Megan McQuary – Trauma Treatment with EMDR CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions

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Megan McQuary – Trauma Treatment with EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions: A Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training Course

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Adverse childhood experiences, brain chemistry, personality traits…

So many things influence how the anxiety, fear, and shame of trauma present in a person.

The horrific symptoms include substance abuse, chronic physical pain, disordered eating, relationship difficulties, violence, cognitive delays, and more.

That’s why it’s impossible for one approach to work across the spectrum of clients in your practice — and why it’s so hard to know how to guide your client sessions.

But neuroscience has provided us with an incredible roadmap that informs why, how and what approaches can help your clients transform the helplessness, rage, and collapse from past trauma.

In my new online certification training, I’ll walk you step-by-step through how to use evidence-based strategies and interventions, including EMDR, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy…

And I’ll reveal the neuroscience behind each tool and technique…

So you can optimize your treatment plan, knowing which strategy will work, and why.

Don’t wait! Register today and let me show you how you can properly assess clients, effectively stabilize them in preparation for treatment, help them safely reprocess traumatic memories, and develop the resources they need to achieve and maintain recovery.

Get the proven tools and techniques — including printable worksheets and in-session exercises — needed to end the suffering of your clients and move them from surviving to thriving!

Warmly,
Megan McQuary, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C
Internationally recognized expert on trauma, abuse, and the neuroscience of mental health

P.S. When you complete this course, you’ll be immediately eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)…

Giving you the opportunity to stand out from the crowd and let clients and colleagues know that you’ve invested the time and effort needed to provide treatment at the highest level.

What You’ll Discover in This Course

Section 1: Laying the groundwork for successful treatment

The Neuroscience of Trauma

• Key brain areas involved in trauma
• Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
• Clinical implications of the freeze response
• The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy

Trauma Presentations and the Assessment of Trauma

• Simple vs. complex trauma
• Intergenerational trauma
• Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
• Primary Care PTSD Screen
• Dual diagnosis

Mechanisms of Treatment

• Therapeutic alliance
• How to activate mirror neurons
• The rules of neuroplasticity as applied to therapy
• How to promote neurogenesis

Trauma Treatment Roadmap

• Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
• Self-soothing techniques
• Grounding strategies
• Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work
• How to handle the angry client
• Strategies for the resistant trauma client
• Boundary concerns
• Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use

Stabilization, Pendulation, and Titration

• Building emotional regulation skills in your clients
• Using a “distress thermometer” to help clients stabilize
• Breathing exercises to help self-regulation

Somatic Approaches: The Physical Symptoms of Trauma

• Relevance of Polyvagal Theory and early trauma
• Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
• Teach body awareness
• Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
• Resourcing strategies to create a safe space

Section II: Practical applications of treatment modalities

CBT Skills

• Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
• Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
• Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
• Memory reconstruction techniques

Narrative Therapy Exercises

• Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
• Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
• Awareness and closure – create life stories

EMDR-Based Techniques

• Adaptive Information Processing Theory EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
• Resourcing strategies
• Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
• Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma

Cutting-Edge Approaches

• Brainspotting
• EFT
• Neuromodulation
• Evidence-based vs. cutting-edge approaches

Treatment Roadblocks

• Avoidance
• Dissociation
• Forgetfulness
• Resources
• Boundary concerns
• Crises/suicidality/anger/substance use

Post-Traumatic Growth

• Better than normal – the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
• The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
• The power of forgiveness in moving forward
• Meaning-making exercises

Meet Your Course Expert:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Megan McQuary, LCSW, ACADC, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, is a Certified EMDR Clinician and Trainer, as well as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II through Evergreen Certifications. Megan also is an Advanced Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, who formerly owned and operated one of the largest treatment centers for substance abuse and trauma in Southeast Idaho, which was voted best in practice for 2019.

Her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians across the U.S. get the most out of EMDR, trauma and addiction-based skills and practices. She has been invited to train internationally at the International Society of Addiction Medicine in India, the International Conference on Addiction Research and Therapy in Amsterdam and at the Psicologia Institute of Italy. Megan has extensively been trained on the use of EMDR as a protocol and uses EMDR in her practice to achieve improved outcomes with a broad spectrum of clients in the areas of trauma, abuse, attachment and substance abuse. She is an expert witness at the State and Federal level for her expertise in areas surrounding trauma.

Ms. McQuary is the author of EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories, and Take Back Your Life set to be released by New Harbinger Publications in late 2022. She earned her master’s in Clinical Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University in 2011 and is an active member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Association of Social Workers. She currently owns and operates her own Counseling, Consulting and Training Business and is passionate about genuinely changing the landscape of trauma treatment through an authentic, hands-on perspective, that she has uniquely made her own.