EMDR Therapy: Cognitive to Cosmic Interweaves

Abstract

The Presentation focuses on the emergence of awakening as the EMDR therapist becomes a tool of consciousness, moving client from trauma to highest potential. Literature and research explain this evolutionary perspective converging with science and spirituality. EMDR will be explained with specific attention given to transpersonal “cosmic” interweaves and resourcing integrated into the preparation phase of the EMDR protocol for emotional stabilization, resource development, and ego integration, supporting a transformational process of awakening. Tools are woven throughout the 8 stages of EMDR Therapy, applying to past, present, and future inherent in the Adaptive Information Processing model. The client has the potential to move from maladaptive functioning to adaptive functioning and reaching beyond to exceptional human functioning within a full spectrum psychological model.
If we blend EMDR therapy, which targets neuro-networks corresponding to stored information related to unprocessed trauma, with ancient healing energy based traditions which recognize that corresponding patterns are held in the energy field, we are forging new territory in the creation of an emerging integrative therapeutic model where EMDR therapy is fertile ground for a transpersonal approach. EMDR therapy can bridge the egoic and the trans-egoic experience for both therapist and client, extending the range of healing trauma through expanded awareness and evolving consciousness, changing the context and content of healing. This integrative approach accesses expanded ranges of awareness through mindfulness and resonance for client and therapist within a shared energy field, healing energy patterns in the subtle field and cellular memory in the body. Transpersonal skills and qualities will be discussed as the therapist uses internal intuitive skills based in internal focusing. Case examples and experiential exercise awakens therapists’ intuitive skills, integrating ancient healing practices with EMDR therapy for client awakening and accelerated transformation. EMDR training is not required and tools presented can be applied to other treatment approaches.

Irene Siegel, Ph.D., LCSW

Conducts her integrative EMDR therapy practice and teaches meditation in Huntington, NY. She received her doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia Univ.); her masters in Social Work from Columbia University. As an EMDRIA approved consultant, teacher, and conference speaker she introduces the innovative concept of integrating mindful awareness and resonance into the EMDR protocol. She studied ancient healing traditions throughout North and South America, and teaches integration of psychotherapy and science with ancient healing arts. Author of The Sacred Path of the Therapist: Modern Healing, Ancient Wisdom, and Client Transformation.

Dr. Alana Roy

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, PSYCHOLOGIST, SOCIAL WORKER, ADVOCATE

Dr Alana (Lani) Roy is the Founder of The Signs of Life Psychology. She is a psychologist, social worker, and therapist and has spent the last 15 years working in mental health, suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse, family violence, and the disability sector.

Lani has worked with borderline personality and dissociative identity disorder in various roles in the community, such as rape crisis centres with victims of ritual abuse; childhood and adult sexual assault; supporting women in the sex industry; and survivors of human trafficking. She specialises in complex trauma, disabilities and dual diagnosis, and working with the Deaf community by providing therapy in Auslan sign language. Lani also specialises in preparation and integration in the field of psychedelic and sexual abuse survivors, particularly with Ayahuasca and the vegetelista dieta process.

For more information about her personal journey towards healing and psychedelics please click here.

Lani works alongside Melissa Warner, providing a range of educational and group-based psychedelic programs. She is a board-approved psychology supervisor and provides psychology, social work, and biomedical student placements and supervision across Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), Entheogenesis Australia (EGA) and the Mental Health Foundation. Lani coordinates the psychedelic and plant medicine Mental Health Professional Network (MHPN). Lani has taught as an Australian teacher on Psychedelics Today Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Therapist Course and MMI’s Certificate of Psychedelic Therapies. Lani has begun providing Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP) for clients accessing ketamine treatment in Australia. She is currently working on a range of research trials focusing on MDMA, psilocybin, and Ayahuasca.

She is passionate about connecting with professionals and community members who have integrity, creativity, and innovation; people who can uphold the sacred nature of these medicines as we bring them safely into the clinical context. Most importantly; she is a mother of two young boys, an owner of two beautiful high needs French bulldogs, and a wife of a sexual abuse detective.