EMDR Therapy and Sex Offenders: Healing the Harmer with EMDR – OnDemand
Recorded Webinar
Advanced course enabling EMDR therapy clinicians to work effectively with clients who are sex offenders. Provides a foundation and sharpens the EMDR therapy clinician’s practice by focusing on contextualizing and implementing current knowledge and theoretical bases for EMDR case conceptualization and treatment throughout the eight phases.
Presenter Bios:
Jonna Fries, PsyD
Jonna Fries, PsyD, studied and taught Integrative Body Psychotherapy for 12 years before she began seeking a more efficient method to heal clients suffering from trauma. Her EMDR journey launched in 2012 with Curt Rouanzoin, PhD, as her trainer. Fascinated by EMDR therapy’s elegance and efficacy, she strove to become a skilled EMDR practitioner and continues to devote herself to learning and teaching EMDR for EMDR Professional Training and for Trauma Recovery/EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (HAP). As an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and EMDRIA Approved Trainer, Jonna brings experience and knowledge to her EMDR therapy work, acquired through her doctoral emphases in systems and diversity, experience as an instructor of over 70 courses for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology’s Clinical Forensic Program, leadership as the past director of Counseling and Psychological Services at California State University, Los Angeles, provision of psychotherapy services to university students since 2008, ongoing consultation to eating disorder professionals, textbook authorship on the treatment of eating disorders, and extensive group and couples work. In her Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles private practice, Jonna specializes in trauma, eating disorders, and couples.
Darla Dixon, PsyD
Darla Dixon, PsyD, is a Senior Psychology Specialist for the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) Trauma Informed Care Program at DSH-Coalinga. At DSH-C, Dr. Dixon has been a group facilitator and unit psychologist for individuals with sexually deviant behaviors. At DSH-C she has developed an EMDR program for patients and provides opportunities to learn about and apply trauma informed care principles to individuals with significant sex offense histories and significant mental illness. Dr. Dixon has delivered presentations on trauma treatment and sex offending populations at DSH, California Coalition on Sexual Offending, and Institute on Violence Abuse and Trauma.
A licensed psychologist, Dr. Dixon received her doctorate degree in Forensic Psychology from Alliant International University in 2011, the same institution that granted her MA in Forensic Psychology. She received her BA in Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology. She is practiced in trauma specific and trauma sensitive interventions such as Deep Brain Reorienting, EMDR, Trauma-Focused CBT, and the Wraparound approach. Dr. Dixon is an EMDR Consultant, a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and has earned a Certificate in Complex Trauma and Dissociation from the ISSTD.
Maranda Conner, LPC-S, LPC-MHSP, LPC
Maranda Conner, LPC-S, LPC-MHSP, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 12 years of experience in Community Mental Health, licensed in Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. A proud U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, Maranda specializes in treating trauma, predatory, and disruptive disorders for both adolescents and adults. Known for her commitment to underserved communities, she focuses on providing EMDR therapy to individuals navigating community reintegration, incarceration, and the criminal justice system. Maranda’s expertise and dedication to supporting these populations define her impactful work as a mental health professional. Maranda D. Conner, LPC-S, LPC-MHSP, EMDR Certified, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, HAP Accredited Facilitator
Timeline:
90 Minutes: Introductions, Foundations of sex offender theory, Drivers of sex offending and their relevance to EMDR target selection
90 Minutes: Standard treatment versus EMDR therapy for sex offenders, Review of EMDR treatment of sex offenders.
15 Minutes: Q and A and Wrap up
90 Minutes: EMDR Phases 1-2, Cultivating self-compassion and positive disturbance in sex-offending clients with histories of sexual abuse., Identifying client offense
drivers and eliciting an appropriate target.
90 Minutes: EMDR Phases 3-8, Standard protocol uses and addiction protocols in the treatment of sex offenders.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recall six drivers of sex offending.
- Compare the purpose of standard treatment for sex offenders to EMDR therapy for sex offenders.
- Describe how bilateral eye movements may impair deviant sexual fantasies and decrease the desire to engage in sexually fantasized phenomena.
- Explain the potential increase in self-compassion and the positive disturbance that sex offenders may experience after EMDR treatment of their own history of child sexual abuse.
- Identify how to derive an EMDR target from an offense driver.
- Differentiate between best use of the standard EMDR protocol and an addiction protocol in the treatment of sex offenders.
To register for this OnDemand course please visit: https://emdr-professional-training.thinkific.com/courses/emdr-therapy-and-sex-offender-treatment-online
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