Join Jen and Bridger as they discuss using EMDR therapy for couples and families, incorporating the Cycle of Repression. Explore attachment rupture and repair, finding safety in connection. Learn about addressing past traumas, navigating challenges in therapy, and fostering authentic expression in relationships.
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Quick takeaways
Understanding the Cycle of Repression in relationships helps clients find safety in connection through learned avoidance strategies.
Incorporating authentic self-expression breaks the cycle of repression fostering vulnerability, acceptance, and deeper connection in relationships.
EMDR therapy tools like light bars enhance cognitive processing and emotional authenticity during intensive sessions for couples and families.
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Overview of EMDR Therapy Approach
EMDR therapy is discussed as an approach to the entire therapeutic journey. Topics covered include the therapeutic relationship, utilizing the original eight-phase protocol, and understanding the deeper reasons behind EMDR processes when facing challenges.
Experience with Innovative EMDR Tools
The podcast shares experiences of using innovative EMDR tools like light bars to enhance therapeutic sessions, focusing on a client's cognitive processing and emotional authenticity during EMDR intensives.
Exploring EMDR for Couples and Families
The hosts delve into using EMDR therapy for couples and families, discussing relationship patterns, shared traumas, and a new conceptualization model that integrates somatic integration and case conceptualization for therapeutic effectiveness.
The Cycle of Repression in Relationships
Detailing the cycle of repression within relationships, involving phases of feeling unseen, exhausted, and resorting to distraction strategies to avoid vulnerability. This cycle is further compounded by the masking of true feelings and the potential for rejection, impacting authentic expression and connection.
Navigating Vulnerability and Acceptance
The significance of authentic self-expression and acceptance within relationships as a way to break free from the cycle of repression. Acceptance of vulnerability leads to a positive contribution and fosters a sense of safety and connection within the relationship.
Upcoming EMDR Workshops and Consultation Groups
Announcement of upcoming EMDR workshops focusing on integrating EMDR therapy with couples and families, refresh groups for foundational skill strengthening, and consultation groups providing a collaborative learning space for clinicians to enhance their EMDR practice.
Listen in to hear Jen and Bridger reflect on the work they've been doing to support couples and families in their EMDR journey. Throughout this episode, the hosts incorporate the Cycle of Repression into the conversation. This model of attachment rupture and repair empowers clients to discover safety in connection by understanding how we fall back on learned strategies to avoid threats and seek safety when we feel unseen. Whether it's doom scrolling, substance use, intimate partner violence, or infidelity, this cycle helps us bring compassionate understanding to our therapy clients. Let's embrace authenticity and healing together!