Nancy Newport LPC, LMFT

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Day One

EMDR in the Treatment of Acute Trauma
Presented by Nancy Newport

In this highly practical, skill building video workshop (Day One), Nancy Newport, LPC, LMFT will provide an overview of assessment for and treatment of Acute Trauma of all kinds.

Techniques/strategies to stabilize people in a crisis response (including first responders) will be discussed and demonstrated. Recent Events Protocol will be reviewed thoroughly and discussed using case studies and video examples. We will make the reprocessing of recent or unconsolidated trauma come alive through discussion in depth of actual cases.

Day One Learning Objectives:

• Identify a crisis response
• List the six key actions to take as a first responder in agency/private practice in the aftermath of a traumatic event
• Recognize the initial stages of PTSD, including criteria and symptoms
• Demonstrate five stabilization/grounding strategies that can be initiated immediately following a crisis response
• Identify the Recent Events Protocol: case studies of survivors of rape and other acute trauma to vivify the EMDR protocol
• Recognize blocks to EMDR processing, discuss possible intervening strategies and cognitive interweaves
• Apply several treatment strategies with children using EMDR including creative ways to produce ABS

Timed Agenda For Day 1:  Acute Trauma

Hour 1: Identify a crisis response and what 6 key actions are needed as a first responder – on the scene or in the office.  Review the criteria and symptoms of Acute Stress Disorder. Teach key strategies to rapidly build a therapeutic alliance following an acute trauma.
Hour 2:  Five stabilization/grounding strategies that can be initiated immediately following a crisis response.
Hour 3:  Recent Events Protocol, case studies of survivors of sexual assault and other acute trauma to vivify the EMDR protocol.
Hour 4:  Continue in-depth EMDR case studies with video demonstration.
Hour 5:  Blocks to EMDR processing; Cognitive Interweaves.
Hour 6:  EMDR with children, demonstration of creative ways to do BLS.

Nancy Newport, LPC, LMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents in accordance with EMDRIA standards.

Day Two

EMDR in the Treatment of Complex Trauma
Presented by Tracy Ryan Kidd

In this highly practical, skill-building video workshop (Day Two), Tracy Ryan Kidd, LCSW will provide an overview of how to use EMDR within each of the three stages of trauma work.

Stage 1 stabilization methods will be emphasized with several practical methods taught. Knowing when to move into Stage 2 reprocessing and how to handle problems that arise will also be covered. Experiential learning techniques and video of actual sessions in all 3 stages will be presented.

Day Two Learning Objectives:

• List criteria for Complex PTSD

• Identify several strategies for preparation including containment and self-soothing

• Apply 15 methods for grounding in the preparation phase

• Demonstrate a protocol for affect regulation skill development in the preparation phase

• Recognize 11 signs of readiness to proceed to trauma processing; phases 3-8 of EMDR

• Distinguish 8 methods of ordering targets

• Compare over 10 different methods of addressing blocked processing including the use of cognitive interweaves, titration, and how to handle dissociation

• Explain how to use the future template to build missing developmental skills such as boundary-setting, assertiveness, and interpersonal skill

Timed Agenda For Day 2: Complex Trauma

Hour 1: Teach the three stages of trauma work and apply them to the eight phases of EMDR.
Hour 2: Teach Phase 2 Preparation techniques including containment, resource development and installation, and affect regulation skill development.
Hour 3:  Show video demonstrations of Phase 2 techniques with actual clients.
Hour 4: Teach 11 signs of readiness to proceed to trauma processing and different methods of ordering targets.
Hour 5:  Describe methods of addressing blocked processing and show a case video to demonstrate.
Hour 6:  Describe stage 3 and the use of the future template.

Tracy Ryan Kidd, LCSW maintains responsibility for this program and its content in accordance with EMDRIA standards.

Meet Nancy & Tracy

Nancy Newport, LPC, LMFT has been in private practice in Northern Virginia since 1991 and has a specialty in working with adults and children with trauma. Trained in EMDR since 1998, she is a certified EMDR therapist and an approved consultant in EMDR. As a Trauma Specialist, Nancy has successfully worked with adults of all ages and children as young as 18 months old who have been victims of long ago or recent violence, vehicular accidents, natural disasters, terrorists attacks including 9-11 trauma, school shootings, had traumatic responses to graphic and frightening movies and were eyewitnesses to scenes of violence. She has worked with firefighters and police officers involved in traumatic incidents in the line of duty and with veterans of war. She has worked with people captured behind enemy lines and victims of kidnapping. She is best known for her expertise on sexual assault trauma, having worked with hundreds of survivors of sexual assault.

Her training includes certifications in EMDR, NLP and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Nancy is a professional presenter on Trauma and Crisis Response. She has conducted many trainings for therapists in treating Acute Trauma and Crisis Intervention including being a First Responder.

For more information you can go to nancynewport.com

Tracy Ryan Kidd, LCSW is the director of Virginia Family Counseling in Vienna, VA and has been in practice for over 25 years. She is a trauma specialist who uses a stage-oriented approach for the safe resolution of complex trauma. She has spent most of her career working with survivors of physical, sexual and emotional childhood abuse and treating the dissociative and attachment disorders that are often the result. She is highly skilled in combining concepts from a variety of approaches including EMDR, ego – state models, hypnosis, CBT, DBT and others to help clients learn the affect regulation skills necessary to successfully process and resolve long – term trauma.

Tracy is an Approved Consultant and Certified EMDR therapist who provides ongoing individual and group consultation to therapists in the Northern VA area. She has developed a specialty in translating highly theoretical material for her consultees into practical tools and techniques that can be used immediately in their practices.

For more information visit:  virginiafamilycounseling.com