The EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR-IGTP)for Partners affected by Relationship Betrayal from significant other’s Compulsive Sexual Behaviour with Leigh Brown.

During the COVID pandemic, factors such as lockdowns, social isolation, job losses, furloughs, insecurities, and increased anxiety have contributed to a corresponding sharp intake in the use of pornography. In turn, more people have been developing compulsive sexual behaviours on-screen. There has also been an increase in illegal sexual material being viewed. These people will start showing up in your therapy room, and for those therapists who say that they don’t work with sex offenders, you may well find their traumatised partners in need of help.

We are delighted that Leigh Brown, EMDR Practitioner and Sex & Relationship Psychotherapist based in our EMDR South Central Region, will be sharing her experiences of working with betrayed partners in a group setting. Leigh will introduce the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol (EMDR-IGTP) as a useful approach that you might also wish to include in your clinical practice.

Drawing upon Leigh’s EMDR masters’ research and dissertation, she will also explain the stages of recovery for a partner, discuss the psychometric measures she used, pre- and post- the IGTP intervention and share the outcomes of her study.

We will include a break-out small-group discussion to consider EMDR and the stages of recovery. You will have an opportunity to follow the stages with your own set of materials.

Learning objectives include:

• To consider an EMDR group versus an individual therapy approach through discussion of dissertation example and case study of individual use of the same materials.
• To practice using the IGTP materials.
• To learn about the stages of partner recovery and when EMDR can be effectively used.
• To explore attitudes to this type of work, especially with sex offenders.
• To consider psychometric tools and outcome measures for treatment efficacy.

Please Note :

This will be an online event via Zoom. There will be 4 CPD points awarded. CPD Certificates will be issued following receipt of feedback forms afterwards.

Zoom login details will be sent out shortly before the workshop.

For further information regarding this workshop please take a look at our website http://emdrsouthcentral.org.uk/ or email emdrsc@gmail.com.