The EMDR Podcast

Feb 18 2025 34 ep. 15 mins 73
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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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Helping the Predictive Brain Update Bad Memories

Feb 18 2025 5 mins  
Helping the Predictive Brain Update Bad MemoriesTurns out, the story that we’ve been telling ourselves about the neurobiology of trauma doesn’t make sense anymore based on what we have learned the past twenty-five years about brain evolution, function, structure, memory reconsolidation, neuroplasticity, and the predictive brain. How we understand perception of our external worl

When Complex Clients Insist on Doing EMDR Processing Immediately

Jan 02 2025 2 mins  
When Complex Clients Insist on Doing EMDR Processing Immediately Clients often urgently need to heal. Their lives are probably unmanageable and they may have significant relational, occupational, or functional stressors that need urgent attention. We can align with that urgency. However, urgency is not a substitute for preparation. If you have a complexly traumatized nervous syste

How to Know When a Client is Prepared Enough to Start Processing Memories in EMDR Therapy?

Dec 31 2024 6 mins  
Full text of this podcast is at the EMDR Podcast and EMDR365.com

EMDR Phase One: Are You Putting Your Complex Trauma Clients Through a Machine Built for Others?

Dec 28 2024 16 mins  

Why EMDR Therapy Does Not Seem to Quickly Shift Cognitions Broadly for Some Clients

Dec 23 2024 6 mins  
EMDR Therapy shifts how you think about yourself and the world related to the memory we are working on. Why does it do this? Because that’s a lot of what healing is. Healing shifts how you think about yourself and the world, as well as lots of other things. Wounding is experiential learning and vast regions of our nervous system are organized around meaning-making in the foregrou

Why Some Clients Don't Want to Do EMDR Therapy after Successfully Doing Some EMDR Therapy

Dec 19 2024 9 mins  

Why I Rarely Start With Attachment Wound Targets

Dec 15 2024 12 mins  
A summary of why attachment wound targets in EMDR therapy are a uniquely difficult place to start.

When "Letting Things Go Where they Go" Goes Straight Off a Cliff in EMDR Therapy

Dec 12 2023 27 mins  
The full text of this episode is available on the EMDR Podcast here: https://emdrpodcast.com/2023/12/13/lettingthingsgo/ The script for the videotape approach mentioned in the podcast is here: https://emdrthirdweekend.com/posts/videotape-approach-script-with-complex-trauma-phases-three-and-four

Are You Trying to Put Your EMDR/Mindfulness Clients Through a Machine?

Dec 09 2023 8 mins  
A child's toy metaphor for the need to adjust your interventions to the nervous system you are working with.

When a Low SUDs May Not Be Ecological

Dec 09 2023 3 mins  
When a SUDS of One, Two, or Three May Not be Ecological You are technically correct, quoting Dr. Shapiro in EMDR Therapy when you say that a SUDs of one can be ecological if it “sounds right.” Shapiro's example of an Uncle who died. Shapiro worked with really healthy people and what’s in a one with her clients may be different than what’s in a one or a two with client