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Integrate Exposure Therapy Techniques Into EMDR 

SESSION 10 OF 14

Duration 26mins 37secs

Join Dr Jennifer Sweeton for a hands-on exploration of how to integrate Prolonged Exposure (PE) strategies into EMDR practice. This session demonstrates how to adapt spoken trauma narratives, EMDR session recordings, and in vivo exposure to fit seamlessly within EMDR’s phases. Learn how to move beyond single images into full trauma stories, strengthen resourcing through post-trauma memory integration, and use audio replay to deepen body-based desensitisation. You’ll also discover step-by-step methods for creating exposure hierarchies, linking them to client values, and addressing avoidance patterns that sustain PTSD. Leave with creative, practical tools to build safe, gradual, and lasting change.

ALL SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE: Neuropsychotherapy and Trauma Interventions

01

Why the Brain Won’t Switch Off

Dive into the brain’s hidden survival system as Dr Jennifer Sweeton unpacks how trauma rewires threat detection. Explore why PTSD symptoms persist, how the amygdala hijacks rational thinking, and how fast survival pathways shape our responses—revealing powerful insights into healing and resilience.

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02

Why Safe Moments Still Feel Dangerous

Explore the powerful difference between constant hypervigilance and sudden trauma triggers in this eye-opening session with Dr Jennifer Sweeton. Learn why calming practices help baseline stress but can’t stop instant reactions—and discover how the brain can be retrained to recognise safety and restore control.

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03

How Trauma Disrupts Control and Clarity

Discover how the insula, cingulate, and prefrontal cortex shape trauma and recovery with Dr Jennifer Sweeton. Learn why insula shutdown causes dissociation and overactivation creates somatic flashbacks, how self-regulation and executive control weaken, and follow a clear roadmap—safety, body reconnection, regulation, cognition, then trauma-focused healing for lasting change.

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04

Shifting the Brain’s Emotional Circuits

Uncover how psychotherapy physically reshapes the brain in this compelling session with Dr Jennifer Sweeton. Explore how trauma builds powerful neural networks, why avoidance strengthens them, and how bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal techniques activate and rewire these pathways—creating real, lasting change in emotion, belief, and behaviour.

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05

How EMDR Unlocks Trauma Networks

Step inside the science of trauma reprocessing with Dr Jennifer Sweeton as she explores EMDR and memory reconsolidation. Learn how to access trauma networks, pair them with adaptive experiences, and use bilateral stimulation to safely desensitise distress—transforming painful memories into sources of resilience and control.

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06

Uncovering Negative Cognitions in EMDR

Master Target Sequence Planning with Dr Jennifer Sweeten as she reveals how to identify the right EMDR targets and the core “I am / I am not” beliefs behind them. Learn to trace somatic cues to earlier memories, craft accurate negative cognitions, and apply a flexible, step-by-step framework for effective trauma reprocessing.

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07

Unlocking Preverbal Trauma in EMDR

Explore advanced EMDR target planning with Dr Jennifer Sweeten as she reveals how to refine negative cognitions, trace shifting beliefs, and safely move into desensitisation. Learn to map touchstone memories across timelines and use titration and pendulation within the window of tolerance for safer, more effective trauma processing.

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08

Managing Boiling Points and Freezing Points

Discover how to keep trauma work safe and effective with Dr Jennifer Sweeton as she explores the distress thermometer and window of tolerance. Learn to identify personal anchors, manage boiling and freezing points, and use titration and bilateral stimulation techniques to prevent overwhelm and build resilience.

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09

Applying Prolonged Exposure Safely in PTSD 

Explore Prolonged Exposure Therapy with Dr Jennifer Sweeton and discover how structured, evidence-based exposure transforms trauma responses. Learn the core components of PE, how it works alongside EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy, and how to balance its powerful desensitisation process with essential client safety and stability.

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Integrate Exposure Therapy Techniques Into EMDR  « you are here

Discover how to blend the power of Prolonged Exposure with EMDR in this practical session with Dr Jennifer Sweeton. Learn to use spoken trauma narratives, session recordings, and in vivo exposure to reduce avoidance, deepen desensitisation, and transform fear-based patterns into meaningful, values-driven action.

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Accelerate Trauma Processing

Discover how to accelerate trauma healing with Neural Desensitisation and Integration Training (NDIT). Dr Jennifer Sweeton breaks down trauma targets, neural patterns, and fast-acting desensitisation strategies, showing you how to integrate EMDR, PE, and somatic tools into a flexible, neuroscience-driven framework that enhances precision, safety, and therapeutic impact.

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012

Identify Entry Points in Trauma Processing

Discover how to map a client’s trauma network with the Neural Profile of Trauma. Learn to identify effective processing entry points, apply rapid distancing techniques, and enhance EMDR, PE, somatic, and cognitive approaches with neuroscience-guided clarity. Strengthen grounding, safety, and outcomes across all trauma-focused modalities.

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013

Transform Overwhelming Memories In Therapy

Learn powerful psychological distancing techniques that transform how clients engage with distressing trauma images and sounds. Discover how subtle shifts in visual and auditory representation can stabilise overwhelmed clients, enhance desensitisation, and integrate effortlessly into EMDR, NDIT, ACT, and other trauma-focused treatments.

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014

From Shame to Balanced Thinking

Explore the core of Cognitive Processing Therapy and learn how to identify, challenge, and transform trauma-related “stuck points.” Discover practical tools for restructuring beliefs, reducing secondary emotions, and integrating CPT with somatic approaches to create deeper, more enduring change for clients recovering from trauma.

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