Blocking Beliefs Training
When memory reprocessing is blocked by a protective part
EMDR processing is moving forward. Then suddenly, everything stops. The client can't move past a certain memory, and nothing seems to be shifting. Sound familiar?
When working with complex trauma and dissociation, protective parts can interrupt processing in an effort to keep the client's internal system safe. But how do you work with those parts without pushing past them?
In this advanced webinar, Paula Merucci explores practical strategies for navigating blocking beliefs and protective parts, including resourcing, the Two-Hand Interweave, and unblending techniques.
Learn what to do when EMDR gets stuck, and how to help the work move forward while respecting the client's protective system.
UPCOMING DATES
Monday, Dec 7, 2026
11:00AM- 6:00PM ET | $200
Join Paula Merucci for this advanced 7-hour webinar designed specifically for EMDR-trained clinicians who encounter processing challenges due to protective self-states. This training will equip you with practical skills to navigate and resolve stuck points that may arise during EMDR sessions, particularly when working with clients who experience complex PTSD (cPTSD) and dissociation.
This webinar covers all EMDR phases, with a focus on History-Taking, Preparation, Assessment, and Desensitization, while incorporating blocking belief modifications. Paula will guide you through a deeper understanding of key concepts and strategies for overcoming memory reconsolidation interruptions.
Friday, April 23, 2027
11:00AM- 6:00PM ET | $220
Join Paula Merucci for this advanced 7-hour webinar designed specifically for EMDR-trained clinicians who encounter processing challenges due to protective self-states. This training will equip you with practical skills to navigate and resolve stuck points that may arise during EMDR sessions, particularly when working with clients who experience complex PTSD (cPTSD) and dissociation.
This webinar covers all EMDR phases, with a focus on History-Taking, Preparation, Assessment, and Desensitization, while incorporating blocking belief modifications. Paula will guide you through a deeper understanding of key concepts and strategies for overcoming memory reconsolidation interruptions.
Friday, July 30, 2027
11:00AM- 6:00PM ET | $220
Join Paula Merucci for this advanced 7-hour webinar designed specifically for EMDR-trained clinicians who encounter processing challenges due to protective self-states. This training will equip you with practical skills to navigate and resolve stuck points that may arise during EMDR sessions, particularly when working with clients who experience complex PTSD (cPTSD) and dissociation.
This webinar covers all EMDR phases, with a focus on History-Taking, Preparation, Assessment, and Desensitization, while incorporating blocking belief modifications. Paula will guide you through a deeper understanding of key concepts and strategies for overcoming memory reconsolidation interruptions.
Identify What's Keeping EMDR Processing Stuck: Understand how blocking beliefs, protective parts, and dissociation can interrupt reprocessing, particularly with complex PTSD, and recognize when your approach needs to change.
Understand What's Happening Beneath the Surface: Explore the AIP model, Polyvagal Theory, and the neurobiology of trauma to better understand why protective parts intervene and how nervous system responses affect memory processing.
Work With Protectors Instead of Pushing Past Them: Learn how to approach protective self-states with respect, address blocking beliefs, and help create the conditions for processing to continue.
Get Hands-On With Practical Interventions: Explore the Inside Out Resourcing Wheel, the Two-Hand Interweave, and unblending techniques, including two group practicums focused on front-loading resources and unblending parts.
Know What to Do When Processing Stalls: Explore modifications across the EMDR phases, particularly History-Taking, Preparation, Assessment, and Desensitization, while learning how memory reconsolidation and Bruce Ecker's three steps toward transformational change inform the work.
What you'll learn
Training details
Instructor: Paula P. Merucci, LCSW, CADC
Format: Live Virtual Training via Zoom
Continuing Education: 6 CEUs
Prerequisite: Completion of EMDR Basic Training