Book Chapters

Initial Pages (Credits, Reviews, Preface, Table of Contentents)

Before We Start

  1. How Have We Tried to Heal from Complex Trauma?
  2. What if We’ve Been Overthinking It?
  3. The Ethics of Not Treating Trauma
  4. The Boat and the Whale Metaphor
  5. EMDR Is Not a Magic Wand
  6. No Part of This Is Easy
  7. Therapist Anxiety
  8. What Makes Complex Trauma So Complex for EMDR Therapy
  9. All the Hats You Wear
  10. How We Train You

Phase One

  1. Doing a Sensible Phase One
  2. How Exactly Should We Do Phase One?

Phase Two

  1. Phase Two Isn’t Just Mindfulness Resources
  2. The Utility of Parts Work
  3. “Mindfulness Doesn’t Work for Me:” Teaching It Differently
  4. Why Attachment Resources are Often Needed
  5. The Attachment Figure Resource Script
  6. Introducing Fire Extinguisher Resources Early
  7. Dip Your Toe In Sensory Grounding
  8. Dip Your Toe In For Flashbacks Script
  9. Dip Your Toe In Body Scan Script
  10. Dip Your Toe In Calm Scene Script
  11. Dip Your Toe In Blue Smoke Breathing Script
  12. Dip Your Toe In Hand Breathing Script
  13. Dip Your Toe In Attachment Figure Resource
  14. More About Consent From Parts
  15. Where the Standard EMDR Resources Tend to Go Bad and How to Fix Them
  16. The Utility of Containment
  17. “And Then the Client Dissociated”
  18. Blocking Beliefs Are Also Phase Two Problems
  19. What Does Prepared Enough Mean?

Phases Three-Seven

  1. The Utility of Informed Consent
  2. Helping Clients Understand Their Role in this Dance
  3. There is Nothing to Figure Out Today
  4. Oh My, Where Do We Start?
  5. The Canaries in the Coal Mine
  6. Why Overactivation is a Problem in EMDR Therapy
  7. The Videotape Approach
  8. The Videotape Approach Script
  9. When to Let Memories In, When to Container
  10. Where Clients Get Stuck and How to Intervene
  11. The Quicksand of Attachment Wound Targets
  12. Understanding the Developmental Deficits of Attachment Wounds
  13. Why Finishing Things Matters in EMDR Therapy
  14. EMDR Therapy and Grief
  15. Additional Strategies for Working with Absences in Memory
  16. Trouble Finding an Individual Memory when Trauma was Daily

Phase Eight

  1. The Elegance of the Future Prong
  2. What Healing Doesn’t Give You

Short Answers to Common Consult Questions

  1. Initial Topics
  2. Phase One Topics
  3. Phase Two Topics
  4. Phases Three-Seven Topics
  5. Phase Eight Topics