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Relational EMDR

I’m pleased once again to offer my EMDR International Association Approved Basic Training Course in EMDR. The course will be held in a hotel in Nassau or Suffolk County.

Part One will be March 2 – March 4th
Part Two will be: April 27 – April 29th

My training has a greater emphasis on:

EMDR and the Therapeutic Relationship through all 8 phases of EMDR Psychotherapy; I teach the Dissociative Experience Scale; teach more in depth about treating clients with dissociative disorders; and demonstrate the links between trauma and dissociation; and I spend a good amount of time preparing the participants to make clinical decisions about who needs more EMDR preparation time, and who can quickly enter the reprocessing phases (which is what EMDR is known for).

I also teach how to make EMDR a much more gentle approach to people with complex PTSD; and how to help those clients who have “traumas” that may not reach the level of PTSD, but may present with symptoms of anxiety, depression substance abuse, and many other problems.

Fees Before midnight December 31st 2011 — $!350
Fees Beginning January 1st 2012 $1500

Fees include all workshop materials for Parts One and Two; a continental breakfast, and an afternoon snack.

Please go to:

emdr-web.org (my training website for further details.)

Best Wishes,

Mark Dworkin LCSW, P.C.
2010 Recipient of the Francine Shapiro Award

If we are to truly honor the brave men and women who serve or served in our Armed Forces, it’s time to do more than put out a flag today.

No matter what political affiliation you may have, understand that no party in power has given the proper care to “Those who have borne the battle.” Do you know that this is the motto of the Veterans Administration? Whether it be a VA Medical Center, or a Military Hospital let’s demand that our government give the children they have sent into harm’s way the help and care they deserve!

As I have said on Twitter I would be starting blogs that some may find offensive. I strongly believe in First Amendment Rights, specifically the right to religious freedom. I believe that the great majority of members of the Muslim faith are good law abiding citizens. However I do not know of any other faith that sends their children to their death with the promise of great rewards in heaven after their death.

And I do not know of other religious groups who have planted their “sleepers” on American soil to learn how to fly a plane into buildings to murder innocent Americans. We will soon come up to the 10th anniversary of one of the greatest acts of terrorism perpetrated on American soil.

To allow a “Community Center” that has a Mosque within its walls so close to a center where thousands of innocent Americans were murdered is madness. While it is certainly legal, it is indecent. The leaders of this center may be welling meaning human beings. However how can we be absolutely sure that there are no “sleeper agents” who are surveilling this area and marking it for further acts of terrorism?

Yes I know the first argument against my position will be that there could be many ways sleeper agents could have access to this area, or any area that may be targeted for future acts of terroism. This is a legitimate argument. However I once worked as a waiter in a Jewish sleep away camp. I asked the head of the kitchen why we couldn’t have milk with our meat? While her answer answer might not satisfy a Rabbi’s argument, hers was common wisdom. She said, “It’s bad enough that we kill the animal; should we make things even more worse by drinking it’s milk while we eat its flesh?”

There is nothing wrong with Muslims practicing their faith, but do we have to put up with their practice blocks away from from where their brethren wounded our nation so deeply?

(I’ve kept Robyn from being a part of writing this article; this is my view alone and I take responsibility for its contents). These blogs will also appear on www.markdworkin.com soon.

American who still suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder would be well advised to seek help from an EMDR clinician who is at least “Therapist Certified in EMDR” by the EMDR International Association (of which I have been a founding member; former board member and currently an Instructor of the Basic Training in EMDR Psychotherapy).

Let’s find reasonable solutions to difficult problems. I encourage those with other opinons to voice them.  My opinion is let’s not make things worse than they are. What’s your opinion?

Mickey Mantle, Humphrey Bogart, Jerry Garcia, Golda Meir.  These are people who’ve inspired me tremendously.  Who has inspired you?

•           How far along in a pregnancy should it be too late to have an abortion?
•          At what point should a fertilized egg be considered a human being – at conception, later in the pregnancy, or at birth?
•          Should a man have any say in a woman’s decision to abort or continue with the pregnancy?  What about if they’re married? And what about if they’re not married? 
•          For those who are against abortion, does this include pregnancies caused by rape or incest?
•          When health is a big concern in the pregnancy (i.e. either the mother’s health is in danger if she continues, or the baby would be born with major health problems), is abortion acceptable?