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Naomi is a clinical psychologist and EMDR-Europe Trainer. She has been using EMDR since 2005 and qualified as a trainer in 2023. She has a longstanding interest in using psychological therapy with autistic people and has carried out several research projects looking at how EMDR is adapted for use with autistic people.
Naomi works clinically with adults, adolescents and children and supervises EMDR therapists. Almost all of her work is remote.
Naomi can be booked for training for your organisation and this can be customised to your needs. Recent topics include Neurodiversity and EMDR, Deciphering Complexity and the Art of Low Demand Therapy.
Naomi has some pre-recorded courses for professionals on working with demand avoidance and on refreshing your EMDR skills. Please get in touch if there are other courses you would like her to create.
Demand avoidant children confound all of our expectations. You ask them to do something, and they react as if you’re shouting. You show them that you’re pleased with them, and they respond by saying they’ll never do that again. The harder you try, the more difficult things become. What’s going on, and how can therapists work effectively with demand avoidant children? In this engaging and illustrated mini-course you’ll gain an understanding of demand avoidance and what it is. You’ll learn some practical ways to engage these children. It is suitable for anyone working therapeutically with children and teenagers, including psychologists, child psychotherapists, occupational therapists, drama therapists, art therapists and speech and language therapists. It might also be of interest to school SENCos although it focuses on the one-to-one.
This bundle of all 6 of Naomi's EMDR Refresher mini courses contains (1) the Assessment Phase, (2) Blocked Processing, (3) Cognitive Interweaves, (4) the Preparation Phase, (5) the Desensitisation phase and (6) phases 5-8.
In this short course I’ll talk you through the different stages of the Assessment phase and how they all fit together. I’ll explain what makes a good negative cognition and why the positive cognition is so important. There are role plays so you can see what it looks like in practice – and there are a couple of interactive examples for you to use to practice spotting when things are going wrong.
When we are in the Desensitisation Phase (or Phase 4) of the EMDR Standard Protocol, our aim is for the client to process their trauma whilst the therapist sets things up and gets out of the way. Sometimes, however, things get stuck. The processing isn’t flowing as we hoped, and the information isn’t becoming more adaptive. That’s what I’m talking about in this short course. How do you know when processing is blocked, and what can you do about it?
When we are in the Desensitisation Phase (Phase 4) sometimes your client gets stuck and your strategies for unblocking processing just don’t seem to be enough. This is when you need a cognitive interweave. This is something which many newly trained EMDR therapists find extremely challenging. A cognitive interweave is when the therapist introduces new information or asks a question which is designed to help the client access information to facilitating adaptive information processing. This short course will talk you through the process and uses role plays so you can see what it looks like in practice.
The preparation phase is one that people can sometimes be confused about. There are certain things that we always do in the preparation phase. One is the safe place. And I'll be talking about that. But the preparation phase is a hugely variable phase. It can be just maybe one or two sessions with a straightforward client who has had a single incidence of trauma perhaps, or actually it could be many months or even years if you're working with someone who's very complex. This short course will talk you through the process and uses role plays so you can see what it looks like in practice.
In this mini-course Naomi talks about the desensitisation phase, which is a phase four of the EMDR protocol. Desensitisation is what lots of people think about when they hear the term EMDR. It's the stage where we have bilateral stimulation and where we are getting our clients to think about the distressing thought and to pair that with bilateral stimulation. This course has two role plays.
In this mini-course I'm talking about phases five to eight of the standard protocol. So this is installation of the positive cognition, body scan, closure, and the re-evaluation. This mini-course includes a role play covering phases 5-8.
A clear and engaging introduction to the psychology of mental health, which takes account of a range of perspectives and illustrates how psychologists work in the field today. Psychology of Mental Health will place our current understanding of mental health in context, both historically and culturally. It will discuss various models for understanding mental health, research on causes of mental health problems, and will introduce recent psychology-led alternatives to diagnosis.
If you are a parent worrying whether self-directed education will work for your child, because you have been told that they have special needs which can only be met in the school system - think again. Neurodivergent children experience and interact with the world differently to many of their peers. Standard educational systems often fail to adapt to their unique strengths and ways of learning. School, and even the act of learning, can become a source of great anxiety and trauma. Self-directed education offers an alternative to traditional schools that can help neurodivergent children develop at their own pace and thrive.