EMDR, Parts Work, and Structural Dissociation with Rachel Walker

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In this video, Rachel Walker explains the integration of attachment theory, structural dissociation, parts work, and EMDR. Rachel presented at the 2019 EMDRIA conference and has been training EMDR clinicians on how to treat complex trauma with EMDR and parts work. We explored this topic with Mariah Rooney, who explained how to use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help heal trauma and dissociation. At the end of this video, Rachel shows in a live demo how to do parts mapping to help clients understand their parts and bring compassion to their most vulnerable ego-states.
Topics Discussed in this Video:
0:00 - Introduction
02:27 - Why we need Parts Work Integration with EMDR Therapy
04:27 - The Adaptive Information Processing system and attachment theory
10:07 - Structural Dissociation
16:50 - Psychosis and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) explained as dysregulation disorders
21:39 - Parts Mapping explained
23:28 - Parts Mapping demo
Rachel Walker is a Licensed trauma-informed psychotherapist and EMDRIA Approved (EMDR) Consultant with a full-time private practice in Oakland, CA. Rachel is passionate about integrative approaches to treating trauma and provides professional training and consultation in this approach. She is the creator of 'At The Crossroads of Trauma Therapy', a 5-day intensive training designed to help therapists master integrative approaches to treating trauma. She's also the author of the books, Trauma Recovery Guidebook for Therapists and Trauma Recovery Handbook for Survivors (available in English and Spanish) as well as the founder of TraumaRecoveryStore.com, an online resource for mental health professionals and survivors. Where trauma is concerned, Rachel understands how well an integrative approach can affect symptoms across a wide spectrum of trauma-related suffering. Through this way of working, many more people are being helped, which is enormously heartening!
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[@heatherdunlap8022]

Rachel Walker is such a gift to the healing community. I just went to her training in Denver and it was amazing. She has a fun sense of humor and is very warm. If you get a chance to take her trainings it will be well worth your time.

[@IntuitiveCoachTheresa]

You are describing polyvagal theory. It's amazing how ask these modalities are now coalescing into the poly vagal and IFS contextual understanding of human body soul and spirit reality! I love how you use stages in the work, I agree, that is important. Most of my highly traumatized clients aren't ready to go right into parts work off the bat.

[@lukaj679]

This has been really helpful with trying to formulate and explain therapy goals I have to my own therapist. She's trauma informed but isn't well versed with this perspective.

[@sxfnlc]

She is very smart and understands disassociation.

[@emdartnscience]

She does!

[@Legitimate123]

This was great - very helpful and also helpful to ask the recommended training and books for further learning.

[@AndreaBussinger81]

I've been using Parts Work for about a year now. It's truly so helpful and I'm so glad to see more trainings are being done. Thank you!

[@xorqwerty8276]

This is so good!!

[@wonkajr9402]

when i dissociate i feel like two sides of me are fighting the angery logical side that denys the trauma and the traumatized which usually leads to self mutilation. would this be what structual dissociation feels like, because i have been trying to find a name for years. its not DID thought its not atlers just two sides of me

[@kevinbissinger]

Cognitive dissonance is the word you're looking for

[@aivlysewth]

Where do we get this chart?

[@M.Shepardbee]

I do have a locked jaw sometimes lol.

[@TheLaureea]

it is insensitive saying few times: it is delicious .. to me her expression is disgusting. I know she doesn't mean bad. but she needs to be careful with choice of words when u talk about topics that are not delicious but difficult for people who watch these videos. especially if she consider herself as this is my job, demanding her to be even far more considerate of the effect of her choice of words.

[@Legitimate123]

Is your reaction about her words, or you?

[@TheLaureea]

@@Legitimate123 the choice of language is a sign of how we perceive people. I wanted to elaborate more but saw my initial comment had it all

[@Legitimate123]

@@TheLaureea I can appreciate that 'delicious' is an unusual word choice, however isn't referring to her expression as 'disgusting' also a sign of how you perceive people? I heard her use of 'delicious' as similar to satisfying, in that it is a satisfying and good way to do work that may otherwise be unbearable. So when I read your comment I was a bit shocked. I did read that you acknowledged her intention wasn't bad, but yeah. Any word is a potential trigger word for survivors of abuse and neglect, so I don't entirely agree that it is somehow her fault if you or others find that word uncomfortable. Thoughts?

[@TheLaureea]

@@Legitimate123 let’s put it this way: I picked up her language and find it disgusting because I know what it means to call people difficult experiences (which we all have at different points of life) delicious. And you didn’t pick it up because you didn’t have the empathy but were in another mode of just receiving something you find useful for your work without thinking those people are like you and any of your loved ones and the experience you will have at different points of your life.

[@Legitimate123]

@@TheLaureea I agree that I was in that mode, however I also understood what she meant differently. I heard it as the parts work is delicious, not the difficult experiences themselves that the parts hold. Like how witnessing the burdens held by a child part through a secure adult part/self is satisfying (and yes, painful still, but tolerable because it isn't re-living it through the child part holding that memory). That forming connections and relationships with parts that were previously disconnected is satisfying. I don't think she meant to say that re-living traumatic memories like in a flashback is 'delicious'.