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Build confidence working with dissociative identities using EMDR-compatible strategies that bridge lived experience and science. Learn how to assess readiness, adjust protocols, and support system-wide stabilization and integration.

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EMDR for the Treatment of Addiction and Compulsions

What You’ll Learn

  • Understand how trauma shapes addiction, through brain-based changes in reward, memory, and motivation.
  • Unpack Nora Volkow’s three-phase addiction model: Binge, Withdrawal, Preoccupation.
  • Use EMDR’s 8-phase protocol to address triggers, cravings, relapse, and root trauma.
  • Learn specialized EMDR protocols for addiction (DeTUR, FSAP, Knipe’s techniques).
  • Apply practical skills: 
    • Preparation/resourcing for distress tolerance
    • Targeted trauma reprocessing
    • Future templates and relapse prevention
    • Working with shame and spiritual trauma
  • Try the new Buzzkill™ protocol -an EMDR innovation for rapid craving reduction, developed by Gerard Ilaria.
  • Support clients in integrating 12-step engagement and building peer/community connection.

Prerequisites: 

  • EMDR Basic Training

Course Details: 

  • 4 CEs available upon completion of all course material

  • Types of CEs available: 

    • EMDRIA
    • NBCC
    • ACE

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