EP 37: Empowered to Heal Through Proactive, Personalized Trauma Treatment with EMDR Clinician and Author Megan Salar

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In this insightful episode MDR Clinician, Trainer and Author Megan Salar shares:

• Her story that led her to become a therapist,
• The transformative experience she had with EMDR that helped her see it’s value as a trauma modality,
• How EMDR is a client centered treatment modality,
• The EMDR workbook that she developed to empower people to take ownership of their trauma healing,
• That most therapist are not educated in treating trauma,
• Misconceptions about how trauma is stored in our mind and body and how it is often triggered,
• The difference between “talk therapy” versus trauma therapy,
• How to identify if your EMDR therapist is approaching treatment in an effective way and how to decide if EMDR is a good treatment modality for you,
• Why she’s writing “EMDR for Dummies” and it’s value in helping people understand the modality, and
• That your story matters and healing takes time.

Instagram: @thementalsurvivalist

Website: thementalsurvivalist.com

Books: The EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD

EMDR for Dummies (coming in June 2024)

LinkedIn: Megan Salar

Bio:

Megan Salar, MSW, ACADC, is an EMDR Clinician, Trainer and Author who earned her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from Northwest Nazarene University in 2011. She has been extensively been trained on the use of EMDR and other trauma based interventions and specializes in the areas of trauma, abuse, attachment and substance abuse. Megan has trained thousands of clinicians across the U.S. as well as internationally to get the most out of EMDR, trauma and addiction based skills and practices.

Megan previously owned/operated an intensive outpatient treatment center that was voted best in practice in 2019. She currently owns and operates her own Coaching, Consulting, and Training Business and is passionate about genuinely changing the landscape of mental health and trauma treatment through an authentic hands on perspective that is uniquely her own.

Megan is the author of the EMDR Workbook for Trauma and PTSD: Skills to Manage Triggers, Move Beyond Traumatic Memories; and Take Back Your Life released by New Harbinger Publications in May of 2023 and EMDR for Dummies with Wiley Publishing set to release in June 2024.

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