EMDR – A Comprehensive, Integrative Psychotherapy Approach

Barbara is a Level II EMDR practioner who has employed this protocol since 1993.

What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful method of psychotherapy.  EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches.

What kind of problems can EMDR treat?
Scientific research has established EMDR as effective for post traumatic stress. Clinicians also use EMDR in the treatment of:

• panic attacks
• complicated grief reactions
• dissociative disorders
• phobias
• performance anxiety
• sexual and/or physical abuse

How Long Does it Take?
One or more sessions are required for the therapist to understand the nature of the problem and to decide whether EMDR is the appropriate treatment.  A typical EMDR session lasts from 60 to 90 minutes.  The type of porblem, life circumstances, and the amount of previous trauma will determine how many sessions are necessary.  EMDR may be used within a standard “talking” therapy, as an adjunctive therapy with a separate therapist, or as a treatment by itself.

For more information:  www.EMDRIA.org

Wikipedia: EMDR

Moving Toward Wholeness

Barbara is involved with the Journey Conferences which are retreats that focus on the dialogue between the psychology of Carl Jung & spiritual experiences.  This year’s conference is being held in Brown Summit, a community just outside Greensboro, NC and is called Moving Toward Wholeness.

The pre-conference event will be held October 14, 2009 and the conference will be October 15-18, 2009.

The conference website is www.journeyconferences.com or you can contact the Registrar, Tom Lane, at 336-545-1200 during normal business hours EST.  The information below comes from the Journey Conferences site:

These conferences going forward, are intended to serve the ongoing (and necessary) evolution not only of those whose growth has been already deeply enlivened by the work of C. G. Jung, but also those new to it — Christians and all people of faith along with those who find faith hard to come by.

In our coming together around lectures, workshops, dialogue groups, solitude in art and nature, and special events, we seek to experience that truth and grace whereby each individual can have “the freedom to grow” in order to become his or her true self — “the fulfillment of the seed … planted in … [one at one's] … making.” [George Appleton]

Some of the featured presenters are listed below, the asterisk indicates Jungian analysts:

• Rev. John L. Martin, D. Min. and Carolyn Martin, M.R.E. – The Language of the Soul
• Rev. J. Pittman McGehee, D.D.* – The Invisible Church & Finding Spirituality Where You Are and The Hero’s Journey
• Tess Castleman* – The Tribal Dream:  How Dreams & Synchronicities Present Evidence of a Communal Unconscious
• Barry Williams, M.Div., PsD* – In the Symbol the World Itself is Speaking: Earth and Psyche in Balance & Group Dreamwork; Group Dreamwork
• The Rev. Don M. Wardlaw, PhD. – Feeding on the Depths:  Nourishing Your Congregation on Fillet of Soul and Spelunking the Shadow:  Discovering Power Alongside Fear…in the Dark
• Adele Tyler, M.S.S. – Understanding Psychological Type(s):  Through the Looking Glass of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Dorothy Campbell B.Sc.N., M.P.N.* – Mandala:  A Tool for Inner Work
• Gregory Scott Sparrow, Ed.D., LPC, LMFT – A Peace You’ve Never Known:  ThePractice of Middle-of-the-Night Meditation as a Means of Grace
• Marlia Yokota, PhD.* – Experiencing the Multi-Dimensionality of Time
• Lee Lawrence – Awakening the Divine — Jung and Kundalini
• Jeanne M. Schul – Dancing the Chakras
• Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW – The Mysticism of Kabbalah:  The Connection to Jung and a Kabbalistic/Jungian Framework for Dreamwork
• Donnamarie Flanagan, LCSW* – Longing and the Transcendent Function
• Dr. Robert A. Keller, Ph.D. – Participating in the Great Process of Being
• Randy Siegel – Stand in Your Power! Become the Full Expression of All You Are

Check out the additional information on the Journey Conferences website and we hope to see you there!

Guided Imagery

Barbara Farran conducts Guided Imagery sessions for individuals and groups.  An informal group participates in Guided Imagery on a monthly basis.  If you would like to be on the mailing list for the The Guided Imagery meeting notifications, please add your name and email here: