What is Flash Technique/Four Blinks

“The Flash Technique (FT) is a recently developed evidenced-based therapeutic intervention for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories.

Unlike many conventional trauma therapy interventions, FT is a minimally intrusive option that does not require the client to consciously engage with the traumatic memory. This allows the client to process traumatic memories without feeling distress. As an adjunct to the EMDR preparation phase or any exposure-based treatment, it makes it possible to process memories that would otherwise be intolerable or overwhelming to the client.”

Learn more about Flash Technique here: https://flashtechnique.com/wp/

What is the Early Trauma Protocol?

The Early Trauma Protocol (ETP) is a special EMDR protocol developed by Katie Oshea, M.S. and Sandra Paulsen, Ph.D. to address childhood trauma, abuse, and/or neglect in early childhood between the ages of birth to 3. This early developmental period is before we have language and explicit memory (which standard EMDR therapy relies upon). The ETP follows a specialized protocol to address the lack of language and explicit memory, to process early childhood trauma.

Following an attachment based psychosocial assessment (based on the work of Dr. Aarons, LCSW), I follow the steps in the ETP which include: