Clinical Certificate Program in Relational and Multi-Contextual Treatment of Trauma 2009-2010
This certificate program is designed for professionals in urban settings, hospitals, community agencies, and private practices committed to understanding the impact of acute and chronic trauma on their clients’ attachment relationships, belief systems, behavior, and regulation of affect. It examines the often-overlooked multi-contextual, systemic forces that lead to increased exposure to trauma and violence for many children, adolescents, and adults.
The treatment of psychological trauma is among the greatest challenges that mental health, social service, forensic, and other helping professionals face today. It calls on professionals to integrate within their practices contemporary research and treatment approaches that reduce clients’ post-traumatic anxiety and behavior and support their strengths to resume paths of developmental competence.
The program examines somatic and neurobiological changes that accompany overwhelming psychological trauma
and their resulting impact on development, memory, and attachment in both children and adults. It presents
culturally sensitive models of assessment and treatment grounded in a commitment to phase-oriented trauma
treatment and to evidence-based assumptions that individuals, groups, and communities grow and change when
their strengths are nurtured within containing attachment relationships.
From a variety of perspectives instructors discuss the normal experiences of vicarious trauma and strategies
of self-care, which promote safety and affect regulation for professionals, and ultimately for their
clients.
The curriculum includes an exploration of:
• Strengths based treatment of traumatic experiences of racism
• Skills in assessment of trauma in children and adults
• Strategies of working with community and domestic violence
• The impact of traumatic losses on children and families
• Treating complex post-traumatic-stress-disorder and dissociation
• Promoting resilience in immigrants, refugees, and other trauma survivors
• Mind/body techniques to build internal resources of comfort
• Understanding and treatment of substance abuse and other addictions
• Research conclusions that inform ethical practices of trauma informed treatment
Faculty:
Kevin Creeden, MA, LMHC: Director of assessment and research, Whitney Academy; national consultant and trainer in child trauma treatment
Mary Gilfus, Ph.D.: Professor and chair of Human Behavior in the Social Environment sequence, Simmons School of Social Work
Hugo Kamya Ph.D.: Professor, Simmons School of Social Work; faculty, Cambridge Family Institute
Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, Ph.D.: Professor, Simmons School of Social Work
Lynn Sanford, LICSW: Assistant professor, Simmons School of Social Work; author, Strong at the Broken Places, NEARI Press
Candace Saunders, LICSW: Instructor, Simmons School of Social Work; coordinator, trauma certificate programs; private practice, Newton
Linda Yael Schiller, LICSW: Private supervision and psychotherapy practice, Watertown
Patricia Thatcher, LICSW: Psychotherapist and teacher of mind/body techniques in private practice, Cambridge
Mimi Thein, MD: Attending psychiatrist, Children’s Hospital, Boston; instructor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Format and Schedule:
Classes meet Wednesdays, 5:30-8:45 p.m. and two Saturdays.
Classes begin on September 23, 2009.
Master’s degree in human services required.
Tuition: $1800; 75 social work CEs. National Board of Certified Counselors Approved CE Provider #6426. Psychology CEs are applied for.
Payment must accompany application. Please download the application and apply online.
If you have any questions please contact the Admissions Office at 617-521-3939 or write to ssw@simmons.edu.
You may also address your questions to the course coordinator by writing to candace.saunders@simmons.edu or calling 617-521-3958.
Clinical Certificate Program in EMDR Basic Training 2009-2010
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an innovative method of psychotherapy, which utilizes elements of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, exposure, and mind/body therapies to accelerate healing for clients suffering from Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder and a wide range of other problems. This comprehensive training provides 53 hours of training of both Basic EMDR (formerly called Level I) and Intermediate EMDR (Level II) in a small group setting with ongoing support throughout the learning process.
Participants will:
• Utilize the 8 Phase Standard EMDR Protocol
• Practice EMDR skills under supervision with colleagues
• Demonstrate how to problem-solve about case conceptualization to prepare to use EMDR
• Begin to use EMDR with selected clients after the first 5 sessions of the training
• Use case consultation effectively with new EMDR skills
• Apply Intermediate EMDR skills including cognitive interweave
• Form a supportive local network with same level colleagues
• Discuss advanced and new applications of EMDR
• Identify ethical dilemmas you may encounter in using EMDR
• Discuss the importance of understanding and addressing cultural factors in using EMDR techniques
This course will help participants begin to gain a sense of competency as EMDR practitioners. Participants
will be required to get additional case consultation with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant in the 12 months
following the training in order to receive the final EMDRIA certificate in EMDR.
Requirements:
• Master's-level or higher licensed mental health professionals in a clinical practice setting that
permits EMDR with clients. Mental Health Professionals on a licensure track will be considered.
• The purchase of one textbook: Francine Shapiro (2001), Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2nd Edition, Guilford Press. Ms. Shapiro is the
developer of EMDR. The book is available through Guilford Press or online booksellers.
Instructor:
Natalie S. Robinson, LICSW (http://www.natalierobinsontherapist.com/ ) is a 1977 graduate
of the Simmons School of Social Work. She is an EMDRIA-approved consultant and trainer in EMDR. Ms. Robinson
has been developing and teaching this extended format EMDR Basic Training in a university setting since 2006
and practicing EMDR since 1996 at her offices in Boston and Chelmsford. She has made numerous presentations
on EMDR for Life Enhancement in the greater Boston area and at EMDRIA Conferences in Toronto and Austin. She
has also developed an EMDR Case Flow Chart which is being offered by the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance
Programs.
This course has been approved by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA). Participants will receive EMDRIA certificates as well as 53 social work CEs. National Board of Certified Counselors Approved CE Provider #6426. Psychology CEs are applied for.
Format and Schedule:
The EMDR Basic Training consists of 11 sessions. Classes will meet from January 11 to June 7, 2010.
10 Mondays, 2:30 – 7:15pm, and 1 full-day Sunday session, Feb.7, 8:45am – 5:15pm.
Proposed Dates: Jan. 11, Jan. 25, Feb. 7, Feb. 22, Mar .8, Mar. 22, Apr. 5, Apr 26, May 10, May 24, June
7.
Tuition: $1500; 53 CEs
Limited to 18 participants.
Payment must accompany application. Please download the application and apply online.
If you have any questions please contact the Admissions Office at 617-521-3939 or write to ssw@simmons.edu.
You may also contact the instructor/coordinator with questions by writing to natrobin@natrobin.com or calling 781-771-4487.
Dissociative Disorders and EMDR
Joanne H. Twombly, MSW,
EMDRIA Approved Consultant in EMDR
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Simmons College, Boston MA
Program is open to all EMDR Trained and Non-EMDR Trained Mental Health Professionals
Co-Sponsored by:
Natalie S. Robinson, MSW, EMDRIA Credit Provider, EMDRIA Approved
Consultant & Trainer
and Simmons College School of Social Work
Fees and Registration:
• Early registration: $145.00 (before November 6, 2009)
• Regular registration: $175.00
• Full-Time Mental Health Agency Clinicians: $125.00 if you register before November 6, 2009. [Please send validation of agency with application.]
• Simmons Field Instructors: $125.00
• Send checks and registration form to: JT Workshop, c/o D. Novak, 640 Main Street, Waltham, MA 02451
Download registration form
Attendee Requirements: Must be Mental Health Professionals.
Credits
6.5 CEs given for Social Workers through Simmons School of Social Work
6.5 CEs given to Licensed Mental Health and School Counselors through Simmons SSW as a NBCC approved CE
Provider.
CEs for psychologists are pending.
6.5 EMDRIA Credits Approved. EMDRIA credits will be given to fully Trained EMDR Attendees
Send proof of full EMDR training with registration to get EMDRIA Credits
This workshop will help participants become cognizant of the presence of dissociation and ways of
differentiating among the range of Dissociative Disordered (DD) diagnoses. It clarifies how to work
effectively and safely with this population and other intractable clients. The workshop offers adaptations of
resources from the preparation and closure phases of EMDR to facilitate stabilization, orient DD clients to
the present, decrease negative transference and provide a protective format for processing traumatic
material. It is appropriate for EMDR trained clinicians as well as those with no EMDR training.
Joanne H. Twombly, MSW has extensive experience in working with complex PTSD and
Dissociative Disorders and has adapted EMDR for use with people with these disorders. She is a director on
the Executive Council of the International Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, a past
president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDRIA approved
consultant in EMDR, and an American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Approved consultant. She has published
articles in clinical journals and book chapters on Safe Place Imagery, DD and EMDR and on EMDR and IFS. She
has a private practice in Waltham, MA where in addition to her work with clients she provides consultation
and training.
