Ready-to-use resources to help your clients ground, regulate and build coping skills.
This EMDR resourcing toolkit from the Manhattan Center for Trauma Studies brings together scripts, psychoeducational visuals and client handouts. Each one is designed specifically for trauma therapists and made to fit easily into your sessions.
What's inside
Scripts for resourcing techniques that broaden your client's coping repertoire.
Visuals that help clients better understand trauma responses.
Handouts that help clients manage symptoms of dysregulation.
The basics
Resourcing is the work done during Phase 2 of EMDR therapy, the preparation phase, to build coping skills and strategies that help clients tolerate and manage difficult emotions or memories. It draws on resources a client already has and helps develop new ones.
EMDRIA's examples include guided imagery, mindfulness, deep breathing and the safe or calm place exercise. Clients can use these resources both during and outside sessions. Read EMDRIA's definition.
Who we are
The Manhattan Center for Trauma Studies was founded by Pria Alpern, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and EMDRIA-approved consultant. Dr. Alpern is an EMDR clinician certified by EMDRIA and an Advanced-level Somatic Experiencing practitioner. She oversees the Center's continuing education trainings, which focus on EMDR and trauma-informed psychotherapy.
The Center is an EMDRIA CE Provider (#22025).
Common questions
Resourcing is the work done during Phase 2 of EMDR therapy, the preparation phase, to build coping skills and strategies that help clients tolerate and manage difficult emotions or memories. It draws on resources a client already has and helps develop new ones.
It's designed specifically for trauma therapists. You can use it in EMDR or across your wider trauma therapy practice.
The toolkit is $19. It's a digital download, available through the MCTS learning site.
No. It's a set of practice resources. For a live or on-demand course, see our EMDR and trauma training programs.
Download the toolkit, or go deeper with Somatic Resourcing in EMDR, a two-hour on-demand training with CE credits available.
