Virtual EMDR Group Intensive

for RCC's, RSW's, CCC's & Psychologists

This is a unique EMDR Therapy Group for people who are actively managing "ongoing traumatic distress" as a part of their day-to-day professional work. This group follows a specialized group protocol using EMDR therapy to treat ongoing, unprocessed traumatic events.

The persistent nature traumatic exposure in the workplace pile up and is hard on your nervous system and can ultimately lead to burn out, compassion fatigue and other negative health consequences such as clinical disorders if not managed effectively. ​

 

​​Value of the Group​

• Decrease negative impact of ongoing traumatic distress

• Increase day-to-day functioning

• Increase coping and self-regulation skills

• Research shows clinically significant results using the EMDR Group Treatment Protocol for Ongoing Traumatic Distress 

• Belong to a community of people who are in a similar circumstance

• Learn to better regulate your nervous system when you think about or are experiencing a stressful event

• Change negative thoughts, emotions and physical reactions connected to ongoing stressors

• Build self-confidence and feel empowered

• You don't have to talk and "share" or hear other trauma stories also preserving  confidentiality and privacy and minimization of secondary exposure to trauma 

• Receive support for vicarious trauma

• Prevent career burnout  and compassion fatigue allowing for optimal functioning at the workplace

• Opportunity for deep, reflective, focused work

• We will be offering this group on an ongoing basis and you only have to do the intake once.

• Gain hope for the future

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​Am I in Ongoing Traumatic Distress?

Remember, part of your reaction to traumatic experiences is based on your subjective emotional and psychological assessment of the situation and the "meaning" you assign to it. Also factoring into this is your perception of your ability to cope. This will determine the intensity of your reaction and how deeply it negatively impacts different areas of your life. It also determines how your nervous system will react in terms of fight-flight-freeze or collapse/complete shutdown. In real life this can look like severe anxiety to feeling numb/empty, or very depressed and fatigued. 

 

Even if you've never recognized yourself to be in a traumatic environment in your workplace, or that you are being affected by negative or traumatic experiences that happen everyday, it wouldn't be a stretch to imply that facing challenging, or stressful experiences on an ongoing basis as a mental heath professional would take a negative toll on your brain and body.

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It's good to reassess this from time to time and if needed intervene. Ask yourself, " have I just gotten used to this? "Can I go on like this?" "Is the impact of the stress interfering with my career goals?" "Is the ongoing stress interfering in my relationship with my loved ones?", "Is it leading me down the path of burnout?".  That's where our group comes in it can be a solution to your developing problem and support you to turn things around.

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Nature of Ongoing Distress: 

When people  are in ongoing distress the theory is they haven't had a "resting period" when the typical integration of memories would naturally attempt to occur. You typically live with a dysregulated nervous system and it impedes your ability to reflect, focus, and have a sense of safety and security. Traumatic experiences are often unable to be mentally, emotionally and physically integrated by humans without conscious effort such as reprocessing with therapy of some kind. Overtime people may not be able to pinpoint where to start in therapy because there are multiple incidents that have stacked on top of each other and it feels like there is no beginning, middle, or end.  However, because of the ongoing nature of your distress it will also be about "managing" your symptoms and increasing coping skills especially so they don't rise to clinical levels.

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There are many examples of experiences that put people in ongoing distress and can compound the stress you experience in the workplace that may not have any relation to the job itself Eg: sexism, racism, ableism. However, the focus of this group is on the work place in the career of mental health professionals.

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