Paulsen Integrative Psychology

08/22/2025

My clinical books authored/coauthored include:

Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation (ego state therapy);

When There Are No Words (early/preverbal trauma);

Toward an Embodied Self (scholarly);

All the Colors of Me (dissociation for kids),

We’re Listening Body (integrates ego state, somatic and EMDR),

Healers, Psychotherapy and the Drum (indigenous trauma);

Beauty and Burden of Autism (one version in color and another black and white).

08/18/2025

Last month I shared with you all about my travels and EMDR workshop in Turkiye. On the way back, I stopped in Spetses, Greece. Here is my latest travelogue with highlights of my experiences there!
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You can find my books and publications here: https://www.paulsenpsychology.com/publications-cv
Take my online, on-demand EMDR workshops via The Steve Frankel Group, LLC. : https://sfrankelgroup.com/advanced.../sandra-paulsen-phd
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Sandra Paulsen

08/11/2025

In today's travelogue, learn about the history of EMDR in Turkiye, the contents of my 2-day workshop there, and the wonderful attendees! It was an exciting event - thank you again to my wonderful hosts and everyone who was able to make it!
Mentioned in the travelogue:
+ Learn more about EMDR in Turkiye: spj.science.org/doi/10.1891/1933-3196.9.2.106
+ My book "Looking through the Eyes": https://www.paulsenpsychology.com/publications-cv
+ On-Demand NEST Courses, via The Steve Frankel Group, LLC.: https://portal.sfrankelgroup.com/pages/nest-series
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Sandra Paulsen

08/09/2025

What fun this was! More travelogue coming from me soon

07/31/2025

I’ll have travelogues soon to capture the essence of these trips I’m taking to Turkey to do a workshop and Greece and the psychology of these beautiful places. Watch this space!

07/31/2025

I've been in Turkiye the last few days to give my 2-day workshop "Looking through the eyes: EMDR and ego-state therapy across the dissociative continuum".
Curious about my experience in the country so far? Read about it here!
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07/17/2025

For those whose training didn’t prepare them to know HOW to cite sources ethically and avoid plagiarism, consider this concise summary.

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07/17/2025

Courage to speak truth. He should find allies among trauma professionals. Worth a read.

Why Commissioner Makary's FDA expert panel could change everything - July 21st Livestream

07/17/2025

I will be in Turkiye the last week of July teaching the course:
“Looking through the Eyes: EMDR and Ego-State Therapy Across the Dissociative Continuum”

Can’t make it? Check out my on-demand courses and published works to learn all about ego-state therapy and emdr.

On Demand Courses:
https://www.sfrankelgroup.com/advanced-emdr-training-trauma/sandra-paulsen-phd/

Book:
https://www.paulsenpsychology.com/publications-cv

07/16/2025

The Early Trauma Protocol was originated by Katie O’Shea, expanded in collaboration between O’Shea and Paulsen, published by Paulsen. Anyone purporting to teach it isn’t doing so with my permission. My agreement with Katie that no one else would teach it but us because I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours - maybe thousands - developing PowerPoints, handouts, forms, the book, many chapters for another book. Lots of years with no vacation and few weekends. And people just take it and teach it or tweak a little something and call it theirs.

The NEST approach was developed by me to systematically integrate EMDR, somatic and ego state therapies and affect regulation strategies and the early trauma approach for complex cases. Anyone teaching using the NEST acronym and metaphor is not doing so with my permission. This is my intellectual property. N is for Neuroaffective, E is for Embodiment through somatic work, S is for self system enlistment through ego state therapy, and T is for the eight phases of EMDR and Temporal Integration (Early Trauma approach).

I can’t believe our field is such that I have to keep after people to cease and desist all the time. Some are stealing overtly, and some have source amnesia (don’t know where they got it) and some don’t know how to cite sources ethically and in a scholarly fashion. Source amnesia is understandable, the other two aren’t even a little okay.

On to teach in Izmir, Turkey! Then a week in Greece.

07/15/2025

Less than 2 weeks until I am in Turkiye presenting! I look forward to sharing notes on the trip.

From July 27-28 I will be presenting a workshop, "Looking through the Eyes: EMDR and Ego-State Therapy Across the Dissociative Continuum" in Turkiye.

Interested? Contact Zeynep at ozmeydanzeynep@gmail.com

Program Details:
Dissociative clients present unique challenges for EMDR practitioners, who may learn the hard way that the standard protocol is not safe for complex cases, including previously undiagnosed DID. Ego state methods can resolve internal conflicts, increase affect and soma tolerance, enable stabilization and containment, and offer essential interweaves for stuck complex EMDR processing.

This workshop reviews specific ego state techniques and how they may be used in EMDR phases including history, preparation, target selection, desensitization and more. Participants will learn to conduct fractionated EMDR processing for DID clients. Loyalty to the aggressor can stop the “EMDR train” from going down the tracks, so the workshop will address how to work with perpetrator introjects, which are typically the locus of this blockage. The workshop also addresses conference room (Frasier’s dissociative table) technique, and 2) headaches that emerge before, during or after a session. Attendees will learn to: orient and appreciate parts, mediate internal conflicts, hear the story as it emerges in the enactments in the relationship field, and more. Finally, this workshop includes case material addressing OCD in DID clients with child ego states as the locus of the trauma.