists take account of the impact of power, inequity, and oppression on people and actively combat it. How can EMDR therapists offer anti-oppressive EMDR therapy for the LGBTQA+ community? EMDR-certified therapist, consultant, and trainer Roshni Chabra , LMFT tells us how. Resources: The Trevor Project Pray Away Netflix Documentary (Trigger Warning) Let's Talk EMDR podcast EMDR for Vicarious Trauma Episo...
Feb 01, 2024•33 min•Season 3Ep. 3
The global COVID-19 pandemic forced us to find new ways to do things. Providing therapy was no different. Because of this, EMDRIA created Online EMDR Therapy Resources for its members. As the world emerged from lockdown, many EMDR therapists continued to see clients virtually. Are there potential tools that can help facilitate therapy sessions? Yes, says Tjeu Theunissen , a Dutch Ph.D. candidate, clinical psychologist, and EMDR therapist. He founded two E-health start-ups that focused on using i...
Jan 15, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The Cleveland Clinic defines neurodivergent as people whose brain differences affect how their brain works. How can EMDR therapists work with this population, and what do they need to know to serve their clients? EMDR-certified therapist and consultant Laurel Thornton discusses EMDR therapy, neurodiversity, and the neurodivergent. The Network Balance Model of Trauma and Resolution - Level 1: Large-Scale Neural Networks, Journal of EMDR Practice & Research, D. Eric Chamberlin, Volume 13, Issu...
Jan 01, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 1
What is vicarious trauma, and how can EMDR therapy help? How does our constant connection to images on the news or social media impact us? How do EMDR therapists find outlets for the trauma that they see and hear in their clients? Find out more from EMDR UK Accredited EMDR Therapist Lee Anna Simmons in this episode. Resources Headington Institute "Vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout: Tools for EMDR therapists," EMDR Therapy Quarterly , Autumn 2023, EMDR U.K. "Vicarious Trauma and S...
Dec 15, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Anxiety is intense, excessive, persistent worry and fears about everyday situations. Four percent of the world's population experiences anxiety disorders. That may not sound like a large number, but it equals more than 301 million people worldwide. Can EMDR therapy help? EMDR-certified therapist Nancy Andino, LCSW, CASAC , says yes. Find out how EMDR therapy can heal anxiety. EMDRIA Online EMDR Therapy Resources EMDRIA Client Brochures Focal Point Blog EMDRIA Practice Resources EMDRIA's Find an ...
Dec 01, 2023•23 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Religious and spiritual trauma is often an overlooked experience that enormously impacts generations. As more and more humans decide to leave organized religions or join cults, we are understanding the effects of those experiences as traumatic and adverse. Listen to Cassidy DuHadway, LCSW , discuss adverse religious experiences and how they lead to foundational belief systems that present as complex trauma. Concepts of religious messaging, shame, enmeshment, attachment, and negative spiritual ex...
Nov 15, 2023•26 min•Season 2Ep. 22
EMDR has evolved from a simple desensitization technique to a broad-based psychotherapy approach, revolutionizing how EMDR therapists understand change and their treatment approach. From early intervention protocols that address recent traumatic events for individuals and groups to ongoing psychotherapy, EMDR is not cookie-cutter. Its robust methodology has stood the test of time and research in the last three decades. Find out more with EMDR-certified therapist, trainer, and consultant Deany La...
Nov 01, 2023•35 min•Season 2Ep. 21
According to the World Health Organization , 5 percent of the world's population suffers from depression. Out of 7.88 billion people on the planet, that's approximately 350,000,000 human beings suffering. Learn what EMDR therapist, trainer, and researcher Dr. Sarah Dominguez says about how EMDR therapy can help people with depression. "Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal" by Michael Baldwin and Dr. Deborah Korn David Archer's Let's Talk EMDR podc...
Oct 15, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 20
According to the dictionary, grief is "the anguish experienced after a difficult loss, usually the death of a beloved person." So, all of us share this at some point in our lives. How does grief impact our ability to function? What is complicated grief? Can you overcome your grief? EMDR-certified therapist, consultant, and trainer Tamra L. Hughes discusses how EMDR therapy can help heal grieving. EMDRIA Online EMDR Therapy Resources EMDRIA Client Brochures Focal Point Blog EMDRIA Practice Resour...
Oct 01, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Johns Hopkins University defines chronic pain as "long-standing pain that persists beyond the usual recovery period or occurs along with a chronic health condition, such as arthritis." According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , an "estimated 50 million adults experience chronic pain." Can EMDR therapy help with chronic pain? We talked to EMDR-certified therapist and consultant Gary Brothers, LCSW, to learn more. Gary Brothers' BLS Drum Therapy tra...
Sep 15, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 18
According to an August 3, 2023, Wall Street Journal article , "Researchers estimate that one in five new mothers in the U.S. suffers from mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and up to a year after giving birth—about 800,000 mothers yearly. Yet studies show that a large majority of women who suffer from maternal mental health disorders aren’t able to get help." World Health Organization (WHO) statistics echo the same: "Almost 1 in 5 women will experience a mental health condition during p...
Sep 01, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 17
The COVID-19 Pandemic forced EMDR therapists to find new ways to connect with their clients. How can an EMDR therapist provide EMDR therapy virtually? Is it as effective? How can you secure the client's health information because of HIPPA ? Sharon Rollins , EMDR-certified therapist, trainer, and consultant, details how she implemented virtual therapy with her clients and why it works well for many. EMDRIA Online EMDR Therapy Resources EMDRIA Client Brochures Comprehensive Demo on Offering BLS th...
Aug 15, 2023•26 min•Season 2Ep. 16
What is an EMDR therapy intensive? Find out what EMDR-certified therapist and consultant Robert A. Grigore, MCC, RCC , has to say about them. Learn how EMDR intensives can help to heal trauma, how to find an EMDR therapist who knows how to do intensives, what to ask your potential EMDR therapist about certifications, their area of expertise, and what you need to know as a potential client. Resources Intensive EMDR to Treat Patients With Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Series , Jour...
Aug 01, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 15
First responders spend their careers working in and around their communities to protect the safety and welfare of citizens. They experience daily personal and professional exposure to traumatic incidents. Enter EMDR therapy and EMDR-certified therapists like Kate Pieper, MFT . She has spent most of her 30-year counseling career working with firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, and police officers. Learn more about how EMDR therapy helps this population, what kind of education, experience, and cultura...
Jul 15, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 14
According to The National Child Traumatic Stress Network , complex trauma is "both children’s exposure to multiple traumatic events—often of an invasive, interpersonal nature—and the wide-ranging, long-term effects of this exposure. These events are severe and pervasive, such as abuse or profound neglect. They usually occur early in life and can disrupt many aspects of the child’s development and the formation of a sense of self. Since these events often occur with a caregiver, they interfere wi...
Jul 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Sex therapy and sexual dysfunction are never comfortable topics, even in the therapy room. EMDR-certified therapist Dr. Cyrstal Hollenbeck, EdD, LMHC, CST, CSAT, CCTP, will introduce our listeners to how EMDR therapy can help. As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, APSATS Certified Clinical Partner Trauma Specialist, and Certified Sex Therapist, Dr. Hollenbeck talks about how EMDR therapy can treat the issues impacting a sexual relationship. International Institute for Trauma and Addiction...
Jun 15, 2023•26 min•Season 2Ep. 12
People outside the therapy community often wonder if EMDR can be used with children. Yes, it can. Meet Ann Beckley Forest, LCSW, RPT-S, who had made it her life's work to help the most vulnerable of our human race: children. Learn more about how therapists can use EMDR therapy with children. Resources EMDR Therapy and Children Toolkit Focal Point Blog AnnBeckleyForest.com PlayfulEMDR.com EMDRIA Practice Resources EMDRIA Online EMDR Therapy Resources EMDRIA's Find an EMDR Therapist Directory list...
Jun 01, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Dissociation is a disconnection between a person’s thoughts, sensory experience, memory, and/or sense of identity. On a mild level , dissociation is a common experience many people recognize as wanting to detach from something emotionally stressful. On a more extreme level, it can cause difficulty functioning in everyday life and create a loss of connection to a person’s sense of self. Dissociation can occur as a result of experiencing trauma. In this episode, we chat with EMDR Certified Therapi...
May 15, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 10
EMDR Early Intervention (EEI) is crucial to people worldwide who experience trauma. In this episode, learn more about EEI, its implementation, and its successes. We talked with EMDR Certified Therapist, Consultant, and Trainer Reg Morrow Robinson, Ed.S., LMFT, LMHC, about her experiences with EMDR Early Intervention. Due to description resource space constraints, we cannot list all the resources mentioned. However, our website has a downloadable PDF where the podcast is housed. This is episode 1...
May 01, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 9
What is a personality disorder? According to the American Psychiatric Association , 10 personality disorders are defined as one's thinking, feeling, and behaving deviating from the culture's expectations, causing distress or problems functioning, and lasting over time. The pattern of experience and behavior usually begins by late adolescence or early adulthood and causes distress or problems in functioning. Without treatment, personality disorders can be long-lasting. We interview EMDR certified...
Apr 15, 2023•18 min•Season 2Ep. 8
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month . Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. And, every nine minutes, that victim is a child. In this episode, we talk with EMDR-certified therapist, consultant, and virtual trainer Kristina Anderson about her work with victims of sexual assault and abuse. Find out how EMDR therapy can help heal. National Sexual Violence Resource Center Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) 1in6.org Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (WCSAP...
Apr 01, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 7
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "expressive arts"? Sculpture? Dance? Poetry? Painting or coloring? Drumming? Storyboards? These and more are considered expressive arts in the EMDR therapist community. Listen to Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, talk about how he implements expressive arts into his EMDR therapy practice. Find out how clients respond to integrating this approach. Our award-winning Go With That magazine's Spring 2022 issue on EMDR Therapy, Integrative Therapies, and...
Mar 15, 2023•40 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Being part of a couple is never easy. Being part of a couple where one or both partners brings past trauma into the relationship makes it more difficult. Can couples go to EMDR therapy together? If so, what does that look like? Enter Dr. Jason Linder, LMFT, a couples therapist offering EMDR therapy. Find out what he says about how EMDR therapy can improve your relationship. Resources Emotionally-focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: An Integrated Treatment to Heal th...
Mar 01, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 5
As we continue to celebrate Black History Month , this podcast episode introduces us to Ava M. Hart, LCSW, IMH-E, EMDR therapist. She discusses how EMDR therapy can help women when pregnant, have suffered a pregnancy loss, and during perinatal mood/anxiety disorders. Resources: The Calm Before the Storm: When Bad Things Happen by Ava Hart Focal Point Blog EMDRIA Practice Resources EMDRIA Online EMDR Therapy Resources EMDRIA's Find an EMDR Therapist Directory lists more than 14,000 EMDR therapist...
Feb 14, 2023•28 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Celebrating Black History Month , this month's episodes will feature Black EMDR therapists. Attachment disorders can develop in young children when their caregivers have problems with emotional attachment with others, according to the American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry . To find out how EMDR therapy can help, we talk with EMDR therapist and consultant-in-training Marcken Volmy, LMHC, LPC, NCC . He discusses attachment disorders in men and how they can break the macho line of th...
Feb 01, 2023•30 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Foster care and adoption: two self-sacrificing acts from adults to help children in need. However, this new dynamic is more complicated and traumatic than most imagine. Enter EMDR therapists like Rachel Harrison, LCPC, NCC, and her team. How can EMDR therapists help? Do the foster parents or adoptive parents need EMDR therapy too? Is it true that adopted infants don't know anything but their new family? Learn more about how EMDR therapy can help adoptees, foster children, parents, and guardians....
Jan 15, 2023•41 min•Season 2Ep. 2
How can EMDR therapists teach presence and centeredness to clients? Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC, CPsychol , suggests using a four-legged friend. Equine therapy is not a new concept. It's been used for decades to help people with physical disabilities. So, how can these beautiful creatures help EMDR therapy clients? Can equine-assisted therapy with EMDR help clients with complex PTSD? What about EMDR therapists who don't have access to horses but want to integrate equine-assisted therapy into their pr...
Jan 01, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
