Online Group EMDR + Mindfulness Self Compassion for Healthcare Practitioners – 4 September

Learning Outcomes
• Understand how our nervous systems deal with direct or indirect exposure to critical incidents.
• Understand what Vicarious Trauma and Moral Injury is and why anyone, in any position in the helping professions experience this.
• Understand how EMDR works in general, and the benefits of doing it in a group.
• Experience the G-TEP and G-REP for yourself and notice powerful shifts in your own thoughts and behaviour over a period of time.
• Learn practical methods of mindfulness, self-regulation and self-compassion.

This workshop is ideal for professionals who work in helping professions of any kind, including:
• Doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists
• Nurses and community mental health nurses
• Case workers and social workers
• Counsellors and school counsellors
• Teachers and school leadership teams
• Youth workers
• Corrections and youth justice workers
• Dispatch and call centre operators
• Administrative and reception staff who are exposed to dysregulated clients or type reports pertaining to trauma and suffering of others

Wilmé grew up in South Africa. The first 30 years of her career she was a medical practitioner. She was drawn to patients’ emotional experience of their physical condition or treatments thereof from early on and decided to study Clinical Psychology. She came to NZ 8 years ago and is working full time as psychologist in her private practice in Hamilton or doing presentations or facilitating groups. She regards herself as a neuronerd and loves learning about human behaviour.
Her skills include Somatic Experiencing; EMDR (especially Attachment and Internal family Systems Informed-EMDR); group EMDR (ASAP, G-TEP, R-TEP, G-REP); ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy); Developmental Model Couples therapy. And has obtained her training from numerous different countries in the world. She also loves sharing knowledge through presenting talks and workshops.

She has authored book chapters, numerous magazine articles, co-authored research articles.

Outside of work she loves making and enjoying music, spending time with her people, reading and spending time in nature.