Compassion Focused EMDR - One Day Workshop

Compassionate Mind Training can support patients to cultivate the conditions for safeness within the therapeutic process. There are strong and helpful correlations with the resource building component of EMDR and CMT. However it can be particularly helpful for those with ruptured attachment systems and complex trauma to explicitly develop a compassionate mind to utilise in the return to and processing of traumatic memories and associations.

This day will explore the overlaps in models and theoretical underpinning, moving onto practical ways to utilise compassionate mind training within EMDR preparatory phases and processing work. This workshop will utilise an experiential and self-care method to develop a felt sense of the practices that can be used to enrich the EMDR methodology.

About the speaker

Dr. Kate Lucre is a Birmingham based EMDR Accredited Practitioner, Compassion Focused Therapist and Supervisor specialising in the use of CFT for complex attachment and relational trauma for groups and individual. She has been practicing EMDR since 2007 and has been accredited since 2013. She has extensive experience using EMDR with patient with complex attachment and relational trauma. She is the supervision coordinator for the Compassionate Mind Foundation and also runs workshops for the Foundation and across the UK on CFT for Groups and Compassion Focused Staff Support and Supervision.

Dr. Kate Lucre has published the only data on Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy for people who would attract a diagnosis of personality disorder and has recently completely a 7 year research program evaluating a 12 month CFGP program.