Description: "EMDR and Attachment-Focused Trauma Therapy for Adults: Reclaiming Authentic Self and Healthy Attachments describes a strength-based, attachment-focused model that moves clients toward healthier internal and external functioning and attachment patterns. A scripted sequence of protocols develops and deepens access to the client's own strengths through creation of an internal system of resources. The protocols build healthy boundaries and a nurturing relationship with inner Child parts of Self, strengthens the Competent Adult part of Self, and reworks under-or over-developed Parent parts of Self into healthier versions capable of playing more nurturing and protective roles"--
Brief description:
Debra Wesselmann, MS, LIMHP, has specialized in treating trauma and attachment problems in adults and children for over 30 years and co-founded The Attachment and Trauma Center of Nebraska in Omaha, Nebraska. She is an EMDR Institute trainer and develops EMDR specialty child and adult attachment and trauma-focused trainings for clinicians and trains clinicians online, around the United States, and overseas. She is an EMDRIA-approved consultant and serves on the editorial board for The Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. Wesselmann has co-authored articles, chapters, and books related to attachment and trauma, including two chapters that were co-authorized with Francine Shapiro and the recent treatment manual for the EMDR and family therapy integrative model as well as the companion parent guide, both published by W.W. Norton. She has been invited to give workshops and keynotes at numerous conferences nationally and internationally.