Oct. 11 | 6 CE Credits | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm MST
This virtual Training for EMDR and Addiction is a step-by-step guide to help your dual diagnosis clients reach their goals of long-lasting recovery.
Included in this training are clinical tools and guidance to help your clients overcome resistance and other barriers to treatment. Identify ways you can utilize EMDR in your addiction treatment plans so that you can help your clients reduce urges, decrease cravings, and lower the risk of relapse. Identify the ways in which trauma has played in a role in addictive behaviors over time and how to treat co-occurring disorders with a trauma informed lens.
Megan Salar, MSW, ACADC, is an EMDR Clinician, Trainer and Author who earned her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University in 2011. She has been extensively been trained on the use of EMDR and other trauma based interventions and specializes in the areas of trauma, abuse, attachment and substance abuse. Megan has trained thousands of clinicians across the U.S. as well as internationally to get the most out of EMDR, trauma and addiction based skills and practices.
Megan previously owned/operated an intensive outpatient treatment center that was voted best in practice in 2019. She currently owns and operates her own Coaching, Consulting, and Training Business and is passionate about genuinely changing the landscape of mental health and trauma treatment through an authentic hands on perspective that is uniquely her own.
Megan is the author of the EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories; and Take Back Your Life released by New Harbinger Publications in May of 2023 and EMDR for Dummies with Wiley Publishing set to release in June 2024.
After this training, participants will be able to:
1. Describe and learn the basics of the DeTUR protocol/model.
2. Assess how to uncover core rooted traumas linked to addictive tendencies.
3. Learn resourcing skills and brief interventions to assist clients when triggered with urges.
4. Analyze how to utilize and establish the Positive Feeling State (PFS)
5. Plan effective ways to identify the positive goal and anchoring techniques to enhance goals.
6. Learn techniques for handling relapse and stabilization
7. Demonstrate how to move from addiction based interventions to the EMDR trauma based interventions.
a. Recognizing and learning the basics and fundamentals of the DeTUR model
a. Treatment barriers within addiction and the EMDR model
b. Basics of the DeTUR model
c. Reaching beyond barriers when resistant to trauma work initially
b. Assessing how to uncover deeply rooted core traumas related to the addictive behaviors
a. Creating connection between the addiction and trauma
b. Identifying the protective mechanisms of the addictive behaviors
c. Decreasing shame associated with the addiction
c. Learn resourcing skills and brief interventions
a. Sober Self Resourcing Skill
b. Restoration team
c. Educating client on the survival mechanisms associated with the addicted behaviors
d. Analyzing how to utilize the Positive Feeling State
a. Learning what the positive feeling state is with dysfunctional behaviors/tendencies
b. Identifying the positive feelings state and decreasing the PFS
6 CE Credits
NASW
This program has been approved for 6 hours at BSW level, 6 hours at MSW level and 6 hours at the MSW-Clinical level by the National Association of Social Workers-Idaho Chapter, and may be applied toward the continuing education requirements for social work license renewal
NBCC
Advanced EMDR Training has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. The Mental Survivalist is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP 7561.
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