It’s been some time in the making, but it was a great pleasure to present to last weekend’s (March 24, 2018) EMDR UK & Ireland annual national conference on Laurel Parnell’s approach to Attachment-Focused EMDR.
I’m no longer posting the PDF of the presentation, but am happy to share that on request, recognising that some of the slides, especially the pictures, won’t make overly much sense without the attendant explanation in person.
After some controversy over recent years within the EMDR community about the standing of Dr Parnell’s approach to our work, it was particularly rewarding to be able to bring these very positive research results to the conference in the same week that Laurel heard from the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) in the US that her EMDR training, with its Part III focus on working creatively with attachment, has been unanimously approved by the relevant accreditation committee.
Thank you to those who took part in the survey, which does, admittedly, still need to (and will) be written up for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
And thanks to those hardy 65 or so colleagues at the conference who chose to listen to this presentation rather than attend the competing afternoon workshop with Dolores Mosquera, our very excellent and massively more famous/experienced EMDR colleague/trainer/researcher from Spain.
We were pleased with the very positive assessment of AF-EMDR from qualitative interviews undertaken with eight fellow AF-EDMR-trained Consultants (with Worcester University ethical approval), together with 87 therapist and 49 personal client responses to comprehensive Survey Monkey questionnaires on the impact of EMDR used in this way.
Any questions or aspects you might like clarified, do get in touch, and if you’re EMDR-trained, do consider joining me and my EMDR Focus facilitator colleagues for one of our now numerous Unleash your EMDR workshops in London, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and even in Australia and New Zealand in 2020…