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Training Description: In the three decades of EMDR’s history, there has been an unfolding of awareness that the standard protocol of EMDR must be modified for safe and effective use with complex trauma and dissociation.There have been a number of modifications suggested to accomplish that end, involving the integration of several therapeutic approaches as needed.The challenge for clinicians is how, and by what decision process,these other methods might be integrated with fidelity to adaptive information processing theory and therapy, while maximizing safety for complex trauma survivors.The N.E.S.T. approach guides the process of assessment, case formulation and treatment planning for time efficient treatment.The acronym stands for Neuroaffective Embodied Self Therapy. “N”stands for Neuroaffective, referring to leading edge applications from neuroscience, including innovations such as resetting the Pankseppian affective circuits and shame, cranial electrical stimulation, interruptive neurofeedback,and more.These methods have in common that they tend to “shake the box,” inviting the brain to interrupt its deeply engrained neural pathway habits and try a new strategy, the hallmark of plasticity and transformation.“E”stands for Embodiment using somatic therapeutic maneuvers to help clients drop into the felt sense of their bodily sensations.“S”stands for Self-System enlistment and deconflictualizing through egostate work,in the tradition of Watkins and Watkins, and Watkins & Paulsen.“T”stands forTherapies, all of which are integrated within the eight phases of EMDR Therapy and Adaptive Information Processing theory.Although not a cookie cutter because of the unique nature of each complex case,the N.E.S.T.approach goes a considerable distance to systematizing the process.