Posts in Standard Protocol & Adaptions
Video 040 Co-constructing a hypothetical ‘ideal’ parent

This is about Tom, a young man brought up in a dysfunctional family: an alcoholic mother and a controlling, sometimes violent, father who would belittle him for showing a desire to learn and do well in school.  Tom grew up with a sense of being rejected by his family and carried thoughts of being ’bad’ and ‘shameful’. These became particularly troublesome after Tom developed a serious interest in a fellow student at university.  He found himself holding back from the relationship, scared that she might reject him when she found out what a ‘bad’ person he was.

What you will learn:

The video demonstrates how Tom’s damaging and pervasive attachment experiences with his mother and father can be repaired and reversed through rewiring his thought patterns.  The video shows how the therapist and Tom co-construct and install an alternative reality - a hypothetical ‘ideal’ mother as a resource.  In turn, this led to new neural pathways that changed the way he felt about himself and how he related to others.

Read More
Video 039 The EMD(r) Protocol

This video is about Sally, a young woman  who has been in a car accident, the target memory, and has started treatment with the standard EMDR protocol. Unexpectedly during processing, she is flooded with memories of a previous event from her childhood.

What you will learn

The use of EMDr to successfully desensitize and reprocess the new intrusive memory through this narrow focussed adaption of the standard EMDR process, before going back to the original target memory.

Read More
Video 037 Couple therapy Phase 3 (Managing Conflict)

The case is about Jane, who came for help about her relationship with her wife, Mary. This video is the third of a three part video series showing several important aspects of working with difficult partner relationships. The three videos focus on the relationship in the past, in the present and in the future. This final video demonstrates the use of Future template protocol to install new skills designed to prevent/manage conflict in future.

What you will learn:

Enable clients develop and deploy new skills to reduce risk of conflict and help resolve conflict should it arise in future. In particular it shows:

Read More
Video 036 Couple therapy Phase 2 (Desensitizing externalised hostile attitudes and prejudice)

Case of a woman, Jane, whose marriage to Mary was in trouble. Video 035 describes how to identify and desensitize/reprocess past trauma affecting the relationship. This video deals with current difficulties

What you will learn:

What you will learn: Use of an adaption of the standard EMDR protocol to undo concurrent negative beliefs held by the client about herself and her partner in one process.

Read More
Video 035 Couple therapy Phase 1 (Desensitizing the past)

Case of a woman, Jane, whose marriage to Mary was in trouble. Differences between them, including experiences of trauma and educational achievements, were leading to serious discord.

What you will learn:

What you will learn: Use of EMDR to work with couples. Key questions for use in history taking to uncover causes of discord, and to identify EMDR targets. Consideration of whether to have both partners ‘in the room’ when using EMDR on one of them.

Read More
Video 022 Overcoming Performance Anxiety

Case of a singer who suffered an unexpected panic attack during a performance, seriously threatening his future ability to continue as a soloist.

What you will learn:

How to use the standard EMDR protocol along with the three prong approach to overcome performance anxiety. Can be used in many other situations, e.g. fear of a future medical procedure after a bad experience.

Read More
Video 020 Complex Grief (Phase 2 - Confrontation)

The sudden, accidental death of a grandson. While Video 019 dealt with the pain and loss associated with a past event, this video deals with the present: triggers and secondary losses associated with the death.

What you will learn:

How to use EMDR to help the client re-experience the absent loved one, relinquish memories of old (now unsuitable) attachments, while identifying memories he/she wants to hold on to.

Read More
Video 019 Complex Grief (Phase 1 – Avoidance)

When a client’s grief has become complex i.e. deviating from the norm in either the time or intensity of specific or general symptoms of grief and/or the level of impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of life.

What you will learn:

How to use EMDR to release the complex nature of stuck or distorted grief – the first phase in a three-phase process to address Complex grief. Also, how Narrative therapy provides a ‘bird’s eye’ picture of how the three phases work together.

Read More
Video 023 Targeting Positive affect

Many clients come to therapy with a problem that includes both positive and negative affect components. In terms of Shapiro’s Adaptive Information Processing Model, it’s as if there are two entry points to stored memory networks.

What you will learn:

What to target when clients come to therapy with a problem that includes both positive and negative affect components

Read More
Video 078 (Pt 1.3) Dealing with introjects

This is about a company executive living in fear of his boss. His family history was one of negative interactions with powerful people over several generations. This was the source of his class inferiority - the introject or psychic object that he had unconsciously absorbed, and now blighted his relationship with his boss.

What you will learn

How to free clients from damaging generational and cultural practices using the standard protocol in conjunction with a process based on Narrative therapy in which the introject is ‘externalized, disowned by the client and removed with a two handed and imagination interweaves.

Read More