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"Eating Disorders" & EMDR Distance Learning Course: (no longer offered for EMDRIA credits)

 "Loved this training and am using it with patients with eating disorders immediately after the training. Female veterans are finding PSI very helpful, and having success and hope. They have tried so many therapies but are not engaged. Thank you!"- Theresa A. Mitton, LICSW, Fellow of Psychosocial Rehabilitation 

1. *12 EMDRIA Approved Credit Hours *Course #08015-DL02
Disturbed eating presentations require extensive preparation and interweaves to ensure EMDR effectiveness and safety. You will learn to:
​ •   Explain the pitfalls of restrictive dieting and coach clients with eating disturbances to use a mindfulness intuitive eating approach 
•     Discern targets for EMDR processing by       
             a. using eating mindfulness logs                                          b. entering the binge cycle to identify triggers
             c. using a somatic float back on triggers to                        identify trauma targets Interweave ego state                    and somatic techniques into the trauma                            processing stages of EMDR standard protocol
*Proof of full completion of an EMDRIA Approved Basic EMDR Training is required for attendees to register for EMDRIA continuing education credit. Only participants with full EMDRIA Approved Basic Training who pass the post test will receive an EMDRIA Credits certificate of completion for the program.  Refunds will not be issued once a post test has been submitted for assessment. 
To purchase the "Eating Disorders" and EMDR Distance Learning Course for $195, please click the "Add to Cart" button below

 EMDR & Psychosomatic
​Dissociation Home Study (no longer offered for EMDRIA credits)

"Thanks for creating this helpful course. I believe you create a helpful bridge between Theory of Structural Dissociation, Sensorimotor Therapy, and EMDR (AIP)." - William Brislin, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, EMDR Basic Training Facilitator 

Psycho-somatic dissociation (e.g. eating, sleeping, dissociative, and somatic presentations) requires extensive somatic and ego state interweaves to ensure EMDR effectiveness and safety. In this course, you will learn:
•   Three different kinds of Ego State Therapy treatment approaches
•   A repertoire of ego strengthening and somatic resources 
•   How to discern targets by "entering the symptom trance”
•   How to work with ego states that hold the symptoms
•   An overview of Structural Dissociation theory and the Lightstone substrate model of trauma and dissociation
•   The PSI Protocol, to interweave ego state and somatic techniques into the EMDR standard  protocol
.  Refunds will not be issued once a post test has been submitted for assessment.
Disclaimer:  the videos were not filmed by a professional videographer and earphones or speakers are highly recommended for the best listening experience, however most of what you need to see is in the booklet (booklet includes the PowerPoint slides).  EMDRIA stated in approving the course: "Overall the committee feels your presentation has great merit and that the content would be valuable
to EMDR trained clinicians," in spite of the non-professional video quality, so you should find it worthwhile either way.

   To purchase the EMDR and Psychosomatic Dissociation Online Course for $125, please click the "Add to Cart" button below

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​International Professional Consultation with Judy Lightstone
​Individual online video consultation sessions for licensed therapists can be scheduled privately, as time permits by contacting Judy at jlightstone "at" gmail.com or by leaving a message on her New Zealand mobile +64(0)27 657 2106. Please let her know your local time zone, along with all the times you have available for consultation. Once you have done that, you can pay for it via PayPal below:
 Judy has been ​offering training, and supervision for mental health clinicians for the past 35 years. She has a PhD. with a specialism in Trauma Psychology and two Masters degrees, Counselling and Marriage and Family Therapy. In her Auckland New Zealand and online supervision and consulting practice, she specialises in training therapists to work with abuse survivors and with people with eating problems. She is a Certified EMDR Provider of Continuing Education, and a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #MFC32570 (currently on inactive status in the U.S.).Post graduate studies included EMDR from Francine Shapiro (founder of EMDR), Feminist Relational Therapy for Eating Problems with Susie Orbach (author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and Hunger Strike) and others at the Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York City; and Somatic therapy from Pat Ogden (founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy). Publications include a chapter in the book EMDR Solutions II on integrating EMDR, Somatic and Ego State Therapy approaches in the healing eating problems, and an article on Compulsive Eating and Dissociation in the International Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. She developed and teaches  PSI (PsychoSomatic Integration) which is an integration of the above approaches. For more information see her CV
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Healing Intractable Eating Problems Online Course

After completing the course you will be able to: 

  • Directly experience exercises and techniques you can immediately apply to your practice

  • Learn how to intervene into psycho-somatic dissociation patterns with compulsive eaters and restrictors

  • Become proficient in offering clear step-by-step guidelines to teach intuitive eating and body image acceptance and empowerment 

  • Identify triggers and interpret symbolic meanings of binge-eating, purging, starving, body image distortions, and shame

  • Gain knowledge about traumatic memory, attachment deficits, and the continuum of complex trauma and dissociation as they relate to eating issues

Eating problems usually involve varying degrees of dissociation - most especially somatoform dissociation of sensations of hunger, fullness, and proprioceptive awareness of body size. At present there are no highly effective systematic approaches for assessing or intervening with the many clients with intractable compulsive eating, restricting, or purging symptoms. Instead we are told that eating disorders are hard to impossible to treat and we should lower our expectations for outcomes. Yet the correlation between compulsive eating patterns and dissociation has been noted by many, however as yet there are no explanations for the reasons for this correlation, nor structured interventions with clients who may initially present with no trauma history. Through a synthesis of anecdotal data, experiential exercises, theoretical formulations, and a review of the research on traumatic memory and attachment deficits, this course will cover the continuum of complex trauma and dissociation, including training in offering psycho-education to your clients about how to identify and intervene into the binge/starve and/or binge/diet or purge cycles. 

The method taught is symptom-focused, yet psychodynamic in orientation, allowing the therapist to understand and use the symptoms as metaphors for other psychological issues, while still respecting the deep pain of eating and body image obsessions. 

*Please note: Courses are no longer eligible for Continuing Education credits in the United States. 

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