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Resourcing and Preparation for Reprocessing with EMDR Therapy: From the EMDR Supplement

Jan 4, 2024
The hosts discuss resourcing in EMDR therapy, exploring adaptive experiences and bilateral stimulation. They also delve into mastery resources, building a resource team, and enhancing positive memories. The importance of creativity and establishing safety and connection is emphasized.
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  • Resourcing in EMDR therapy helps clients develop adaptive understanding and regulation through positive experiences and neural networks.
  • Careful selection of low-impact targets for reprocessing trauma establishes safety, adaptive resources, and reduces overwhelming the client.

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Understanding the Importance of Resourcing in EMDR Therapy

Resourcing plays a vital role in EMDR therapy, providing clients with neural networks that contribute to their adaptive understanding of themselves and the world. Resources are developed through positive experiences in the present, evoking a real, felt sense of the positive sensations. These resources can be accessed to regulate distress and gain adaptive insight. Resourcing can lead to both short-term state change and long-lasting trait change. Different types of resources, such as the calm safe place, container, and relational resources, can be used to stabilize clients and create safety before moving into reprocessing traumatic memories. Slow and short bilateral stimulation can enhance the storage of resources. The therapeutic relationship itself is considered a critical resource, offering safety, connection, and a sense of co-regulation. Clients can utilize resourcing outside of sessions, accessing the felt sense of safety and connection developed during therapy.

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