About the webinar
This 1-hour EMDR webinar focuses on *working effectively with clients who over-verbalize during EMDR*, a common presentation among individuals who use language as a defense against emotional overwhelm or loss of control. Participants will learn how excessive verbal processing can serve as both a *protective part strategy* and a barrier to reprocessing, and how to gently redirect clients back into somatic and emotional experience without shaming or shutting them down.
The webinar emphasizes *attunement, pacing, and containment*, with strategies to help clients stay connected to the target, tolerate silence, and build trust in nonverbal processing. Through demonstration and discussion, participants will explore interventions that foster felt sense, mindful observation, and bilateral integration while maintaining therapeutic alliance.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding Over-Verbalization in EMDR
- Enhancing Somatic and Emotional Engagement
- Maintaining Attunement and Safety
Agenda:
Lecture & Brief Discussion (60 min) – Explore how to recognize and work with over-verbalization in EMDR sessions. Learn strategies to foster somatic awareness, maintain attunement, and support clients in accessing emotion safely and effectively.
Trauma, Neuroscience Expert, PTSD Psychologist
Megan Salar is a therapist, author, and trauma expert with extensive experience helping individuals heal from complex trauma. She specializes in innovative, strength-based approaches that foster resilience and transformation. Through her work at The Mental Survivalist, Megan empowers both clinicians...
Trauma, Neuroscience Expert, PTSD Psychologist
Megan Salar is a therapist, author, and trauma expert with extensive experience helping individuals heal from complex trauma. She specializes in innovative, strength-based approaches that foster resilience and transformation. Through her work at The Mental Survivalist, Megan empowers both clinicians...
Learning Objectives
Identify how excessive verbal processing can function as a protective strategy and a barrier to emotional reprocessing.
Apply techniques to help clients shift from cognitive analysis to embodied awareness and felt experience.
Use pacing, containment, and mindful silence to support trust, regulation, and effective reprocessing.
