Navigating Self-Disclosure in EMDR Therapy
Dr Jamie Marich with special guest Mark Brayne – Hosted by Liam Spicer
Monday 24th Feb 8am – 1pm AEDT
In this 5-hour workshop on Navigating Self-Disclosure in EMDR Therapy we are joined by two of the brightest minds in EMDR Therapy, Jamie Marich and special guest Mark Brayne to discuss and talk about the intricate and important topic of navigating self-disclosure in EMDR therapy. As therapists we may often ask ourselves questions such as:
- How much do I tell my clients about myself – my own journey, identity, my struggles perhaps
- Where might the line be drawn around the therapeutic benefit in sharing of myself in clinical and larger work settings?
- What issues must I consider if I feel called to be candid about my own struggles in individual therapy, in workshops, out there in public (social media, blogging, videos, speaking, advocacy…)?
These are questions that many human services professionals face as we navigate the critical balance between vulnerability, necessary boundaries, being with our clients in their struggles, all the while keeping ourselves safe and connected.
There’ll be many ethical issues to be addressed in these five hours together, and in this highly interactive workshop, we’ll focus particularly on how we can bring our own authenticity to bear on both individual therapy and the wider understanding of EMDR among our peers and in society.
Jamie is “out” as dissociative, in recovery and bi-sexual. Mark is “out” as autistic (and journalist in recovery perhaps), and Liam who will be hosting the training and talking about self-disclosure in an Aus context who is also open about being an Autistic ADHDer.
In this training we will:
- Summarise what peer-reviewed literature and ethical frameworks says about self-disclosure
- Consider how to make decisions around self-disclosure in our clinical settings bearing in mind also the codes and guidance of our accrediting bodies and communities.
- Identify our own intra- and inter-personal blocks to engaging in appropriate self-disclosure, both clinically and in public spaces.
- Think about personal challenges for maintaining ethical boundaries while also emerging, or further developing, as a clinician-advocate.
- Explore how actual practice and experience – especially our own – complements what formal guidelines there are in Australia and beyond.
Please note due to the nature of this training it will not be recorded or available for purchase afterwards to create a sense of comfort and openness throughout for all attendees. An amazing opportunity to learn with colleagues on an important topic of clinical practice.
About the presenters:
Dr. Jamie Marich
Dr. Jamie Marich(she/they/we) began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music.
Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Akron, OH.
Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. She’s author of
- EMDR Made Simple: Four Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011);
- Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012); Creative Mindfulness (2013);
- Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors;
- Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and
- Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019).
Jamie co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care along with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger in 2018. Their new book with Springer Publishing, Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide was released in 2021.
North Atlantic Books published a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps in the Summer of 2020, and in 2022 they released The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery in 2022.
Jamie’s latest release with North Atlantic Book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life came out in January 2023.
She has three more projects in the works with North Atlantic Books, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God, due out in Autumn 2024.
NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate.
The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) granted Jamie the 2019 Advocacy in EMDR Award for her using her public platform in media and in the addiction field to advance awareness about EMDR therapy and to reduce stigma around mental health.
The Huffington Post published her personal story of being out as a clinical professional with a dissociative disorder in May 2023.
Mark Brayne
Mark Brayne is an EMDR Europe Accredited and EMDRIA-approved Consultant and workshop leader, specialising in transpersonal, integrative EMDR with a particular focus on early life attachment and formative experience. He was for 30 years international correspondent and senior editor for the Reuters news agency and the BBC World Service, with Cold War postings in Moscow, Berlin, Central Europe, China and London. He was in Beijing for the epochal demonstrations on Tiananmen Square in 1989, and in Romania for the violent fall of the Ceausescu regime at Christmas the same year. Mark gained his Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychotherapy in 2000, and as Founding Director of the Dart Centre Europe for Journalism and Trauma was from 2004-2008 a Board member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS). For the past 25 years, Mark has contributed workshops and keynote addresses to conferences including the ISTSS and ESTSS, the BACP, the EMDR Association UK and the Parnell Institute US. Supported by his EMDR Consultant partner Jutta Brayne, he offers workshops in practical, advanced EMDR with trainees from across the English-speaking world from the USA to Australia and New Zealand. First married in 1977 and then divorcing in 2001, Mark and Jutta re-married in 2013. They have three grown-up children, and post-pandemic exclusively work online from their hometown of Sheringham on the UK’s North Sea Coast.
Liam Spicer
Liam Spicer is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Psychologist, EMDR Consultant and Accredited Schema Therapist based in Lutruwita. Liam is an Autistic ADHDer himself, and is passionate about training, research, and collaboration with other neurodivergent individuals in the Neurodiversity Affirming Space. Liam is actively involved in both training and research in the areas of trauma, grief, neurodivergence, EMDR, and Schema Therapy, delivering workshops across Australia and online to various mental health professionals.
Liam has presented at both International and National conferences including the International Society for Schema Therapy Conference in Europe, the EMDR Asia Conference, two years consecutively at the EMDR Australia Conference, and the Australasian ADHD Professionals Network Conference.
Liam has been a contributor to the Routledge International Handbook of Child and Adolescent Grief and has published in top academic journals such as Frontiers in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Research. Liam’s current PHD at Curtin University, Perth is focused on the use of Schema Therapy for Prolonged Grief, where he has published in the ISST bulletin on this topic.
Liam’s current PhD is focused on the use of Schema Therapy for Prolonged grief, and he has published journal articles and book chapters on grief in addition to presenting at national and international conferences. His interest in this area is derived from both professional and personal lived experience of loss.