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Hypnosis in EMDR

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 Taboo or Everyday Reality?

Author: 
Robert A. Yourell
Summary: 

 It's heterodox to say so, but many clinicians integrate hypnotic techniques or work with trance states whether they know it or not. It's better to do this consciously. Here are the main reasons as to why it's happening, and why it can be beneficial.

1) People go in and out of light trances during EMDR treatment.

a) Desentization causes relaxation that can allow the person to drop into a very deep state. Allowing a client to spend some time in reverie after desensitizing targets is allowing a hypnotic state to persist. 

Oodles of Visualization and Awareness Processes for Psychotherapy and Personal Development

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 A Tour of Related Links

Author: 
Robert A. Yourell
Summary: 

I have been accumulating these processes for many years. Many of them are processes I use day in and day out as a therapist. I have my own favorites for my own use. I integrate many of them into EMDR as well.

This page includes links to collections of inner work for self-help and ideas for using the techniques in EMDR and psychotherapy in general.

Levels of Consciousness in Psychotherapy: Identification and Utilization

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 You can see these levels in your clients. Use the guidelines to improve progress in therapy.

Author: 

Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

 This article offers ways to improve therapy based on seven levels of client awareness. Each level offers distinct therapeutic opportunities. Your client's comments and other behaviors tell you which is predominant at any given moment, and which level your client characteristically experiences normally and when regressed. The article describes the value clients derive from progressing through these levels and many example ways the therapist can facilitate such progress. It offers ways to adjust treatment from moment to moment as well as over the longer arc of therapy. These levels and the tendency of clients to move through them is especially apparent in therapy based on the adaptive information processing model as described by Francine Shapiro and as used in EMDR.

The phrase "levels of consciousness" might sound cosmic, but it refers to states of mind that are very recognizable, and appear to have a hierarchical relationship. Therapists reading this will recognize them, especially if they do EMDR or somatic therapy.

Reprocessing as Advanced Self-Care

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 Cut stress and enjoy life more by turning on the natural system that processes our experiences, heals our traumas, and opens our lives to greater meaning. You will never see a personal challenge quite the same way again. the art of

Author: 

Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

 What didn't you learn from meditation, stress management and your therapist? The art of reprocessing--it isn't about taking a break or changing your mind, it's about getting there from here.

Why do dramatic cures of long-standing psychological symptoms take place? How can a major personal obstacle dissolve in short time, opening the way to new joy and achievements? I've seen it happen many times. In this article, I'll explain how your mind is designed to make this happen, how it gets stuck, and a formula that has helped many people not only get moving again, but exceed their own expectations.

Session Transcript

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EMDR-Inspired Treatment Integrating Body Mind Methods

Author: 

Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

This session transcript demonstrates the integration of EMDR-inspired chemical dependence treatment with body awareness and trance. It is condensed and annotated. The approach includes imaginal exposure to the drugs involved, and emphasizes somatic work.

This article does not constitute training or medical advice.

Aspects of the transcript have been altered to preserve the confidentiality of the client.

This session was intended to help a client reduce cravings for cannabis, which he had been using daily for several years. Details that might reveal his identity have been omitted or altered.

Integrating Visualization and Awareness Processes into Psychotherapy including EMDR

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 Ideas, Resources, and Guidelines

Author: 
Robert A. Yourell
Summary: 

This kind of integration has been such a mainstay in my practice, that I would like to share it with you. The therapists I meet who have made this jump are among the most inspiring, because they make solution-focused work such a rich experience.

This type of work is very empowering to clients because they can use many of the skills they develop in their daily lives.

This provides some basic guidelines for integrating visualization and awareness processes into psychotherapy, with comments for EMDR practitioners included. Use of this document in any form indicates your consent to use such processes only within your scope of practice and in ways that are clinically sound, with clients whom you have assessed as being capable of tolerating exposure to processes that may increase relaxation or awareness.

Glossary for Psych Innovations Site

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Some key words and ideas used at this site.

Author: 

Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

Even if you are a seasoned therapist, some of the definitions here may contribute to your theoretical orientation.

This glossary uses links within the document to help you read connected ideas. It also offers links out to articles that go into more depth. Please contact us if you wish to offer any related additions or corrections.

Charles Figley, Ph.D. on History and Active Ingredients of the Power Therapies

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Free Streaming Audio: A Founder of Traumatology Speaks on Trauma Treatment

Author: 

Design & audio: Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

 Charles Figley, Ph.D. is a founder of the field of traumatology and a distinguished university professor. He codeveloped with Joyce Carbonelle the Active Ingredients Project that originally drew attention to therapies becoming recognized as faster and less-invasive approaches to PTSD and anxiety in particular. 
This is an insightful, entertaining, and moving presentation with a Q&A session. 

The talk took place at the first Power Therapy Conference (Denver, Colorado, USA, 1997). It is presented here because of its historical and inspirational value, and because it covers issues of enduring importance to the field of psychotherapy. "Power Therapies" is an outmoded term that was originally inspired by the contrast between emerging approaches to trauma and existing efforts at the time. 

State Alignment: A Useful Perspective in Psychotherapy

Author: 

Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

State Alignment is a perspective intended to assist therapists in understanding and integrating rapid acting therapy methods such as the power therapies, and those that may involved altered states of consciousness.

This article is intended for mental health professionals interested in psychotherapy innovations and how they may be integrated into the therapists existing skills. The article explains the author's use of "states" by describing and exemplifying several practical categories of states.

Bilateral Sound in EMDR, Visualization and Success

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 Use these guidelines with alternating bilateral sound.

Author: 

Robert A. Yourell

Summary: 

Use bilateral sound such as UpLevel and Personal Journey with these guidelines and exercises. Alternating bilateral sound is for stress management, deep relaxation, visualization body awareness processes and more. Experience a unique, free, bilateral audio meditation space here, and listen to free samples of our Sounds for Inner Space™ here.

We are born to feel balanced and find solutions. Resources within us can automatically help us do these things. Sometimes, we need help to activate these inner processes to resolve personal problems, to stop anxiety, or to meet a great personal challenge.

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