$50 Registration with access to recording for 60 days
$75 with 3 CE Credits for live Zoom attendance
$75 with 1 month Private Group Consultation
$100 with 3 CE Credits & 1 month Private Group Consultation
This three-hour webinar will help Flash-trained therapists to incorporate Flash into their Couples and Family Therapy sessions. For those therapists not yet trained in Flash, this is your chance to learn about this exciting new technique.
This seminar will be helpful both to those who have taken Manfield and Engel's 6-hour Introduction to the Flash Technique and the Advanced Courses (see Flashtechnique.com) and is also relevant for therapists who are curious about Flash but have not yet been trained in this new therapeutic technique.
FLASH Technique Webinar
In Couples and Family Therapy, we usually deal with disturbing incidents experienced in the relationship, and often uncover earlier interpersonal traumas that may get triggered by current relationship dynamics.
Recent research into therapy outcomes in trauma and PTSD shows promising results from including partners and family members into therapy. However, the current treatment paradigm for trauma-focused therapies assumes that conscious exposure to the memory, even if titrated in small doses, is necessary. While effective in some cases, such exposure therapy can be distressing, which creates problems with treatment acceptance and has potential for re-traumatization. Recent large-scale data from electronic medical records research from over 265,000 PTSD-diagnosed veterans (Maguen et al, 2023) has shown only modest symptom improvement from current exposure-based trauma-informed therapies, and they found these therapies were completed by only 10% of veterans eligible.
Recent research and clinical data point to a New Paradigm: healing with minimal exposure using Manfield's Flash Technique (FT). FT has been found to be effective, rapid, and has been found to be preferred by clients over exposure-based trauma therapies. Over 13,000 trauma-informed therapists have been trained in FT over the past 6 years, with 12 peer-reviewed articles describing rapid and effective healing from disturbing memories and fear, and more are underway.
Celeste and David have extensive backgrounds in couples and family therapy, and each has trained in and utilized FT from its very beginning six years ago. They have also participated in a Special Interest Group at the First Annual International Flash Technique Conference in October 2022, and have met monthly with colleagues exploring the topic of Flash with Couples and Families. They are eager to show you how powerful and healing this technique can be when integrated into work with couples and families.
Celeste Eckman Himanek, MA, LPC, NCCMHC, PHD ABD is a Licensed Professional Counselor, speaker, consultant, and author who is passionate about helping people change their lives. An empathic therapist and enthusiastic educator, Celeste uses EMDR to help people move from trauma to transformation. Having worked with hundreds of individuals, groups, and families in agencies, private practice, hospitals, schools, and universities and with over 17 years of practice, she finds the Flash Technique an exciting addition to her work. Celeste loves working with clients at her new healing space in Southern Oregon where she offers Intensive Trauma-focused Retreats.
David Bullard, PhD, SEP's trauma therapy background includes advanced EMDR trainings over the past 25 years, he is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and has been teaching an adaptation of the Flash Technique for the past six years. With a background in many modalities of couples therapy together with Buddhist concepts, he has been also taught by the couples and families themselves that he has known in over 45 years of private practice. Incorporating FT into his work with individuals, couples and families has been a game-changer.