Deany Laliotis – EMDR In Action: A Step-By-Step Master Class

Deany Laliotis – EMDR In Action: A Step-By-Step Master Class

Discover Relational EMDR, the evidence-based intervention that transforms the memories underlying trauma and creates safety and hope through the client-therapist relationship.
Trauma clients need a clinician with both training and heart to help them overcome their pain.

With Relational EMDR you can leverage EMDR’s proven ability to change the impact that traumatic memories have on the brain while leveraging the full healing potential of the client-therapist relationship—to offer clients not only relief from symptoms but hope for a better future.

Now, in this comprehensive Master Class, join Deany Laliotis, LICSW—Director of Training for EMDR Institute and associate of EMDR originator Francine Shapiro—to experience the life-changing power of Relational EMDR in action!

Through powerful in-session videos and in-depth, therapist-to-therapist conversations, you’ll get inside access to four remarkable single-session breakthroughs with actual clients struggling with deep-rooted trauma, attachment wounds, shame, anger, and depression. Learn how to attune to clients to enhance the power of your work and discover how to increase positive outcomes, avoid clinical impasses, and help clients resolve traumatic experiences once and for all.

This is an essential learning experience for both EMDR-trained and non-EMDR-trained therapists who are ready to bring a new dimension of healing to their current therapeutic approach.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience Relational EMDR’s ability to dramatically improve outcomes—even with the most challenging cases.

What’s Included:

Master the ability to break the bonds of trauma, shame, depression, and anger so your clients can experience full aliveness!

Dramatic clinical demonstrations with in-depth analysis by Deany Laliotis and fellow psychotherapist Rich Simon, make this comprehensive Master Class an essential learning experience. These sessions showcase the clinical mastery of Laliotis and demonstrate Relational EMDR’s transformative approach to working with trauma, attachment wounds, suicide ideation, shame, depression, and anger.

Through this engaging course, you’ll discover how to …

• Help clients experience the freedom to be themselves so they can build stronger relationships
• Attune to a client’s emotional state somatically so you can track progress and make adjustments in real time
• Tailor responses help clients experience safety, autonomy, and control
• Increase positive outcomes by assessing your own strengths and vulnerabilities as a therapist
• Enhance your EMDR effectiveness by integrating the practices of Relational EMDR in your current approach
• Laliotis will guide you through these five step-by-step modules to prepare you to incorporate the Relational EMDR approach in your practice.

Module 1: The Power of Attunement: Introduction to Relational EMDR
In this introductory session, gain a foundational understanding of EMDR’s proven ability to heal anxiety, depression, complex trauma, relationship problems, low self-esteem and more. Laliotis provides a step-by-step breakdown of the essentials of the model to take trauma treatment to a new, truly transformational level. In this session, you’ll:

• Learn the importance of tracking the client’s emotional state somatically and responding to shifts and unspoken changes in real time
• Discover the role of therapist to encourage, regulate, and validate, based on the needs of the client

Module 2: Relational EMDR Approach to Working with Shame, Overwhelm and Clinical Impasse
Meet Mary, an accomplished, successful professional who’s been in therapy for three years with a goal of engaging authentically in relationships. But she and her therapist have hit an impasse on dating—something she would like to do for the first time in her life. With Laliotis’ help, Mary moves through the impasse in a powerful single session with unexpected insights and a dramatic resolution. In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how to assess a disconnected client’s ability to access inner experiences
• Follow subtle client clues to the hidden source of the self-limiting reaction within the client
• Experience how attunement allows Deany to track moment-to-moment shifts in the client’s emotional state
• Discover how unprocessed secondary trauma can be as intrusive and disruptive as primary trauma
• Observe Relational EDMR’s full ability to work with a unique and complex history

Module 3: Using Relational EMDR to Address Anger, Trauma, and a Violent History
The client in this session, Carlos, came to therapy with a history of violence, anger, and trauma. He wants to maintain a relationship with his son, keep his job, and stay out of prison. But he’s been feeling increasingly triggered and afraid that he might act out in the same violent ways that he did when he was a member of a Hispanic gang in South Central, LA. Watch as Laliotis establishes a genuine connection with him and then helps him work through the painful memories that have been haunting him. In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how to identify and work with a client whose traumatic stress resulted from being a witness to a violent event
• Find out what it takes to establish trust and a contract to do the work with a client who has no reason to trust anyone
• Discover how to ascertain safety—for both client and therapist—to move forward with work on trauma, rage and violence
• Experience how EMDR processing continues to work beyond the session, as Carlos returns for a follow-up session

Module 4: Relational EMDR for Working with Shock Trauma, Depression, and Suicide Ideation
Imagine losing not one, but two children to suicide. That is Gloria’s reality at the start of this session. She has been hospitalized several times for deep depression and suicidal ideation. She has a history of childhood abuse and trauma, and she feels hopeless and without meaning in life. Observe in action the moment-to-moment process Laliotis uses to break through Gloria’s resistance and guide her toward healing and a hopeful future. In this session, you’ll:

• Observe the step-by-step process that Laliotis uses to help Gloria find a reason to move forward
• Gain actionable insights on the importance of touch, attunement and asking permission for trauma work as Laliotis helps Gloria process her pain
• Experience EMDR reprocessing where the attuned therapist supports the client through almost unendurable pain
• Learn how to balance the injunction of “first do no harm” with the need to support clients through a full experience of unprocessed events

Module 5: Using Relational EMDR to Overcome Traumatic Stress
Meet Amy, an experienced and skilled EMDR therapist who has found herself stuck and triggered during a session with a challenging client. Realizing that the impasse is likely related to herself, not the client, she has come to Laliotis for help. In this evocative session, you’ll observe the effectiveness of Relational EMDR to guide clients through long-term traumatic stress to reach a place of security and confidence.

• Learn to sort through the three likely causes of a clinical impasse
• Take in the power of an open-ended question—Is that voice familiar?— and how it leads directly to the target memory
• Observe Laliotis’ clinical technique as she focuses reprocessing not on Amy’s sense of responsibility for her parents’ dysfunctional behavior, but on undoing her profound and overwhelming sense of aloneness
• Learn how to check for complete restructuring of the past belief as well as the emotional shift that ensures the transformation will hold in the future

Meet the Course Expert

Deany Laliotis, LICSW, is the originator of Relational EMDR— a comprehensive relational EMDR psychotherapy that focuses on the transformational healing of complex trauma and other challenging cases as well as the ongoing personal and professional growth of experienced therapists. Deany is Director of Training for EMDR Institute, a senior faculty member and co-author with Francine Shapiro of the Institute’s Training Curriculum. Deany offers private advanced trainings, master classes and in-depth professional development retreats in Relational EMDR around the country. Deany is in demand internationally as a presenter, master trainer, case consultant and keynote speaker.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deany Laliotis is in private practice. She is a senior trainer for EMDR Institute, Inc.
Non-financial: Deany Laliotis has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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