Group EMDR Protocols – With Kelly Smyth-Dent Scaling Up EMDR
OVERVIEW
What This Vlog Is About
Scaling up EMDR was founded by Kelly Smyth-Dent to support communities in need around the world. In addition to providing humanitarian work through EMDR, Scaling Up also provides courses for EMDR therapists. One of their specialties is helping EMDR therapists learn how to transition from the traditional 50-minute EMDR session to EMDR intensives. In this video Kelly explains how to use early interventions including the use of the ASSYST EMDR protocol, the PERCI EMDR protocol and IGTP EMDR protocol.
Learn about Scaling Up EMDR
- What is Scaling Up EMDR?
- The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization Procedure (ASSYST)
- The Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and Ongoing Traumatic Stress (PRECI)
- The Integrated Group Treatment Protocol (IGTP)
- Dr. Ignacio Jarero's work with frontline workers
- The origin of the Butterfly Hug
- Humanitarian EMDR by Scaling Up
- How to use EMDR in a group setting
- Dr. Ignacio Jarero's EMDR research
- EMDR trainings offered by Scaling Up EMDR
SPEAKER
About The Speaker

Kelly Smyth-Dent
Kelly Smyth-Dent is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the Founder of Scaling Up. She conducts advanced trainings for mental health therapists both online and around the globe. She is a published researcher and a field worker. Kelly has partnered with various organizations around the globe to provide EMDR therapy to humanitarian workers and their clients. When she is not working or traveling, she like to hike, ski and bike in the Sierra Mountains outside of her home in Reno, Nevada.
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