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The EMDR Podcast

Thomas Zimmermanemdrpodcast.com
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 train your whole agency. See: http://EMDRCleveland.com
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Walking the Prisoner Out Metaphor in Flash Therapy and in EMDR Therapy

This episode focuses on different types of distress that may appear in trauma work and explores the types of distress that are most productive to metabolize. In many transformational trauma therapies, at least part of what we are doing is transforming the distress encoded in the memory. There is distress in almost any individual traumatic memory. However, that’s not the only distress that may be present. One question that the therapist may want to ask is: what distress is productive to try to me...

May 21, 202316 min

Understanding Containment with Clients with Complex Trauma

What Do Container Resources Do? Long story short, containers help you expedite the process of returning difficult content to the limbic brain. Library metaphor. Containers very often are a cognitive strategy or intention not to engage with something right now. A container can also be a somatic strategy, because if we only address the cognitive aspects of rumination we may be leaving a lot of distress in the body, which can reactivate the mind. Containers are also a helpful ritual in pivoting awa...

May 19, 202333 min
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