Healing Attachment Wounds with EMDR

Gladney University welcomes Hillary Owen, LCSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, TF-CBT Certified, TBRI Practitioner. Presentation Deck: https://gladney.co/EMDRGU. Description: Research continues to highlight the impact of early childhood abuse and neglect on overall health and functioning in adulthood. Attachment Theory helps us understand ways we learn as young children to adapt to our caregivers' ability to meet our needs. While those adaptive responses are critical to survival and minimize distress while we are young, those very behaviors and symptoms often become the source of great distress in later years. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is considered one of the leading therapeutic treatment protocols for alleviating symptoms of trauma and PTSD. In this training, participants will gain an understanding of EMDR, how it works from a scientific perspective, and how it is facilitated in session with clients of all ages. In addition, this training will address the differences between trauma, complex trauma, and attachment trauma, and how advanced EMDR approaches provide deep and lasting relief. Speaker: Since 2005, Hillary Owen, LCSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, TBRI Practitioner, has dedicated her career to serving children, adolescents, and families. She spent over 15 years working in the nonprofit world, including training at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center providing trauma-informed, evidence-based therapy to children and abuse. Hillary later served as the Clinical Program Manager at New Friends New Life, supervising a team of therapists and overseeing all counseling and case management services for women and children who have been sexually exploited or trafficked. Hillary founded her private practice Driftwood Healing in 2021, where she specializes in working with children, adults, and families on healing from and navigating the impact of trauma and childhood attachment wounds. Hillary has extensive training in treating PTSD and attachment trauma, as well as other common co-occurring symptoms including anxiety, depression, dissociation and dissociative disorders, and other behavioral and personality disorders. Hillary’s style is heavily focused on establishing a trusting relationship with warmth and care, and using a strengths-based, directive approach to empower her clients to harness what has happened and experience the fullness of healing. Hillary and her husband have two biological children, are foster parents, and are active in their advocacy for foster children and adoptees. Hillary is an enneagram 2 and practices self-care by doing DIY projects, knitting, painting, and hosting dinner parties. Interested in attending a Gladney University training? Visit http://gladneyuniversity.com.