In response to dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the region, Thomas Zimmerman has volunteered to provide a training that will be interpreted simultaneously in Arabic language on October 19, 2023 at 7pm Gaza time. Below is information on the training and information on the Four Blinks Technique and its founder, Thomas Zimmerman, MsEd, LPCC.
Who is Thomas Zimmerman, MsEd, LPCC?
Thomas is a highly trained and experienced trauma therapist who has worked with hundreds of severely traumatized clients and is familiar with the wide range of ways that trauma may express. He specializes in attachment wounding and working through problems with resourcing with severely complex trauma. Much of his work is organized around the central “Dip Your Toe In” approach in all phases of working with complex trauma.
Thomas was trained in EMDR therapy by the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and provides consultation to EMDR therapists across the country. He has received advanced trainings and provides consultation in the following topics: dissociation, working with ego states, working with clients at the intersection of trauma and severe and persistent mental illness, working effectively with attachment wounding, and working with high-risk clients.
Thomas maintains the popular EMDR therapy blog for therapists: GoWithThat.wordpress.com and administers the largest global group of EMDR therapists on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EMDRResources/. Thomas also produces a podcast for EMDR therapists that focuses on solutions to the difficulties of working with complex trauma using EMDR therapy: http://EmdrPodcast.com. Thomas maintains comprehensive resources on Flash therapy approaches at: http://FourBlinks.com.
Thomas was trained in EMDR therapy by the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and provides consultation to EMDR therapists across the country. He has received advanced trainings and provides consultation in the following topics: dissociation, working with ego states, working with clients at the intersection of trauma and severe and persistent mental illness, working effectively with attachment wounding, and working with high-risk clients.
Thomas maintains the popular EMDR therapy blog for therapists: GoWithThat.wordpress.com and administers the largest global group of EMDR therapists on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EMDRResources/. Thomas also produces a podcast for EMDR therapists that focuses on solutions to the difficulties of working with complex trauma using EMDR therapy: http://EmdrPodcast.com. Thomas maintains comprehensive resources on Flash therapy approaches at: http://FourBlinks.com.
What is the Four Blinks Technique?
This version of Flash moves individual difficult memories from traumatic memory storage into more normal memory storage by lightly activating a microslice of traumatic memory at a time, immediately containering each microslice, quickly transitioning to a disconfirming/calm scene for about 30 seconds at a time, and disrupting that 30-second calm scene using a series of rapid eye blinks every five seconds. The blinks while in the calm scene split the 30-second exposure to the calm scene into six individual five-second exposures. The large number of exposures to the calm scene appear to fully or partially reprocess each microslice of the memory as it sits out of direct awareness. This process allows complex clients with very little adaptive information, very few resources, and a tiny window of tolerance to resolve extremely painful memories with remarkably little distress and with minimal risk of decompensation.
