presents
a Clinical Workshop
EMDR: Case Conceptualization from a Belief Schema
Perspective, and Enhancing Resources
November 14, 15 & 16, 2013
9 am – 5 pm daily
Venue: to be confirmed
Roy Kiessling LISW, ACSW
EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Training Provider
This workshop is for Helping Professionals working in the area of mental,
psychological and emotional health. It aims to enhance your current skill set in
three main areas of case conceptualization, stabilization and treatment planning.
Applicants must have relevant training in the helping profession and at least 2
years of working experience as a Helping Professional.
Schemas are sets of organized patterns of thought or behaviour, and may also be
described as a mental structure of beliefs that are formed throughout one’s
lifetime of experiences. They define the beliefs of self and shape one’s
perceptions, attitudes and behaviours. The Adaptive Information Processing
(AIP) model used in EMDR psychotherapy allows the clinician to recognize past
experiences and schemas that influence the current psychological health of
clients.
Non-EMDR trained clinicians will learn all the above as well as be introduced to
basic forms of bilateral stimulation (‘tapping in’ resourcing, and restricted
processing using eye movements for acute traumatic stress). This workshop also
provides some basic introduction to the more comprehensive EMDR process for
those considering taking a full EMDR Basic Training Course.
EMDR trained clinicians will expand their knowledge and application of EMDR to
include developing a targeting sequence plan, extended resourcing and
treatment options for clients experiencing acute traumatic stress.
Upon completion of this three-day workshop, participants will be able to:
o Conceptualize the client’s presentation clustered around their core schema
using the AIP model
 Describe the differences between negative cognitions and schemas
 Understand the six basic developmental schema plateaus
 Describe the ‘Processing Continuum’ of bilateral stimulation to use for
adult PTSD
o Practice restricted eye movement treatment of acute stress
o Tap into extended resources for stabilization, self-esteem and behavioral change
 Describe how to resource a client who feels 'it is not safe to feel safe'
 Discuss extended resource interventions (skills/insights) that client possesses
for integration into daily living
 Practice ‘tapping in’ an extended resource for behavioral change
o Use eye movements for restricted processing in emergency response
situations and acute traumatic incidents
 Describe the Acute Traumatic Incident procedures
 Use the restricted processing procedures (eye movements) to de-sensitise
a presenting issue
About the Trainer
Roy Kiessling is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Training Provider.
He became an EMDR Institute Facilitator in 1997, and a trainer for the EMDR
Humanitarian Assistance Projects in 2001. He has been conducting numerous
basic training in EMDR since 1997, both within the United States and
Bangladesh, Poland (as a facilitator), the Middle East, and Russia (as the Senior
Trainer). He was the moderator of the international EMDR discussion list from
2000 until June 2013.
Roy also conducts numerous advanced training on resourcing and case
conceptualization. He has presented at numerous EMDR conventions both
within the United States and Canada on resourcing, basic EMDR procedures and
most recently, EMDR from a Belief Schema Perspective.